5 Sundarikal

5 Sundarikal
Promotional poster of the film.
Directed by	Shyju Khalid Sameer Thahir Aashiq Abu Amal Neerad Anwar Rasheed
Produced by	Amal Neerad
Screenplay by	Shyam Pushkar Muneer Ali Siddharth Bharathan Sijoy Varghese Abhilash Kumar Unni R. Hashir Mohamed
Story by	M. Mukundan Sijoy Varghese Amal Neerad Feng Jicai Hashir Mohamed
Starring	Baby Anikha Isha Sharvani Kavya Madhavan Reenu Mathews Asmita Sood Nivin Pauly Biju Menon Dulquer Salmaan Fahadh Faasil Jinu Ben
Music by	Gopi Sundar Bijibal Prashant Pillai Yakzan Gary Pereira Black Letters (Promo)
Cinematography	Alby Shyju Khalid Rajeev Ravi Ranadive Amal Neerad
Edited by	Vivek Harshan Praveen Prabhakar
Production company	Amal Neerad Productions
Release dates	21 June 2013
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

5 Sundarikal (English: Five Beautiful Women) is a 2013 Malayalam romantic anthology film. It contains five short stories on love^[1] about five types of women.^[2] The stories are directed by Shyju Khalid, Sameer Thahir, Aashiq Abu, Amal Neerad and Anwar Rasheed,^[3] and feature an ensemble cast.^[4] The film was produced by Amal Neerad Productions.^[5] The music directors are Gopi Sundar, Bijibal, Prashant Pillai and Yakzan Gary Pereira.^[6][7] The film reached theatres on 21 June.^[8] A promo song by popular Kochi-based rock band Black Letters was also released.^[9]

The featurette Sethulakshmi is an adaptation of M. Mukundan's short story Photo while Kullande Bharya is based on a Chinese story, The Tall Woman and Her Short Husband by Feng Jicai.

List of short films

Title	Director	Story	Screenplay	Cinematographer	Music
Sethulakshmi	Shyju Khalid	M. Mukundan	Shyam Pushkar Muneer Ali	Alby	Yakzan Gary Pereira
Isha	Sameer Thahir	Sijoy varghese	Siddharth Bharathan Sijoy varghese	Shyju Khalid	Prashant Pillai
Gauri	Aashiq Abu	Amal Neerad (story idea)	Abhilash Kumar	Rajeev Ravi	Bijibal
Kullante Bharya	Amal Neerad	Feng Jicai	Unni R.	Renu (renadive)	Gopi Sundar
Aami	Anwar Rasheed	Hashir Mohamed	Hashir Mohamed	Amal Neerad	Yakzan Gary Pereira

Plots

Sethulakshmi

Sethulakshmi ( Baby Anikha), a school-going girl, has a hobby of collecting the photos of newly married couples from newspaper and pasting them in a note-book. She has a close friend (Master Chethan) and he comes to know about her keen interest in taking photos. Once they decide to go to a studio nearby for taking their photos. The decision changes their destiny...

Isha

Two strangers, Isha (Isha Sharvani) and Jinu (Nivin Pauly) meet in a house for a similar cause in a New Year eve. The two have a conversation and then a series of twists and turns happen. ,,

Gauri

The short film tells the love story of a married couple living in a hill station. After materializing their love affair through register marriage, Gauri (Kavya Madhavan) and Jonathan Antony (Biju Menon) choose the place to begin their married life. Jo is crazy about trekking while Gauri is a dancer and teaches the art to her students. On the eve of their wedding anniversary, a tragedy occurs which changes their life.

Kullante Bharya

A newly- wed couple comes to stay in an apartment. The husband played by Jinu Ben who is only 5 feet 1 inches is shorter than his extremely tall wife played by the 6 feet tall young new comer Reenu Mathews. This gives a chance to their neighbours to gossip about them. As the couple lives happily, they expect their baby to add to the joy. But destiny has something else in store for them. The whole film is pictured in the point of view of a person who is bed-ridden after an accident (played by Dulquer Salmaan). It is reminiscent of the photographer in wheelchair observing his neighbors in Alfred Hitchcock' Rear Window.^[10]

Aami

A businessman, Ajmal (Fahadh Faasil), faces a row of events during his journey from Malappuram to Kochi. His affectionate wife (Asmitha Sood) tries to keep him awake during the drive by asking a few tricky questions. The night journey becomes an eventful one and changes the course of his life.

