Pokkuveyil

Pokkuveyil

Pokkuveyil

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Pokkuveyil

1982

1h 46m

6.6(5 votes)

Drama

Music

Overview

A young artist lives with his father, a radical friend and music loving young woman. His father dies, the radical friend leaves him and the woman is taken away by her family to another city.

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6 featured cast members

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Balachandran Chullikkadu

Balachandran Chullikkadu

Balu

Kalpana

Kalpana

Ansar Kalabhavan

Chavara V P Nair

Satish Kumar

Vijayalakshmi

Creative team

Directed by: Govindan Aravindan
Written by: Govindan Aravindan
S. P. Ramesh
Produced by: K Raveendran Nair

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