The best Thilakan’s comedy movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Thilakan’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Thilakan.
Godfather
8.6/10
The story of Anjooran, and his four sons Balaraman, Swaminathan, Premachandran and Ramabhadran are in severe enmity with the Anappara family.
Kilukkam
8.6/10
Nandini is an illegitimate child who comes to Ooty in search of her father. She meets Joji, a tourist guide, and pretends to be mentally unstable in order to get shelter in his house.
Nadodikkattu
8.8/10
After losing their jobs, Dasan and Vijayan have no hope of finding work in Kerala. They plan to escape to Dubai, but end up in Chennai. Can they find luck there?
Gandhinagar 2nd Street
7.7/10
Madhavan (Sreenivasan) is trying to get a job for his unemployed friend Sethu (Mohanlal). When a spate of robberies takes place in a middle-class neighbourhood, Madhavan has Sethu pose as Raam Singh, a Nepali emigre, to fulfill the residents' need for a Gorkha security guard. A police officer (Thilakan) and his daughter (Karthika) move into the neighbourhood, bringing back memories from the past for Sethu.
Panchavadi Palam
8.1/10
One of the best satires ever made in Malayalam, the film is a comic critique on the the corruption prevalent in Kerala, depicted using the activities in a village panchayat. A henpecked politician wants his name attached to a new bridge, even if that means destroying another, perfectly serviceable bridge.
Kalyanaraman
7.8/10
Ramankutty, a wedding planner, falls in love with Gauri and their families approve of their marriage. However, an astrologer's shocking prediction about Ramankutty's family creates complications.
Varam
Eby, who hails from a wealthy family, falls in love with Ilina, but her family opposes their relationship. At Eby's insistence, her uncle reveals the shocking reason that can change their future.
Yes Your Honour
5.9/10
Advocate Ravishankar works as a junior under the cunning lawyer, Venugopal, who is also rude. One day, Ravishankar beats up Venugopal and quits his job. He then fights for a murder case against Venugopal representing the opposite party.
Sanmanassullavarkku Samadhanam
7.9/10
The only way Gopalakrishnan can escape from certain bankruptcy is to sell the property he owns in the city and use the proceeds to settle his debts. To do that, he has to evict his tenants from there first. Unfortunate for him, his tenant is the feisty Meera and her family, who absolutely refuses to vacate the house. Gopalakrishnan uses an obscure clause in the contract to take up residence at the house, and tries his best to smoke his tenants out.
Pattanapravesham
8.2/10
Six months after the events of the prequel (Nadodikattu), C.I.D. officers Ramdas and Vijayan are called to Kerala to find the murderer of a police officer. The two incompetent and clueless men find themselves facing a dangerous crime syndicate that deals in drug trafficking. In addition, Anandan Nambiar, the man they put behind bars six months before, escapes from jail.
Ee Pattanathil Bhootham
3.4/10
The film opens with a ‘Manthravadi’ (Thilakan) an evil magician (Pithamagan Mahadevan) to obey to his commands and make spiriting away a friendly ghost money through crime. Meanwhile a group of kids and their benefactors are held hostage in a circus camp by the baddies, who has taken over the show. Ancy (Kaavyamadavan) is coming back from London, to take charge of the circus company founded by her father Philipose (Janardhanan),who was found murdered. On reaching there, she is told that her father was stabbed to death by a bike-jumper named Jimmy (Mammootty). In fact Jimmy, his foster father Krishnan (Innocent), aide Sisupalan (Suraj Venjarammood) and a gang of street children were all invited by Philipose to join his circus group. Meanwhile the ghost (Mammootty, in his other role) appears, becomes friendly with the kids and takes a more stylish shape of Jimmy. Thanks to the ghost, Ancy realizes that Jimmy was innocent in the whole issue. Now the battle between the good and evil.
Punjabi House
8.1/10
Unni (Dileep) has many debts and no way to repay them. He decides to commit suicide so that his parents can use the insurance money to repay the debts, but he is saved by a fisherman named Gangadharan (Cochin Haneefa) and his employee Ramanan (Harisree Ashokan). When they notice Unni drowning, Unni pretends to be deaf and mute so that he can fake his death and the insurance money reaches his family. Gangadharan however has a debt of his own, to a Punjabi family of money lenders who have settled in Kerala. He is forced to make Unni and Ramanan to work at their home until he can repay it. A series of interesting events follow after Unni meets Pooja (Mohini) at the house, who is deaf and mute.
Mookilla Rajyathu
7.6/10
The film starts by displaying an antic of Keshavan (Thilakan) who is an inmate of the Kakkanad Mental Hospital. Two other inmates are Benny (Mukesh) and Krishnankutty (Jagathy Sreekumar), along with the female inmate Philomena. By profession Benny is an artist, Krishnankutty is a mechanic and Keshavan had retired from military service. The late Hakeem Rawther too plays as an inmate in a cameo role. The trio chance to come across a newspaper report that Amitabh Bachchan is visiting Ernakulam City for film shooting, near the place they stay. They are soon joined by Venu (Siddique), as the brother of Balan (N.N.Balakrishnan) who takes him to the mental hospital. Venu is a good singer but has a compulsive obsession to singing. Driven by a desire to see Amitabh Bachchan the four of them manage to escape from the mental hospital that night by ripping off the cell warden Ameen (Mala Aravindan). They reach Ernakulam city in a bus, and hilarity starts
Sandhesam
9/10
After his retirement, Raghavan Nair (Thilakan) is back at his home. His long cherished dream to spend his retired life along with his family is thwarted after seeing his two sons brawling each other over their political differences.
Nagarangalil Chennu Raparkam
7/10
Kunjoottan is an innocent young man living in a remote village. He is the only heir to his rich, aristocratic parents, Thamburan and Kunjulakshmi. He cannot stand his overprotective father, who is concerned about his son because he had a bad dream about his son's death. Ramachandran, a childhood friend is back from town with colorful stories about city life. He is in urgent need of money to pay his debts from a failed business. He tricks Kunjoottan into stealing money from his father's safe so that they can run away and enjoy life in the city.
Kudumbapuranam
7.1/10
The film revolves around a middle class Malayalee family. Problems arise when the eldest son alienates his father and gets thrown out of home. The film portrays the other members struggling between the two.
Cheriya Lokavum Valiya Manushyarum
6.6/10
Four small time thieves make a living by doing minor robberies and con acts. One of their robberies goes awry when they are caught by the owner of the house. He inspires them to use their talents for the greater good.
Chakkikotha Chankaran
7/10
Raghavan Thampi (Thilakan) and his wife Subhadra (Sukumari) have two sons, Prabhakaran (Nedumudi) and Pradeep (Jayaram). Prabhakaran wants to become a mridungam maestro against the wishes of his parents who want him to get married. When Prabhakaran refuses, Subhadra emotionally blackmails him and gets him married off to Shailaja (Geetha). Meanwhile Pradeep falls in love with Roshni (Urvashi) and they get married secretly without their parents' knowledge.
Vellinakshatram
5.1/10
A man loves a woman who belongs to a royal family whose members are hiding some dark secrets. When her mother opposes their marriage, they elope, get married, have a child and make up with her family.
Bandhukkal Sathrukkal
6.8/10
The animosity between two brothers extends to their wives and their children. The younger generation ends up paying the price.
