Aanazhagan

Aanazhagan
Soundtrack album by Ilaiyaraaja
Released	1995
Recorded	1995
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Label	Pyramid
Producer	Ilaiyaraaja

Aanazhagan
Directed by	Thiagarajan
Produced by	S. Balaji
Written by	Babu-Gopu (dialogues)
Screenplay by	Thiagarajan
Story by	P. Samba Siva Rao
Starring	Prashanth; Suneha; Vadivelu; Charle; Chinni Jayanth; K. R. Vijaya
Music by	Ilaiyaraaja
Cinematography	V. Ranga
Edited by	B. Lenin; V. T. Vijayan
Production; company	Supreme Films International
Release date	11 March 1995
Running time	140 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Aanazhagan is a 1995 Indian Tamil-language comedy film directed by Thiagarajan and produced by S. Balaji. The film stars Prashanth, Suneha, Vadivelu, Charle, and Chinni Jayanth in the lead roles, while K. R. Vijaya, Gandhimathi, and Vaishnavi play supporting roles.[1] The film is based on Telugu film Chitram Bhalare Vichitram. The music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja. In the film, Prashanth disguises himself as a woman in order to convince the landlady.[2]

Plot

Raja (Prashanth), Sudhakar (Charle), Raghava (Chinni Jayanth), and Marudhu (Vadivelu) are good friends who stay together as tenants at Gandhimathi's house. After being thrown out of the house, they start searching for a new house on rent, but no one is willing to give their house for bachelors. Finally, they come to know a landlady (K. R. Vijaya) in search of a family as her tenants. A plot is hatched by, and all four bachelors dress up to be a family man (Sudhakar), his retarded brother (Raghava), his uncle (Marudhu), and his wife Lakshmi (Raja being the wife). Now, Raja's (who happens to be in a woman's attire) lady love (Suneha - debut) happens to be the landlady's daughter. At one point of time by mistake, the friends inform the landlady that Lakshmi is pregnant. The landlady arranges for Valaikaapu function, followed by a doctor (Vaishnavi) checkup. This bursts into a series of rumbled conflicts, and all hell breaks loose. In a woman's disguise, Raja looking extremely beautiful and his dramatic histrionics, as well as Bharatanatyam dance in a woman's costume are the best parts and highlights of the movie Anazhagan.

Cast

Prashanth as Raja and Rajalakshmi alias Lucky
Suneha (Debut) as Priya
Vadivelu as Marudhu
Charle as Sudhakar
Chinni Jayanth as Raghava
K. R. Vijaya as Landlady
Gandhimathi as House Owner
Vaishnavi as Doctor
Manivannan
Delhi Ganesh
Venniradai Moorthy
Loose Mohan
Dhamu
V. K. Ramasamy
Oru Viral Krishna Rao
Kumarimuthu
Bailvan Ranganathan
Kasankhan

Production

Prashanth appeared in drag role in Aanazhagan and noted the most daunting aspects of the role were the "waxing, the threading, the works" as well as "wearing a sari in summer, doing a bharatanatya sequence in a woman's costume, and getting the nuances and variations right were the other challenges", revealing his mum had assisted him.[3] The actor was also involved in the production of the film.[4] The voice for Prasanth's female character Rajalakshmi was given by the famous dubbing artiste Anuradha.

The film became the first project to have scenes shot in the newly created JJ Studios in 1995.[5]

Soundtrack

The film score and the soundtrack were composed by film composer Ilaiyaraaja and lyrics written by Vaali. The soundtrack, released in 1995, features 8 tracks.

Track	Song	Singer(s)
1	'Aaacha Paatcha'	Mano, Chithra
2	'Arul Kann Paarvai'	Chithra
3	'Eley Matchi'	Mano, Chithra
4	'Kanne Indru'	Mano, Swarnalatha
5	'Konjum Pura'	Mano, S. Janaki
6	'Nillatha Vennila'	Ilaiyaraaja, Swarnalatha
7	'Poo Choodum '	Uma Ramanan, Swarnalatha
8	'Veettai Vittu Thuraththi '	Mano

gollark: Cheese++?

gollark: The only difference between CPUs and VMs, really, is that CPUs are implemented on top of the ridiculously complex machine of the physical world.

gollark: Mostly, er, high distance over time.

gollark: See, if you have a known-secure VM model, you can go around skipping protection like, I don't know, memory protection stuff, since WASM is confined to linear memory and a few functions it has.

gollark: You know, people are looking at running WASM on CPUs to increase speed.

References

"Filmography of Aanazhagan". Cinesouth.com. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
"Vikram in 'Kanthaswamy' - Kamal Haasan to Vikram: Actors who aced the lady avatar". The Times of India. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
"How to train your drag". The Hindu. 22 May 2010. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
"Young and mature at once". The Hindu. 15 February 2002. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
Sandya Sitaraman (22 March 1995). "Tamil Movie News--Tamil New Year edition". Newsgroup: soc.culture.tamil. Usenet: 3kpue3$sf0@agate.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 7 August 2012.

External links

Aanazhagan on IMDb

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.

[1] "Filmography of Aanazhagan". Cinesouth.com. Retrieved 6 July 2012.

[2] "Vikram in 'Kanthaswamy' - Kamal Haasan to Vikram: Actors who aced the lady avatar". The Times of India. Retrieved 16 December 2018.

[3] "How to train your drag". The Hindu. 22 May 2010. Retrieved 6 July 2012.

[4] "Young and mature at once". The Hindu. 15 February 2002. Retrieved 6 July 2012.

[5] Sandya Sitaraman (22 March 1995). "Tamil Movie News--Tamil New Year edition". Newsgroup: soc.culture.tamil. Usenet: 3kpue3$sf0@agate.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 7 August 2012.