#FilmyFriday! Chandamama: Risen from the dead

Wondering what to watch this week, sitting in the comfort of your home? And also don’t want to stumble upon something, where there is a possibility that it may or may not entertain you. We got you covered! We are back with yet another exciting installment of #FilmyFriday. ETimes presents - #FilmyFriday, wherein we recommend our readers one Malayalam movie, every week. And for this week, we have picked Chandamama starring Kunchako Boban, Jagathi Sreekumar, Tejali Ghanekar, Sudheesh, and Kalabhavan Navas.

Direction: Murali Krishnan

Script: Rajan Kiriyath

Cast: Kunchako Boban, Jagathi Sreekumar, Tejali Ghanekar, Sudheesh, Kalabhavan Navas, Mayoori, Janardanan, Harisree Asokan, Cochin Haneefa, Oduvil Unnikrishnan, C. I. Paul, Kalpana, NF Varghese, Mamta Kulkarni

Release date: 10 March 1999

Unni, Dasan, and Monayi find their boss Eappachan murdered, and since they know that they will be the prime suspects, they pretend as nothing happened, and make the corpse act ‘alive’.

2 masked men sneak into Eappachan's (Jagathy Sreekumar) bungalow. Their aim is to kill him, however, the mission fails as they bump into Kochammini (Kalpana), the house help, who is sleepwalking. Eappachan rushes to his car along with his assistant Bhaskaran (Harisree Ashokan), and hits the road. In an attempt to save himself from the murderers, he crashes the car into an ice cream shop run by Unni (Kunchako Boban), Dasan (Sudheesh), and Monayi (Kalabhavan Navas).

Eappachan (Jagathy Sreekumar), a rich influential man crashes his car into an ice cream shop run by Unni (Kunchako Boban), Dasan (Sudheesh), and Monayi (Kalabhavan Navas), while trying to escape from his murderers. The accident surely saves Eappachan from the goons, thanks to the three young men, but the accident demolishes their only hope for the future, the ice cream parlour. After numerous attempts and pleading, Unni, and Dasan manage to land a job in Eappachan’s company, but Monayi is left out, because he insulted Eappachan, when the accident occurred. In a short time, Unni and Dasan managed to enter Eappachan’s good book, while Monayi is irked that he is unemployed. Soon it is revealed that Thampi (Janardhanan) had hired people to murder his business partner Eappachan. He hires a new person to kill Eappachan. Eappachan, who buys a beachside villa, hosts a party, and on the same day, drunk Monayi screams in front of everybody that he would kill Eappachan. In order to threaten Eappachan, Monayi enters his home office, only to find him dead. Soon after Unni and Dasan too enter the room to find their boss dead! Since the circumstances as pretty suspicious, they decide to keep the death a secret and take Eappachan to the party downstairs and make the corpse look drunk. Will they find the real killer?

Trivia

Mamta Kulkarni appeared in a song sequence in the film.