Punchirikku Parasparam (English: Smile With Each Other) is a 2015 Indian Malayalam-language short film directed by Hari P. Nair and produced by Ramesh Pisharody.
Within two days, it was watched by more than 500000 viewers after it was uploaded on the Facebook page of Radio Me 100.3 FM A young man (Firoz Mohan) arrives inside a movie theater with an ice cream and popcorn in hands.
As he get seated, the movie begins showing a man (Renji Panicker) sitting in a chair outside his house and reading a newspaper, while his wife (Asha Aravind) arrive with a cup of tea and gave it to him with a smile which she did not get a response.
A man (Dharmajan Bolgatty) in a bicycle selling ice cream gestures her to switch off the head light of the scooter, which she turned off without any response.
The paper pasted by the boy on the elevator wall was a poster of the short film Punchirikku Parasparam written with the tagline Be Someone Else's Sunshine.
While, the movie screen shows actor Mohanlal delivering the message "May smile light up each face and may every moment be filled with happiness.
The aim of the film is to bring together the candidates contesting the elections," said Pisharody at the press conference held in Eranakulam on 29 October 2015.
[2] In the press conference, the release of the short film was announced to be through social media which was scheduled on 1 November on Kerala Piravi day.
In October 2015, he approached the two leading actors in Malayalam cinema — Mohanlal and Mammootty, requesting to be part of the project.