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Rafi Mecartin are an Indian screenwriter and film director duo best known for their comedy films in Malayalam cinema. Rafi and Mecartin have been working together since the initial days of their career. Rafi's younger brother Shafi is also a well-known director.

They scripted and directed successful films such as Puthukottyile Puthu Manavalan (1995), Superman (1997), Punjabi House (1998), Thenkasipattanam (2000), Chathikkatha Chanthu (2004), Pandippada (2005) and Hallo (2007), China Town (2011). The duo has also written the scripts for Aniyan Bava Chetan Bava (1995), Aadyathe Kanmani (1995), Dilliwala Rajakumaran (1996), One Man Show (2001), Thilakkam (2003), and Mayavi (2007) among others, for other directors.

Usually with

Janardhanan
Janardhanan
(11 films)
Dileep
Dileep
(6 films)
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Salim Kumar
Salim Kumar
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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Rafi and Mecartin (22 films)

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Director

China Town
China Town (2011)
, 2h22
Directed by Rafi and Mecartin
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Mohanlal, Dileep, Jayaram, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Kavya Madhavan, Poonam Bajwa
Rating39% 1.977491.977491.977491.977491.97749
Four friends bought a casino and were celebrating the profit with their family when an underworld don, Gowda (Pradeep Rawat), who used to have a monopoly on the casinos in Goa, intrudes. Xavier (Mohanlal), one of the friends, held out against the don. Although he was killed, he managed to hold off the gang long enough for all of their wives to escape with the children. Wilson Gomus (Captain Raju) is the only of the friends to survive and he settled in Goa with his daughter, Emily.
Hallo
Hallo (2007)

Directed by Rafi and Mecartin
Genres Thriller, Comedy
Actors Mohanlal, Parvathi Melton, Madhu, Jagathy Sreekumar, Siddique, Janardhanan
Rating65% 3.291853.291853.291853.291853.29185
Shivaraman (Mohanlal) is a once-brilliant advocate who now seems to be in a self-destructive mode. All the time he is portrayed in a highly intoxicated state. His clients had abandoned him a long time ago. But he has a very devout follower Chandy (Jagathi Sreekumar). Whenever Shivaraman gets into one of his drunken brawls, it is Chandy who rescues him.
Pandippada
Pandippada (2005)
, 2h28
Directed by Rafi and Mecartin
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Dileep, Navya Nair (Dhanya Veena), Prakash Raj, Harisree Ashok, Rajan P. Dev, Salim Kumar
Rating65% 3.2945153.2945153.2945153.2945153.294515
Pandippada is the story of a rivalry between Pandi Durai (Prakash Raj) and Karuppayya Swami
Chathikkatha Chanthu, 2h10
Directed by Rafi and Mecartin
Genres Comedy
Actors Jayasurya, Vineeth, Navya Nair (Dhanya Veena), Paul Michael, Karthika Menon, Lal
Rating69% 3.4896653.4896653.4896653.4896653.489665
Chandu (Jayasurya) has a problem with his name: Everyone who hears it instantly believes that he is a cheat (Chathiyan Chandu).
Thenkasi Pattanam
Directed by Rafi and Mecartin
Actors R. Sarathkumar, Devayani, Samyuktha Varma, Vivek, Charle, P. Vasu

Kannan and Dass are two famous rowdies in their village. Dass has a sister called Uma with whom Manikkampillai (shortened as 'Mapillai') is in love but she is not interested in him. Mapillai joins Kannan's and Dass' firm KD & Company as the manager, in an attempt to win the love of their sister. KD & Company once keeps as hostage a music troupe who comes to their village to perform. The main singer of that troupe, Sangeetha gets expelled from her home because of this and so Kannan and Dass gives her refuge upon insistence from Uma. Meenakshi is the childhood friend of Kannan with whose father, both Kannan and Dass has enmity.
Thenkasipattanam, 2h30
Directed by Rafi and Mecartin
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action
Actors Suresh Gopi, Dileep, Paul Michael, Lal, Samyuktha Varma, Geetu Mohandas
Rating75% 3.7879653.7879653.7879653.7879653.787965
Kannan and Dasappan are two rowdies in their village. Shathrugnan. a newcomer, is in love with Dasappan' s sister, Devootty, but she is not interested in him. Shathru joins Kannan's and Dasappan's firm, KD & Company, as the manager, in an attempt to win the love of Devootty. KD & Company keeps as hostage a music troupe who comes to their village to perform. The main singer of that troupe, Sangeetha, gets expelled from her home because of this and Kannan and Dasappan give her refuge, at the insistence of Devootty.
Punjabi House, 3h20
Directed by Rafi and Mecartin
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Dileep, Mohini, Cochin Haneefa, Harisree Ashok, Paul Michael, Lal
Rating80% 4.040994.040994.040994.040994.04099
Unni (Dileep) has many debts and no way to repay them. He decides to commit suicide so that his parents can use the insurance money to repay the debts, but he is saved by a fisherman named Gangadharan (Cochin Haneefa) and his employee Ramanan (Harisree Ashokan). When they notice Unni drowning, Unni pretends to be deaf and mute so that they will not understand the truth.
Superman
Superman (1997)

