Ustad Hotel (2012)

Original title

ഉസ്‌താദ്‌ Hotel

Directed by

Anwar Rasheed

Genre

drama film, coming-of-age film

Country

India

Runtime

2h 30m

Rated

U

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 110 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man defies his father by training as a chef abroad. When his father blocks his career plans, he ends up working in his grandfather's restaurant in Kerala. There he learns about food, family, and finding his own path.

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What happens

Ustad Hotel is a 2012 Indian Malayalam-language drama film directed by Anwar Rasheed, written by Anjali Menon and produced by Listin Stephen. The film stars Dulquer Salmaan, Thilakan and Nithya Menen with Siddique, Mamukkoya, and Lena in supporting roles, along with Asif Ali and Jishnu in cameo roles. The film features music composed by Gopi Sundar, cinematography by Loganathan Srinivasan and editing by Praveen Prabhakar respectively. The story is about a young man named Faizal, known as Faizi (Dulquer), who studies in Switzerland as a chef against the wishes of his father (Siddique). When this matter comes to light, his father snatches away his passport to prevent him from taking up a new job in the UK. As the relation between father and son deteriorates, Faizi is forced to work as a cook in a restaurant in Kozhikode, run by his grandfather Karim (Thilakan) until he can plan something alternate. Ustad Hotel released on 29 June 2012 in Kerala, and 20 July 2012 elsewhere in India. The film was a commercial success. It won three National Film Awards, for Best Popular Film, Menon won the award for Best Dialogues and Thilakan got a Special Mention (posthumously). It was remade in Kannada as Gowdru Hotel (2017) and dubbed and released in Telugu as Janatha Hotel. Ustad Hotel is considered among the best films made during the New-Gen cinema movement in Malayalam and gained cult film status. It is also noted as the last film appearance of veteran actor Thilakan released before his death. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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