Pachaikili Muthucharam
| Pachaikili Muthucharam | |
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| Directed by | Gautham Menon |
| Produced by | Venu Ravichandran |
| Written by | Gautham Menon |
| Starring | Sarath Kumar Jyothika Andrea Jeremiah Milind Soman |
| Music by | Harris Jayaraj |
| Cinematography | Aravind Krishna Nirav Shah |
| Editing by | Anthony |
| Distributed by | Oscar Films |
| Release date(s) | February 16, 2007 |
| Country | India |
| Language | Tamil |
Pachaikili Muthucharam is a 2007 Tamil romantic-thriller film directed by Gautham Menon. The film stars Sarath Kumar, Jyothika, Andrea Jeremiah and Milind Soman. The film's score and soundtrack were composed by Harris Jayaraj. The soundtrack was released on 20 January 2007 to positive reviews. The film was released on 16 February 2007. This film was also dubbed into Telugu as Drohi.
The story is about Venkatesh (Sarath Kumar) who is married to Kalyani (Andrea), but starts an affair with Geetha (Jyothika). He is later blackmailed by Lawrence (Milind Soman) who finds out about his affair. The rest of the story is about how Venkatesh tries to make up for his mistakes. Jyothika plays a negative role as Lawrence's girlfriend, trying to con Venkatesh into giving away the money that he had saved for his son's medical expenses.
The film is inspired from the movie Derailed. Gautham Menon, credited the novel in the end titles mentioning that he was inspired by the novel.
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[edit] Plot
Venkat (Sarath Kumar), a medical representative, is a happily married person with a son. His wife Kalyani (Andrea Jeremiah) is very loving and both of them along with their son have a perfect life. That is, until their son falls sick and things between the husband and wife cool down a bit. Kalyani begins to spend more time with their son and starts to ignore her husband involuntarily. Venkat feeling a bit lonely and neglected walks in and out of his monotonous life without complaining much. He tries to understand his wife's feelings.
One morning while riding the train to work, Venkat notices Geetha (Jyothika) and spends a few extra seconds admiring her. The following day again he happens to stand next to her. And Geetha opens up the conversation with Venkat. Both married with kids, they feel they have a lot of common things between them and start a friendship together. At first it is platonic and they meet only in the train but slowly they start meeting at restaurants and coffee shops.
Geetha begins to get a little physically close to Venkat and she suggests that they both spend a day together watching movies or something alone. Venkat agrees and they take a taxi and drive to Mayajaal on East Coast Road. But at the last minute Geetha changes her mind and directs the taxi driver to go to a resort along the same road. Venkat books a room on Geetha's insistence and his desires give way.
A knock on the door which prompts Venkat to open only to find himself facing a goon with a gun who is beating Venkat to pulp. He robs the couple and also ties Venkat up before raping Geetha. Venkat is grief stricken and they both part ways.
The goon who calls himself Lawrence (Milind Soman) starts calling Venkat and Geetha to harass them for money. Venkat takes the full financial responsibility and starts paying off the money that him and Kalyani have been saving for their sons health until he runs dry. With no other choice left, Venkat confesses to Kalyani. Angry and disappointed, Kalyani leaves him. She returns the next day and forgives Venkat.
A few days later, he finds Geetha coming out of a car with Lawrence. He follows Geetha and finds that she is wooing some other man. This makes Venkat very angry. The person did whatever Venkat did and found himself in the same situation. Venkat kills Lawrence and shoots Geetha. He takes back his money and moves with his family to another city.
This angers Geetha who hunts and kidnaps Venkat's wife and his child. So Venkat goes to the place shown in the starting of the film and kills Geetha.
[edit] Cast
- Sarath Kumar as Venkatesh
- Jyothika as Smitha (Geetha)
- Andrea as Kalyani Venkatesh
- Milind Soman as Lawrence
[edit] Production
It was previously titled as Vilai Uyirendraalum (Even If the Price Is Life Itself), Parundhu (Eagle) and Silandhi (Spider). Andrea's character was originally slated for Simran then Shobana then Tabu but all the three heroines did not want to play second heroine to Jyothika.[1] Sarath Kumar's character was originally slated for Madhavan and Cheran.
[edit] Soundtrack
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| Soundtrack album by Harris Jayaraj | ||||
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The film has 5 classic songs composed by Harris Jayaraj.
| Song title | Singers |
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| "Unakkul Naane" | Bombay Jayashri |
| "Unakkul Naane" | Madhushree |
| "Un Sirippinil" | Sowmya Raoh, Raphi |
| "Kaadhal Konjam" | Naresh Iyer |
| "Karu Karu" | Karthik, Naresh Iyer, Krish |
[edit] Reception
The film was an average at the box office. In regard to the failure, Menon went on to claim that Sarath Kumar was "wrong for the film" and that he tweaked the story to fit his image; he also claimed that his father's ailing health and consequent death a week before the release had left him mentally affected.[2][3]
[edit] References
- ^ "`I don’t write scripts for heroes`". Sify. 2006. http://www.sify.com/movies/tamil/interview.php?id=14149001&cid=2408. Retrieved 2011-04-28.
- ^ http://www.behindwoods.com/features/Topten/top-10-movies/tamil-cinema-topten-movie-pachaikili-muthucharam.html
- ^ Rangan, Baradwaj (2008). "Gautam "Vasudev" Menon". Baradwaj Rangan. http://baradwajrangan.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/interview-gautam-vasudev-menon/. Retrieved 2011-04-28.
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