Rappakal

Krishnan has spent his life in the service of an aristocratic family and of its matriarch, Saraswathiyamma, who treats him as one of her own sons. When relatives conspire to sell the ancestral house, the two of them set out together to save it. Directed by Kamal and written by T. A. Razzaq, the film is about the uncertain ground between service and kinship, about the difference between belonging to a house and working in one. Mammootty plays Krishnan, Sharada plays Saraswathiyamma and Nayanthara is also in the cast, with a score by Mohan Sithara. It opened in June 2005, did well at the box office, and its songs stayed in circulation long after.