Pachakuthira is a 2006 Malayalam comedy-drama

Comedy-drama

Comedy-drama is a genre of theatre, film and television programs which combines humorous and serious content.-Theatre:Traditional western theatre, beginning with the ancient Greeks, was divided into comedy and tragedy...

 film directed by Kamal 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...

 and Gopika

Gopika

Gopika is an Indian film actress, who has predominantly starred in Malayalam films. Starting her career as a model, she ventured into acting with the film Pranayamanithooval...

. The film was panned by the critics and was a box office failure as well. Several critics consider the film to be the worst from director Kamal.. The film is a remake of the 1988 drama film Rain Man

Rain Man

Rain Man is a 1988 drama film written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass and directed by Barry Levinson. It tells the story of an abrasive and selfish yuppie, Charlie Babbitt, who discovers that his estranged father has died and bequeathed all of his multimillion-dollar estate to his other son,...

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Plot

A junior artist in movies, Anandakkuttan, meets his long-lost German

Germans

The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....

 brother, Akash Menon. However, his brother is mentally unstable and he causes trouble to everyone including the neighbors. Initially Anandakkuttan hates Ashok kumar, but finally he develops a bond between his brother and himself. This film has similarity to the English movie Rain Man

Rain Man

Rain Man is a 1988 drama film written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass and directed by Barry Levinson. It tells the story of an abrasive and selfish yuppie, Charlie Babbitt, who discovers that his estranged father has died and bequeathed all of his multimillion-dollar estate to his other son,...

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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 Anandakkuttan / Akash Menon
• Gopika
  Gopika
  Gopika is an Indian film actress, who has predominantly starred in Malayalam films. Starting her career as a model, she ventured into acting with the film Pranayamanithooval...
  
  
• Rosshan Andrrews
  Rosshan Andrrews
  Rosshan Andrrews is an Indian film director who has made films in Malayalam cinema.- Career :His first movie was the 2005 Malayalam movie Udayananu Tharam starring Mohanlal. After the success of this movie Rosshan Andrrews directed another movie in 2006 named Notebook...
  
   as Himself
• Idavela Babu
• Kalasala Babu
  Kalasala Babu
  Kalasala Babu is a popular Indian actor who has performed on stage, and in television serials and films.-On stage:Babu had been acting in radio plays while at college. Following his graduation in 1973, Babu acted in Paanchajanyam, yielding a good performance. Babu acted at Kalidasa Kala Kendram...
  
  
• Fazil
  Fazil
  A. M. Fazil is an Indian filmmaker, producer, and screenwriter of Malayalam cinema.His father wanted him to be a doctor, but in school and college, extra curricular activities engulfed him. He wrote plays, enacted them with his friends A. M. Fazil (born 1953, in Alleppey, Kerala) is an Indian...
  
   as Himself
• Salim Kumar as Chandran
• Rekha as Akash's foster mother
• Siddique
  Siddique (actor)
  Siddique is a Malayalam film actor, producer, and television compere. He started his film career doing comedy roles and later performed in a variety of roles.-Early career:...
  
   as Akash's foster father
• Viji Thampi
  Viji Thampi
  Viji Thampi is a popular Malayalam film director. After making his debut in 1988 by directing David David Mr. David, Thampi, directed a series of comedy films, mostly big hits in 90s. By early 2000 most of his films started ending up as flops...
  
  
• Vijeesh
• Nimisha Suresh
  Nimisha Suresh
  -Early life:She did her high school at Lobelia Higher Secondary School, Kochi and then studied BCA and MCA at Amrita School of Arts and Sciences, Kochi.-Movie career:Nimisha Suresh started her career with the filmPachakuthira directed by Kamal...