Mr. Chandramouli
Mr. Chandramouli is a 2018 Indian Tamil language sports comedy thriller film written and directed by Thiru and produced by G. Dhananjayan. It features Karthik, Gautham Karthik, Regina Cassandra, Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, and Santhosh Prathap in the lead roles.[1][2] The film revolves around Raghav, a professional boxer, finds himself in a fix when an unexpected turn of events gets him tangled in a battle between his passion, family and the love of his life.
| Mr. Chandramouli | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Thiru |
| Produced by | Dhananjayan |
| Written by | Thiru |
| Starring | Karthik Gautham Karthik Regina Cassandra Varalaxmi Sarathkumar Santhosh Prathap |
| Music by | Sam CS |
| Cinematography | Richard M. Nathan |
| Edited by | T. S. Suresh |
Production company | Creative Entertainers
Kesavan Aarthi Maharajothi |
| Distributed by | BOFTA Media Work India Pvt.Ltd Wild Lion Films Pvt.Ltd |
Release date | 6 July 2018 |
Running time | 135 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Tamil |
Plot
The movie starts with Raghav (Gautham Karthik), the son of Chandramouli (Karthik), wakes up severely injured in a hospital. The following scenes are set in a flashback that happened several weeks ago.
Azhagar (J. Mahendran), the CEO of an online taxi company, wins the award for the seventh consecutive year for his company being the leading one in the industry. Vinayak Kanakasabai (Santhosh Prathap), the CEO of his rival company, GoCabs, also attends the awarding ceremony, and he approaches Azhagar to deliver his admiration to him and also challenges him that his company GoCabs will take over the position of Azhagar's company next year. Feeling threatened, Azhagar then orders his assistant Pugazhendhi (Mime Gopi) to do something to stop GoCabs from overtaking his company's place, by saying that his fame will be ruined if he is defeated by someone much younger than him (Vinayak).
Pugazhendhi then hires many wanted suspects and bums to commit crimes in GoCabs taxis as drivers, such as robbery, rape, murder, and drunk driving to defame GoCabs. His plan works in initial days after several news of GoCabs drivers committing crimes go viral. Some people in Chennai are even doubting the safety of GoCabs taxis; moreover, some police officers are also investigating Vinayak's responsibility in those cases, and authorities are also filing a lawsuit against Vinayak.
Raghav was a brilliant boxer that lived with his father Chandramouli, who had special emotion to old things: his car, which he names Padmini, has been used for longer than 20 years that cannot even start sometimes, and he used a phone that is only available for phone calls and SMS. People around him always tried to persuade him to buy a new car that works well and change his phone to a new model that he can use Facebook and WhatsApp with. He rejected them all, insisting that he will use those old things to the very end.
Raghav was trying to get a sponsorship from Vinayak for a major boxing fight, but the latter, a headache for his company's recent case, rejected him. Raghav then approached to Azhagar and moved him and got his sponsorship. With that sponsorship, Raghav won the race, and he gave the award -- a new car -- to his father. Chandramouli was moved by his son's gift and invited him out for a drive, in the midnight. During the night drive, their car was run over by a truck, which killed Chandramouli and severely injured Raghav.
That was all that happened before the first scene of the movie -- Raghav wakes up in a hospital. He soon learns that his father died in the accident and that his nervous system is also incurably injured that made him no longer able to see things more than two feet away. By then, he still believes that what changed his life was an accident, until several days later, a stranger approaches his house.
The stranger is an officer carrying the death certificate of a woman named Bairavi (Varalaxmi Sarathkumar) to ask for Chandramouli's signature. As Chandramouli is no more, and none else, Raghav, his girlfriend Madhu (Regina Cassandra) and his friend Padmani (Sathish) in the house knows who Bairavi is, they tell the officer that he came to the wrong place, but the officer insists that Chandramouli is the one he is looking for, and he has other papers with Changramouli's signature. Raghav reviews those papers and confirms the signature is indeed his father's, while those papers show that his father is the one who hosted Bairavi's funeral just a few days before his own death because he was the only connected person of Bairavi.
They decide to discover his father's untold story, so they approach Chandramouli's close friend Ramamurthy (Agathiyan), who later tells them the shocking story. Bairavi, a single woman with no children or parents, was Chandramouli's friend. They got to know each other not long ago when she was trying to buy his car at a high price because the car reminds her of her deceased father who had the same car. She was also the one that helped Raghav behind get Azhagar's sponsorship because she was the financial manager of Azhagar's company.
Bairavi was recently killed by a GoCabs driver, similar to other GoCabs cases, but shortly after her death, Chandramouli told Ramamurthy that Bairavi was not killed by the driver, but someone else he knew. He asked Ramamurthy's help to reveal the truth, so Ramamurthy took him to a senior police officer to report it. The officer, however, warned him not to get involved in this case, because many big shots are behind it.
Chandramouli is seen confused on the night of the same day where he asks raghav for a drive at 3 am and that's when he's killed leaving raghav injured with an impaired vision.
