Sudesi

Sudesi
Poster
Directed by	Jeppy A. Y
Produced by	LK. Sudhish
Written by	Shekhar Astitva
Starring	Vijayakanth Ashima Bhalla M. N. Nambiar Sayaji Shinde Karunas Livingston Mansoor Ali Khan
Music by	Srikanth Deva
Production company	Captain Cine Creations
Release date	10 March 2006 (2006-03-10)
Running time	170 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil
Budget	₹1 million (US$14,000)
Box office	₹10 million (US$140,000)

Sudesi is a 2006 Tamil political action film directed by Jeppy A. Y. It stars Vijayakanth and Ashima Bhalla in the lead roles. The film had good run and successful at the box office.^[1] It was later dubbed in Telugu as Swadeshi and Hindi as Mr. Hindustani.^[2][3]

Cast

• Vijayakanth as Sudhesi MA, a social activist
• Ashima Bhalla as Valli
• M. N. Nambiar as Sudhesi's grandfather
• Sayaji Shinde as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
• Karunas as Sudhesi's sidekick
• Livingston as Finance Minister of Tamil Nadu
• Manoj K. Jayan as Tilak, a private Detective who teams up with Sudhesi
• Mansoor Ali Khan
• Thalaivasal Vijay
• Ajay Rathnam
• Besant Ravi
• Brinda Parekh in a special appearance

Production

With elections around, Vijayakanth, who recently floated his own party to test the waters in the elections, has come out with Sudesi where he strives to reform the Chief Minister of a State. There is enough punch dialogues and the actor utilized the opportunity well to express his political ideology. Though the preachy tone grates, the film has its moments.

Having taken the MGR route in Sudesi, Vijayakanth takes dig at the present political culture in the State and indirectly projects him to be the savior.

Though the movie is aimed at taking to masses the political agenda of Vijayakanth, debutant director Jeppy A Y deserves some credit for making it interesting with mix of commercial elements like item numbers and stunt sequences.

The likes of Ashima, playing his ladylove, and Shayaji Shinde have done a decent job.

Vijayakanth as usual excels in stunt sequences. Srikanth Deva's musical score fails to impress.

Without hurting anybody's sentiments, Vijayakanth seems to have sent a strong political message. Though Sudesi resembles Mudhalvan at few places, Vijayakanth seems to have got his first act right, but still has a lot of work to do with elections around.

Soundtrack

Music was composed by Srikanth Deva.^[4]

References