Mannar Mathai Speaking is a 1995 Malayalam comedy film written and directed by Siddique-Lal, produced by Mani C. Kappan, and starring Mukesh, Saikumar, Innocent, Vani Viswanath, and Biju Menon in the main roles. It is the sequel to Ramji Rao Speaking (1989) and was followed by Mannar Mathai Speaking 2 (2014.) The main plotline has been borrowed from the Alfred Hitchcock classic Vertigo.
Priyadarshan adapted certain subplots of the film for his Hindi film, Bhagam Bhag (2006). Writer Siddique later reused the story and tweaks it for his Tamil movie Sadhu Miranda. The film received universal acclaim upon release. It also did well at the box office. Saikumar, Mukesh, Innocent, Vijayaraghavan and Sukumari reprised their roles for this film. Harishree Ashokan, who played a minor role in the first film played a member of Garvashes Asaan's mob.Synopsis
Mannar Mathai (Innocent) is now running a drama group under Urvashi Theatres. The lead actors in this troupe, Gopalakrishnan (Mukesh) and Balakrishnan (Saikumar), always fights with each other for the lead role in the drama. During Urvashi Theatre's first stage show, Gopalakrishnan was supposed to act like slapping the heroine, but he ends up slapping her for real, and hard. The hurt heroine, namely Shakunthala, leaves the troupe accepting the invitation to act in a movie.
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