Summer in Bethlehem

Summer in Bethlehem
Poster
Directed bySibi Malayil
Written byRanjith
Produced bySiyad Koker
(Kokers Films)
StarringSuresh Gopi
Jayaram
Mohanlal
Manju Warrier
Kalabhavan Mani
CinematographySanjeev Shankar
Edited byL. Bhoominathan
Music byVidyasagar
Production
company
Distributed byAnupama Release
Release date
  • 4 September 1998 (1998-09-04)
Running time
160 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

Summer in Bethlehem is a 1998 Indian Malayalam-language romantic comedy film directed by Sibi Malayil and written by Ranjith. It was produced by Siyad Koker under the company Kokers Films. The film stars Suresh Gopi, Jayaram, Manju Warrier, and Kalabhavan Mani while Mohanlal makes a cameo appearance. The music was composed by Vidyasagar. It tells the story of Ravishankar (Jayaram), the bumbling friend of a successful landowner, Dennis (Suresh Gopi), and the vacation visit by Ravishankar's relatives in Dennis' estate known as Bethlehem Estates in a fictional town of Chandragiri in the Nilgiris.

The film was released on 4 September 1998. It was partially remade in Tamil as Lesa Lesa (2003), directed by Priyadarshan[1] who opined that the movie was inspired by the two American movies - Fiddler on the Roof and Come September.[2]

  1. ^ "Trisha's Lesa Lesa is a remake of a Malayalam film". The Times of India. 17 August 2015. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
  2. ^ "Priyadarshan's films banned".