Millennium Stars

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Millennium Stars
Millennium Stars.jpg
Directed by Jayaraj
Screenplay byVinod Ranganath
Story byJayaraj
Produced byN. Krishnakumar (Kireedam Unni)
Starring Jayaram
Suresh Gopi
Biju Menon
Abhirami
Music by Vidyasagar
Release date
  • 1 January 2000 (2000-01-01)
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

Millennium Stars is a 2000 Indian Malayalam-language drama film directed by Jayaraj, starring Jayaram and Biju Menon in lead roles, and also features Suresh Gopi and Abhirami. The soundtrack of the film was composed by Vidyasagar. The movie was also the first Malayalam movie to be released in this millennium. [1] [2] Biju Menon won the Asianet Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for this film. Later dubbed into Tamil and released as Sivasankar.

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Plot

When they were children, Shiva and Shankar went to Mumbai in search of a living. Circumstances puts them in jail, where they meet a bully named Karunan. They escape from jail. Several years later, Shankar and Shiva dream of becoming singers. Karunan is still active as a criminal. Through their hard work, the Shiva-Shankar duo become successful singers and start being called "millennium stars". Then the villain enters and tries to separate the two. Karunan convinces them not to separate.

Cast

Box office

This film was released with huge expectations but was a box office failure as the producer lost 1.5 crore (US$190,000). [3]

Soundtrack

Millennium Stars
Soundtrack album by
ReleasedDecember 1999 [4]
StudioVarsha Vallaki, Chennai
Genre Film soundtrack
Label Johny Sagariga
T-Series

The film's music was composed by Vidyasagar, with Malayalam lyrics by Gireesh Puthenchery, Hindi lyrics by Tahir Faraz and English lyrics by Recardo Barrantes. Though the film failed at the box-office, the soundtrack is considered as one of Vidyasagar's career bests.

TrackTitleSinger(s)LyricistsRaga(s)
1O... Mumbai K. J. Yesudas, Vijay Yesudas Gireesh Puthenchery, Tahir Faraz
2Parayaan Njan MarannuK. J. Yesudas, Hariharan, Vijay YesudasGireesh Puthenchery, Tahir Faraz
3Krishna KrishnaK. J. Yesudas, Vijay Yesudas Poonthanam Nambudiri
4Kuku Kuku TheevandiHarikrishnan, Anand KumarGireesh Puthenchery Kalyani
5Maha GanapathimK. J. Yesudas, Hariharan, Vijay Yesudas, Pushpa Raman, Chorus Muthuswami Dikshitar, Tahir Faraz, Recardo Barrantes Nata
6Shravan GangeK. J. Yesudas, Hariharan, Vijay Yesudas, ChorusGireesh Puthenchery, Tahir Faraz Charukesi, Bahudari

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