Hariharan Pillai Happy Aanu

Hariharan Pillai runs a construction company with his uncle Velappan. He constructs a house for the rich money lender Sathyapalan, who does not compensate him after completing the house. Sathyapalan’s daughter Kavya initially dislikes Hariharan Pillai. However, she eventually falls in love with him. Hari also has to take care of his sister Latha who is in love with Nikhil. How Hariharan Pillai sorts out all of this issues and gets Kavya form the rest of the story. The bike with unusual wheels that was featured in (2003) was featured in this film. The music was composed by debutante , who took a sabbatical after working on this film. Newcomer wrote all the lyrics. Alunkal recalled in a 2015 interview that it was risky for a newcomer to pen all the lyrics and how the producer of the film, Johnny Sagarika, took that risk. The film released shortly after Mohanlal’s box office success (2003) and Jyothirmayi’s (2003). The film released in November 2003 coinciding with Ramadan. Abhijath of opined that “The film begins well, while in the second half, it loses tempo”. A critic from wrote that “There is not even one redeeming factor in this technically slipshod enterprise. At the end contrary to the title, you leave the theatre whining and totally unhappy!” To prevent piracy, the film was released in 50 centres. Sagarika dropped his shelved project with Mohanlal and after the film’s failure. Mohanlal went on to play a similar role in (2004), which was almost removed from theatres due to the box office failure of this film.