 Advocate Kurisummoottil Mariamma is one of the most popular figures in the Puliyangudi. She is a successful senior advocate, known for her versatile rhetoric and volatile temper while in court. She marries musician Melpathur Vishnu Namboothiri after a short span of love life. The problem between them starts with the arrival of their son, Vava. They soon separates and Vava grow up with his mother, who believes in no religion or caste, enters the church and conducts the temple festivals at the same time and helps the commoners of the village with his might . He is a proud and arrogant brat who looks after the family farm. He involves in every issues of the village which he solves by the violent fisticuffs. This in course of time earns him the name Pothu among the villagers.
Though he is an arrogant vanquisher before the masses, in front of his mother he is as tame as a house cat, and never does anything against her wishes.
Pothen Vava tells the story of the relationship between the two, and promises to have an ample dose of action, humor and melodrama. Mammootty plays the role of Vava, while pop diva Usha Uthup makes her first appearance in the silver screen as Advocate Mariamma. The film largely centers on family feud and social heroics and will offer many lighter scenes ala Oru Maravathoor Kanavu and Raajamanikyam
The film also marks the coming together of Joshy, the ace director in Malluwood, who has directed the largest number of films with Mammootty. The team had last done a film together six years back, Dubai, which faced bad fate in the box office.
Their relationship as old as their film careers started with Aa Raathri which came 24 years back. In these span they have contributed each other very well bringing out around 20 super hits.
The film produced by Lal creations is already looked upon as a sure hit as it merges every strong points of the star equations in a better script. Gopika plays the female lead opposite Mammootty for the first time in a script by Benny.
P. Nayarambalam who had created hits like Thommanum Makkalum. The film's music department will be handled by Vayalar Sarathchandra Varma and Alex Paul.
The Others in the cast include Nedumudi Venu, Rajan P.Dev, Raj, Augustin, Ponnamma Babu and Biju Kuttan. The film which is being shot in and around Kochi and Ottapalam is slated as a Ramzan release by the end of October.
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