India Synopsis
മാടമ്പി
“Feudal Lord”
In a village named Ilavattam there lives a man by the name of Gopalakrishna Pillai. He is a man with diverse qualities. Basically he is a moneylender, but not the avaricious kind. He lends money at very low interest-rates but makes it a point to get his money back on the date agreed upon. The story takes a turn when a bank, named Grand Bank opens up in the village, offering to give out loans at very low interest. The manager of the bank is a young lady named Jayalakshmi. She has made her entry into the village with a very definite purpose. All this, plus the very different kind of bonding between Gopalakrishna Pillai and his mother, form the plot, which develops towards a very interesting climax.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Madambi. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Drama + Family in India
112 India titles in our catalog blend the Drama and Family genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Madambi itself).
The 2007–2009 India Window
Madambi holds position #95 of 164 India films in the 2007–2009 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2000s India Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2000s in India, 454 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Madambi premiered alongside 51 others.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 2h 25m runtime, production spent $10K per minute on screen and earned $15K per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 51 other India films in 2008.
The 656th India title from India we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1913).
Our India catalog contains 1,983 titles in total (1,904 films).
Audience Engagement
13 audience reviews — more than 25% of India films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 41th percentile among India films.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Madambi, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- banker · 2
- money · 14
- debt · 10
- bank · 7
- suicide · 51
- village · 46
- sibling relationship · 38
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #1,515 of 1,983 India films indexed here (24th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -0.7 points below the India average of 6.4/10.
Among India Drama productions specifically: #928 of 1,132 (top 82%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | India |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Malayalam |
| Production Companies | Surya Cinemas |
| Runtime | 2h 25m |
| Release Date | July 4, 2008 |
| IMDb | tt1263795 |