Running time 158 minutes Country India Language Budget ₹17 lakhs Nadodikattu (English: Vagabond Wind) is a 1987 Indian -language directed by and written by based on a story by the duo. The story revolves around two impecunious young Indian men, Ramdas () and Vijayan () who not being able to find any job in Kerala, plan to immigrate to to make their fortunes, but get deceived and end up in the neighbouring state of. Nadodikattu drew upon relevant social factors affecting Kerala of the 1980s such as widespread unemployment and poverty. The film also stars,,,,,,,,, and in pivotal roles along with by,, and as themselves. The film represents popular Malayalam cinema at its satirical best and established the Mohanlal-Sreenivasan combination as one of its most memorable and bankable cinematic pairs. The story, screenplay and characters have achieved cult status. The film showed an extraordinary talent of late actor Thilakan who played the role of Ananthan Nambiar.

Thilakan proved himself that he can handle comedy roles also. The film was produced by Casino Productions, a production company owned by Century Kochumon,,,,. It gave way to two sequels— (1988) and (1990) known for their excess of mimicry and low-brow slapstick. The film was remade by in as (1988) and in as Tenali Rama. Plot elements were also used in the 2006 comedy film. The film was also remade in Telugu in which played the role of Vijayan.

Contents • • • • • • • Plot [ ] Ramdas/Dasan () and Vijayan () are employed as ill-paid peons. A commerce graduate, and proud of that, Dasan frequently vents his frustration in having to serve lesser qualified superiors and having to settle with lesser than what he feels he deserves in life. Vijayan is his less educated roommate and sole friend. Their relationship is one full of comic tension, with Dasan adopting a superior stance on the account of his education and good looks, which fiercely rattles Vijayan. Several comic situations later in the film borrow from this aspect of their characters. Dasan frequently bosses over Vijayan to do all the household chores.

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Dasan and Vijayan, hopeful of getting a better job, as soon as the new managing director joins their company, wait for him to take charge. However, one day, on their way to work, they get involved in an unnecessary altercation with an unknown person.

Dasan, in order to grab attention from a lady, verbally abuses the person and pushes him into a puddle of rainwater. Vijayan punctures his car tires. But when they reach the workplace, they find out that the person that they had picked the fight with is their new managing director.

Both vanish from the workplace and reappear on the next day in disguises; Dasan wearing dark sunglasses and Vijayan wearing a long beard. Both try to convince their supervisor that they were seriously ill the previous day, but they are made to report to the new managing director. They manage to fool him initially and start work but the managing director soon finds out the truth from old office photographs and both get thrown out from work.

Being jobless, their landlord () convinces them to borrow a loan from a bank to buy two cows. Dasan and Vijayan, upbeat about the new business, start dreaming of a bright future. However, they soon find out that the cows yield very little milk and the business fails. The bank contacts them for defaulting on the loan repayments.