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Ulsaha Committee

2014 film by Akku Akbar

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ18786746
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Ulsaha Committee is a 2014 Malayalam Science Fiction comedy film directed by Akku Akbar and starring Jayaram, Baburaj and Kalabhavan Shajon.

Plot

The film is about a school drop out and his friends whose pursuits for amazing scientific inventions lands him in trouble.

Cast

Jayaram as Apoorvan (Appu)

Baburaj as Gunda Chopra

Kalabhavan Shajon as Babumon

Sheela as Rosie

Isha Talwar as Rosemary

Vinutha Lal as Haritha S. Nair

Suraj Venjaramoodu as Natholi Goplan

Vinaya Prasad as Jancy, Rosemary's mother

Lakshmi Priya as Chandrika

Sunil Sukhada as Babumon's father-law

Kochu Preman as Peethambaran Kurup, Manadarakadavu Panchayath President

Joy Mathew as Thathamangalam Narayana Ayyengar

Sasi Kalinga as Kadavil Aashan

Hareesh Perumanna as Jallian Kanaran

Arun Gosh as Roy

Nelson

Neethu Thomas as Suma, Babumon's wife

Thomas Unniyadan as Doctor

Mukesh as the narrator (voice only)

Prem Nazir as Rosie's love interest (Archieved footage)

Reception

The film received negative reviews from critics. Sify.com wrote: "Disturbingly loud and totally pointless, all this film manages is to make you cringe." The Times of India rated the film 1.5 in a scale of 5 and said, "the film turns out to be a nagging watch with its never-ending stream of loud, boisterous, tasteless humour. Rating the film 1.5/5, Veeyen of Nowrunning.com said, "Ulsaha Committee' is a visual onslaught on the audience from the Jayaram - Akku Akbar team that takes it by total shock. Faced with the unenviable choice of burying his head in his palms or throwing it back for a quick snooze, the viewer lets out one yawn after the other until the prospect of a lock jaw petrifies him.

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“Ulsaha Committee” enters the record as 2014 film by Akku Akbar. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ulsaha, Committee and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18786746. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2014.

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