Cast

Sethulakshmi	Isha	Gauri	Kullante Bharya	Aami
Baby Anikha as Sethulakshmi Master Chethan as Abhilash Guru Somasundaram as Photographer Gopalakrishnan as Achan Anjali Aneesh Upasana as Amma Unnimaya as Teacher Baby Aavani as sister	Isha Sharvani as Isha Nivin Pauly as Jinu/Santa Deepak Sharaf as Teresa's father Sujatha as Teresa's mother Pradeep as Police Constable Rajasekhar V. Das as Dealer Ajay Natrajan as Driver	Kavya Madhavan as Gauri Biju Menon as Jonathan Antony Shine Tom Chacko as Servant Tini Tom as Husband Rimi Tomy as Wife Jayasurya as Buyer	Dulquer Salmaan as Photographer/Storyteller Reenu Mathews as Kullante Bharya Jinu Ben as Kullan Pouly Valsan as Molly Chechi Dileesh Pothan as Security Mano Jose as Sugunan Soubin Shahir as Poovalan Muthumani as Sicily Shirly Somasundaran as Annamma Chacko Jayaraj as Chacko Mash Sankar T. K. as Sicily's husband Ajith Vijayan as Ambiswamy Shanthi Sunil as Ambiswamy's wife Karan Rahul as Schoolboy	Fahadh Faasil as Ajmal Asmita Sood as Aami Honey Rose as Nancy Chemban Vinod Jose as Joshy Vinayakan as Chandran

Production

The first film Sethulakshmi was by cinematographer Shyju debuting as a director in the film.^[11] The film was an adaptation of the story Photo by M. Mukundan.^[7] Two child artists, Baby Anikha and Chethan, played the lead in his segment.^[12] Tamil theatre actor Somasundaram, who acted in Aaranya Kaandam was signed to play a photographer in the film, setting foot into Malayalam films.^[13]

Sameer Thahir cast Isha Sharvani opposite Nivin Pauly in his segment.^[14] Isha, who will be making her Malayalam debut with this film, said that Sameer's story - written by Sijoy Varghese - explores the love between two strangers.^[15] This segment was completed in January 2013.^[2]

Aashiq Abu's featurette Gauri (earlier titled Naayika) would be a period film about a group of people going in search of a promised land.^[16] Biju Menon and Kavya Madhavan were signed to play the lead. Singer Rimi Tomy stated that she will be acting opposite Tini Tom, making her acting debut.^[17] In March 2013, Jayasurya was also signed up for a role.^[18] The shoot of the portion was held in Munnar and other locales.^[16]

Amal Neerad cast Dulquer Salmaan and Reenu Mathews, who acted in Lal Jose's Immanuel, as the lead pair for his portion. A debutant Jinu Ben was given a prominent role. Neerad said that the story was loosely based on an ancient Chinese short story, The Tall Woman and Her Short Husband.^[19]

Fahadh Faasil stated that he and Rima Kallingal would pair up in Anwar Rasheed's segment of the anthology.^[20] Rima Kallingal was replaced and Honey Rose and Asmitha Sood play the lead female roles in this film. Anwar said that the story unfolds on an eventful night and can be called a road movie.^[7]

The directors pitched in for each other as well. Anwar Rasheed’s portion was filmed by Amal Neerad, Shyju Kahlid handled the camera of Sameer Thahir’s film, Aashiq Abu’s film was shot by Rajeev Ravi and Amal Neerad chose his assistant Ranadive to crank the camera.^[21]

Soundtrack

5 Sudarikal
Soundtrack album by Gopi Sundar,Yakzan Gary Pereira, Bijibal, Prashant Pillai
Released	2013
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Label	Mathrubhumi Music
Producer	Amal Neerad

The list of songs is as follows:

S.No	Song	Segment	Singer	Music Director	Notes
1	"Amor Amor"	Kullande Bharya	Anna Katharina Valayil	Gopi Sunder
2	"Ekantham"	Title Song	Kunal Ganjawala,Sreya Raghav	Gopi Sunder	Theme song
3	"Kaana Dhooram"	Aami	Neha Nair	Yakzan Gary Pereira
4	"Manthara Katte"	Sethulakshmi	Neha Nair	Yakzan Gary Pereira
5	"Mazhaneer"	Gauri	Gayatri Asokan	Bijibal
6	"Thammil Thammil"	Isha	Preeti Pillai	Prashant Pillai
7	"Theera Lahari"	Isha	Preeti Pillai	Prashant Pillai

Awards

• Kerala State Film Award for Best Child Artist - Baby Anikha

References

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15. "Isha is all praise for Nivin". The Times of India. Indiatimes.com. 2013-01-18. Retrieved 2013-04-12.
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18. "Jayasurya in Aashiq Abu's Naayika". The Times of India. Indiatimes.com. 2013-03-09. Retrieved 2013-04-12.
19. "Dulquer, Reenu in Amal Neerad's 'Anju Sundarikal'". The Times of India. Indiatimes.com. 2013-02-09. Retrieved 2013-04-12.
20. "Rima, Fahadh in Anwar Rasheed's love anthology". The Times of India. Indiatimes.com. 2013-02-12. Retrieved 2013-04-12.
21. Athira M. (2013-01-23). "Shot Cuts". The Hindu. Retrieved 2013-04-12.

External links

• 5 Sundarikal at the Internet Movie Database
• "An English translation of M. Mukundan's Photo" (appeared in Malayalam Fiction Special edition of Guftugu)
• Five star experiment (The Hindu)
• Stories from the heart (The New Indian Express)
• Review (Malayala Manorama)
• Review (Sify.com)
• Review (Rediff.com) ()
• Review (Nowrunning.com) ()