Manushya Mrugam (1980 film)

Manushya Mrugam is a 1980 Indian Malayalam language film written by Pappanamkodu Lakshmanan, directed by Baby and produced by Thiruppathi Chettiyar. The film is a remake of the 1975 Kannada film Daari Tappida Maga. The film stars Jayan (double role), Jayaprabha, Seema, Jagathy Sreekumar, Kaviyoor Ponnamma and Jose Prakash. The film has musical score by K. J. Joy.

Manushya Mrugam
Directed byBaby
Written byPappanamkodu Lakshmanan
Screenplay byPappanamkodu Lakshmanan
Produced byThiruppathi Chettiyar
StarringJayan (double role)
Jayaprabha
Seema
Jagathy Sreekumar
Kaviyoor Ponnamma
Jose Prakash
CinematographyK. B. Dayalan
Edited byK. Sankunni
Music byK. J. Joy
Production
company
Evershine
Distributed byEvershine
Release date
  • 17 December 1980 (1980-12-17)
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

The film was a musical blockbuster with all the tracks composed by K. J. Joy becoming chartbusters. The song Kasthoori Maanmizhi sung by K. J. Yesudas is now considered to be a evergreen song. This was released after Jayan's untimely death earlier in the same year. Many of Jayan's dialogues in the movie had to be dubbed by mimicry artists.

The film was released on 17 December 1980. The film was a major commercial success and went on to become one of the highest grossing films of 1980. The success of the film was partially due to the hype around the film as it was Jayan's first posthumous release.[1][2][3]

Premise

The film tells the story of two twin brothers, who were separated in their childhood.

Cast

Release

The film was released on 17 December 1980. Due to Jayan' s unfortunate demise before the release, many of the Jayans dialogues in the movie had to be dubbed by mimicry artists.

Box office

The film was commercial success and ran for more than 100 days in many theatres.[4][5]

Soundtrack

The music was composed by K. J. Joy and the lyrics were written by Pappanamkodu Lakshmanan. All songs were chartbusters, especially the song "Kasthoori Manmizhi", sung by K. J. Yesudas.

No.SongSingersLyricsLength (m:ss)
1"Ajantha Shilpangalil"S. Janaki, P. Jayachandran, ChorusPappanamkodu Lakshmanan
2"Kasthoori Maanmizhi"K. J. Yesudas, ChorusPappanamkodu Lakshmanan
3"Sneham Thaamara"K. J. YesudasPappanamkodu Lakshmanan

References
  1. "Manushyamrigam". www.malayalachalachithram.com. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
  2. "Manushyamrigam". malayalasangeetham.info. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
  3. "Manushyamrigam". spicyonion.com. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
  4. "Jayan's memories live on though Malayalam cinema lost its first action hero four decades ago". Malayala Manorama. 16 November 2019.
  5. "Enigma of Malayalam legend Jayan lives on". The Times of India. 15 November 2020.


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