July 4 was indeed a special day for Dileep and Dileep fans. Because, on that day 14 years before, a film had released and got a success which given him the tag of one and only popular actor in Mollywood. The success of that film had made people even call him the next super star in Mollywood after Mohanlal, Mammootty and Suresh Gopi as well. We are talking about the film named Meesha Madhavan which become one of the biggest ever hit in Malayalam Cinema 14 years ago. The film become the biggest hit in the career of Dileep and we can say that from that film Dileep had become a great force in Malayalam Cinema History.
The film was written by Renjan Pramod based on a real life character and Lal Jose had directed the movie. Kavya Madhavan had played the female lead in that movie and the music tuned by Vidyasagar was instrumental in the success of the film. Artists like Jagathy Sreekumar, Indrajith Sukumaran, Jyothirmayi, Cochin Haneefa, Salim Kumar, Harisree Ashokan, Oduvil Unnikrishnan etc played important characters in this movie which went on to become one of the evergreen classic entertainer of Mollywood. The date July 4 become a the lucky date for Dileep as his films like Parakkum Thalika, Meesha Madhavan, CID Moosa etc released on that date and went on to become super successes of the years 2001, 2002 and 2003 respectively.