Choo Mandhirakaali

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Choo Mandhirakaali
Directed by	Eswar Kotravai
Written by	Eswar Kotravai
Produced by	Annakkili Velu
Starring	Karthikeyan Velu Sanjana Burli
Cinematography	Mohammed Farhan
Edited by	Gokul G
Music by	Satish Raghunathan
Production company	Annam Medias
Distributed by	Annam Medias
Release date	24 September 2021 (2021-09-24)
Running time	02 hr 07 min
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Choo Mandhirakaali is a 2021 Indian Tamil-language magical realism romantic comedy film written and directed by newcomer Eswar Kotravai, former associate of director A. Sarkunam. It stars debutant Karthikeyan Velu and debutante Sanjana Burli, with Kishore Dev, Muhil, Govinth Mayon, V.Sridhar in supporting roles. The film was made in one shot schedule and released on 24 September 2021 and became one of the top rated Tamil movies of 2021.

Plot

Pangaaliyur is a village in Salem district. Everyone in this village is related as cousins (Pangaali) i.e., Cousin brother / Cousin sister. Murugan, the protagonist, is from this village. People in this village are soaked up in jealousy for each other. This trait becomes toxic for the village and the Cousins end up spoiling each other. Most of the time the villagers find their resort in black magic that also the only thing the people of the village are afraid of. Murugan decides to step up and change his village people’s toxic attitude for the better. That is when he hears about an all Black Magic performing village named Singapore in Kolli hills. The people of this village sleep at day and do black magic all night for the people coming from distant villages. There is a tree called "Musical tree" at Singapore which stopped playing its music since a couple committed suicide inside the village. So, Singapore people do not allow outsiders to stay, except for couples who are married and opposed by their families, left nowhere to go. So, Murugan takes his brother in law (Saamy) disguised as female and moves in to Singapore as married couple. His brother in law, being a street play actor, is very much used to playing female roles, thus fitting the bill perfectly. In Singapore, to Murugan’s amusement, he finds different wizards with special abilities like floating in mid air, buried in land, powerful in telekinesis, a wizard dead before a hundred years advising the people of the village only with his voice from sky. After all these wizards, Murugan finally meets Sundhara Valli, who is the most special and powerful wizard of the village. Murugan falls in love at first sight with the Wizard. He thinks about getting married to her and taking her to Pangaaliyur to change his people’s toxic jealousy attitude. While Murugan is trying to impress Valli, a mentally retarded priest wrongly informs Valli that Murugan is actually Lord Murugan disguised as normal human. Also he has come here disguised in order to marry her. Friends of Valli persuade her in believing this, which eventually leads her to fall in love with Murugan. People of Pangaliyur come to know about all this through Saamy. They cannot digest the fact that Murugan is in love with a wizard who is very beautiful, has 20 acres land and 100 pounds of gold jewelery. In order to stop them getting married, the people of Pangaliyur kidnap Murugan and set him up to get married to one of his in-laws. To avoid Murugan from escaping the marriage, they start a ceremonial Goddess Amman festival and tie holy rope on everyone’s hand (A traditional rope, once tied on hand the person with rope should never go out of village until the festival is over). Everyone gets the rope tied but Murugan escapes before his cousins tie the holy rope on his hand. Since everyone in the village is tied with the holy rope, they can never come out of the village until the festival is over or cancelled. Traditionally for a festival to be cancelled a person from the village must die. In order to spoil the plan of Murugan, an elder from the village decides to let his life quoting “If our cousin is getting a better life, I'll give my life to spoil it!” As the old villager dies, everyone in the village is inspired and happy. They start from Pangaliyur to spoil Murugan’s plan with the new found energy. Eventually the musical tree plays its music once Murugan touches Valli and the Singapore people accepts their love. Murugan and Valli return to Pangaliyur and change the village people's toxic attitude.

Cast

• Karthikeyan Velu as Murugan
• Sanjana Burli as Sundhara Valli
• Kishore Dev as Saamy / Devasena
• Muhil as Karuna
• V.Sridhar
• Govinth Mayon
• Singaravelan
• Mettur Sekar
• Venkatesh babu
• Mu.Ka.Chinnannan
• Maragatham
• Sivaprakasam
• Niranjana
• Dhananya
• Mythili

Soundtrack

Choo Mandhirakaali Album
Soundtrack album by Satish Raghunathan
Released	2021
Recorded	2021
Genre	Soundtrack

The film songs were composed by Satish Raghunathan and Background scoring was composed by Navip Murugan. The album consists of two lyrical tracks featuring lyrics penned by Gugai.Ma.Pugazhendhi.

Song Title	Singers
"Kodaali Kannaala"	Anand Aravindakshan
"Dracula Chellakkutty"	Sean Roldan, Manasi Mahadevan

Release

Critical reception

Choo Mandhirakaali generally opened to positive reviews. M Suganth from The Times of India gave 3/5 and calling it "a Quirky plot." Dinamalar rated the movie 2.5 out of 5 and stated that "Choo Mandhirakaali is complete entertainer". Nakkheeran stated that "Despite being a comedy film, there is an essential message to the community"

External links

• Choo Mandhirakaali at IMDb