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Guruji Oru Vakku
Guruji Oru Vakku

Guruji Oru Vakku

Genres

Comedy

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Charlie (Nedumudi) and Gopu (Ratheesh) are small time con artists who get by life doing petty thefts. They meet Unni (Mohanlal), another jobless young man. Reluctantly Unni joins the other two and try to rob from a car owned by Guruji (Madhu). They get caught but Guruji takes them to his plantation and gifts them 10,000 rupees each under the condition that they need to meet him a year later at the same place and tell him what they did with the money.

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Budget

$--

Revenue

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Status

Released

Original Language

Malayalam

Runtime

121 mins

Rating

0/10

Release Date

09 November 1985

Country

Cast

Nedumudi Venu

Nedumudi Venu

Charlie

Ratheesh

Ratheesh

Gopakumar

Mohanlal

Mohanlal

Unni

Madhu

Madhu

Guruji

Manochithra Balaiah

Manochithra Balaiah

Charlie's Lover

Seema

Seema

Betty

Sukumari

Sukumari

Sankaradi

Sankaradi

Workshop Owner

T. P. Madhavan

T. P. Madhavan

Manager Swamy

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