Pullakuttikaran

Pullakuttikaran is a 1995 Tamil drama film, written and directed by Parthiban. The film stars himself in the lead role, alongside Sangita, while Prakash Raj and Urvashi portray supporting roles along with Malayalam actor Sreenivasan acted his first Tamil movie. The music for the film was composed by Deva and the film opened to mixed reviews in July 1995.[2][3]

Pullakuttikaran
Directed byParthiban
Produced bySeetha Parthiban
Written byParthiban
StarringParthiban
Sangita
Urvashi
Prakash Raj
Music byDeva
CinematographyM. V. Panneerselvam
Production
company
Ammu Movies
Release date
14 July 1995
Running time
145 mins[1]
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Plot

Parthiban who takes care of orphaned children in a van leads his livelihood by stealing money. Sangeetha falls in love with him after seeing his cleverness in taking money when he was pretended to portray a pick-pocket in an stage play. Sangeetha ties the sacred thread herself starts leading her life as Parthiban's wife. Parthiban feels reluctant to accept her as his wife but later relents.

Both have one thing in common with the evil minister (Chandrasekhar). Sangeetha had escaped from the forced marriage to his dimwitted brother (Prakash Raj) who does it to every women. When Parthiban pretends to help Chandrasekhar in his elections, he changed his money to the other political party and thereby making him lose votes and support. Chandrasekhar who felt cheated joined hands with the opponent political party and kills Parthiban's innocent wife (Urvashi).

In the end, Chandrasekhar searching for Parthiban and Sangeetha, Parthiban kills Chandrasekhar and escapes with his family in train with world assuming that he is no more.

Cast

Production

Karu Pazhaniappan was introduced as an assistant director through the film.[4]

Soundtrack

Soundtrack was composed by Deva and lyrics written by Vairamuthu.[5][6]

  • Pullakuttikaran - Suresh Peters, Shanmugasundari
  • Metti Metti - Janaki, Arun Mozhi
  • Rajakumari - SP. Balasubramaniam
  • Mukalana -Deva, Swarnalatha, Parthiban
  • Potham - Arun Mozhi, Uma Ramanan

Release

The film opened in July 1995 to mixed reviews, and did not perform well at the box office. M. Prabhaharan won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Art Director for his work in the film, which also marked his debut.[7][8]

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References
  1. "PULLAKUTTIKAARAN | British Board of Film Classification". bbfc.co.uk. Retrieved 18 November 2015.
  2. "Parthiban with Dhanush in Vetrimaran movie — New Chennai". newchennai.com. Retrieved 18 November 2015.
  3. "Pullakuttikaran (1995) Tamil Movie". Archived from the original on 17 March 2015. Retrieved 18 November 2015.
  4. "In the right direction — The Hindu". thehindu.com. Retrieved 18 November 2015.
  5. https://www.raaga.com/tamil/movie/Pullakuttikaran-songs-T0003854
  6. https://www.jiosaavn.com/album/pullakuttikaran/77nZopoPR9E_
  7. "Artists at heart, businessmen outside". newindianexpress.com. Retrieved 18 November 2015.


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