Ottayal Pattalam () is a 1991 Indian Malayalam-language caper comedy film written and directed by T. K. Rajeev Kumar. The film stars Mukesh and Madhoo, with Innocent and K. P. A. C. Lalitha in the supporting roles. Sharreth scored the music for the film.
Plot
Venu is an orphan who works as a taxi driver. He is mistaken by the police for the kidnapper of Gopika Varma, an NRI girl. Venu tries to solve his problems and prove his innocence and meanwhile stay out of sight of police, by pretending to be a retired Colonel. Amidst his efforts to prove his innocence, he falls in love with Gopika. When she finds he is innocent and gets to know everything had happened without his knowledge, she also starts loving him. How Venu proves that he is innocent is the rest of the plot. The true kidnapper turns out to be an African.
Cast
Mukesh as Venu Gopalakrishnan/Col. R. K. Nair
Madhoo as Gopika Varma/Indu
Innocent as DIG Chandrashekara Menon
KPAC Lalitha as SI Shoshamma
Shammi Thilakan
Antony (Kenyan) as Simon Antony
Paravoor Bharathan as SI
Vettukili Prakash as Velayudhan
Edavela Babu
Kalpana
Bobby Kottarakkara as Makeup man
Preethika
Ranju
Ravi Vallathol
Asha Jayaram
James
Manimala as Matron
Soundtrack
The film has two songs composed by Sharreth, while the lyrics were written by P. K. Gopi. The song "Mayamanchalil" is an Evergreen song. The background score of the movie was by Johnson.