C.I.D.Moosa is a 2003 Malayalam

Malayalam language

Malayalam , is one of the four major Dravidian languages of southern India. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India with official language status in the state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry. It is spoken by 35.9 million people...

 slapstick comedy film written by the duo Udayakrishna and Siby K. Thomas

Udayakrishna-Siby K. Thomas

Udayakrishna and Siby K. Thomas are an Indian screenwriter duo working in Malayalam cinema. Most of their works are comedy oriented big-budget commercial entertainers such as Udayapuram Sulthan, C.I.D. Moosa, Runway, Thuruppu Gulan, Twenty:20, Pokkiri Raja, and Christian Brothers...

, directed by Johny Antony

Johny Antony

Johny Antony, movie director of Malayalam films hails from Changanassery in Kottayam District. He gained valuable experience by working for about a decade as Associate to Directors like Thulasidas, Taha, Kamal and Jose Thomas., and made his directorial debut with the movie C.I.D. Moosa in 2003...

, and co-produced by and starring Dileep

Dileep (actor)

Dileep is an Indian film actor, mimicry artist and producer best known for his work in Malayalam cinema.Dileep started his career as a mimicry artist in the Cochin Kalabhavan troupe. He later started his film career as an assistant director to Kamal with the film Vishnu Lokam...

 in the title role. The film also stars Harisree Ashokan

Harisree Ashokan

Harisree Ashokan is a Malayalam film actor who is known for his comedy roles. He has acted in more than 75 Malayalam films.-Early life:...

, Cochin Haneefa

Cochin Haneefa

Mohammed Haneefa, better known by his stage name Cochin Haneefa was an Indian film actor, director, and screenwriter. He started his career in the 1970s mainly portraying villainous roles, before going on to become one of the most popular comedians of Malayalam cinema...

, Jagathy Sreekumar

Jagathy Sreekumar

Sreekumar Achary, better known by his stage name Jagathy Sreekumar, is an Indian film actor who has performed in more than 1,000 Malayalam films. He has also directed two films and has written screenplays for two films...

, Bhavana, Oduvil Unnikrishnan

Oduvil Unnikrishnan

Oduvil Unnikrishnan was an award winning Malayalam movie actor known for his versatile acting skills, known for his portrayal of classical ancient aristocratic personalities in Malayalam cinema with his unique provincial linguistic style, expressions and dialect. He was noted as a serious as well...

, Saleem Kumar

Saleem Kumar

Salim Kumar is a National Award winning Indian film actor and mimicry artist predominantly acting in Malayalam cinema....

, and Ashish Vidyarthi

Ashish Vidyarthi

Ashish Vidyarthi is an Indian actor who worked predominantly in Hindi films and lately in South Indian films. He has won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for film Drohkaal in 1995....

. The film is a spoof

Spoof

-General uses:* Parody by imitation* Satire, a literary technique of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject* Forgery of goods or documents* Spoof , a guessing game...

 on the spy

Spy film

The spy film genre deals with the subject of fictional espionage, either in a realistic way or as a basis for fantasy . Many novels in the spy fiction genre have been adapted as films, including works by John Buchan, John Le Carré, Ian Fleming and Len Deighton...

 genre such as the James Bond

James Bond (film series)

The James Bond film series is a British series of motion pictures based on the fictional character of MI6 agent James Bond , who originally appeared in a series of books by Ian Fleming. Earlier films were based on Fleming's novels and short stories, followed later by films with original storylines...

 series and C.I.D. Nazeer

C.I.D. Nazeer

C.I.D. Nazeer is a Malayalam language film starring Prem Nazir in the title role. It was released in 1971....

.

It was remade in Tamil

Tamil cinema

Tamil cinema is the film industry based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, dedicated to the production of films in the Tamil language. It is based in Chennai's Kodambakkam district, where several South Indian film production companies are headquartered...

 as Seena Thaana 001 but it failed to receive any success that this film had received. The same team are planning to make the sequel of this film. The name they have announced is CID Moosa From Scotland.

Plot

Sahadevan (Dileep

Dileep (actor)

Dileep is an Indian film actor, mimicry artist and producer best known for his work in Malayalam cinema.Dileep started his career as a mimicry artist in the Cochin Kalabhavan troupe. He later started his film career as an assistant director to Kamal with the film Vishnu Lokam...

) is the son of a police constable (Oduvil Unnikrishnan

Oduvil Unnikrishnan

Oduvil Unnikrishnan was an award winning Malayalam movie actor known for his versatile acting skills, known for his portrayal of classical ancient aristocratic personalities in Malayalam cinema with his unique provincial linguistic style, expressions and dialect. He was noted as a serious as well...

