Ee Parakkum Thalika

Unnikrishnan owns an old bus, received as compensation for his father Thamarakshan Pillai’s road accident, which killed Pillai, who was a master. Now, Unni faces consequences due to the pathetic condition of the bus, named after his father. He sold several valuable things to maintain the bus. His friend and distant relative, Sundareshan, is his only companion and the bus’s cleaner. A mouse had eaten Sundareshan’s passport and spoiled his chances of going abroad. Some part of the film’s comedy involves Sundareshan running behind the mouse for revenge. A live TV show in which Unni badmouths Circle-Inspector Veerappan Kurup lands him in more trouble when the former commands Unni to leave the city with the bus. Sreedhara Kaimal, an advocate and well-wisher, tries to help Unni with a bank loan to run a mobile kitchen ( ) from his bus. The plot takes a turn when a girl named Basanthi enters the bus as a nomad. She is actually Gayathri, the daughter of an influential and politically powerful minister R. K. Santhanam in Puducherry. Santhanam forced Gayathri to join politics, which made her leave home. Initially, Gayathri refuses to leave the bus, despite Unni’s and Sundareshan’s constant efforts. The police trace her and take her back to Santhanam’s custody. Santhanam is making arrangements for her marriage to someone else. Meanwhile, Unni realizes that he could not live without Gayathri. He and Sundareshan secretly enter her house. When Unni and his friends plan to take Gayathri, Santhanam finds them inside the . The men of Santhanam start beating up Unni despite the requests of Gayathri. Terribly wounded Unni fights back and refuses to let go of Gayathri and Santhanam realises their true love, letting his daughter go with Unni on his bus. was a major commercial success. The film was one of the few films of the year that could retrieve its cost of investment and make a profit. It is considered one of Dileep’s first solo hits. The success of the film further enhanced Dileep’s stardom and established him as a . In a year-end trade analysis by they called the biggest financial success of the year and termed it a “surprise hit” It was the second-longest running Malayalam film of 2001, after the Mohanlal starrer . All lyrics are written by ; all music is composed by The film was remade as in Telugu, as in Kannada and as in Tamil. Many scenes from the movie inspired parts of the Hindi movie .