Directed by Rafi and Mecartin
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Crime
Actors Jayaram, Shobana, P. V. Jagadish Kumar, Siddique, Spadikam George, Cochin Haneefa
Rating66% 3.3344853.3344853.3344853.3344853.334485
Nithya (Shobana) is the deputy commissioner of the city who lives with her Valliyachan (Janardhanan) since both her parents were killed in an accident. She was put on to investigate a corruption case done by the Home Minister and his friend a business man called Rajan Phillip (Cochin Haneefa). Unknowingly she was helped in the investigation by a criminal nicknamed Superman (Jayaram). Superman aka Harikrishnan nurtures a vendetta with the home minister and rajan phillip and uses Nithya to trap his enemies. In the whole process Superman uses Judiciary as his weapon, by providing vital evidences to Nithya at times in order to collect evidences Superman himself breaks the law, but as it is for the greater good it is forgiven by Nithya in the end.
Puthukkottayile Puthumanavalan, 2h10
Directed by Rafi and Mecartin
Genres Comedy
Actors Jayaram, Premkumar, Innocent, Jagathy Sreekumar, Kanakalatha, Janardhanan
Rating68% 3.4309853.4309853.4309853.4309853.430985
Story revolves around two energetic men who lives in a city with their unsuccessful Kadhaprasangam troupe (story telling performance).

Scriptwriter

China Town
China Town (2011)
, 2h22
Directed by Rafi and Mecartin
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Mohanlal, Dileep, Jayaram, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Kavya Madhavan, Poonam Bajwa
Rating39% 1.977491.977491.977491.977491.97749
Four friends bought a casino and were celebrating the profit with their family when an underworld don, Gowda (Pradeep Rawat), who used to have a monopoly on the casinos in Goa, intrudes. Xavier (Mohanlal), one of the friends, held out against the don. Although he was killed, he managed to hold off the gang long enough for all of their wives to escape with the children. Wilson Gomus (Captain Raju) is the only of the friends to survive and he settled in Goa with his daughter, Emily.
Mayavi
Mayavi (2007)

Directed by Shafi
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action
Actors Mammootty, Gopika, Manoj K. Jayan, Vijayaraghavan, Salim Kumar, Saikumar
Rating67% 3.3935453.3935453.3935453.3935453.393545
Small time criminal, Mahi (Mammootty) gets released from prison early. He has a reputation of beating up his rivals in the darkness. Mahi wants to help fellow inmate Balan's (Manoj K. Jayan) whose brother Satheesh (Manikuttan) is in need of money for a life saving operation. A fellow crook, Giri (Suraj Venjaramood) proposes an assignment for Mahi which will earn him enough money for the operation. Thottappally Surendran (Vijayaraghavan) plans to murder Sivasankaran Pillai (Saikumar) to settle an old score. Sivasankaran is serving life sentence for killing Surendran's father and is due to be released on short term parole. As part of a master plot, Surendran wants another man to accept the criminal charge and punishment.
Romeoo
Romeoo (2007)

Directed by Rajasenan
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Dileep, Vimala Raman, Sruthi Lakshmi, Samvrutha Sunil, Ashokan, Cochin Haneefa
Rating44% 2.200572.200572.200572.200572.20057
Manu Krishnan (Dileep) is a male nurse in a reputed hospital. He is the Son of Ratheesh Kumar (Cochin Haneefa), a film junior artist. He has a special relationship with Dr. Priya (Vimala Raman), but is also in love with Leena (Samvrutha Sunil), the star contestant in the popular music reality show. Manu later in search of a job goes to an Agraharam to take care of a mentally ill patient and a girl from the Agraharam, Bhama (Sruthi Lakshmi) falls in love with him. Now the three girls want to marry Manu but none of their parents want to have Manu as son-in-law. The rest of the movie is about the trouble Manu has to take when the three meet and whom does he marry. He ends up with Dr.
Hallo
Hallo (2007)

Directed by Rafi and Mecartin
Genres Thriller, Comedy
Actors Mohanlal, Parvathi Melton, Madhu, Jagathy Sreekumar, Siddique, Janardhanan
Rating65% 3.291853.291853.291853.291853.29185
Shivaraman (Mohanlal) is a once-brilliant advocate who now seems to be in a self-destructive mode. All the time he is portrayed in a highly intoxicated state. His clients had abandoned him a long time ago. But he has a very devout follower Chandy (Jagathi Sreekumar). Whenever Shivaraman gets into one of his drunken brawls, it is Chandy who rescues him.