Butterflies

<p>Prince is an amateur and the son of industrialist Bharathan Menon and Sreedevi Menon. He lives a happy-go-lucky life style spending time racing cars, entertaining his nephews in his farm house and hanging out with his friend Vettikkal Sadashivan. He is also involved in fights with the local goons in , which lands him in trouble with local police. His brothers Jayan Menon IAS and Dr. Balan Menon, though openly criticize him, come to his aid to release him from the police station. His father disapproves his lifestyle and seeks a suitable alliance for him. One day, Sadasivan introduces Prince to his relative Pavithran, who seeks help in kidnapping his girlfriend for them to elope. In a comedy of errors, Prince and Sadasivan sedate and kidnap another girl with the same name, Anju. On realizing the mistake the next morning, Prince drops the girl back at her hostel. The ladies’ hostel matron does not allow Anju to continue her stay there after her disappearance. Anju returns to Prince’s farm house for abode, it becomes difficult for Prince and Sadasivan to handle. Prince’s entire family learn that Anju lives on the farm house and they desert Prince. One morning, Sadasivan and Prince find an obituary in the newspaper with the photo of Anju. They trace the news reporter responsible for the obituary. The news reporter Das and his wife Maya reveal that Anju is the daughter of Colonel Devan Nambiar and that the dead girl was her twin sister, Manju. Two years ago in , Manju was raped by a few men taking her father as a hostage. After that, she killed herself in front of her father. Later, Nambiar killed her daughter’s rapists and he was sentenced to death by the court. Anju plans to kill herself at the same time her father is executed, but Prince prevents this. Prince gets a mercy petition for Nambiar and his death sentence is reduced to life imprisonment. Anju and Prince confess their love at the end. and were supposed to make a film titled . Based on a script by , it was the story of a car racer who meets an accident and suffers serious burns on one side of his face. Filming began at with a car race sequence featuring Mohanlal that was shot with six cameras. After a week’s shoot the project was dropped, reportedly due to budget constraints. However, in a TV show in 2020, Anchal recalled that the film was cancelled due to superstitious reasons when some people persuaded Mohanlal to opt out from the film supposing that the role of a disfigured person may bring jinx, Mohanlal eventually opted out, dropping the film altogether. His character in was inspired by Formula One race driver . The car race scenes shot for was later used in the opening titles of (in the song “Minnaminni Koodum Thedi”). took place in , where there was a 60-day long shoot. had worked in ‘s , the same crew was working in and Aishwarya was also invited for the film. In fact, Aishwarya was keen on working with Mohanlal and was a fan of his work. The film has six songs composed by . All songs except ‘Aha manoranjini’ were written by K. Jayakumar. The songs were distributed by the label, Lahari. The was composed by .</p>