[118], Oppam received six nominations at the 64th Filmfare Awards South and won two awards for the song "Chinnamma Adi"—Sreekumar won the award for playback singing, and Vasudhevan for lyrics.

[10] Priyadarshan was intrigued by its premise of a blind man witnessing a murder.

Songs of 4 Music band are ear soothing and thanks to Ron for terrific / impact-full back ground score.Bottom Line – Priyadarshan continues to write history along with lalettan even with some box office failures in the past. Synopsis – Oppam revolves around Jayaraman who is blind by birth but with a sharp sense of smell, sound & touch and engages himself to tackle a phyco killer which he forced to do so.

[88] Priyadarshan asked director Alphonse Puthren to edit the film's trailer. Special mention to Meenakshi Kutty .. :)If you ask me three positive points about the movie, the third point after direction & acting would be its Cinematography.

Jayaraman goes to Krishnamoorthy's apartment after the party to find him dead and the money missing from the judge's safe. Jayaraman (Mohanlal) is born as a blind man but with heightened senses of smell, sound and touch. "Chinnamma Adi" was sung by M. G. Sreekumar, who also sang "Minungum Minnaminuge" with Sreya Jayadeep.

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[29] Aju Varghese had a brief role as an auto rickshaw driver in scenes with Mohanlal and Samuthirakani.

[11] After spending a month working on it, Priyadarshan told Mohanlal that it can be made into a film and took two more months to draft a screenplay. Although the film "keeps you interested till the end, the plot somewhat loses steam in the second half".

The plot shows how a blind could reveal the real killer with his great sense [36] Chemban Vinod Jose, Hareesh Kanaran, Renji Panicker, Kunchan, Kalasala Babu, Idavela Babu, Sona Heiden, Kaviyoor Ponnamma, and Siddique also had supporting roles.

Priyadarshan decided to go ahead with a new project, and began reading screenplays; the director also had a two-month commitment from Mohanlal because of the other film.

He gave it 2.5 out of five stars. After learning Jayaraman is blind, Vasu, the killer sneak past him and escapes in a car. Vasu arrives, and when he approaches Nandini Jayaraman calls his cell phone. To start receiving timely alerts, as shown below click on the Green “lock” icon next to the address bar.

Menon who dubbed for Samuthirakani's voice won an award for dubbing at the 47th Kerala State Film Awards. The principal photography, expected to begin in September, was first postponed until March 2016 and never begun due to unfavourable weather in Russia (where the film was set).

[126] After the film's release, he said that he planned to show it to Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan; he would not direct any South Indian-languages versions, but "a lot of offers have come for remake rights and negotiations are still going on".

[67] Producer Antony Perumbavoor suggested 4 Musics, who had only one film credit (Just Married), to Priyadarshan; the director gave them three situations and one week to return with three options for each.

"Chirimukilum" was not included in the film; it was a tribute to composer S. P. Venkatesh, who had collaborated with Priyadarshan on some of his successful soundtracks, and was written in Venkatesh's style. Mohanlal and Meenakshi appeared in the frame which featured Mohanlal and Lissy in the original. Was this review helpful to you?

They learn at the police station that Devayani's brother had the money, but Jayaraman is charged with murder. [46], The crew resumed filming in Kochi and in and around Ernakulam district in May 2016. Priyadarshan agreed on a short story by Govind Vijayan which was suggested by Mohanlal.