Pasanga

Pasanga
Directed by	Pandiraj
Produced by	M. Sasikumar
Written by	Pandiraj
Starring	Kishore DS Sree Raam Vimal Vega Tamotia Jayaprakash
Music by	James Vasanthan
Cinematography	Premkumar
Edited by	Yoga Baskar Sound Recordist Rajshekar.k
Production company	Company Production
Release date	1 May 2009 (2009-05-01)
Running time	151 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil
Box office	₹11 crore[1]

Pasanga (Tamil: பசங்க; English: Kids) is a 2009 Tamil language children comedy film directed by debutant Pandiraj, who worked as an erstwhile assistant to Cheran. It stars numerous debutant child artists such as Kishore DS, Sree Raam and Pandian in the lead roles along with newcomer Vimal and Saroja fame Vega Tamotia in supporting roles. The film, produced by Sasikumar and scored by James Vasanthan, who both rose to fame with the 2008 hit film Subramaniyapuram, released on 1 May 2009 to high critical acclaim, winning three National Film Awards and several other awards at International Film Festivals.^[2]

Plot

The story unfolds in a dry barren village. Anbukkarasu (Kishore), the protagonist who wants to excel in his life as a Collector and is an encouraging child, comes across Jeevanandam (Sree Raam), the son of the school teacher Chokkalingam(JayaPrakash), on the first day of school. Jeeva develops instant dislike for Anbu. The good-hearted Anbu tries to befriend Jeeva. However, Jeeva continues to hate Anbu with a passion. Enter Manonmani (Dharini), Jeeva's cousin, who develops affinity towards Anbu. This only makes Jeeva detest Anbu further. Not only Anbu excels in academics but also in extracurricular activities, contributes to widening the rift between the two.Anbu's parents have different opinions at Life which develops fight between them and also turns out to be a positive for Jeeva to hurt Anbu further.

A fight between Anbu and Jeeva escalates to involve their parents and this results in strife between their respective families as well.Even though as elders,they soothe out and solve the rift between them when Jeeva's father tells the importance of forgiving in life as from his experience to Anbu's father which makes him go along in a good way with his wife. However, in a twist, Meenakshi Sundaram (Vimal), Anbu’s uncle falls in love with Soppikannu (Vega), the sister of Jeeva. The families get united when they agree to Meenakshi Sundaram’s wedding with Soppikannu, much against the wishes of Jeeva and Anbu which continues the rift further.

At the end of their 6th grade,when Jeeva's father asks everyone to a write a letter about their past year good/bad happenings which makes Anbu and Jeeva share their feelings about one another. Anbu shares his likings towards Jeeva while Jeeva stands as he was in the beginning.Manonmani makes Jeeva understand the coming of Anbu has changed his life to a good living being.All of a sudden Anbu meets with an accident.Jeeva as first,helps Anbu recover by using the encouraging therapy. He apologises and they both reunite ending with Meenakshi Sundaram's marriage with Soppikannu.

Cast

• Kishore as Anbukkarasu
• Sree Raam as Jeeva Nithyanandham
• Vimal as Meenakshi Sundaram
• Vega Tamotia as Sobikannu
• Pandian as Kuzhanthaivelu (Pakkada)
• Dharani as Manonmani
• Murugesh as Kuttimani
• Karthikraja as Gautham Vellaichamy (Bujjima)
• Yoganathan as Akila
• Jayaprakash as Chokkalingam
• Sivakumar as Vellaichamy
• Sujatha Sivakumar as Mrs. Chokkalingam
• Senthikumari as Pothumponnu Vellaichamy
• Rony David as Mukeshmaanu

Production

Ramakrishnan was initially offered a lead role by Pandiraj, who was Ramakrishnan's colleague when they were assistants to director Cheran. As Ramakrishnan was busy with the shoot of Kunguma Poovum Konjum Puravum (2009), Vemal was cast in the role instead.^[3]

Accolades

Awards

57th National Film Awards

• Best Child Artist - Kishore & Sree Raam
• Best Dialogues - Pandiraj
• Best Feature Film in Tamil

Music

Music and soundtracks were composed by Subramaniyapuram fame James Vasanthan. The soundtrack features four songs, the lyrics for which are written by Thamarai, Yugabharathi and James Vasanthan himself.

Release

The satellite rights of the film were sold to Kalaignar TV.^[5]

Remake

The film was remake in Sri Lanka by Sinhala-language titled Daruwane in 2012.

References

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