Vilkkanundu Swapnangal

Vilkkanundu Swapnangal (transl. Dreams for Sale) is a 1980 Indian Malayalam-language drama film, directed by Azad, written by M.T. Vasudevan Nair and produced by V. B. K. Menon. The film stars Sukumaran, Srividya, Sudheer, Bahadoor and Sreenivasan. The film also features Mammootty, in his first credited role. The film explores the Middle East boom that happened in Kerala in the late seventies and early eighties, when people started to go there in search of jobs with a higher pay that would change their lives. The film explores this through Rajagopal (Sukumaran) who goes to the Middle East as an illegal immigrant to support his family.