Dhinarathrangal (transl. Days and Nights) is a 1988 Indian Malayalam-language film written by Dennis Joseph, directed by Joshi and produced by S. V. Krishna Reddy and starring Mammootty, Sumalatha and Mukesh. The score and soundtrack were composed by Shyam. The film was inspired by the Hindi film Achanak (1973).
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Cast
Mammootty as Aravindan
Sumalatha as Dr. Savithri
Mukesh as Ajayan
Parvathy as Treesa
Siddique as Sudhindran, Farm Labourer
Prathapachandran as Doctor Bharghavan Nair
Devan as Unni
Karamana Janardanan Nair as Sankarath Madhava Menon
Babu Namboothiri as Thomachan
Rohini as Ponni
Philomina as Latha, Aravindan's Mother
Sukumari as Lakshmi
Jose Prakash as Commissioner Unnithan
Jagannatha Varma as Balakrishnan, Madhava Menon's Brother-in-law
Vijayaraghavan as Sasi
Ganesh Kumar as Chekutty
Mohan Jose
Azeez as Minister Shivaraman
Baiju as Biju
Santha Devi as Naniyamma
Jagannathan
Kunchan as Hospital Attendant
Release
The film was released on 21 January 1988.
Box office
The film was a critical success.
Songs
There is only one song in the film, "Thirunellikkadu Poothu". It was written by Shibu Chakravarthy, composed by Ouseppachan and sung by M. G. Sreekumar and K. S. Chithra. The song was shot by writer Dennis Joseph and features Mukesh and Parvathy.