Lailaa O Lailaa

This article is about the film. For the song, see Qurbani (film).

Lailaa O Lailaa
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJoshiy
Written bySuresh Nair
Produced bySanthosh Kottayi
Biju Antony
Preeta Nair
StarringMohanlal
Amala Paul
CinematographyLoganathan Srinivasan
Edited byShyam Sasidharan
Music byGopi Sundar
Production
company
Finecut Entertainments
Distributed byMaxlab Cinemas and Entertainments & Tricolor Entertainment
Release date
  • 14 May 2015 (2015-05-14) (India)
Running time
168 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

Lailaa O Lailaa is a 2015 Indian Malayalam-language action spy thriller film directed by Joshiy. It stars Mohanlal and Amala Paul alongside a supporting cast of Sathyaraj, Joy Mathew, Sreerag Nambiar, Rahul Dev and Kainaat Arora. Bollywood screenwriter Suresh Nair debuted in Malayalam as writer in the film. The original soundtrack and background score were composed by Gopi Sunder.

The film introduced the state's first equity crowdfunding model of film production, being produced by Santhosh Kottayi, Bijou Antony, and Preeta Nair under the banner Finecut Entertainments Pvt Ltd in association with Aashirvad Cinemas.[1]

Principal photography began at the end of August 2014. The first schedule was in Kochi, Goa and Mysore; the second schedule was in Bangalore; and the final schedule was at Kochi, Bangalore and Bellary. The film was originally scheduled for a 110-day shoot and was completed within a span of 7 months.[2][3] The film was dubbed and released in Tamil as Murugavel, Telugu as Iddaru Iddare.

The film was released in theatres across India on 14 May 2015, and met with generally received negative reviews from critics.[4][5]

  1. ^ Byju Aryad (9 April 2015). "Startup Lets You Fund Films and Pick up Perks". The New Indian Express. Archived from the original on 19 May 2015.
  2. ^ Gayathri Krishna (1 September 2014). "Mohanlal starts 'Laila o Laila'". Sify. Archived from the original on 1 September 2014. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
  3. ^ Akhila Menon (10 March 2015). "Lailaa O Lailaa On April 30?". Filmibeat.com.
  4. ^ "Box office report: 'Premam', 'OVS' rule 2015 first half". 30 June 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Flop was invoked but never defined (see the help page).