Udayon


Udayon is a 2005 Indian Malayalam-language comedy drama film written and directed by Bhadran and produced by Maha Subair. It stars Mohanlal in dual roles: 75-year-old farmer Suranadu Kunju and his happy-go-lucky son Papoyi, Laya plays the female lead role and also features Manoj K. Jayan, Kalabhavan Mani, Innocent, Jagathy Sreekumar, and Salim Ghouse in substantial roles. The film features original soundtrack composed by Ouseppachan.

Plot

Mohanlal plays the double role of 75-year-old Suranadu Kunju and his son Papoyi. Kunju thinks that the heartbeat of earth is in soil and not in maths. His beliefs on the land and agrarianism is good but his value system that farmers and farming is more important and better is not. He does not let his sons pursue their interest and wants them to do farming also. Which leads in they becoming negative towards father. Also when he tries to marry off his daughter to an ugly but farming loving another narrow minded character instead of an educated handsome doctor makes them feel that the father is destroying and spoiling their lives with his stubbornness and high handedness.
The presence of a villainous brother in law to his sister's son JCB adds a twist as he interferes in the family property dispute. All said and done the sister doesn't want evil to her brother and her younger son the mute also doesn't want. Papoyi tries to save things but never has luck ultimately he tries and prevents many a bad scene but cannot prevent his youngest brother being killed and Kunju kills the villainous brother in law Perumal who does the evil deed and gives the family property keys to sister and the patriarch stick to Papoyi after the death of his youngest kid Ponnan.

Cast

was offered to act as lead actress with Mohanlal. But she could not do it due to her busy schedules in Tamil. She was later replaced by Telugu actress Laya.

Soundtrack

Release