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Athbhutha Dweepu is a film of genre Drama directed by Vinayan with Prithviraj Sukumaran
Athbhutha Dweepu (2005)
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Add to a movie listAlbhutha Dweepu (Malayalam: അത്ഭുതദ്വീപ്) is a 2005 Malayalam-language Indian movie, directed by Vinayan. The movie created history by becoming the first Indian movie whose remake rights have been bought by Hollywood. Ajaykumar, Prithviraj and Mallika Kapoor appear in lead roles in the movie. The movie is about a mysterious island where all the men are dwarfs and all the women, normal.
Albhutha Dweepu was released in 2005 and the remake rights were sold almost immediately to Hollywood director Ron Howard who was in India at that time. But later the project was cancelled.
The film features Ajaykumar (Pakru) as the dwarf prince Gajendra. He has made an entry into the Guinness Book of Records through this character for being the shortest actor (86 cm height) to play a full-length character in a film.
Synopsis
Prithviraj Sukumaran, Jagathy Sreekumar, Jagadheesh and Indrans work for the Indian Navy, who later reach a sea shore of an unknown island as a result of shipwreck. There, they find two of their colleagues killed by the dwarfs and decide to take asylum in the village's temple so they won't be found.Actors
Prithviraj Sukumaran
(Hari)
Guinness Pakru
(Gajendra Kumaran)
Mallika Kapoor
(Radha)
Jagathy Sreekumar
(Madhavan, Maharaja)
P. V. Jagadish Kumar
(Joseph)
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