Nandanam (film)

Heavenly Garden of Krishna) is a 2002 Indian Malayalam-language romantic film written, co-produced and directed by Ranjith.

[1] The film stars Prithviraj Sukumaran, Kaviyoor Ponnamma, Revathi, Navya Nair, Aravind Akash, Siddique and Saikumar.

Balamani is an orphan who works as a maid to Unniamma, the aging matriarch of the Ambalappattil family, and stays with her in the large mansion.

But she tells him that people won't accept their match as he belongs to a highly regarded family and she is a servant.

During all of this, Bala meets a boy who introduces himself Unnikrishnan and she remembers that Janaki had told him that her son will soon return and a friendship forms between two of them, and she refers to him as Unniettan.

As she is leaving, Unniamma stops her, and tells all the relatives that they are both good children as they thought about the people they cared before making any decision in their own favour.

There she sees the Unniettan she knows near the main temple who smiles at her and disappears and she realizes that God had been with her all along in the form of a friend.

The most critically acclaimed and popular songs of this film were written by Gireesh Puthenchery[2] and composed by Raveendran.

[5] The song "Manassil Midhuna Mazha" along with its dance featuring Balamani (Navya) and Unnikrishnan (Aravind) was highly popular.

[7][8] Indiainfo wrote, "Nandhanam by Ranjith could not gain commercial success but has high opinion on its artistic qualities.

"[9] Ranjith worked on a Tamil remake of the film which was shelved after some pre-production complications,[12] and the movie was remade as Seedan by director Subramaniya Siva.