Parthen Rasithen
| Parthen Rasithen | |
|---|---|
 DVD Cover | |
| Tamil | பார்த்தேன் ரசித்தேன் |
| Directed by | Saran |
| Produced by | S. Thiruvengadam |
| Written by | Saran |
| Starring |
Simran Prashanth Laila |
| Music by | Bharathwaj |
| Cinematography | A. Venkatesh |
| Edited by | Suresh Urs |
Production company |
Serene Movie Makers |
| Distributed by | Serene Movie Makers |
Release date |
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Running time | 166 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Tamil |
Parthen Rasithen (English: I saw & admired) is a 2000 Indian Tamil-language romantic thriller written and directed by Saran. The film features Simran, Prashanth, and Laila in the lead roles, while Raghuvaran, Jai Ganesh, Vinu Chakravarthy, Vaiyapuri, Charle, Dhamu, Lawrence Raghavendra, Fathima Babu, and Jyothi play supporting roles. The film music was composed by Bharadwaj.
Simran portrayed the role of an antagonist for the first time in her career. The film also saw third collaboration between Simran and Prashanth following Kannedhirey Thondrinal and Jodi.
The film focuses on Bhanu, Shankar and Sarika played by Simran, Prashanth, and Laila respectively. It narrates Shankar's love story with Sarika, whom he meets on a bus. She reciprocates, but problems and misunderstandings plague their romance. Bhanu, Shankar's best friend, also falls in love with him, and plots few sinister plans in order to get Shankar to fall in love with her and break his love with Sarika. The rest of the plot deals with Shankar overcoming all the obstacles placed by Bhanu and reuniting with Sarika.
The film was released on 11 August 2000, and received positive critical reception with Simran's performance receiving acclaim. The film became a sleeper hit and achieved blockbuster run at the box office. The film was remade in Telugu as Naa Manasistha Raa with Meka Srikanth, Soundarya and Richa Pallod.
Plot
Shankar (Prashanth) is a graduate of BSC nautical science waiting for a job in the shipping industry. He is a tenant in the house of Bhanu (Simran), his good friend and confidante. They spend almost all their time together, and she seeks him out as a refuge from her stepbrother Panneer (Raghuvaran), whom she dislikes but is forced to live together with. One day while dropping Bhanu at a bus stop, Shankar falls in love with Sarika (Laila), who he saw at a bus. Soon he told Bhanu about Sarika and Bhanu ask him to hide in the bus tomorrow in order to know whether Sarika is interested with him or not. As per plan both took the bus as Shankar hides from the sight of Sarika, Sarika searches for him in disappointment at the bus stop that he was at yesterday. This led Bhanu and Shankar to confirm Sarika's love towards him. Meanwhile, Shankar's highly rude and verbally abusive father Chidhambaram (Vinu Chakravarthy) lands in Chennai for his wife's (Jyothi) heart operation, and tells Shankar that his marriage is being arranged, while the same situation happen in Sarika's house. Both Shankar and Sarika have no idea that they are the two people about to get married. Since they both didn't realize this, as expected, both avoid the meeting. As Sarika fails to return to home, Chidhambaram got irritated as Sarika is late to home and create a ruckus; this led to a huge fight between him and Sarika's father and the marriage gets canceled.
Meanwhile, Panneer misunderstood the conversation between Bhanu and Shankar and assumes they are in love. He reveals this to Shankar's parents and asks their approval for the marriage. In order to pacify his ailing mother until her operation and Bhanu's persuasion, Shankar says he will marry Bhanu. Further misunderstandings occurs between Shankar and Sarika when Panneer caught them together, and he exposes Shankar's wedding arrangements with Bhanu to Sarika. Sarika was devastated and refuses to meet Shankar again. In order to solve the problem, Shankar asks Bhanu to tell the truth to Panneer. In the turn of events, Bhanu refused to tell the truth, and it is learned that she also loves Shankar for 4 years, and she used the wedding arrangement as a tool to get Shankar. She explains that she has been in love with him for a long time, but she sacrificed her love after realizing Sarika is in love with Shankar. However, after few confusions in their love story, including failed arrange marriage between him and Sarika and the misunderstanding caused by Panneer who thinks Bhanu and Shankar are in love has prompted Bhanu to use the situation in her favor. Shankar tried to console Bhanu and he explains that he has no such feeling towards her, however the adamant Bhanu blackmails Shankar that she will make him love her. In order to fulfill her ambition, she begins to plot a villainous act. She uses Panneer. Meanwhile Sarika learns about Bhanu from Vellaisamy (Dhamu) and realizes Shankar is innocent while reconciling with him. One day while Sarika was walking down the street wearing a blue saree presented by Shankar, she gets her saree snatched by Doss (Lawrence Raghavendra) on a bike. Bhanu, who witnessed this event, brings Sarika to her home to get her new clothes. However, to Sarika's horror, Bhanu revealed her identity and admits she asked Doss to snatch her saree while blackmailing her to leave the city and Shankar, as this will give Bhanu some ample time in order to make him fall in love with her. Sarika, devastated and embarrassed with this incident, tries to commit suicide by consuming poison. Meanwhile, Panneer, who eavesdropped the conversation, realizes his mistake and scolds Bhanu. After that, Bhanu, who is in final year of MBBS returns to her university where the doctors all over the city were on strike. Sarika was brought to the hospital; because of the doctors' strike, she could not get any treatment. Bhanu, who happens to be there, was forced by her friends to help save Sarika. Shankar gets to know about Sarika's condition, in furiousness he went in search for Doss and is being followed by rowdies who was sent by Panneer earlier.
