This blockbuster Malayalam movie is  the ORIGINAL VERSION Rajnikanth's Kathanayakudu(Telugu remake) and Kuselan(Tamil remake). 

Star Cast: Srinivasan, Mamooty, Meena, Mukesh, Jagathy, Innocent, Salim Kumar, Jagadish, Kottayam Nazeer, Suraj Venjaranmoodu, Mamukkoya, Sivaji, Augustin, Amal, Shafna, Revathy, K.P.A.C. Lalitha
DVD Features:  24FPS Progressive Video, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, English Subtitles, DVD Text,  Jacket Picture, NTSC All Regions
Screenplay - Direction: M.Mohanan
Producer : Sreenivasan-Mukesh

Srinivasan’s golden touch continues. His ability to churn out scripts that have the right blend of commercial value and realistic themes is simply phenomenal. This film is based on friendship. It is a story of two friends who grew up together but their lives take different turns. One of them (played by Momooty) grows up to become a huge movie star, while the other (played by Srinivasan) becomes a barber who lives in small, beautiful town. This might sound cliched but the treatment is what makes this movie very interesting.

The movie revolves completely around the barber’s life. There are no scenes about the friends in their childhood (like you would find in most conventional films). In fact, the movie star character makes an appearance only towards the end (if you discount one song sequence which was thrust in under the pretext of the movie star shooting a film). The early part of the film focuses on the barber struggling to make both ends meet.