Double Barrel (film)

Double Barrel
Directed by	Lijo Jose Pellissery
Produced by	Prithviraj Santhosh Sivan Arya Shaji Nadesan
Written by	Lijo Jose Pellissery
Starring	Prithviraj Indrajith Arya Chemban Vinod Jose Sunny Wayne Swathi Reddy Isha Sharvani Parvathi Menon
Music by	Prashant Pillai
Cinematography	Abinandhan Ramanujam
Edited by	Sathyaraj Natarajan
Production company	August Cinema
Distributed by	August Cinema, Tricolor Entertainment
Release dates	28 August 2015 (2015-08-28)
Running time	160 minutes
Country	India
Language	Malayalam
Budget	₹16 crore (US$2.4 million)

Double Barrel, also called Eratta Kuzhal, is a 2015 Malayalam gangster comedy film written and directed by Lijo Jose Pellissery. The film stars Prithviraj Sukumaran, Indrajith Sukumaran, Arya, Chemban Vinod Jose, Sunny Wayne, Swathi Reddy, Isha Sharvani, Parvathi Menon, Rachana Narayanankutty and Asif Ali, and is jointly produced by Prithviraj, Santhosh Sivan, Arya and Shaji Nadesan under August Cinema, and Lijo Jose Pellissery under Amen Movie Monastery. Prashant Pillai composes the music while Abinandhan Ramanujam is the cinematographer.

Double Barrel was made at an estimated cost of ₹16 crore (US$2.4 million). The film was a critical and commercial failure.

Plot

Laila and Majnu are two precious stones, which has value only if they are together. It is now possessed by an underworld don in Goa, who tries to sell it, in order not to lose it to his son, Gabbar, whom he despises. Don approaches two lowly thugs, Pancho and Vinci and offers it for a price of ₹10 crores. They agree and ask for a week's time to arrange the money. Billy, who is Gabbar's man, comes to know of this and offers Pancho and Vinci ₹100 crores to buy it. Pancho and Vinci gets ₹5 crores from Blacky, which actually belongs to the Tarkovs (the Russian mob in Goa). For the remaining ₹5 crores, they plan to rob the black money of Podiyadis (a local hawala gang in Kerala). While the deal happens, things get mixed up and lead to a big gang war between all the groups.

Cast

• Prithviraj Sukumaran as Pancho
• Indrajith Sukumaran as Vinci
• Arya as Majnu
• Chemban Vinod Jose as Diesel
• Sunny Wayne as Silent
• Master Varghese as Kid
• Isha Sharvani as Shaolin Sweety
• Swathi Reddy as Laila
• Asif Ali as He (Lover boy)
• Pearle Maaney as She (Lover girl)
• Vijay Babu as Billy
• Steev Thekkanath as Gabbar
• Thomas Berly as Don
• Sherrin Varghese as Tarkov
• Parvathi Menon as Lady Tarkov
• Anil Radhakrishnan Menon as Mario Benzo/Boss
• Bineesh Kodiyeri as World
• Sajid Yahiya as Chaplie
• Anil Murali as Podiyadi Soman
• Sabu Abdusamad as Podiyadi Martin
• Rachana Narayanankutty as Kochumary
• Manu as Ummer
• John as Blacky
• Shaji Nadesan as Unnibaby
• Sujith Vasudev as Husband at hotel
• Muthumani as Wife at Hotel
• Sunny as Uncle Django
• Nora Fatehi

Production

Double Barrel was announced on 2014, as a gangster comedy movie in the backdrop of Goa, starring brothers Prithviraj and Indrajith Sukumaran.

Critical response

Veeyen of Nowrunning.com rated 1.5/5 and criticized the script, musical score, humour and direction, while concluding as "'Double Barrel' sends the spoof genre on a downward spiral with a relentlessly unexciting script. Real crazy indeed". Moviebuzz of Sify.com heavily criticized the film and described it as a "flawed experiment", adding that, "The script is messy and some of the characters are so badly written that they just come and go in between without any impact in the whole narrative. The overindulgence of the makers is evident, ignoring the hapless viewers in the process". IndiaGlitz.com rated 1.5/5 stars stating that "'Double Barrel' not only is the content insane, so is the presentation", and said that the film fails to engage. Asha Prakash of The Times of India rated 2.5/5 stars and said "Other than the visual spectacle of seeing some major actors in the industry in their clownish avatars in the most impressive of settings, there is nothing much to engage the viewer. The shooting and killing seem never-ending and the jokes tedious".

Box office

The film met with lukewarm responses in the box office. It found at the last position among the five Onam release films at the box office. The film grossed an amount of ₹2.90 crore (US$430,000) in 15 days of release against a budget of ₹16 crore (US$2.4 million). Surya TV bought the satellite rights.

Music

Prashant Pillai who had composed for all of Lijo Jose Pelliserry's earlier films, composed the songs and background score of the film.

Tracklist
No.	Title	Lyrics	Artist(s)	Length
1.	"Athala Pithala"	Shabaraeesh Varma	Arun Kamath, Shabaraeesh Varma, Rahul R Govinda, Gagan Baderiya	03:19
2.	"Om Hare"	P.S.Rafeeque	Franco	03:30
3.	"Amour Amour"	Gilles Denizot(French), Prashant Pillai(English)	Gilles Denizot	04:57
4.	"Mohabbat"	P.S.Rafeeque	Shahabaz Aman, Preeti Pilai	03:45
5.	"Selfie"	Shabaraeesh Varma	Shabaraeesh Varma, K S Krishnan, Prashant Pillai	02:45
6.	"Kadala Varuthu"	Shabaraeesh Varma	Shabaraeesh Varma	02:36
7.	"Bum Attam"	K.S.Krishnan	K.S.Krishnan	02:51
8.	"Shakeela"		Prashant Pillai, Gagan Baderiya	04:40
9.	"Athala Pithala Reprise"	Shabaraeesh Varma	Arun Kamath, Shabareesh Varma	01:58
Total length:				26:51

External links

• Double Barrel at IMDb