Kaathiruppor Pattiyal

Kaathiruppor Pattiyal also known as Kathiruppor Pattiyal (Tamil: காத்திருப்போர் பட்டியல்; English: Waiting list) is a 2018 Indian Tamil romantic drama comedy film written and directed by Balaiya D. Rajasekhar on his directorial debut and produced by Paija Tom under the production company Lady Dream Cinemas and distributed by Lotus Five Star while co-produced by K.V Jayaram.^[1][2] The film stars debutant Sachin Mani in the male lead role and Nandita Swetha in the female lead role while Aruldoss, Manobala, Sendrayan, Arunraja Kamaraj play pivotal and supportive roles in the film.^[3] Sean Roldan scored background music for the film. The movie was released on 4 May 2018 and received average reviews from the audience upon the release.^[4][5]

Cast

• Sachin Mani as Sathya, jobless lover of Megala
• Nandita Swetha as Megala, lover of Sathya from a rich family
• Aruldoss as Williams, an arrogant RPF inspector
• Arunraja Kamaraj as Kuttipuli, an ardent fan of M. Sasikumar after watching one of his films, Kutti Puli
• Sendrayan as Baskar, a wannable filmmaker
• Manobala as Kunjitha Badham, a sex doctor
• Rajendran
• Mayilsamy as Kodeeswaran, a street beggar
• Appukutty as Sathish

Plot

A RPF railway officer Williams (Aruldoss) is miffed and frustrated regard the fact that the public didn't respect the RPF cops and decides to bring in strict rules and asks his subordinates not to show mercy towards defaulters who make offences and for those who mess up with the railway rules. With the help of his team, he nabs many passengers who violate rules in different ways, which include peeing on railway track and travelling on train without ticket etc. On the other hand, the Sathya (Sachin Mani who plays the male lead role) is a jobless man who falls in love with a girl called Megala who is from a rich family and holds a job for herself. Megala also falls in love with him which was not tolerated by her father and suddenly arranges for a marriage to his daughter.^[6] When Sathya gets to know about this he urgently prepared himself to travel by train from Pondicherry to Puducherry inorder to convince Megala from the arranged marriage and to marry her but his dreams were spoilt by RPF officer Williams as he was arrested by cops on his way for committing an offence and was taken into custody at Tambaram railway station.^[7] Then he suddenly meets other prisoners Baskar (Sendrayan), Kunjitha Badham (Manobala), Kutti Puli (Arunraja Kamaraj), Sathish (Appukutty) and Kodeeswaran (Mayilsamy) in the jail and narrates his romantic love story to them. After being impressed by the story, the other prisoners hatch a plan to help jailed lover Sathya to escape from police custody.^[8]

Production

The filmmaker Balaiya D. Rajasekhar made his directorial debut through this venture and started its shooting process in 2017 and finished within a couple of months as a less budgeted film and was slated to an initial release on 2 March 2018 before its original release on 4 May 2018.^[9] The production team decided the film to be a simple and interesting premise set against an intriguing backdrop and the film was filmed and shot in Pondicherry.^[10]

The production team roped in newcomer Sachin Mani to play male lead role alongside Nandita Swetha in the female lead role.^[11] Aruldoss was chosen to play a serious role of a railway inspector in the most parts of the film despite being treated as a comedy drama film.^[12]

The team also hired well known editor Ruben for editing and roped in M. Sukumar as the cinematographer. The art direction was handled by Lalgudi N. Ilayaraja who previously worked as an art director for the Vijay starrer Kaththi.^[12]

Soundtrack

The background music of the film is composed by Sean Roldan. The album was released on 13 November 2017 featuring four songs but accumulated to negative reviews from the audience.^[13]

References

External links

• Kaathiruppor Pattiyal on IMDb