Raghav then finds the driver's (stunt Silva) name from the FIR copy filed post his accident and confronts him who tells him it was a mistake as he lost control over the vehicle, but later is caught red handed by raghav as he overhears the driver speaking to pugalzhendhi about raghav's confrontation. Raghav chases him only to find him hanging dead in an isolated factory. Later padmini informs him about bhairavi's phone found in chandramouli's car which has the evidence of bhairavi's murder. To find out who the murderer is raghav plots to trap the next murderer from go cab and sends madhu and her colleagues in go cabs. Everybody reach safe except madhu who alerts raghav when the cab driver stops the car in a remote area doubtfully. He comes at the right time and catches the driver who confess that he was instructed by pugalzhendhi to do so. Raghav finds pugalzhendhi in a bar and chases him but he escapes. Next day he's found dead after he uploads a video of his confession about the murders blaming azhagar in social media. Raghav then visits vinayak who acts naive but is the real culprit which was found by raghav on the same day he chased the lorry driver as he sees vinayak's reflection in a mirror. Then raghav fights with him and finally burns him to death. Next day all news channel reportedly telecast news telling vinayak had escaped and no one knows his whereabouts and police are in search of him. Finally raghav is seen happily smiling in the restored car of chandramouli.
Cast
- Karthik as Chandramouli
- Gautham Karthik as Raghav
- Regina Cassandra as Madhu
- Varalaxmi Sarathkumar as Bairavi
- Santhosh Prathap as Vinayak Kanakasabai
- Sathish as Padmani
- Jagan as Partha
- J. Mahendran as Azhagar
- Mime Gopi as Pugazhendhi
- Agathiyan as Ramamurthy
- G. Dhananjayan as Madhu's father
- John Mahendran as Lawyer
- Viji Chandrasekhar as ACP Dwaraga
- Stunt Silva as Mani
- R. Venkat as Nagarajan
Production
In early October 2017, director Thiru announced that he would be making a film featuring Karthik and his son Gautham Karthik in the lead roles. Produced by G. Dhananjayan, Thiru revealed that the film would be an action thriller where Karthik would portray a government official and Gautham would portray a boxer.[3] Regina Cassandra and Varalaxmi Sarathkumar were signed to portray the lead female roles, while Sathish was cast in a further supporting role.[4] Thiru also cast veteran directors, Mahendran and Agathiyan in pivotal acting roles, with the latter being the director's father-in-law.[5]
After a period of deliberate suspense, the team announced that the film would be titled Mr. Chandramouli. The film's title is borrowed from a dialogue spoken by Karthik in Mouna Ragam (1986).[6] Production began in late November 2017, and continued throughout early 2018.[7][8]
Regina Cassandra dubbed for the first time for her role in this film.[9][10][11]
Soundtrack
| Mr. Chandramouli | ||||
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| Soundtrack album by Sam CS | ||||
| Released | 25 April 2018[12] | |||
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
| Length | 25:04 | |||
| Language | Tamil | |||
| Label | Sony Music | |||
| Sam CS chronology | ||||
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The soundtrack album of Mr. Chandramouli consists of 6 songs composed by Sam CS and was released on Sony Music on 25 April 2018.[13][14] The title track was co-sung by actor Sivakumar's daughter Brindha, who made her playback singing debut with this film.[15]
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Singer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Kallooliye" | Sam C.S. | Sam C.S. & Swagatha S. Krishnan | 03:53 |
| 2. | "Kandapadi" | Logan | Sam C.S. & Guna | 04:50 |
| 3. | "Yedhedho Aanene" | Vivek | Sam C.S. & Chinmayi | 05:03 |
| 4. | "Raajadhi Raja" | Vivek | Mukesh Mohamed & Ranjith Govind | 03:22 |
| 5. | "Theeraadho Vali" | Sam C.S. | Haricharan | 04:43 |
| 6. | "Mr. Chandramouli Theme" | Vithya Damodharan | Sam C. S., Brindha Sivakumar | 03:13 |
| Total length: | 25:04 | |||
Release
Mr. Chandramouli released on 6 July 2018.[16]
References
- "Thiru's Next Titled 'Mr Chandramouli', Gautham Karthik To Share Screen Space With Father". Retrieved 10 October 2017.
- "Two National Award-winning directors in Mr Chandramouli – Times of India". Retrieved 10 October 2017.
- "Karthik and Gautham Karthik to join hands for a thriller".
- "Regina Cassandra, Varalakshmi Sarathkumar join Thiru's next with Karthik and Gautham". 7 October 2017.
- "Two National Award-winning directors in Mr Chandramouli – Times of India".
- "Karthik-Gautham Karthik' film titled 'Mr. Chandramouli'". Archived from the original on 10 October 2017.
- "Mr.Chandramouli starts rolling from today!".
- "'I remember gathering around the pot and singing aloud on Pongal' - Times of India".
- "Regina Cassandra dubs for the first time in Tamil".
- "Regina dubs own voice for the first time". 5 May 2018.
- "Mr. Chandramouli (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)". iTunes.
- "'Mr Chandramouli': The audio of the Gautham Karthik-starrer to release on April 25". The Times of India.
- "Mr. Chandramouli by Sam CS". Saavn.
- "Suriya's sister Brindha debuts as a singer in Mr Chandramouli - Times of India".
- "Confirmed: Gautham Karthik-starrer 'Mr. Chandramouli' to release on July 6 – Times of India". The Times of India. 28 May 2018. Retrieved 11 June 2018.