Oru Mexican Aparatha (English: A Mexican Crime) is a 2017 Indian Malayalam-language political drama film directed by Tom Emmatty. The film stars Tovino Thomas, Neeraj Madhav and Roopesh Peethambaran. It was released on 3 March 2017 in India.[2][3] The movie was a blockbuster at the box office and served as a major breakthrough for tovino Thomas as it established him as one of the biggest leading star in Malayalam cinema.
| Oru Mexican Aparatha | |
|---|---|
 Poster | |
| Malayalam | ഒരു മെക്സിക്കൻ അപാരത |
| Directed by | Tom Emmatty |
| Written by | Tom Emmatty |
| Produced by | Anoop Kannan |
| Starring | |
| Narrated by | Ranjith |
| Cinematography | Prakash Velayudhan |
| Edited by | Shameer Muhammed |
| Music by | Songs: Manikandan Ayyappa Additional Song: Renjith Chittade Score: Gopi Sundar |
Production company | Anoop Kannan Stories |
| Distributed by | Anoop Kannan Stories Release |
Release date | 3 March 2017 |
| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam |
| Budget | ₹ 2.68 crore |
| Box office | ₹ 21 crore[1] |
Plot edit
Sakhavu Kochaniyan is a strong leftist who during The Emergency period, conducted a successful protest and established the SFY party in the famous Maharaja's College, Ernakulam. However, he soon is betrayed by a comrade and killed by the police, shouting the phrase 'Inquilab Zindabad!' to his last breath.
Now, set in mid 2000s, the college is now under the leadership of the KSQ activist Roopesh, Shiyaz and their fellow activists. Paul is a student from Thrissur who has come to the college to study. He is a typical student and becomes friends with Subhash, Joby and Krishnan, and soon starts to fall in love Anu. Subhash has long hated the KSQ's leadership and their abuse of power in the college, and plans to re-introduce the SFY party in the college before the next election. Subhash is shown as a clever, left-wing ideologist, and tries to bring his friends, including Paul, into the party. Krishnan, who came from Irinjalakuda, is also seen as a strong figure, but not completely absorbed in the leftist ideology. There is eventually a skirmish between Subhash's gang and a bunch of people led by KSQ activist Kanjan, but it's stopped safely.
Meanwhile, Paul tells Anu that he loves her, and she tells him, as a joke, that she loves him back. Paul falls under the illusion that it's real love and not friendship. In a local Kalolsavam, Roopesh and his party select the students who are taking part, but they reject a girl who wants to take part in 4 activities. Seeing this, Subhash decides to sign the girl up for the kalotsavam without the others knowing. The girl wins but Roopesh cunningly makes the girl join his group and therefore takes all the credit.
Cast edit
- Tovino Thomas in a dual role as:
- Paul
- Kochaniyan
- Neeraj Madhav as Subhash
- Roopesh Peethambaran as Roopesh
- Gayathri Suresh as Anu
- Sudheer Karamana
- Sudhi Koppa as Lonappan
- Hareesh Peradi
- Subeesh Sudhi as Rajeshettan
- Kalabhavan Shajon as Shiyaz
- Ajith P V as Student
- Jino John as Kanjan
- Anas Haneef
- Meghna Nair
- Anjali P Nair
- Megha Mathew as Ardra
- Vishnu Govindan as Jomey
- Sarath Chandran as Rohit
- Akhil Nambolan
- Sobin Mazhaveedu
- Vimal Kumar as Ullaass
- Sunil Sukhada as Collage Sir
Differences from History edit
In real life, Jino John, a Kerala Students Union (KSU, which is shown to be KSQ in the film) representative, won against the left-aligned Students' Federation of India (SFI, depicted as SFY in film) candidate in the Maharajas College union elections on 1 October 2010. It was after almost 30 years that a KSU leader became the chairman of Maharajas College.[4] Jino also acted in the movie as a KSQ activist. Indian diplomat Venu Rajamony was the last person who was elected as the chairman from the panel of KSU during 1980–81.[5] Many criticised it as a rewriting of very recent history in favour of left-wing politics using the convenience of cinematic liberty.[6][7][8] Even though the convention of creating martyrs by the leftist politicians for political gains is shown in the film, it was twisted to be the plan of a wicked member of the party in the climax, again in favour of leftist agenda.
A leftist leader named Kochaniyan is shown to be studying at the same college in Ernakulam in the flashback of the film. But the person he was based on was a real person by the name of R K Kochaniyan, who was a student of Sri C. Achutha Menon Government College, Thrissur, and he was member of SFI Thrissur District Committee and also the College Union General Secretary and he was killed by KSU activist in Calicut University Art Fest.[9]
Filming edit
The film was shot mainly in Maharaja's College, Ernakulam and FACT in Kochi.
Soundtrack edit
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Singer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Emanmare Emanmare" | Renjith Chittade | Renjith Chittade | Shebin Mathew | 2:06 |
| 2. | "Aakaasha Kuda" | Rafeeq Ahammed | Manikandan Ayyappa | Nithin Raj & Sulfiq.L | |
| 3. | "Ivalaaro" | Rafeeq Ahammed | Manikandan Ayyappa | Vijay Yesudas | |
| 4. | "Munneraan Samayamayi" | Anil Panachooran | Manikandan Ayyappa | Franko | |
| 5. | "Kalippu Katta Kalippu" | Tom Emmatty | Manikandan Ayyappa | Arunraja Kamaraj Manikandan Ayyappan |
Reception edit
The film grossed ₹2.07 crore in the opening day at Kerala box office with a distributor's share of ₹98 lakh. Asianet bought the Satellite rights of the film for an amount of 3.25 crores. The producer Anoop Kannan earned approximately 10 crores profit from this movie.
References edit
- ^ "മെക്സിക്കന് അപാരതയ്ക്ക് ഗള്ഫിലും വരവേല്പ്പ്".
- ^ oru-mexican-aparatha-box-office-collection-first-day-collection
- ^ review-oru-mexican-aparatha-malayalam-movie-audience-responses
- ^ "Jino John : The hero of Oru Mexican Aparatha's real story". Onlookers Media. 5 March 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
- ^ "KSU wins chairman's post in Maharaja's College". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
- ^ "മാലിക്: പറഞ്ഞതും പറയാത്തതും: OUT OF FOCUS: Malik Malayalam Movie Review". YouTube Channel of MediaOne. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
- ^ "'മാലിക്ക്' മറ്റൊരു 'മെക്സിക്കൻ അപാരത'യെന്ന് ഒമർ ലുലു, മനസിലാകാത്തവർക്കായി ഒരു പത്രക്കട്ടിങ്ങും". Samakalika Malayalam. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
- ^ "'ചങ്ക്സ് പോലുള്ള ചിത്രം ചെയ്ത ആള്ക്ക് മാലിക്കിനെ വിമർശിക്കാൻ എന്ത് യോഗ്യത'; മറുപടിയുമായി ഒമർ". Malayala Manorama Online. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
- ^ "R. K. Kochaniyan". Students Federation of India Central Executive Committee, New Delhi. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
- ^ "ഒരു മെക്സിക്കൻ അപാരതയിലെ ഗാനങ്ങൾ റിലീസ് ചെയ്തു". kerala online news. 10 February 2017. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