When Bhanu finally sees the girl that needs treatment, then only she realizes it is none other than Sarika herself. Shankar arrives at the hospital after taking down the rowdies where Doss reveals the truth that Bhanu asked him to snatch Sarika's sari. Shankar is worried that Bhanu won't save Sarika's life, and he made her promise that if she saves her, he will marry Bhanu. The operation was successful, and Shankar fulfills his promise to Bhanu. As they walk out of the room, Bhanu told Shankar that he always understood everything late, and her love for him is gone after she had seen Sarika's sacrifice for love (as Sarika almost died for her love). She apologizes to Shankar for her drastic behavior, he forgives her, and gets united with Sarika who just got conscious, while Bhanu was seen crying over Paneer's shoulders.
Cast
- Prashanth as Shankar
- Laila as Sarika
- Simran as Bhanu
- Raghuvaran as Panneer Selvam
- Jai Ganesh as Sarika's father
- Vaiyapuri as Bus Driver
- Charle as Sophraj
- Dhamu as Vellaisamy
- Lawrence Raghavendra as Doss
- Vinu Chakravarthy as Chidhambaram
- Fathima Babu as Pinky Raja
- Jyothi as Shankar's mom
- Besant Ravi as Gaja
Casting
Initially Nandita Das and Simran were considered for the role of Bhanu. Saran first offered the script to Simran and she wanted to play the character since she had never played a villainous role before. Simran participated in a screen test and was confirmed for the role after she got good feedback from Saran.[2][3] Laila was selected to play the other lead after Saran was impressed by her performance in Rojavanam.
Soundtrack
| Parthen Rasithen | |
|---|---|
| Soundtrack album by Bharathwaj | |
| Released | 2000 |
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack |
| Label | Five Star Audio |
| Producer | Bharathwaj |
The music has been composed by composer Bharathwaj and the title track still remains an all time favourite melody. The highlight of the title track is the beautiful mouth organ prelude by Mr.Venkatasubramaniam aka Kyaba of the Madras chorale group with great backing provided by ace Bass guitarist Keith Peters and the lead vocals by Yugendran Vasudevan Nair. The lyrics were written by Vairamuthu. For the first time Prashanth lend his voice for a soundtrack.
| Track | Song | Singer(s) | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Vaa Endrathu" | Prashanth | |
| 2 | "Parthen Rasithen" | Yugendran, Reshmi | |
| 3 | "Enakena Yerkanave" | Unnikrishnan, Harini | |
| 4 | "Poove Punnagai" | Sonu Nigam, Vasundra Das | |
| 5 | "Kedaikkala" | Srinivas | |
| 6 | "Thinnadhey" | Shankar Mahadevan, Anuradha Sriram |
Critical reception
Simran's performance received unanimous critical acclaim, gaining her a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress.
Hindu wrote: "It is a spectacular role for Simran and she has made optimum use of it. A well-etched character which is suspenseful at every turn. Simran's eyes sparkle with animus, jealousy and venom in the scene in which she confronts Laila. Laila as the docile, taciturn beauty is an appealing foil to the fiery and vibrant Simran. Prashanth's plausible reactions to Simran's unrelenting moves, saying that he cannot think of her as a venomous person, are natural, and his performance is laudable. Raghuvaran is his usual self as the brother of Simran. There is no scope for him to show his mettle because though the character floats limpidly there is not much depth".[4]
Lolluexpress wrote: "An excellent movie and its worth watching in big screens. After watching few movie that were released in the recent times I really consider "PARTHEN RASITHEN" to be the best one".[5]
Balaji wrote: "The movie has a good story that keeps us guessing regarding the path it is going to take, a genuinely surprising twist, some nice characterizations and good comedy".[6]
Chennaionline wrote: "film begins promisingly enough and moves at an interesting pace in the first half. The script is well worked out, the director paying attention to minute details. But then he moves away from the main plot, brings in some twists and turns, gets confused and comes back to the story again".[7]super director saran
Legacy
In 2016, Vijay Sethupathi was asked about his favourite romantic moments in cinema and what Valentine’s Day means to him. He commented that "I’ve always been a huge admirer of Simran. I loved her in films like V. I. P. , Kannedhirey Thondrinal and Parthen Rasithen".[8] Simran's performance was featured in JFW magazine's list of "5 Heroines Who Stunned Us By Playing Negative Roles".[9] Similarly, Indiaglitz.com also listed Simran's portrayal in their list of "The Super Villains of Tamil Cinema" and credited her for the success of the film.[10]
References
- ↑ "Parthen Rasithen Movie Details". Tamilstar.com. Archived from the original on 20 June 2017. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
- ↑ http://simranoline.tripod.com/simransimplybeautiful/id24.html
- ↑ http://www.hindu.com/fr/2001/11/09/stories/2001110901070500.htm
- ↑ http://www.hindu.com/2000/08/18/stories/09180223.htm
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 12 May 2014. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
- ↑ http://www.bbthots.com/reviews/2000/prasithen.html
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20000824020848/http://www.chennaionline.com/Moviereviews/moviereview.asp
- ↑ Srinivasan, Sudhir (13 February 2016). "Reel Romance". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 14 February 2016. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
- ↑ Srinivasan, Sudhir (21 July 2016). "5 Heroines Who Stunned Us By Playing Negative Roles". Jfwonline.com. Archived from the original on 28 June 2017. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
- ↑ "The Super Villains of Tamil Cinema". Indiaglitz.com. 2015-08-06. Retrieved 2017-06-30.