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''Peruchazhi'' (English: ''Bandicota'') is a 2014 Malayalam-language Indian political satire film written and directed by Tamil filmmaker Arun Vaidyanathan. The film originally scripted in Tamil was translated to Malayalam with the dialogue co-written by Ajayan Venugopalan. It features Mohanlal in the lead role, while Mukesh, Ragini Nandwani, Vijay Babu, Baburaj, Aju Varghese feature in supporting roles. The film is produced by Vijay Babu and Sandra Thomas under the banner Friday Film House and distributed by Friday Tickets and Fox Star Studios. The background score and music were composed by Arrora. The film used the Auro 11.1 sound format. The film is about how Jagannathan (Mohanlal) a young politician from India ends up being the chief political adviser to the California state Governor's election campaign and his use of tactics standard of Indian politics to win the election. The principal photography commenced on 16 April 2014 and wrap filming on 5 July. The major portions of the film was shot in Burbank, California. The film is almost entirely set in the USA, even though some portions were also shot in Kochi and Trivandrum. ''Peruchazhi'' released on 29 August 2014 in 500 screens worldwide, making it the largest release for a Malayalam film. The film released in India and the United States simultaneously, with the US distribution done by Prime Media. Friday Film House's associated distribution company Friday Tickets released the film in Kerala, while Fox Star Studios managed the release in the rest of India. == Plot == In California, the Republican party governor candidate John Kory (Sean James Sutton) is striving to raise his dismal ratings. Sunny Kurishingal (Vijay Babu), the chief campaign officer of John Kory, is failing with his campaign strategies and runs out of ideas to ensure Kory's victory. Sunny is forced to consult a third person's advise and calls Francis Kunjappan (Mukesh), a PWD minister and his native friend in Kerala, for hiring any good political consultant for devising campaign strategies. Kunjappan, initially reluctant, later recommends his friend and political competitor Jagannathan (Mohanlal), thus also hoping to get rid of him as he is a political threat to his ministerial position. Jagannathan, a young politician and a sports enthusiastic, is illiterate in English but has an inborn talent to solve the gravest of issues in the most prudent manner. Even Francis had consulted him for solving his toughest problems. But Francis thinks that Jaganathan’s unorthodox ideas will fail miserably in the US. Kunjappan meets Jagannathan and offers him the job and a remuneration of 30 crores which is sufficient to raise Jagannathan's dream project, a sports academy in Kerala. Jagannathan takes up the assignment and flies to the US, together with his assistants Pottakuzhi Jabbar (Baburaj) and Vayalar Varkey (Aju Varghese). Jagannathan and his pals are received by Sunny Kurinshingal in the US. Within the first hours with them Sunny gets disenchanted, seeing their deeds and behavior as childish. Still, he decides to explain to them about their job and the political system existing there. He tells them that unlike India, there are only two parties in the US, the Republicans and the Democrats. Democratic Party is the leading one in California and George Hopes is their candidate who has more approval from public. Jagannathan has the task to increase the ratings of Republican Party and enable it to win the election. Jagannathan, upon hearing this, decides to use the Indian tactics in politics to increase the rating i.e. by creating riots among people and deceiving them. Criticizing these cheap strategies of Jagannathan, Andy (Shankar Ramakrishnan), the campaign colleague of Sunny leaves Republican Party and joins the Democratic Party. Jagannathan continues with his moves, as he influences the medias and even recruits film script writers to write well crafted speeches. During his stay in the US, he meets new friends and a Chinese guy called Dupli who sells duplicates of electronics. Meanwhile, Jagannathan is also searching for a girl for him to marry. It was his vow to marry only a foreign girl after his previous love failure. And occasionally, he meets a street hooker Jessy (Ragini Nandwani) and gets emotionally attached with her. They finally fall in love. Also it is shown that John Kory's ratings are increasing swiftly through Jagannathan's smart tricks. But one night unexpectedly, Jagannathan encounters a bad news from Sunny and Kory as they comes overnight seeking his help. Sunny tells him that a scandal video of Kory and a girl has been leaked and they have destroyed all the copies except the hard-copy which is believed to be in the security lock room of George Hopes. Jagannathan decides to get rid of this new threat, robs the hard-copy from Hope's residence with the help of his assistants Pottakuzhi and Vayalar. They gives a message to Sunny that the tape has been destroyed. The election campaign is declared over and John Kory is sure to win the Governor post. Meanwhile, Sunny comes with a bad news that the budget of the campaign had exceeded drastically what was pre-planned of. They decide to cheat Jagannathan and refuse to give him the remuneration they offered, blaming that he had made them cross the budget over the expected. Sunny argues that it's his responsibility to make the campaign cost effective and that then only will he be considered for a cabinet post next day. Jagannathan asks for his remuneration a last time and states that it is urgent for him to rescue Jessy's child from the kidnappers, but Sunny threatens Jagannathan to leave the place. Jagannathan knowing he has been cheated, warns Sunny that he will make John Kory fail the next day's elections. Jagannathan comes with the money he needs the next day, but is not revealed that from where he got it. At last the elections come and the results shows that John Kory had lost and Democratic Party's George Hope won the elections for the new Governor of California. The results comes as a shock to the Republican Party. Jagannathan calls Sunny and reveals the backstage dramas which occurred last night. He tells that he joined with Andy and George Hope, the Democrats, and that they gave him his remuneration. Jagannathan with the help of his US friend Dupli re-programmed the voting machines with its duplicate models, replacing the original ones. He also tells him that the scandal video was actually not destroyed: Jabbar had made a secret copy of it for his pleasure. They disclosed it to the public and it was being shown it in the medias now. Meanwhile, Jagannathan and his pals returns to India with Jessy and opens his sports academy. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peruchazhi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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