Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Oru CBI Diary Kurippu

In 1988 Mammootty delivered one of the biggest hits in the history of Malayalam Cinema with his Oru CBI Diary Kurippu. Oru CBI Diary Kurippu went on to create box-office history in Kerala as well as in Tamil Nadu.
Mammootty's role as a CBI officer in this film got him critical acclaim. Following the success of the first CBI film Oru CBI Diary Kurippu, three more murder mystery sequels were produced with the same cast of characters: Jagratha (1989), Sethurama Iyer CBI (2004) and Nerariyan C.B.I (2005), all directed by K Madhu, penned by S.N. Swamy with Mammootty as Sethurama Iyer, an intelligent but unassuming CBI officer. All CBI films were super hits at box-office.

There was a time when Malayalam films never did well in Tamil Nadu -- unless it was one of those C-grade soft porn quickies. Then came Oru CBI Diary Kurippu, which ran a year in Safire, the flagship theatre of the Vecumsees group (now defunct), and Malayalam movies, and stars, became big news in TN.

CBI collection in TVM was 15 Lakhs in 151 days two centers.This is the first film in malayalam cinema history to run for four weeks Regular shows in 2 theatres. Movie collected 14 lakhs from EKM as published by NANA.

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