| Ente Mamattukkuttiyammakku | |
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 Promotional poster | |
| Directed by | Fazil |
| Written by | Fazil |
| Produced by | Navodaya Appachan |
| Starring | Bharat Gopy Mohanlal Shalini Sangeeta Naik Poornima Jayaram |
| Cinematography | Ashok Kumar |
| Edited by | T. R. Shekhar |
| Music by | Jerry Amaldev |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam |
Ente Mamattukkuttiyammakku (transl. For my Mamattukuttiyamma; also known as Ente Mamattikkuttiyammakku) is a 1983 Indian Malayalam-language family drama film produced by Navodaya Appachan under Navodaya Studio. It was written and directed by Fazil and stars Bharat Gopy, Mohanlal, Shalini, Poornima Jayaram, and Sangeeta Naik.[1] The film was reported to be heavily inspired by the 1982 film Annie.[2]
In the film, Vinod and Sethu lose their only child in an accident. Years pass and Sethu is still grieving. To comfort her, Vinod adopts a child, Tintumol (Mamattukuttiyamma), from an orphanage. Sethu, initially reluctant to love her, gradually develops an affection for her. But just when things are getting back to normal, Tintumol's biological father, Alex, starts trailing Vinod, constantly requesting to return his daughter. Now, Sethu and Vinod are dragged into a situation where they might lose their second child as well.
Ente Mamattukkuttiyammakku was an Industry Hit and critical success and became the highest-grossing Malayalam film of the year. The film won four Kerala State Film Awards—Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor (Gopy), and Best Child Artist (Shalini).[3] It was remade in Tamil as En Bommukutty Ammavukku (1988) by Fazil himself and in Telugu as Paape Maa Praanam (1989).
- ^ "Acting is a lot of responsibility". The Hindu. 14 October 2006. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012. Retrieved 27 April 2009.
- ^ "Row over Kerala State Films Award". The Times of India. 10 January 2017.
- ^ Actors - Shalini Archived 2 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine