Punjabi House

– Unni (Dileep) has many debts and no way to repay them. He decides to commit suicide so that his pare..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
8.10 / 10
Duration:
2 Hours and 26 Minutes
Release Year:
1998
Original Name:
പഞ്ചാബി ഹൗസ്
Punjabi House (1998) - Also known as പഞ്ചാബി ഹൗസ്

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 they will not understand the truth. Gangadharan has a debt of his own, to a Punjabi family of money lenders who have settled in Kerala. He asks Unni and Ramanan to work at their home until he can repay it. There Unni meets a Punjabi girl named Pooja (Mohini), who is partially deaf and completely mute. They fall in love and decide to get married. Unni's family finds out that he is not dead and they come to see him with his old girlfriend Sujatha (Jomol), who allows Unni to marry Pooja.

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Release Date:

04 Sep 1998

Language:

Malayalam

Director:

Meccartin, Raffi

Writer:

Meccartin, Raffi

Main Actors:

Dileep, Mohini, Lal, Cochin Hanifa

Plot:

Unnikrishnan, a jobless youth has taken loan money from everyone he knows. But he couldn't pay back any of those. After facing lot of harassement, he decides to commit suicide after taking an insurance policy which can pay back his loans. He jumps into the sea, but gets caught in the fishing nets of Gangadharan and Ramanan and reaches a distant place. They think that Unni is deaf and dumb and Gangadharan decides to keep him at 'Punjabi House', where he himself had taken a loan from. Unni meets Pooja there, who is also dumb.

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
8.1/10