Angel John

Angel John
Directed by	S. L. Puram Jayasurya
Produced by	K. K. Narayana Das
Written by	S. L. Puram Jayasurya Manaf
Starring	Mohanlal Shanthnoo Bhagyaraj Jagathy Sreekumar Salim Kumar Nithya Menon Baiju
Music by	Ouseppachan
Cinematography	Ajayan Vincent Lokanathan
Distributed by	Maxlaab Entertainments
Release dates	22 October 2009 (2009-10-22)
Running time	130 minutes
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Angel John is a 2009 Malayalam drama thriller comedy film directed by Jayasurya and starring Mohanlal and Shanthnoo Bhagyaraj, who is making his debut in Malayalam. The cast also includes Vijayaraghavan, Lalu Alex, Jagathy Sreekumar, Salim Kumar, Ambika and Nithya Menon. Plot of the film has got small resemblance to the Jim Carrey film Bruce Almighty (2003).

Plot

Maradonna (Shanthnoo) is an aimless youngster who likes to waste his time doing practically nothing other than fooling around. For him everything in life is Oru Rasam (just fun) and wants to take the easy way out and lacks focus in his life.

He is the only son of Joseph (Lalu Alex) a Banker and Mary (Ambika) who dotes on him. The only person who has a soft corner for him is the beautiful Sofia (Nithya Menon) who has a limp and is the daughter of a failed filmmaker Kuruvilla (Vijayaraghavan).

Maradonna messes up his life by getting into company of friends and starting an internet café that fails and to recoup his losses and attracted by ‘easy money’ he gets into drugs. Soon he is conned and loses everything after pledging his house to a ‘blade’ moneylender (Salim Kumar).

On hearing the news his father is hospitalized and his mother finally loses faith in him. A shattered Maradonna decides to commit suicide by jumping from a lighthouse into the sea. As he is about to jump, he is held back by a divine force in the form of Angel John (Mohanlal), who offers him a new lease of life. In that lease of life the Angel fulfills his desires but the same desires won't be fulfilled again. But as his desires gets fulfilled his death will also be near. Not thinking about the consequences his takes easy way which starts with Rs.5 lakh to getting his house back from 'blade' moneylender. When kadar moosa (jagathy) tries to win a world record by breathing underwater he gets caught in a fish net and dies without getting out. Angel knowing of this incident tells to Maradonna but tells him he won't save moosa. Maradonna jumps into the water to save moosa followed by Angel and gives back his life again. Followed by the incident there was a colony get together in which moosa shares his real intention in record winning was that he wanted his wife to come back and followed by Kuruvilla film which a producer accepted because the script Sofia wrote (script idea by Angel). Everyone was happy but except Maradonna who is sad because he is going to die that day which was told by Angel. Maradonna asks Angel "what will he do if it was Angel in his position?". To which Angel replies "He will go to the God's dearest children."(meaning handicapped children). When Maradonna goes there he sees the persons who conned him and many childrens. Maradonna gets into a fight with them and a 12yr boy tries to stab a villian but by mistake Maradonna gets stabbed as Angel said. When Angel and Maradonna (soul of Maradonna) goes to the roof Angel waits dor God's grace and sends Maradonna (soul) back to his body. Angel explains to him why he is not taking Maradonna with him and departs. The next scene takes where Maradonna is a obedient boy who listens to his parents and Angel comes to the moneylender's house.

Cast

• Mohanlal as Angel John
• Shanthnoo Bhagyaraj as Maradonna Joseph
• Jagathy Sreekumar as Khater Moosa
• Lalu Alex as Joseph
• Nithya Menon as Sofia
• Ambika as Mary Joseph
• Vijayaraghavan as James Kuruvilla
• Baiju as Karate Master
• Salim Kumar as a Moneylender
• Prem Kumar as Fireman
• Pradeep Chandran as Gangster

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Ouseppachan and lyrics was written by Ouseppachan, SL Puram Jayasurya, Manaf and Subhash Varma.

No.	Song	Singers	Lyrics	Length (m:ss)
1	Makane	Franco, Rajesh Vijay	Ouseppachan, SL Puram Jayasurya, Manaf
2	Thirakkumbol	Franco, Hariharan	Subhash Varma

Box office

The film opened with unanimous negative reviews and was a failure.

External links

• Official website
• Angel John at IMDb
• http://sify.com/movies/malayalam/review.php?id=14916424&ctid=5&cid=2428
• http://movies.rediff.com/report/2009/oct/23/south-malayalam-movie-review-angel-john.htm