1993 film
Meleparambil Aanveedu is a 1993 superhit romantic comedy Malayalam film directed by Rajasenan and starring Jayaram and Shobana in the lead roles. The film is highly regarded as a classic comedy film of the early nineties. Its story was written by famous lyricist Gireesh Puthenchery.[1]
Synopsis
Harikrishan (Jayaram) is the youngest son of Thrivikram Muthallali whose brothers Jayakrishnan and Gopikrishan were older and not as handsome as Harikrishnan. He wants to earn a good living and so sets forth to a Tamil village as manager of a courier company. Hari sees a young Tamilin girl named Pavizham (Shobana) who is being forced by her father to get married against her will. The two fall in love and elope.
Hari is afraid of whether or not his parents would agree to their marriage, so he keeps Pavizham under cover as a maid in his home. When Hari goes away on business, his parents come to realize that Pavizham is pregnant and decide to dismiss her from her job. When Hari returns home, he is forced to reveal that Pavizham is his wife. Hari's mother, who likes Pavizham, scolds Hari for keeping his wife as a servant and both she and her husband express their willingness to accept Pavizham as their daughter-in-law.
Production
Development
After the success of Jayaram - Rajasenan team's Adyathe Kanmani, they planned to do another family entertainer. It was at this time that lyricist Gireesh Puthenchery told an interesting story to Jayaram, which was about four batchelors with the youngest one only educated, in a Corleone like family. Jayaram, who was highly inspired by this, probabily untold story, decided to produce it himself. The thread was developed by Gireesh and introduced to Rajasenan. It was first developed into a novel and then only to a complete film script. It was Jayaram who suggested Goodknight Mohan to distribute this film. However, Mohan set an unusual demand to Rajasenan, to include some experienced directors to superwise him on script. This was unacceptable to Rajasenan and the project was shelved.
It was at this time that Rajasenan was replaced from the crew of a political film, Janam, produced by Mani. C. Kappan. Kappan assured Rajasenan to produce a film for him, obviously as a compensation for his move. The shelved story of Meleparambil Aanveedu was returned by Mohan, for a reasonable amount of 
20,000. It was Calicut based film writer Raghunath Paleri who was selected to write the screenplay.
Filming
The film was initially decided to shot in Salem and the place mentioned in the script too was it. However a practical change was made to replace Salem with Pollachi, both in script as well as location. Narendra Prasad, who was typecasted for villain roles, was later only selected. It was Innocent
Casting
The originally decided cast included obviously Jayaram, along with Shobhana, Meena, Jagathy Sreekumar, Oduvil Unnikrishnan etc. Vijayaraghavan was later signed in to do the nearly serious character in the film.
India