Kakkakuyil

Kakkakuyil
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Directed byPriyadarshan
Screenplay byPriyadarshan
Story byMurali Nagavally
Produced byLissy
StarringMohanlal
Mukesh
CinematographyS. Kumar
Edited byN. Gopalakrishnan
Music byM G Sreekumar credited as Deepan Chatterjee
Production
company
Kalyani Film Society
Distributed bySwargachitra
Release date
  • 14 April 2001 (2001-04-14)
Running time
175 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

Kakkakuyil (transl.Asian koel) is a 2001 Indian Malayalam-language heist comedy film written and directed by Priyadarshan and produced by Lissy. It stars Mohanlal and Mukesh. The film features songs composed by M.G Sreekumar (credited as Deepan Chatterji) and background score by S. P. Venkatesh. Kakkakuyil was released on 14 April 2001. It was remade in Telugu as Tappu Chesi Pappu Koodu (2002) and in Tamil as London (2005). The plot of the movie is based on the 1988 English movie A Fish Called Wanda with the added subplot of the two lead actors seeking shelter in the house of an old blind couple while pretending to be a single person having been borrowed from the Marathi play Ghar Ghar.