Akashadoothu is a 1993 Indian Malayalam family drama film directed by Sibi Malayil and written by Dennis Joseph, with Madhavi and Murali in the lead roles.
The film was remade in Telugu as Matrudevobhava, in Kannada as Karulina Koogu and in Hindi as Tulsi.
The couple have four children; the eldest being a teenage girl named Meenu, twin boys Rony and Tony, and the youngest Monu, a toddler.
Though the family struggles to live and make ends meet, they lead a happy life together, except for the moments when Johnny, a recurrent alcoholic spends most of his daily earnings at the local toddy shop.
During an altercation between Johnny and the local milk delivery man Keshavan, the latter is humiliated in front of his family.
After further analysis, it is revealed that Annie is suffering from a late stage of leukaemia and that she only has a couple of months to a year to live.
However, as fate takes a turn, one day when Johnny is on his way home with medicine for Annie, he gets into a fight with Keshavan and is killed.
She lies to her kids that the money she gets out of her classes is not sufficient for them to live and therefore she is going to Germany very soon, so they have to go to new houses and there will be new parents to love and take care of them.
Annie wishes that both her boys Rony and Tony live together forever and hence expects a couple to adopt both of them.
She writes a letter to Meenu asking her to always keep in touch with her brothers so that the bond between the siblings remains forever.
She finds real blood flowing from the wounds of Jesus in the Cross and realises that death has come for her.
Apart from her, K. P. A. C. Lalitha, Sukumari, Prem Prakash, Seema G. Nair played the lead roles.
The story of the serial revolves around the reunion of the 4 siblings (Meenu, Ronnie, Tony & Monu).
[4][5] In 2019, Aradhya Kurup of The News Minute wrote, "After the first watch where I cried enough to get a headache, I never expected to have the same unsettling effect the second time round, that too after a few years.