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Mohanlal plays a prodigal Brahmin, Jagan, returning to his old village after several colourful years in Bombay, amid underworld gangs and general sleaze. He discovers that his homestead ('illam')is now taken care of by Unni Maya (Manju) and her impoverished father, Ezhuthachan (Sankaraadi), an old percussionist. Jagan finds the simple life in the village much more appealing than his wasteful days in Bombay, and desires to settle there for the rest of his life. Manju is in love with him, and very jealous of a sophisticated Bombay girlfriend of Jagan's who has just come to lodge at the 'illam' for a while.

Of course, the movie ends predictably, with Jagan smashing the living daylights out of the village baddies and sinister minds; and finally marrying Unni Maya. The movie itself is not the best to happen to Malayalam cinema, but Manju's portayal of the jealous, impulsive Unni Maya was classic and worth watching. Mohanlal, despite the common storyline, does well, and appears convincing enough as the gangster turned nice-guy-about-town.

Soundtrack

Harimuraleeravam
Kadaladum
Kuyil Padum
Sandhatham

Aaram Thampuran was one of the first Mohanlal movies with a distinctly Rajnikanth style. The followins is an excerpt from a discussion thread on Forumhub.com about this movie:

Aaram Thamburan Discussion

Topic started by Summa (@ 67.96.113.137) on Thu Sep 5 15:58:06 .
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I recently had a chance to watch this again and watched a hundred times many scenes.

I think this movie is the one that started Lal's "Larger than human life" roles and eventually causing Lal's career's downfall.

It has all the ingredients for a Lal fan and drives crazy. I could not resist seeing it again and again.

I haven't seen any movie that is so much hero dominated than this.

In no scene, Lal is shown inferior to anybody.

I wish Rajinikanth could have remade this rather than Baba.

Examples
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1. To start with, Lal outlasts a gang of businessmen guarded by Machine Gun security man and clinches 50 crores for Sai kumar. SaiKumar awards him the "Kovilagam" he wanted.

2. Lal enters Kovilagam and gets a group of "chingidis" in Maniyam Pillai, Kunjan, Hanifa, Pappu and a few more who are at his legs.

3. He pushes Manju to the corner teasing her always, drinks always still Manju is at his legs waiting for Lal to accept her.

4. Manju challenges her that he knows nothing about music and in the next scene Lal relaases Karnatic numbers that can make Chemmangudi shame.

5. Next scene he crushes around 10 Kalari experts effortlessly and sets the challenge for Narendra Prasad.

6. Priya Raman a rich girl falls under his legs seeking Lal as partner and Lal declines. He approves Manju and Manju gets "Jenma Saphalyam". Notice the fact that Lal does not gon after them, they go after Lal and he simply decides.

7. In the Festival dispute, DSP Ganesh and Collector Raman give outright support to Lal and behave as if they are servants of Lal.

8. He outplays 20 people headed by a famous kalariman "Chengalam Madhavan" in rain fight.

9. In the last minute, the priest refuses to do Puja and the substitute Mani is abducted and at that time Lal unleashes the truth that he was son of Nambuthiri who sucided and wanted to conduct festival as his turn. He duly remebers all the "Manthirangal" and becomes acting Priest.

10. Through out the film, all the surrounding people praise him(Thamburan!!!), worship him and so on and so forth.

11. He uses the word "Chumma" (Nothing) every while and keeps the people excited.

12. Everybody wants to help him, worship him etc....

13. Finally he once again trounces enemies and conducts festival.

14. He renounces his Cap and leaves with Manju. Entire village falls at his legs and he accepts and continues as Thamburan.

I don't think one can take this much hero biased movie.

Should we say hats off to Shaji kailas for such a retreat for Lal fans and critisize him for taking Lal to peak only to let him down eventually?