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| Directed by | P. T. Kunju Muhammed |
| Written by | P. T. Kunju Muhammed |
| Produced by | Antony Perumbavoor |
| Starring | Mohanlal Swetha Menon Lakshmi Gopalaswamy Padmapriya Janakiraman |
| Cinematography | K. G. Jayan |
| Edited by | Don Max |
| Music by | Ramesh Narayan Shahabaz Aman |
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| Distributed by | Central Pictures |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam |
Paradesi (transl. Foreigner) is a 2007 Indian Malayalam-language drama film written and directed by P. T. Kunju Muhammed. It was produced by Antony Perumbavoor under the company Aashirvad Cinemas. Mohanlal plays Valiyakaththu Moosa, in three stages of his life, between the ages of 35 and 80. It also features Swetha Menon, Lakshmi Gopalaswamy, Padmapriya Janakiraman, Jagathy Sreekumar, and Siddique in significant roles.
The film portrays the issue of Indian citizens who left the country before the partition of India in search of job, mostly to Arabia, and happened to reach Pakistan, and then when returned to the homeland, happened to be holding a Pakistani passport, and now is forced by the Indian authorities to leave the nation to Pakistan, which even the Pakistani authorities won't allow.[1]
- ^ "The Hindu : Friday Review Thiruvananthapuram / On Location : Citizen sans a country". www.hindu.com. Archived from the original on 11 October 2007. Retrieved 17 January 2022.