Senior Mandrake

2010 Indian film

Mummy Century
Shameer Thukalil

Starring

Jagadeesh
Jagathy Sreekumar
Kalpana

CinematographyRaju V. KrishnaEdited byAli AkbarMusic byHari Venu Gopal

Release date

29 January 2010 (2010-01-29)

Running time

151 minCountryIndiaLanguageMalayalam

Senior Mandrake is a 2010 Indian Malayalam-language comedy-drama film directed by Ali Akbar.^[1] It is a sequel to the 1997 film Junior Mandrake. Jagathy Sreekumar, Jagadish and Kalpana plays the lead roles.^[2]^[3]^[4] The film bombed at the box office.

Plot

Kuttan has become enviably rich, and has disposed of the ill-fated statue, but soon it finds its way back to the money lender's doorstep. Without any further delay, the world starts crumbling around him, and he frantically scurries around to hand it over to some unfortunate soul.

Cast

Jagathy Sreekumar as Omanakuttan
Kalpana as Vandana
Jagadish as Pradeep
Kalabhavan Navas as Sandeep
Suraj Venjaramood as S.I. kidukkan
Mamukkoya
Salim Kumar
Bijukuttan
Kochu Preman
Bindu Panicker
Indrans as Gopalan
Sidharaj as Senior Mandrake
Mala Aravindan as Maniyan Vaidyan
Kanakalatha
Appa Haja
Jaffar Idukki

Reception

The film received highly negative reviews criticizing direction, art direction, location, camera, lighting, background, effects, graphics, editing and very poor level of making. Rediff.com rated the film 1 out of 5 stars and wrote "Avoid Senior Mandrake" ^[5]

References

^ "Director Ali Akbar selected for 8th Saraswathi Award". Mathrubhumi. Archived from the original on 30 October 2020. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
^ Palicha, Paresh C. "Review: Avoid Senior Mandrake". Rediff. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
^ "Malayalam Cinema News | Malayalam Movie Reviews | Malayalam Movie Trailers - IndiaGlitz Malayalam". Archived from the original on 6 February 2010.
^ "Senior Mandrake". Sify. Archived from the original on 25 March 2018. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
^ "Review: Avoid Senior Mandrake".