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Akashadoothu (1993)

Akashadoothu poster
Original title
ആകാശദൂത്
Directed by
Sibi Malayil
Genre
drama film
Country
India
Runtime
1h 53m
Rated
U
Rating
7.8 of 10 from 10 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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A mother learns she has leukemia and fears for her children's future. She struggles to find a new home for them before her illness takes her life.

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What happens

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 tells the tale of a woman suffering from leukemia. The plot of the film was inspired from the 1983 American film Who Will Love My Children?. The film was critically acclaimed and became a blockbuster and was the highest grossing Malayalam film at the time of release. The film ran for over 365 days in theatres. One of the most influential melodramas of the 1990s in Malayalam, the film won the National Film Award for Best Film on Family Welfare. Madhavi won Kerala State Film Award for Second Best Actress and Filmfare Award for Best Actress. The film was remade in Telugu as Matrudevobhava, in Kannada as Karulina Koogu and in Hindi as Tulsi. The film achieved cult status in the years following its release and regarded as one of the best emotional drama films in Malayalam cinema. A serial on Surya TV with the same name Akashadoothu was made as a sequel to the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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