Venicile Vyapari

The story revolves around Pavithran, who lost his parents in his childhood. He enters the police force by chance, though it is not his ambition to do so. Pavithran lands up in Alappuzha (Alappuzha incidentally is attributed to the sobriquet, Venice of the East) disguised as a merchant to investigate the murder of a union leader named Ajayan. Another character is Ammu, who is the leader of the union of coir workers and is in love with Pavithran.

• Mammootty as Pavithran
• Kavya Madhavan as Ammu
• Poonam Bajwa as Lakshmi
• Suraj Venjarammoodu as Chandran Pillai/ Odiyan Chandhu
• Jagathy Sreekumar as Kaladi Govindan
• Salim Kumar as Kamalasanan / Al-Kamalasanan
• Vijayaraghavan as Chungathara Raghavan
• Suresh Krishna as Chungathara Aniyappan
• Biju Menon as Ajayan
• Janardhanan as SP Raghurama Varma
• Guinness Pakru as Kochukrishnan
• V. K. Sreeraman as Aali Koya
• Abu Salim as Abdu
• Kalabhavan Shajon as Isthiri Lonappan
• Kundara Johny as CI Nambeesan
• Santhosh
• Anjali Nair as Ammu's friend
• Saju Kodiyan as Police Constable

Venicile Vyaapari is the fourth film of Shafi with Mammootty, after Thommanum Makkalum, Mayavi and Chattambinadu. This is also the fourth film of screenwriter James Albert after Classmates, Cycle and Ividam Swargamanu and the first time he is writing the script for Mammootty.

The film was produced by Madhavan Nair under the banner of Murali Films. Mammootty appears in three different getups in the film. He dons the period costumes, wearing khaki trousers and tall cap, which will be the highlight of the film. Vijaya Raghavan, Jagathy, Salim Kumar, Suraj, Sreeraman, Kalabhhavan Shajon, Rajan Padoor form the supporting cast.

Shooting commenced in August 2011,[1] and the film was mostly shot from Alappuzha.[2] The song "Kannum Kannum" was shot in Ooty.[3]

The film was scheduled to release on 4 November 2011, but was postponed to 11 November 2011 since there was a delay in the post production work of the film.[4] Release was postponed again to 16 December 2011 due to a film strike in Kerala.

Sifyymovies gave the film a rating of 2.5/5, criticising the script.

Bijibal composed the music for the film, which has lyrics by Kaithapram. The film has a remix of the song "Kannum Kannum" from the film Angadi. Mammootty stated that it was the desire of the director Shafi to use a hit song of the eighties in a dream scene of the film.[3]