Janani
Directed byRajeevnath
Screenplay byZachariah
Rajeevnath
Story byRenji Panicker
StarringSiddique
CinematographySuresh P Nair
Edited byBeena Paul
Music byOuseppachan
Production
company
Chitranjali
Release date
1999
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

Janani is a 1999 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Rajeevnath, starring Siddique in the lead role. Rajeevnath won the National Film Award for Best Direction.[1][2][3]

Synopsis

The film is about seven nuns who take care of an orphaned baby.[4]

Cast

  • Siddique as Father
  • Kavitha Ladnier as Sister Mary Ann
  • Latheef as Doctor
  • Rosline as Sr. Victoria
  • Santhakumari as Servant Eliyamma
  • Rukhmini

Reception

Reviewing the film at the Palm Springs Film Festival in 2000, Robert Koehler of Variety opined that "What appears to be a drama about how an elderly nun will fit into convent culture dissolves into random sequences of various innocuous relationships".[5]

References

  1. Tharakan, Tony (8 August 2007). ""Casablanca" to be remade on Indian shores". Reuters.
  2. Shobha Warrier (12 June 2006). "Paris Hilton is no Mother Teresa". Rediff.com.
  3. "B.R. Chopra gets Phalke award". The Tribune.
  4. "Is Paris Hilton The Next Mother Teresa?". The New York Times. 4 April 2006.
  5. Koehler, Koehler (22 January 2000). "Janani". Variety.


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