Dany (film)

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Dany
Vijayaraghavan,
Ratheesh,
Maya Moushmi,
Narendra Prasad
CinematographyK. G. Jayan
Edited byVenugopal
Music byJohnson
Production
company
Film Commune
Release date
  • 28 December 2001 (2001-12-28)
Running time
120 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

Dany is a 2001 Indian

National Film Award and three Kerala State Film Awards
.

Plot

The film is about Daniel Thompson, a

Namboothiri
caste (15 September 1935). His wife left him on the day the first Communist Government of Kerala lost power (31 July 1959). Dany's love, disappointments, and triumphs coincide with historical events. Dany dons many roles in life. He sings in the church and then becomes a saxophone player. He marries Margaret, the daughter of a rich man named Chavero, when the old man asks him to save the honor of their family. Margaret is pregnant and her lover has died. But with the passage of time, Dany is abandoned by all and finds himself destined to lead a desolate existence. He ends up in a hospital where he meets Bhargavi Amma, a retired professor, who is also desolate after the death of her daughter and is isolated in life. Dany and Bhargavi Amma develop an intimacy and travel back together from the hospital. But Dany passes away on the way. Anyhow Bhargavi Amma decides to perform the funeral rites in the Christian manner in the compound of her house, a house of orthodox Hindus. This creates certain problems which she decides to disregard.

Cast

  • Mammootty as Daniel Thompson aka Dany
  • Mallika Sarabhai as Bhargavi Amma
  • Vani Viswanath as Margarette, Dany's wife
  • Siddique as Freddy
  • Vijayaraghavan
    as Robert, Dany's son.
  • Maya Moushmi as Louisiana, Daughter of Dany and Clara
  • Ratheesh as Dr. Renji Thomas
  • Narendra Prasad as Fr. Simon
  • N. F. Varghese as Prof. Padmanabha Menon
  • Poornima Mohan
    as Madhavi
  • Urmila Unni as Jayalakshmi
  • Devadevan Vijayaraghavan as younger Robert and Albert, Robert's son
  • Aliyar as Narayanan Nair
  • Irshad
    as Murukan
  • Sona Nair as Anna
  • Reena
  • Sivaji as Ramabhadran
  • P. Sreekumar as Chavaro
  • Raji Menon as Clara, as Dany's first wife

Awards

National Film Awards[3]
Kerala State Film Awards[4]
  • Best Director - T. V. Chandran
  • Best Photography
    - K. G. Jayan
  • Chitranjali
Other awards

References

  1. Screen India
    . Retrieved 26 April 2011.
  2. ^ "At the crossroads". Deccan Herald. 5 May 2002. Archived from the original on 21 March 2011. Retrieved 15 March 2011.
  3. ^ "49th National Film Awards". Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. 26 July 2002. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
  4. ^ "Kerala State Film Awards - 2001". Chalachitra Academy. 2001. Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
  5. ^ "John Abraham Awards for Best Malayalam Cinema - Looking Back". Federation of Film Societies of India (Kerala). Retrieved 27 January 2023.

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