Thenkasipattanam

Thenkasipattanam
Directed by Rafi Mecartin
Produced by Lal
Written by Rafi Mecartin
Starring Suresh Gopi
Lal
Dileep
Samyuktha Varma
Geethu Mohandas
Kavya Madhavan
Salim Kumar
Spadikam George
Music by Suresh Peters
Cinematography Saloo George
Edited by Harihara Puthran
Production
company
Distributed by Lal Release
Release date
 15 December 2000
Running time
 150 minutes
Country India
Language Malayalam

Thenkasipattanam (English: Thenkasi Town) is a 2000 Malayalam action comedy film written and directed by Rafi Mecartin, produced by Lal, and starring Suresh Gopi and Lal in lead roles. Others in the cast include Dileep, Samyuktha Varma, Geethu Mohandas, Kavya Madhavan, Salim Kumar, and Spadikam George.[1][2] The films is the highest grossing Malayalam movie in the year 2001.The film is remade in to Tamil as Thenkasi Pattanam.The films is one of the most successful movie ever produced and it is one of the best comedy movie in Malayalam.

Synopsis

Kannan and Dasappan are two powerful individuals in their village. Shathrugnan. a newcomer, is in love with Dasappan' s sister, Devootty, but she is not interested in him. Shathru joins Kannan's and Dasappan's firm, KD & Company, as the manager, in an attempt to win the love of Devootty. KD & Company keeps as hostage a music troupe who comes to their village to perform. The main singer of that troupe, Sangeetha, gets expelled from her home because of this and Kannan and Dasappan give her refuge, at the insistence of Devootty. Meenakshi and Kannan are in love. But due to some misunderstanding, Dasappan falls in love with Meenakshi and Sangeetha falls in love with Kannan. Shathru takes the responsibility of sorting it out and linking Dasappan with Sangeetha. In the chaos and confusions that follows, he manages to be victorious and wins his lady love Devootty too.[3]

Cast

Soundtrack

The film's soundtrack contains 7 songs, all composed by Suresh Peters and Lyrics by Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri.All the songs in this were chart busters and second hit from Suresh Peters after Punjabi House [4]

#TitleSinger(s)
1 "Engu Poy Nee" Dr. K. J. Yesudas
2 "Golmaalu" M. G. Sreekumar, Sujatha Mohan, Mano
3 "Pachappavizha (Ente Thenkaasi)" K. S. Chitra, Suresh Peters
4 "Kadamizhiyil" Mano, Swarnalatha
5 "Oru Simhamalayum Kaattil" Sujatha Mohan, Chorus
6 "Kadamizhiyil [Version 2]" K. L. Sreeram, Swarnalatha
7 "Pachappavizha (Ente Thenkaasi)" M. G. Sreekumar, Suresh Peters

Box office

The film was a commercial success at the box office.[5] It ran for 275 days in theatres.[6][7]

Remakes

This film was remade in Tamil with the same name, starring Sarath Kumar and Napoleon. In Telugu, it was remade as Hanuman Junction with Arjun and Jagapathi Babu. And in Kannada as Kodanda Rama with Ravichandran and Shivrajkumar. It was also remade in Bengali as Golmaal.

Year Film Language Cast Director
2001 Hanuman Junction Telugu Arjun, Jagapathi Babu Jayam Raja
2002 Kodanda Rama Kannada Ravichandran, Shivrajkumar Ravichandran
2002 Thenkasi Pattanam Tamil Sarath Kumar, Napoleon Rafi Mecartin
2008 Golmaal Bengali Prasenjit, Tota Ray Chowdhury, Jisshu Sengupta Swapan Saha

References

  1. ↑ "Thenkasipattanam (U)". .filmibeat.com.
  2. ↑ "Thenkasipattanam (2000)". .nowrunning.com.
  3. ↑ "Cast of Thenkasipattanam". .ranker.com.
  4. ↑ "Thenkasi Pattanam Movie Song Lyrics". .friendlysms.com.
  5. ↑ "Rafi-Mecartin reunite with a family entertainer". The Times of India. 24 April 2014.
  6. ↑ "Super hero makes a clean sweep". The Hindu. 10 May 2002.
  7. ↑ http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/article24129.ece?service=print
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