Priyan Ottathilanu

Priyan Ottathilanu (transl. Priyan is on the run) is a 2022 Indian Malayalam-language comedy drama film directed by Antony Sony. The story, screenplay and dialogues are written by Abhayakumar K and Anil Kurian. It is produced by Santhosh Thrivikraman under the company WOW Cinemas. The film stars Sharafudheen, Nyla Usha and Aparna Das in the lead roles. The story revolves around Priyan, a young man who is always busy. Mammootty appears in a cameo role in the film.

Dr. Priyadarshan alias Priyan, a homeopathy doctor by profession, loves being a multi tasker. He is always occupied and busy. Though he is very helpful to his friends and neighbors, he is not able to find time for his family. He nurtures a passionate dream from childhood, writing, which he keeps pursuing during his busy schedule.

Priyan gets a director for his script with the help of an executive producer who was shooting at his flat. Together they find a producer as well, but he insists that he will only produce the movie if Mammootty is the hero. They get an appointment from Mammootty to meet him at a movie set to narrate the script, but they have to reach the set before the shoot ends at 4:30 PM that day. Mammootty has to go to Dubai after the shoot and afterwards, it will be difficult for the movie to workout.

On the day of his dream coming true, the police asks Priyan to come to the station to remediate a fight between the locals and his flat cleaners. The locals insist that the lady who hit him on his face has to apologize. The police also asks Priyan to drop Priscilla Thankam at the airport. On their way to the airport, Priyan had to drop one of his fans at her home, go to the bank to withdraw money and give it to his flat keeper's son for surgery, go to the flat and make the cleaners apologize to the local, pick his parents up who were coming to his flat for the first time and even negotiate his cousin who was threatening to jump of a building as part of a public protest. While they were about to reach the airport Priscilla sees a car waiting for her and asks Priyan to stop. Priscilla gets down and gets into the car and leaves.

Priyan realizes that his mobile is with Priscilla and so he follows her. Priscilla was being blackmailed by a guy because she hit his cousin while driving. Priyan rescues her from the spot and takes her to the airport. While Priscilla is working with customs for her parcel clearance, Priyan talks with his sister in law and her husband and clears the air between them. He arranges a job for his sister in law at Priscilla's store and they both leave to the film set to narrate the script to Mammootty. But Priyan is late and Mammootty leaves without meeting them. The producer does not want to do the movie anymore and the disappointed director says he is going to Dubai to find a job.

It turns out that Priscilla is a news reporter and the next day she writes an article in the news paper titled "Priyan Ottathilanu" (Priyan is on the run). She details how much Priyan accomplished in a day for everyone around him while he gave little importance for himself and his dreams. Mammootty also reads this news and tells his assistant to call Priyan to listen to the story.

The movie is produced by Santhosh Thrivikraman under the company WOW Cinemas. This is the second movie directed by Antony Sony after his directional debut C/O Saira Banu. Priyan Ottathilanu was primarily shot in Kochi. The cinematography is by P. M. Unnikrishnan. Editing is done by Joel Kavi and the songs are composed by Lijin Bambino. The writers of the film are Abhayakumar K and Anil Kurian. Chathur Mukham was this writer duo's previous film released in 2021. They were also co-writers of Punyalan Agarbattis and Su Su Sudhi Vathmeekam.

The movie was released at theaters in Kerala on 24 June 2022. It had a GCC theatrical release on 30 June 2022. It had rest of India theatrical release on 7 July 2022.