Marudhamalai (film)

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

Marudhamalai
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Suraj
Written by	Suraj
Produced by	V. Ravichandran
Starring	Arjun Vadivelu Meera 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
Running time	165 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil
Budget	₹12 crore (US$1.4 million)
Box office	₹56 crore (US$6.7 million)

Marudhamalai is a 2007 Indian Tamil action comedy film written and directed by Suraj. The film stars Arjun, Meera and Vadivelu in lead roles, while Lal, Raghuvaran, Nassar play supporting roles. The film was released on 7 September 2007. During its release, this film had a grand opening and it became a super-hit at the box office. Vadivelu won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Comedian for his work in this film.

Plot

Marudhamalai (Arjun), a lawyer, goes to work as Constable in the town of Nachiapuram after passing his police training by getting a merit selection. Here he meets 'Encounter' Ekambaram (Vadivelu), his senior officer. He is asked to do all sorts of petty 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). 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. That constituency has not had an MLA for the last 16 years due to Maasi. Maasi's caste people have been 70% majority in that Nachiyarpuram MLA constituency, but the Government named the constituency as a Reserved Constituency 16 years ago. Since then Maasi either postpones MLA election by murdering a candidate or makes sure that his house servant from lower caste is elected as MLA and then resigns immediately to cause vacancy of office. Since Maasi has his caste's support and heavy income, the Government has kept ignoring him.

Then the Chief election commissioner Narayanan IAS comes to the town. He meets and challenges Maasi to stop him from holding by-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 (Nassar) slaps Maasi for creating violence. At that time, Marudhamalai comes, beats up Maasi's men, and humiliates Maasi in front of all the people by handcuffing him with his dhoti. Maasi is then arrested and sentenced for 15 days imprisonment without bail.

For his bravery, Marudhamalai is initially suspended, but then promoted to the inspector of the station. With 12 days remaining in Maasi's imprisonment, Marudhamalai seals off his illegal sources of income, and arrests Maasi's henchmen to choke his empire. To extract revenge, Maasi's brother kills Marudhamalai's father by car-bomb. Later, he kills Maasi's two brothers using various unofficial 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 all, proving his bravery. Marudhamalai is further promoted as DSP.

Cast

• Arjun as Marudhamalai
• Vadivelu as Encounter Ekambaram
• Meera as Divya
• Raghuvaran as Suryanarayanan
• Lal as Maasi
• Nassar as Marudhamalai's father
• Kalairani as Marudhamalai's mother
• Dhandapani as Puli
• Shanmugarajan as Shanmugarajan
• Thyagu as Inspector
• Madhan Bob as Doctor
• M. N. Rajam as Divya's grandmother
• Bonda Mani as Beggar
• Mahanadi Shankar as Pickpocket
• Krishnamoorthy as Maatturavi
• Bose Venkat
• Rajesh
• Crane Manohar
• Santhana Bharathi
• V. M. Subburaj as Saarapaambu
• Sharan Preeth
• Priyanka as Bride
• Mumaith Khan as Jalaja (Special appearance)

Soundtrack

The soundtrack features six songs composed by D. Imman and lyrics penned by P. Vijay and Thabu Shankar. This is Imman's 25th film as music composer in both background score and music.

Marudhamalai
Soundtrack album by D. Imman
Released	2007
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Language	Tamil
D. Imman chronology
Veerappu (2007) Marudhamalai (2007) Thavam (2007)

Song	Artist(s)	Lyrics
"Hey Yenmama"	Megha, Suchitra, Karthik	P. Vijay
"Marudhamalai"	D. Imman, Anitha Karthikeyan	Thabu Shankar
"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	P. Vijay

Release

The satellite rights of the film were sold to Kalaignar. The comedy track of this movie with Vadivelu was a huge success and is still a regular on the television channels.

Critical reception

Behindwoods wrote "On the whole a good fun filled first half and illogical second half explains Marudhamalai." Sify wrote "It is a mass movie laced with all essential ingredients that will work big time at the box-office." Rediff called it "yet another potboiler about an upright young police constable single-handedly wiping out goondas and rowdies, armed with a bare minimum of weaponry and lethal fists."

External links

• Marudhamalai at IMDb