Chinna (2005 film)

Chinna
Directed by Sundar C.
Produced by Sreenivasa Raju
Written by Sundar C.
Screenplay by Sundar C.
Starring Arjun
Sneha
Vijayakumar
Vikramaditya
Livingston
Music by D. Imman
Cinematography Prasad Murella
Edited by Kasi Viswanathan
Production
company
Sri Sri Chitra
Release date
  • 15 July 2005 (2005-07-15)
Running time
150 minutes
Country India
Language Tamil

Chinna is a 2005 Tamil romantic action thriller film directed by Sundar C. It stars Arjun and Sneha in the lead roles. It did reasonable business at the box-office. This film is a remake of the Hindi film Darr (1993) which has Shahrukh Khan and Juhi Chawla in lead roles.

Plot

The film begins with Gaythri (Sneha) getting married to an irrigation engineer (Vikramaditya) against her wishes. As she conducts her marriage with mechanical unconsciousness, her sunken heart reflects her past.

Gayathri, a marine student, goes to Rameswaram to study coral reef and other marine ecosystem while staying with her uncle (Vinu Chakravarthy) in a fisherman hamlet. She witnesses Chinna (Arjun) and his assistants (Mansoor Ali Khan and Ponnambalam) - local mobsters working for a gang - committing pitiless and violent crimes. Though she wanted to report these crimes to the local SP (Vijayakumar), her uncle dissuades her.

Meanwhile, she asks her uncle for a guide to take her to locations rich in marine life. Vinu Chakravarthy directs Chinna to help Gayathri in her pursuit. After a couple of close encounters with Chinna, Gayathri understands his soft nature and vows to reform him as a socially acceptable man. Later love blossoms between them.

Even as Chinna tries to make his life straight, a violent feud ensues between him and the local gang. Trying to save Gayathri, Chinna kills the gang leader and is sentenced to life imprisonment. Taking advantage of Chinna's absence, Gayathri's parents forcibly marry her to the irrigation engineer.

As the story ploughs through in the second half, Chinna, characterized by obsession with "Gayathri", kills people working against his goal to attain his ladylove.

At the end, after much drama, when Chinna almost killed Gayathri's husband, she shot him in order to save her husband. Chinna asked her if she had feelings for him before this, at least for a second. Just after she shook her head saying yes, he jumped off the building. The movie ends there indicating his death.

Cast

Music

Chinna
Soundtrack album by D. Imman
Released 2005
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Language Tamil
Label New Music
Producer D. Imman
D. Imman chronology
Anbe Vaa
(2005)
Chinna
(2005)
ABCD
(2005)

The soundtrack was composed by D. Imman and the lyrics were written by Pa. Vijay, Palanibharathi and Manohar.[1][2]

  • Tholaidoora Nilave — D. Imman
  • Bailare Bailare — Sunitha Sarathy
  • Yaar Yaaro — SPB
  • Kaalangathale — KK, Anuradha Sriram
  • Osthara — Karthik, Devan, Ranjith

Critical reception

Balaji B of Thiraipadam wrote "Chinnaa takes over the crown from Anbe Sivam for being the most un-Sundar.C-like Sundar.C film ever! Confusion, chaos and comedy, atleast [sic] one of which is always a trademark of his films, are nowhere to be seen here."[3] Indiaglitz wrote "Sundar C has a penchant for comedy capers that are low on logic but high on entertainment. Chinna is unlike Sundar C's film, which is not just very serious but also lacks his trademark humour. However thanks to a fast narration and good performance by Sneha, Chinna manages to leave an impression with the audience."[4]

References

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