) who works in the dog squad. Sahadevan has only one ambition and that is to join the police department and for that he has cleared the exams and is waiting for the physical test. But he has an enemy, his own brother-in-law Peethambaran (Jagathy Sreekumar

Jagathy Sreekumar

Sreekumar Achary, better known by his stage name Jagathy Sreekumar, is an Indian film actor who has performed in more than 1,000 Malayalam films. He has also directed two films and has written screenplays for two films...

) who does not like him. Along with the police commissioner (Ashish Vidyarthi

Ashish Vidyarthi

Ashish Vidyarthi is an Indian actor who worked predominantly in Hindi films and lately in South Indian films. He has won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for film Drohkaal in 1995....

), Peethambaran sees that Sahadevan does not clear his physical test.He is insulted and kicked out but Sahadevan does not give up. When he foils a bomb plan, the blame is put on him by the police commissioner but he is saved by a higher authority. When he finds out who the crooks are, he tries to find a way to foil it and that hope was to become a private detective. He becomes a private detective and calls himself CID Moosa. He has Arjun, a smart dog who was condemned for mercy killing by the police dog squad and a funky car that sprays chilli powder and throws marbles to assist him. Moosa's mission is to save the life of state chief minister, Ravi Menon (Murali) who is under death threat from a group of terrorists. He finally succeeds in saving the state chief minister's life and is sent to Scotland.

Cast

• Dileep
  Dileep (actor)
  Dileep is an Indian film actor, mimicry artist and producer best known for his work in Malayalam cinema.Dileep started his career as a mimicry artist in the Cochin Kalabhavan troupe. He later started his film career as an assistant director to Kamal with the film Vishnu Lokam...
  
   as Moolamkuzhiyil Sahadevan
• Ashish Vidyarthi
  Ashish Vidyarthi
  Ashish Vidyarthi is an Indian actor who worked predominantly in Hindi films and lately in South Indian films. He has won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for film Drohkaal in 1995....
  
   as Gowri Shankar (Police Commissioner)
• Jagathy Sreekumar
  Jagathy Sreekumar
  Sreekumar Achary, better known by his stage name Jagathy Sreekumar, is an Indian film actor who has performed in more than 1,000 Malayalam films. He has also directed two films and has written screenplays for two films...
  
   as S.I. Peethambaran
• Bhavana as Meena
• Harisree Ashokan
  Harisree Ashokan
  Harisree Ashokan is a Malayalam film actor who is known for his comedy roles. He has acted in more than 75 Malayalam films.-Early life:...
  
   as Thorappan Kochunni

Influences

Debutant director Johnny have copied certain scenes from various Hollywood comedies like K-9, Home Alone series, Police Academy and Austin Powers series along with Spiderman and Superman costumes to bring children to the theatre.

Reception

This film released on 4 July 2003 and went on to become a superhit. It was reviewed as a worth watching movie for the kids as well as the comic lovers. The director entered in the mainstream with this movie.

Soundtrack

The film featured a soundtrack composed by Vidyasagar

Vidyasagar (music director)

Vidyasagar is an Award-Winning Indian film music director and music composer in the Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Hindi film industry. He is very popular in South Indian music industry and best known for his soulful melodies. His fast numbers to many films have earned him much fame too. He has...

, with lyrics penned by Gireesh Puthenchery

Gireesh Puthenchery

Gireesh Puthenchery was a noted Malayalam lyricist and screenwriter. He also served as a governing council member of the Indian Performance Rights Society . He won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Lyrics seven times...

.

Song Title	Singers
"James Bond"	Karthik Karthik (singer) Karthik is an Indian playback singer.Karthik started his professional singing career as a backing vocalist and has since been a playback singer in Tamil cinema while also single in other Indian languages for various composers...
"Main Ne Pyar Kiya"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam S. P. Balasubrahmanyam Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam is a multilingual Indian playback singer, actor, music director, voice actor and a film producer. He is referred to as S. P. B. or Balu by the media. He has won the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer six times closely following K. J. Yesudas...
"Teepori Pambaram"	K. J. Yesudas K. J. Yesudas Kattassery Joseph Yesudas is an Indian classical musician and playback singer.Yesudas sings Indian classical, devotional, and popular music. He has recorded more than 50,000 songs in many languages including Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Oriya, Marathi, Punjabi,...
"Kadirangi Oodi"	Devanand
"Chilamboli Katte"	Udit Narayan Udit Narayan -Career:King of melody, Udit Narayan Jha was born on 1 December, 1955 in a village called Bhardaha in the Saptari district , Nepal. His father was Hare Krishna Jha and his mother was Bhuwaneshwari Devi.Narayan studied at P.B... , Sujatha Sujatha Mohan Sujatha Mohan , usually credited as Sujatha, is an award-winning Indian playback singer who is popular for singing in Malayalam and Tamil movies. She has also sung for Telugu, Kannada and Hindi movies. She is widely popular for her evergreen melodies and her sweet voice is considered to be her...