Kannur Deluxe
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Director A. B. Raj Language Malayalam | 6.2/10 IMDb Music director V. Dakshinamoorthy Country India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 16 May 1969 (1969-05-16) Genres Malayalam Cinema, World cinema Cast Similar movies Drishyam (2013), Prem Nazir and Adoor Bhasi appear in Kannur Deluxe and Vilakku Vangiya Veena, Papanasam (2015), Yamadonga (2007) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kannur Deluxe is a 1969 Indian Malayalam thriller film, directed by AB Raj and produced by T. E. Vasudevan. The film is a road movie which pivots on a theft that occurs in a bus and stars Prem Nazir, Sheela, Adoor Bhasi and Ammini in the lead roles. The film had musical score by V. Dakshinamoorthy. The film was well received. The film has the resemblance of 1972 Hindi movie"Bombay to Goa"
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Production
The film is perhaps the first road movie in Malayalam. A real life incident that occurred at Cherthala in Alappuzha district of Kerala inspired the modus operandi used to arrest the thief in the film. Major portions of the film were shot inside Kannur Deluxe, a KSRTC bus service between Trivandrum and Kannur that was started in 1967 and is still on. The indoor portions were shot at Vahini, Arunachalam, and Newton Studios. I. V. Sasi worked as assistant director in the film.
Soundtrack
The music was composed by V. Dakshinamoorthy and lyrics was written by Sreekumaran Thampi.
References
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