Kalyanaraman is a 2002 Indian Malayalam-language romantic comedy film directed by Shafi and written by Benny P. Nayarambalam, starring Dileep and Navya Nair. The plot follows Ramankutty and family who runs a catering service and the events that follows after they take the work of Thekkedathu Achuthankutty's sister's wedding. The music was composed by Berny-Ignatius. The film was remade in Telugu as Kalyana Ramudu.
Plot
Thekkedathu Ramankutty is a marriage organizer. He meets Gauri while arranging the marriage for her sister Radhika, daughter of a family friend Ambattu Thampi. Radhika's fiancée does not turn up for the marriage. Ramankutty suggests that his brother Dr. Sivadas will be ready for the marriage and Dr. Sivadas and Radhika gets married on the same day itself. Ramankutty and Gauri fall in love. But on the day of their engagement, Radhika dies in a kitchen fire accident. After a long time, the family fixes Ramankutty and Gauri's marriage. On the previous day of marriage Gauri gets an electric shock. When Thampi visits the astrologer Meppattu Thirumeni to see the horoscope match, he tells them that women married into the Thekkedathu family are fated to die young. He referred to the family's history. Ramankutty's grandfather's wife died from her first pregnancy. Ramankutty's mother died shortly after giving birth to Ramankutty. Ramankutty's older brother's wife died one month after their marriage, she died due to a snake bite. And now Thampi's daughter died as she was also married into Thekkedathu house. Thampi, scared for his only remaining daughter's life, requests Ramankutty to back out of the marriage. Saddened and yet wanting to do the right thing, Ramankutty calls off the wedding on the pretense of not being comfortable with Gauri's close relations with her cousin Unni. Devastated by this allegation, Gauri backs out of the marriage, only to find the truth later. She runs out in search of Ramankutty and is involved in a road accident on the way. She is rushed to the hospital and while still battling for life, she wishes that Ramankutty tie the wedding knot before her operation. Ramankutty ties the knot, fearing the worst. Miraculously, Gauri comes out alive. The story is told in flashback by an aged Ramankutty who bids farewell to his spellbound teenage audience at the temple which is filmed in a beautiful location and at the end he joins his wife Gauri in lighting the lamp.
