Chronic Bachelor is a 2003 Indian Malayalam-language romantic comedy drama film, written and directed by Siddique.

It features Mammootty, Mukesh, Rambha, Indraja, Bhavana, Innocent, Lalu Alex and Biju Menon.

[1] It was later remade in Tamil as Engal Anna starring Vijayakanth and in Telugu as Kushi Kushiga with Jagapati Babu.

The murder of Bhavani's cousin Vishnu, is wrongly accused on Balagangadharan, father of Sathyaprathapan.

But Bhavani's greedy father wants to destroy Sathyaprathapan's family and tries to take their home.

Parameshwaran Pillai and Sathyaprathapan finds Kuruvilla who witnessed the murder being committed by goons send by Bhavani's father.

He storms into Bhavani's house and accuses her dad, also trying to make her understand the truth but she does not believe him and stands by her father.

Then Sathyaprathapan says he does not love her any more and vows that he will never trust a woman by remaining a chronic bachelor forever.

Then film comes to the present time showing a legal battle between Sathyaprathapan (now called SP) and Bhavani.

From here, the story moves to the day-to-day life of SP and falls into a comic track throughout the first half.

Comical scenes recur throughout the movie, where Kuruvilla, who does not like Sreekumar and his friend Ugran staying with them, tries to get them out of the house.

Then Bhama's family members come to take her forcefully, but is stopped by Sreekumar and SP.

SP tells everything to Parameshwaran Pillai's family which is overheard by Sandhya who runs home crying.

SP upset runs to comfort her, where he explains how he will live his life as an apology to her mother's curses.

[4][5][6][7][8][9] Sify wrote, "Mammootty has given a very restrained performance as SP and he has allowed other characters like Innocent, Mukesh and Rambha to steal the punchlines and songs.

Siddique should be appreciated for weaving a run-of-the-mill story of revenge, ego and misunderstandings mixed well into a comedy drama.