Cocktail (2010 film)

Cocktail
Official Movie poster
Directed by	Arun Kumar
Produced by	Milan Jaleel
Written by	Shyam Menon (screenplay) Anoop Menon (dialogue)
Starring	Jayasurya Anoop Menon Samvrutha Sunil Fahad Fazil Innocent Mamukkoya
Music by	Ratheesh Vegha Alphons Joseph
Cinematography	Pradeep Nair
Editing by	Arun Kumar
Distributed by	Galaxy Films
Release date(s)	October 22, 2010 (2010-10-22)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Cocktail is a 2010 Malayalam thriller film edited and directed by Arun Kumar. The film stars Jayasurya, Anoop Menon, Samvrutha Sunil, Fahad Fazil, Innocent, and Mamukkoya. It is co-written by Anoop Menon and is an uncredited remake of the Canadian film Butterfly on a Wheel.^[1][2] It was the directorial debut of film editor Arun Kumar.

Plot

Ravi Abraham (Anoop Menon) is one of the key brains behind the success of a construction firm. He has rivals within and outside the office, jealous of his success. At home, he has a blissful life with his wife Parvathy (Samvrutha Sunil) and daughter Ammu. But things go terribly wrong for Ravi and Parvathy one fine morning, with a stranger named Venkitesh (Jayasurya), who asks for a lift in their car. For the first few minutes, Venky appears to be a naive mild guy but his tone changes soon and he begins to blackmail the couple, telling them that their daughter is kidnapped and within one call the babysitter will kill her. They are forced to obey several things one after the other. First Venky asks them to withdraw the entire deposit from their bank account. Later Venky sets fire to the currency notes in a suitcase and throws it into a river along with their wallets. Venky asks for more money, Ravi sells his wrist watch worth one lakh rupees, for a sum of just 6000. As the day progresses both Ravi and Parvathy are made to drive around and do many things, including leaking Ravi's firm's top notch business plan to the rival group, bargaining with a sex worker etc. Venky also traps them to a lodge where he tries to advance to Parvathy but stops short of it. At last, towards the late hours of the night, they reach Ravi's boss's house. Ravi is asked to shoot his boss if he wants to have his daughter alive. Ravi enters the house and to his surprise finds his colleague Devi there.

Part of the drama unveils to the audience now: it is Devi's house, Venky is her husband, Ravi and Devi have an extramarital affair. In the subsequent few minutes, we realise that all this was a drama plotted and enacted well by Venky and Parvathy both hurt by their partners' deceit.

The last shot of the movie has Ravi and Devi an year later at a hospital for the infirm. They see a paralyzed Devi, a victim of a suicide attempt, taken care of by the affectionate Venky.

Reception

The movie was met with critical acclaim. Even though Cocktail could not manage a bumper initial, the movie picked up after a couple of days of the release. Cocktail has the dubious distinction of raising a controversy about the box-office performance. In a box-office analysis, Sify said that the film did not do well in the box office.^[3] However, an article in Expressbuzz.com, published some days after its release, said that the film is a "sleeper hit" and had a "dream run at the box office".^[4] According to Malayalamcinemanews.com, the official website of Kerala Film Producers Association, the film's distributor's share is between 40 lakhs and 1 crore, which makes the film only an average grosser.^[5]

Cast

• Jayasurya as Venky
• Anoop Menon as Ravi Abraham
• Samvrutha Sunil as Parvathy
• Innocent as KalyanKrishnan
• Mamukoya as Hakkim Seth
• Fahad Fazil as Navin Krishnamurthy(Ravi's Boss)
• Aparna Nair as Devi

Soundtrack

The soundtrack of the film, composed by Alphons Joseph and Ratheesh Vegha. The album features 7 songs which has been written by Anil Panachooran and Santhosh Varma.^{[6] [7]}

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Neeyaam Thanalinu"	Anil Panachooran	Ratheesh Vegha	Vijay Yesudas, Thulasi Yatheendran
2.	"Vennilavinumivide"	Santhosh Varma	Alphons Joseph	Alphons Joseph
3.	"Parayatharo"	Santhosh Varma	Alphons Joseph	Sayanora
4.	"Neeyam Thanalinu"	Anil Panachooran	Ratheesh Vegha	Rahul Nambiar
5.	"Theme Music 1" (Instrumental)		Ratheesh Vegha
6.	"Theme Music 2" (Instrumental)		Ratheesh Vegha
7.	"Theme Music 3" (Instrumental)		Ratheesh Vegha

References

1. ^ Rediff Review
2. ^ Sify Review
3. ^ http://www.sify.com/movies/top-10-malayalam-actors-of-2010-imagegallery-malayalam-km4lKwadegb.html#galname
4. ^ Parvathy S Nair (18 November 2010). "Cocktail, a dream run at the box office". Expressbuzz.com. Retrieved 2011-01-07.
5. ^ "മലയാള സിനിമ 2010 - കളക്ഷന്‍ റിപ്പോര്‍ട്ട്. Malayalamcinemanews.com. Retrieved 2011-01-07.
6. ^ http://musikmelody.net/index.php/category/malayalam-music/page/2/
7. ^ http://malayalasangeetham.info/php/MovieDetails.php?mid=6750&encode=utf

External links

• Official website
• MetoMatinee Article
• Indiaglitz Article
• OneIndia article