Ottran

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{{Infobox film
| name = Ottran
| image = Ottran poster.jpg
| caption = Poster
| director = Ilankannan
| writer = Ilankannan
| screenplay =
| story =
| based_on =
| starring = [[Arjun Sarja|Arjun]]<br />[[Simran (actress)|Simran]]
| producer = Gandhilal Bansali
| studio = Popular Movies
| distributor =
| cinematography = K. S. Selvaraj
| editing = [[P. Sai Suresh]]
| released = 24 October 2003
| runtime =
| country = India
| language = Tamil
| narrator =
| music = [[Pravin Mani]]
}}

'''''Ottran''''' ({{Translation|A Spy}}) is a 2003 Indian [[Tamil language|Tamil]]-language [[spy thriller]] film starring [[Arjun Sarja|Arjun]], [[Simran (actress)|Simran]], [[Manorama (Tamil actress)|Manorama]], [[Vadivelu]], [[Tejashree]], [[Sarath Babu]] and [[Film director|directed]] by Ilankannan. The [[Film score|score]] and [[soundtrack]] was composed by [[Pravin Mani]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20031208173515/http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/fr/2003/10/24/stories/2003102401450200.htm ]</ref> The film was released in Telugu as ''Goodachari No. 1''.<ref>{{cite news|last=Pillai|first=Sreedhar|url=http://www.hindu.com/mp/2003/12/29/stories/2003122900170100.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040506225110/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2003/12/29/stories/2003122900170100.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2004-05-06|title= Reel of fortune |accessdate=2013-09-06|date=2003-12-29|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|location=Chennai, India}}</ref>

== Plot ==
Karthik ([[Arjun Sarja|Arjun]]) is an upright RAW agent who is on the trail of an anti-national group who are out to destabilise the country. He lives in a palatial house with his mother ([[Manorama (Tamil actress)|Manorama]]) in New Delhi. The police in Chennai nab Ali, a terrorist behind the Parliament and temple attack. Sudha ([[Simran (actress)|Simran]]) and Shyam Ganesh are the children of the IG ([[Sarath Babu]]) of police who is in charge of bringing Ali to court.

Now Ali's people kidnap Sudha and blackmail her brother to bring home three terrorists and give them shelter. So he is forced to introduce them as his friends and keep them in his father's official bungalow.

Karthik saves Sudha from the terrorist and comes to Chennai to uncover the ISI plan to rescue Ali and create communal tension in the state. How Karthik emerges winner single-handedly forms the rest of this predictable yarn.

== Cast ==
{{colbegin}}
*[[Arjun Sarja|Arjun]] as Karthik, a [[Research and Analysis Wing|RAW]] agent
*[[Simran (actress)|Simran]] as Sudha
*[[Suriya Sivakumar|Kumar]] as Tavar
*[[Sarath Babu]] as Manikkavel [[Indian Police Service|IPS]], [[Inspector General of Police#India|IG]]-Prisons
*[[Vadivelu]] as Maadasaamy
*[[Manorama (Tamil actress)|Manorama]] as Karthik's mother
*[[Ambika (actress)|Ambika]] as Sudha's mother
*Shyam Ganesh as Siva, Sudha's brother
*[[Gaurav Chopra]] as Ghazi baba
*[[Hari Nair]] as Terrorist
*[[Riyaz Khan]] as Peer Mohammed
*[[Ajay Rathnam]] as [[Superintendent of Police#India|SP]] Saran [[Indian Police Service|IPS]]
*[[Pyramid Natarajan]] as Kumara Saamy
*[[Chitti Babu (actor)|Chitti Babu]] as Marriage Broker
*[[Tejashree]]
*[[Mahanadi Shankar]]
*[[Anu Mohan (Tamil actor)|Anu Mohan]]
*[[Singamuthu]]
*Rajeev as [[Commissioner of Police#India|Commissioner]] Rajasekhar [[Indian Police Service|IPS]]
*Sathya Prakash
*Hemanth Ravan
*Dharmesh
*Vimal Raj as Jail Superintendent
*Chitra
*Vishal
*Satheesh
*Ambareesh
*Baby Rani
{{colend}}

== Production ==
After the success of Arjun-directed ''[[Ezhumalai]]'', the Arjun-Simran pair come together in yet another film titled ''Ottran''. Directing the film is first-timer Ilankannan, who had apprenticed with director Shanker. Arjun plays a secret agent in the film, which gives him scope for enough of action scenes. Shooting commenced in Chennai in a forty-day schedule.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chennaionline.com/location/index.asp|title=Internet Archive Wayback Machine|date=10 February 2003|accessdate=5 March 2017|url-status=bot: unknown|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20030210121457/http://www.chennaionline.com/location/index.asp|archivedate=10 February 2003|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

== Soundtrack ==
{{Infobox album
| name = Ottran
| type = [[soundtrack]]
| artist = [[Pravin Mani]]
| cover =
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| released = 2003
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| genre = [[Film soundtrack|Feature film soundtrack]]
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| label = Hit Musics<br />Bayshore<br />[[Ayngaran International|Ayngaran Music]]
| producer = [[Pravin Mani]]
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These 6 songs in ''Ottran'' are composed by [[Pravin Mani]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.raaga.com/channels/tamil/moviedetail.asp?mid=T0000546|title=Join me on Raaga|publisher=|accessdate=5 March 2017}}</ref>

*"Yeh Thiththippey" – [[Karthik (singer)|Karthik]], [[Suchitra]]
*"Oru Paarvai" – [[Srinivas (singer)|Srinivas]], [[Sujatha Mohan|Sujatha]]
*"Chinna Veeda" – [[Manikka Vinayagam]], [[Srilekha Parthasarathy]]
*"Kitchu Kitchu" – [[Shankar Mahadevan]], Lavanya
*"Uttalangadi" – [[Manikka Vinayagam]]
*"En Kanave" – [[Srinivas (singer)|Srinivas]], [[Sujatha Mohan|Sujatha]]

== Critical reception ==
Hindu wrote:"first half of the film is the screenplay that allows no room for sluggishness or dampeners. The film moves on at breakneck speed and by the time you take a breather it's intermission".<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.hindu.com/fr/2003/10/24/stories/2003102401450200.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040728115227/http://www.hindu.com/fr/2003/10/24/stories/2003102401450200.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=2004-07-28 | location=Chennai, India | work=[[The Hindu]] | title=Ottran | date=2003-10-24}}</ref>

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:2003 films]]
[[Category:Tamil-language films]]
[[Category:2000s Tamil-language films]]
[[Category:Films about the Research and Analysis Wing]]
[[Category:2003 directorial debut films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Indian spy thriller films]]

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