Manal Kayiru

Manal Kayiru (English: Sand Rope) is a 1982 Tamil comedy-drama written and directed by Visu. The film stars S. V. Sekhar and Shanthi Krishna in lead roles with Visu, Manorama and Kishmu portraying supporting roles. The film's soundtrack was composed by M. S. Viswanathan. It was remade in Kannada as Savira Sullu, in Telugu as Pelli Chesi Chupistham and in Malayalam as Thiruthalvaadi.

Manal Kayiru
Directed byVisu
Produced byRajam Balachander
Pushpa Kandhasamy
Written byVisu
StarringS. Ve. Shekhar
Manorama
Visu
Music byM. S. Viswanathan
Production
company
Kavithalaya Productions
Release date
May 7th 1982
Running time
140 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Plot

Kittumani lays down eight conditions which the girl he marries should fulfill. His uncle Naradar Naidu is fed up with seeking a girl for him. The eight conditions are as follows-

  • As Kittumani is a B.sc, she should have started studying, but should have left off in between.
  • (condition # 1(a)) She should know Hindi as his company has branches in Hindi-speaking cities.
  • She should look pretty only to Kittumani, but not to anyone else.
  • She should be bold to withstand thieves, kidnappers, etc.
  • She should never weep for any reason.
  • She should cook both veg and Non-veg as he is a vegetarian and his best friend is a non-vegetarian.
  • As he can play Mridangam, she should know how to dance to it.
  • Their secrets should be known to each other, but not to anyone else.
  • After Kittumani's death, she should remarry and live happily.

At last, Naradar Naidu finds a girl who is very nice, but unfortunately doesn't fulfill any condition. After some zig-zag work, he arranges their marriage. After 4 days, Kittumani finds that not a single condition is fulfilled. He plans to send her out of his house, but Naidu, who pretends to support Kittumani, stops him. Later they realize that she is pregnant with Kittumani's child. After his sister is thrown out of her husband's house as per Naidu's instructions and his wife is learning and speaking Hindi, Kittumani agrees to let her stay with him. He also has his own selfish reasons as he experiences a lot of trouble cooking. At last they all convince, but Naidu is thrown out of the house as he is said to be the only reason behind the confusion. Naidu reveals that he did this as he, like Kittumani, had placed conditions which should be fulfilled by his fiancée and just before the marriage, he came to know that some conditions weren't fulfilled. The girl had committed suicide and from then, Naidu had pledged to save people's lives from these types of issues.

Cast

Production

Maadhu Balaji was initially offered the lead role, but couldn't accept since his mother gave him permission to act only in stage plays.[1]

Soundtrack

Soundtrack was composed by M. S. Viswanathan and lyrics by vaali.[2][3]

#Song TitleSingers
1"Ettu Vidha Kattalaigal"T. M. Soundararajan
2"Mandhirap Punnagai"S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, B. S. Sasireka
3"Mappillai Sir"Malaysia Vasudevan, Manorama, Visu

Reception

S. Shivakumar of Mid Day gave a negative review citing the film "is full of inane situations with double meaning, taking unnecessary digs at politicians and crude insinuations at vulgarity" and also criticized photography as "uniformly bad" and M. S. Viswanathan's music as "jarring and harsh on the ears".[4]

Sequel

The sequel for the film has S. V. Shekar, Visu, and Kuriakose Ranga reprising their roles with S. V. Shekar's son Ashwin Shekhar portraying the lead role.[5]

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References
  1. Saravanan, T. (22 February 2017). "When quirk and mirth come to party". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  2. "Manal Kayiru (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - EP by M. S. Vishwanathan". 1 January 1982.
  3. "Manal Kayiru Songs Download, Manal Kayiru Tamil MP3 Songs, Raaga.com Tamil Songs - Raaga.com - A World Of Music".
  4. Shivakumar, S. "Inane, vulgar". Mid Day.
  5. "Three decades later, same cast!". 24 January 2016.
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