Theevandi

In a fictional village, Damodarans wife gives birth to a stillborn child, but it is revived when his brother-in-law blows smoke at it, leading to the child, Bineesh, becoming addicted and earning the title of Theevandi; when Bineesh falls in love with his childhood friend, Devi, their relationship ends after a mistaken gift, and his addiction takes him to set a world record of smoking sixteen cigarette packets simultaneously, which later leads to a politician challenging him to quit smoking to secure his brother-in-laws nomination, resulting in a tense conclusion. Theevandi is a 2018 Indian Malayalam-language Comedy Drama movie featuring Tovino Thomas, Samyuktha Menon, Surabhi Lakshmi, Saiju Kurup, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Vijilesh and Bindhu Jayan. August Cinema was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Shaji Nadesan and August Cinema. Theevandi is written by Vini Vishwa Lal and directed by Fellini T. P. August Cinema acquired the distribution rights for the film. Theevandi was released on 7th September 2018 and takes a screen time of 143 minutes. The Film was successful at box office. Theevandi was made on a budget of ₹9 crore and it was a super hit at box office gross of ₹30 crore. Cinematography was done by Gautham Sankar and editing by Appu Bhattathiri. The music was composed by Kailas Menon. At the 2019 It won an award for Best Actor (Tovino Thomas).