Aanaval Mothiram

Aanaval Mothiram
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Directed by	G. S. Vijayan
Produced by	Century Productions
Written by	T. Damodaran
Starring	Sreenivasan Suresh Gopi Jagathi Sreekumar
Music by	Johnson
Cinematography	Sunny Joseph
Edited by	G. Murali
Release dates	1991
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Aanaval Mothiram (Malayalam: ആനവാല്‍ മോതിരം) is a 1991 Malayalam film directed by G. S. Vijayan, written by T. Damodaran, and starring Sreenivasan, Suresh Gopi, Saranya Ponvannan, and Jagathy Sreekumar.

This film is an uncredited remake of the 1990 American film Short Time directed by Gregg Champion and written by John Blumenthal and Michael Berry.

Plot

The movie is about an average police officer who mistakenly believes he has a fatal disease and is about to die soon. He eyes the insurance payout his family would get if he dies in action and embarks on impossible missions to get himself killed in action. Little does he know that the diagnosis is wrong and he is in fact healthy. The movie comically chronicles his new-found bravado.

Cast

• Sreenivasan as James Pallithara
• Suresh Gopi as Nandakumar
• Sara as Sruthi
• Saranya Ponvannan as Annie
• Jagathi Sreekumar as Chellappan
• Karamana Janardanan Nair as Home Minister
• Riza Bava as Commissioner Sajith Kumar
• Rajan P. Dev as Kuruvila
• K.P.A.C. Sunny as D.I.G. Mathew Kurien
• Jagannatha Varma as I. G. Karthikeyan
• Mohan Jose as a Terrorist
• Kundara Johny as John
• Keerikadan Jose as Guru
• Gavin Packard as Alberto Fellini
• Ravi Vallathol as Bank Manager

Remakes

Year	Film	Language	Cast	Director	Box Office
1995	Gambler	Hindi	Govinda, Shilpa Shetty, Aditya Pancholi	Dayal Nihalani	Average
2013	Ragalaipuram	Tamil	Karunas, Sanjana Singh, Kovai Sarala	Mano	Disaster

External links

• Aanaval Mothiram at IMDb