Bangalore Days (2014)

Bangalore Days is a Malayalam coming-of-age comedy drama written and directed by Anjali Menon. It follows three cousins from Kerala, Aju, Kuttan and Kunju, who each end up in Bangalore for different reasons. Kunju moves to the city after an arranged marriage to Das (Fahadh Faasil), a corporate executive. Kuttan (Nivin Pauly) relocates for a job in IT, while Aju starts working as a mechanic for a local biker gang. The film tracks how the city, their work and their relationships change each of them, while the bond between the cousins holds them together. Dulquer Salmaan, Nazriya Nazim, Parvathy Thiruvothu, Isha Talwar and Paris Laxmi are also in the cast, with Vijayaraghavan and Kalpana as Kuttan's parents. Anwar Rasheed produced the film under Anwar Rasheed Entertainments and Weekend Blockbusters. Gopi Sundar composed the music, Sameer Thahir handled the cinematography and Praveen Prabhakar edited. Shot over about 70 days between December 2013 and March 2014 in Bangalore, Kochi and Mysore, it released in theatres in May 2014. It was later remade in Tamil as Bangalore Naatkal (2016) and in Hindi as Yaariyan 2 (2023).