Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Gandhinagar 2nd Street

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Jul 17, 2012, 7:43:01 PM (12 years ago)

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+Gandhinagar 2nd Street
+1986 137’ col Malayalam
+d/s Sathyan Andhikkad pc Casino Prod.
+lyr Bichu Thirumala c Bipin Mohan m Shyam
+lp Mohanlal, Srinivasan, Seema, Mammootty,
+Karthika, Thilakan
+Mohanlal comedy and one of Andhikkad’s
+biggest hits. The simpleton Sethu (Mohanlal)
+finds employment as a security guard, hired by
+a street neighbourhood. The first part of the
+film is a straightforward sit-com as his friend
+Madhavan (Srinivasan) masquerades as a thief
+to raise Sethu’s stock with his employers; the
+plan misfires and Madhavan gets a sound
+thrashing. Things take a more serious turn as
+Sethu’s former girlfriend Maya (Karthika)
+moves into one of the houses on the street with
+her police chief father (Thilakan). The lovers
+had parted when Sethu tried to seduce Maya,
+following misguided advice that the best way
+to get her father to agree to their marriage was
+to get her pregnant first. Sethu makes an
+enemy of the entire neighbourhood when he
+uses violence to rescue Maya from the
+unwanted attentions of one of the street
+denizens. He is protected by the schoolteacher
+Nirmala (Seema), leading to allegations of an
+illicit sexual relationship between them.
+However, her husband (Mammootty) arrives
+from the Gulf, and sorts everything out. The
+plot somewhat gratuitously reveals Maya at the
+end to be a widow, whose husband died a
+week after their wedding. It does so mainly to
+allow the film to end on a tragic note, as Sethu
+too leaves for the Gulf unable to make concrete
+promises to his reconciled girl. The film is
+dominated by Mohanlal’s energetic
+performance and the comic dialogue
+(interspersing Hindi with Malayalam). Sequels
+with the same characters were Nadodikattu
+(1987) and Pattana Praveshanam (1988), both
+by Andhikkad.
+
+[[Film]]