Marudhamalai (film)

This article is about the film. For the temple, see Marudhamalai (temple).

Marudhamalai
Directed by	Suraj
Written by	Suraj
Produced by	Viswanathan Ravichandran
Starring	Arjun Vadivelu Nila Lal
Cinematography	U.K. Senthil Kumar Vaidy S
Edited by	Manoj
Music by	D. Imman
Production company	Aascar Film Pvt. Ltd
Release date	7 September 2007
Country	India
Language	Tamil
Budget	12 crores
Box office	56 crores

(Tamil Film) Marudhamalai is a Tamil language film starring Arjun, Nila, and Vadivelu. The film was released on 7 September 2007. During its release, this film had a grand opening and it became a commercial success at the Box Office depending on the size of movie's budget.

Plot

Marudhamalai (Arjun), a police constable, goes to work in the village of Nachiapuram after passing his police exams and getting a merit. Here, he meets 'Encounter' Ekambaram (Vadivelu), who is his senior officer. He is asked to do all sorts of work for him and one day, Marudhamalai loses a convict on the way to the court due to Ekambaram's soft heart. He then is to clean the floors of the inspector's house and there, he falls in love with Divya (Meera Chopra). Then, later in the market, after Ekambaram is humiliated by a beggar, Marudhamalai sees Maasi (Lal), the 'boss' of the city, killing a person who stood for a candidate in the elections. Then the election commissioner comes to the place and he discovers that elections have not been held for 16 years in the city due to Maasi's opposition.

Also, he challenges Maasi to stop him from holding elections in that area. Then, during the election day, despite lot of security, Maasi's men, with the help of a man who acts as a guard, come and drive away the people who came for voting and are about to kill the commissioner when Marudhamalai's father slaps Maasi for creating violence. At that time, Marudhamalai comes and beats up Maasi's men and humiliates him in front of all the people by handcuffing him with his dhoti. He is then arrested and all attempts to release him fail. For his bravery, he is promoted to the inspector of the station. Later, he kills Maasi's two brothers using various methods and Maasi vows to kill him the day he is released. Later, as Maasi is released, Marudhamalai gets an order to kill him. He fights the men single-handedly and kills them proving his bravery. He also starts loving Nila and she starts loving him too.

Cast

• Arjun as Marudhamalai
• Nila as Divya
• Vadivelu as Encounter Ekambaram
• Raghuvaran as Suryanarayanan
• Lal as Maasi
• V. M. Subburaj as Saarapaambu
• Krishnamoorthy as Maatturavi
• Sharan Preeth
• Nassar as Marudhamalai's father
• Rajesh
• Santhana Bharathi
• Thyagu
• Kadhal Thandapani as Puli
• Shanmugarajan as Shanmugarajan
• Bose Venkat
• M. N. Rajam
• Kalairani
• Mumaith Khan as Jalaja (Special appearance)

Soundtrack

The soundtrack features six songs composed by D. Imman and lyrics penned by Pa.Vijay and Thabu Shankar

Song	Artist(s)
"Hey Yenmama"	Karthik, Suchitra, Megha
"Marudhamalai"	D. Imman, Anitha Karthikeyan
"Marudhamalai II"	Madhu Balakrishnan, Anitha Karthikeyan
"Oonjaliley Oru Angeley"	Karthik, Dr.G.K.Lavanya
"The Khakhee Story"	Vasu, Naveen, Karthikeyan
"Yenna Velay"	D. Imman, Jyotsna Radhakrishnan

Release

The satellite rights of the film were sold to Kalaignar.

External links

• Marudhamalai at IMDb