Priyanka (1994 film)

Priyanka is a 1994 Tamil-language Indian drama film directed by Neelakanta.[1] The film features Jayaram and Revathi in the lead with Prabhu playing an important role. The film, produced by Neelakanta, had musical score by Ilaiyaraaja and was released on 27 May 1994. It is a remake of the 1993 Hindi film Damini.[2][3]

Priyanka
Poster
Directed byNeelakanta
Produced byNeelakanta
Screenplay byNeelakanta
Rajkumar Santoshi
Story bySutanu Gupta
Starring
Music byIlaiyaraaja
CinematographyB. Kannan
Edited byB. Lenin
V. T. Vijayan
Production
company
Neelakanta Arts
Release date
  • 27 May 1994 (1994-05-27)
Running time
140 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Plot

Priyanka (Revathi) is a straightforward person and daughter of Krishnan (Delhi Ganesh), a postmaster. Her father Krishnan looks for a groom for her elder sister (Sudha) and her. Later, her sister elopes with another man.

Shekar (Jayaram), a rich businessman, falls in love with Priyanka at first sight. Gokulnath (Captain Raju) and Shekar's father Sriram (Jaishankar) are business partners and they make a decision: to arrange the marriage between Shekar and Gokulnath's daughter Kamini (Viji Chandrasekhar). Shekar reveals his love to his family and they accept it. Then, Shekar marries Priyanka. Gokulnath feels betrayed and decides to take revenge on Shekar's family. Priyanka moves into his bungalow. One day, Priyanka and Shekhar witness, Shekhar's younger brother Vinoth (Raj Chander) and his friends, raping the young maid-servant Ganga (Seetha).

Afterwards, Ganga, in a serious condition, files a complaint against Vinoth. Ravi (Nizhalgal Ravi), a police officer, compels Priyanka to become the principal witness. To save Vinoth from this odd affair, Shekar's family including Priyanka try to smother it. Thereafter, Priyanka decides to become the witness after seeing Ganga in hospital. Ravi is, in fact, Shekar's man and arrests Vinoth. Susila (Manjula Vijayakumar), Shekar's mother, orders Priyanka to leave the bungalow while Shekar is abroad. Priyanka decides to live with her sister.

The matter is taken up in court and Sriram appoints Rudrayya (Nassar), a criminal lawyer who has never lost a case. In return, Shekar asks Priyanka to forget everything and to come back home but she refuses. At the court, Priyanka is portrayed as a mentally unstable person by Rudrayya, Shekar's family and surprisingly by her father Krishnan. Priyanka is subsequently sent to a mental hospital by a judicial order and Vinoth orders to kill her. Unable to bear the mental torture in the hospital, she escapes and runs into an alcoholic lawyer, Arjun (Prabhu). Arjun re-opens the rape case. Ganga dies in hospital with a suicide note written by Ravi, but Ganga was illiterate. What transpires later forms the crux of the story.

Cast

Awards

1994 Film Fans Association Awards

  • Best Tamil Actress – Revathi

Soundtrack
Priyanka
Soundtrack album by
Ilaiyaraaja
Released1994
Recorded1994
GenreFeature film soundtrack
Length26:57
ProducerIlaiyaraaja

The film score and the soundtrack were composed by Ilaiyaraaja. The soundtrack, released in 1994, features 6 tracks with lyrics written by Vaali, Pulamaipithan and Muhammed Metha.[4][5]

TrackSongSinger(s)Duration
1'Durga Durga'K. S. Chithra2:59
2'Jilla Mulukka'Mano, K. S. Chithra5:10
3'Nyabagam Illaiyo' (duet)Ilaiyaraaja, S. Janaki5:00
4'Nyabagam Illaiyo' (solo)Ilaiyaraaja2:43
5'Vanakkuyile Kuyil'S. P. Balasubrahmanyam4:56
6'Vettukili Vetti Vantha'Mano, Swarnalatha6:09

Reception

The Indian Express praised Neelakanta's direction, saying that he "displays a lot of confidence in handling the script [..] and the essence of the film is not list" and also praised artistes for "giving very credible and satisfying performances".[6]

gollark: If you don't, DON'T DO IT, don't demand that everyone drop it because they find different things fun.
gollark: It is a good challenge because some people like it.
gollark: Allegedly. I don't agree with your reasoning. I think it makes it somewhat harder.
gollark: The meta-level one of how palaiologos just ignores all criticism of it and arbitrarily sets up rules on user events to be closer to what they like is.
gollark: The object-level issue is not *massively* important here.

References
  1. "Neelakanta Reddy: Movies, Photos, Videos, News, Biography & Birthday | eTimes". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  2. Balaji, T.K. "INDOlink Film Review: Priyanka". Indolink. Archived from the original on 2 December 2005. Retrieved 7 April 2013.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
  3. "Makes and remakes". Rediff.com. 1 December 1998. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  4. "Priyanka Songs". raaga.com. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
  5. "Priyanka (1994)". Music India Online. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  6. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19940603&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
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