Nadodikkattu

Nadodikattu (English: Vagabond Wind) is a 1987 Indian Malayalam-language satirical comedy film directed by Sathyan Anthikkad and written by Sreenivasan based on a story by the Siddique–Lal duo. The story revolves around two impecunious young Indian men, Ramdas (Mohanlal) and Vijayan (Sreenivasan) who not being able to find any job in Kerala, plan to immigrate to Dubai to make their fortunes, but get deceived and end up in the neighbouring state of Tamil Nadu. Nadodikattu drew upon relevant social factors affecting Kerala of the 1980s such as widespread unemployment and poverty. The film also stars Thilakan, Shobhana, Innocent, Mamukkoya, Captain Raju, Meenakumari, Kundara Johny, Janardhanan, Ajith Kollam, and Sankaradi in pivotal roles along with cameo appearances by Seema, I. V. Sasi, and M. G. Soman as themselves. The film represents popular Malayalam cinema at its satirical best and established the Mohanlal-Sreenivasan combination as one of its most memorable and bankable cinematic pairs. The story, screenplay and characters have achieved cult status. The film showed an extraordinary talent of late actor Thilakan who played the role of Ananthan Nambiar. Thilakan proved himself that he can handle comedy roles also. The film was produced by Casino Productions, a production company owned by Century Kochumon, Mohanlal, I. V. Sasi, Seema, and Mammootty. It gave way to two sequels—Pattanapravesham (1988) and Akkare Akkare Akkare (1990) known for their excess of mimicry and low-brow slapstick. The film was remade by Muktha V. Srinivasan in Tamil as Katha Nayagan (1988) and in Kannada as Tenali Rama. Plot elements were also used in the 2006 Hindi comedy film Bhagam Bhag. The film was also remade in Telugu in which Chandra Mohan played the role of Vijayan.