Pakal Nakshatrangal
Directed by	Rajeev Nath
Screenplay by	Anoop Menon
Story by	Rajeev Nath
Produced by	Chaya Films
Starring	Mohanlal Suresh Gopi Murali Anoop Menon Lakshmi Gopalaswamy
Narrated by	Anoop Menon
Cinematography	Ramachandra Babu
Edited by	K. Sreenivas
Music by	Songs: Shahabaz Aman Score: Sharreth
Production company	Chaya Films
Distributed by	Chaya Films
Release date	29 November 2008 (2008-11-29)
Running time	120 minutes
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Pakal Nakshatrangal (transl. Daytime Stars) is a 2008 Indian Malayalam-language drama film directed by Rajeev Nath and written by Anoop Menon from a story by Nath. It was the debut screenplay of Menon. The film stars Mohanlal, Suresh Gopi, Murali, Kalpana, Anoop Menon, and Lakshmi Gopalaswamy. It is about the lives of a group of intellectuals in Kerala in the later half of the 1990s. The film was critically acclaimed.^[1][2]

Plot

Pakal Nakshatrangal tells the story of Siddharthan, narrated by Siddharthan's son Adi to his wife as the content of his new book. Siddharthan is a brilliant film maker but leads a Casanova lifestyle entwined with women, alcohol and drugs. His house 'Daffodils' is his salvation and the epicentre for art with his big bunch of friends.

One day Siddarthan is found dead at Daffodils. His untimely death is considered suspicious but eludes the police due to lack of evidence. Adi decides to dig into his father's past and solve the mystery surrounding his death. Adi converse with Siddharthan's friends, read his diary and articles, and get help from a psychic Dr. Vaidyanathan. The story revolves around what Adi finds out about his father's life and whether and how he finds out the truth about the mysterious death.

Cast

• Mohanlal as Sidharthan
• Suresh Gopi as Dr. Vaidyanathan
• Anoop Menon as Adi Sidharthan
• Lakshmi Gopalaswamy as Adi's wife
• Manianpilla Raju as Tharakan
• Kalpana as Raji
• Reena Basheer as Dr. Usha
• K. B. Venu as Madhavan, Sidharthan's friend
• Nishanth Sagar as Thushar
• Murugan
• N. L. Balakrishnan
• Balachandran Chullikkadu
• Jagannathan
• Ganapathi as young Adi Sidharthan
• Sukumari

Awards

Mohanlal got the Kerala Film Critics Award and the Mathrubhumi Film Awards for Best Actor for this film.^{[citation needed]}