Makkal En Pakkam

Makkal En Pakkam (lit. 'People are on my side') is a 1987 Indian Tamil-language action film directed by Karthik Raghunath. The film stars Sathyaraj, Rajesh, and Ambika in the lead roles. It is a remake of the 1986 Malayalam film Rajavinte Makan.[1] The film was blockbuster at box office and completed 150 days run in theaters.

Makkal En Pakkam
Theatrical release poster
Directed byKarthick Raghunath
Produced bySuresh Balaje
Written byA. L. Narayanan
StarringSathyaraj
Ambika
Rajesh
Music byChandrabose
CinematographyAshok Chowdhry
Edited byP. Vasu
Production
company
Suresh Arts
Distributed bySuresh Arts
Release date
  • 14 April 1987 (1987-04-14)
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Plot

Samraj (Sathyaraj) and Rajmohan (Rajesh) are good friends who become enemies due to a false theft accusation on Samraj. Rajmohan becomes a great political leader whereas Samraj becomes a great smuggler. With Rajmohan's political influence, Samraj smuggling business was affected. Radha (Ambika), Rajmohan's girlfriend, works as a junior assistant for his friend who hands an important file to her. It contains details on Samraj's illegal business. Knowing this, Samraj tries to retrieve the file, only to get Radha in trouble. When Samraj realises that she is in trouble he tries to help and consecutively falls in love with her. Radha lets Samraj know that she has a child by Rajmohan and that affair was unofficial.

Police officials respond to the order of Rajmohan and try to arrest Samraj. He escapes most occasions and continues to be king of smugglers. Finally when Rajmohan attempts to revenge Samraj, Samraj close friends and team (Nizhalgal Ravi and Raguvaran) get killed. Samraj becomes extremely ferocious and chases Rajmohan at his residence with firearms, kills plenty of his party men, but hesitates to kill Rajmohan as Radha intercepts.

This movie has two ends. One in which a police officer kills Samraj and another in which Radha kills Rajmohan after Samrat is dead. Both climaxes were well received by the audience.

Cast

Production

In the 1970s, M. G. Ramachandran was due to star in a film titled Makkal En Pakkam, but the project was dropped after he quit the film industry to enter politics.[4] In early 1987, producer K. Balaji launched a film with the same name starring Sathyaraj,[5] which was a remake of the Malayalam film Rajavinte Makan (1986),[6] itself inspired by Sidney Sheldon's novel Rage of Angels (1980).[7] Alex Mathew, who appeared as a student leader in the Malayalam film, reprised his role in the Tamil remake.[3] Sathyaraj said he accepted to act in the film because it was a remake of a successful film, and was guaranteed to do well.[8] Makkal En Pakkam, like a previous Sathyaraj film Palaivana Rojakkal (1986), was made with political overtones.[2][8]

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Chandrabose. with lyrics by Vairamuthu.[9]

No.SongSingersLyrics
1"Andavanai Paarkanum Avanukku"S. P. BalasubrahmanyamVairamuthu
2"Kongu Nadu Thangam Ada"S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
3"Maane Pon Maane Vilaiyada"S. Janaki
4"Panchangam Yeanga"S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, S. Janaki

Release and reception

Makkal En Pakkam was released on 14 April 1987.[10] The following week, N. Krishnaswamy of The Indian Express wrote, "The film has enough 'dhum' to keep lay viewers happy" and praised the performances of Sathyaraj and Rajesh.[2]

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References
  1. http://fullpicture.in/talking-detail/66/from-shakespeare-to-.html
  2. Krishnaswamy, N. (24 April 1987). "Politics again". The Indian Express. p. 12.
  3. Harris M. Lentz III (30 March 2016). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2015. McFarland. p. 229.
  4. சரவணன், சி.பி. (30 October 2017). "எம்ஜிஆரின் திரைப்பயணம் குறித்த சில சுவாரஸ்யமான செய்திகள்..." Dinamani (in Tamil). Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  5. Sunil, K. P. (14 June 1987). "Trading Places". The Illustrated Weekly of India. Vol. 108. pp. 22–23.
  6. Narayanan, Sujatha (26 December 2016). "From Drishyam to Oppam, why Mohanlal's films are remade in other languages often". Firstpost. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
  7. Pillai, Sreedhar (28 February 1987). "Malayalam film makers in Kerala transposes real life into reel life". India Today. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
  8. Sunil, K. P. (29 November 1987). "The Anti-Hero". The Illustrated Weekly of India. Vol. 108. pp. 40–41.
  9. "Makkal En Pakkam". Raaga.com. Archived from the original on 28 December 2013. Retrieved 27 December 2013.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
  10. "Makkal En Pakkam". The Indian Express. 14 April 1987. p. 7.
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