Manasukkul Mathappu

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{{short description|1988 film directed by Robert-Rajasekar}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Manasukkul Mathappu
| image = Manasukkul Mathappu.jpg
| caption = Poster
| director = Robert-[[S. Rajasekar|Rajasekar]]
| producer = D. Premakumari<br />B. Saraswathi
| screenplay = Robert-Rajasekhar
| based_on = {{based on|''[[Thalavattam]]''|[[Priyadarshan]]}}
| starring = [[Prabhu (actor)|Prabhu]]<br />[[Saranya Ponvannan|Saranya]]<br />[[Lissy (actress)|Lissy]]
| music = [[S. A. Rajkumar]]
| cinematography = Robert-Rajasekhar
| editing = R. T. Annadurai
| studio = Ownland Arts
| distributor = [[Thakkali Srinivasan|Perfect Productions]]
| released = {{Film date|1988|06|24|df=y}}
| country = India
| language = Tamil
}}

'''''Manasukkul Mathappu''''' ({{trans|Sparklers in the heart}}) is a 1988 Indian [[Tamil language|Tamil]]-language film written and directed by Robert-[[S. Rajasekar|Rajasekar]]. The film stars [[Prabhu (actor)|Prabhu]], [[Saranya Ponvannan|Saranya]] and [[Lissy (actress)|Lissy]], with [[Sarath Babu]] and [[Senthamarai (actor)|Senthamarai]] in supporting roles. It is a remake of the 1986 [[Malayalam]] film ''[[Thalavattam]]'' which was based on the 1975 movie ''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)|One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]'' <ref>https://m.economictimes.com/industry/media/entertainment/priyans-remake-darshan/articleshow/2036196.cms</ref><ref>https://www.deccanherald.com/amp/metrolife/metrolife-on-the-move/indian-movie-remakes-that-just-didn-t-work-762327.html</ref> which in turn was an adaptation of the 1962 novel [[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel)|of same name]] by [[Ken Kesey]]. The film was released on 24 June 1988, and Prabhu won the [[Cinema Express Award for Best Actor – Tamil]].

== Plot ==
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Shekar becomes mentally ill after his girlfriend Anita dies because of an electric [[short circuit]]ing accident during a rock concert. He is admitted into an institution managed authoritatively by Nagaraj. With the help of a young doctor Geetha, who is Nagaraj's daughter, and an old friend Raja, Shekar slowly regains his memory and mental equilibrium. He and Geetha soon fall in love. But Nagaraj has already arranged Geetha's marriage with someone else, so he opposes the lovers. When Nagaraj finds that Geetha and Shekar are adamant, he performs a surgery ([[lobotomy]]) on Shekar that puts him into a state of coma. Raja feels that death would be preferable to vegetative life and kills Shekar. He confronts Nagaraj, confesses to the euthanasia and tries to kill him for ruining Shekar's life, but Geetha suddenly kills her father before Raja can. She is later admitted into the same institution as a patient.

== Cast ==
*[[Prabhu (actor)|Prabhu]] as Shekar<ref name="IndianExpressReview" />
*[[Saranya Ponvannan|Saranya]] as Geetha<ref name="IndianExpressReview" />
*[[Lissy (actress)|Lissy]] as Anita<ref name="IndianExpressReview" />
*[[Sarath Babu]] as Raja<ref name="IndianExpressReview" />
*[[Senthamarai (actor)|Senthamarai]] as Nagaraj<ref name="IndianExpressReview" />
*[[Janagaraj]] as Vasu
*[[Nassar (actor)|Nassar]] as Babu
*[[Sachu]] as Nurse Mary
*[[Samikannu]] as mental patient
*[[Kumarimuthu]] as mental patient<ref>{{Cite web |last=சாந்தி கணேஷ் |first=ஆ |date=22 September 2020 |title=``அப்பாவுக்கு நடந்தது யாருக்கும் நடக்கக்கூடாது!" - எலிசபெத் குமரிமுத்து |trans-title="What happened to my father should not happen to anyone!" – Elizabeth Kumarimuthu |url=https://www.vikatan.com/lifestyle/relationship/actor-kumarimuthu-daughter-elizabeth-shares-memories-of-her-dad |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210507043043/https://www.vikatan.com/story-feed |archive-date=7 May 2021 |access-date=7 May 2021 |website=[[Ananda Vikatan]] |language=ta}}</ref>
*[[Swaminathan]] as mental patient

== Production ==
''Manasukkul Mathappu'' was remade from the Malayalam film ''[[Thalavattam]]'' (1986),<ref>{{Cite web |date=5 July 2015 |title=மோகன்லாலும், பின்னே தமிழ் ரீமேக்கும்... |trans-title=Mohanlal films and their remakes |url=https://cinema.dinamalar.com/tamil-news/34110/cinema/Kollywood/Mohanlal-movies-and-their-remakes.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210111041614/https://cinema.dinamalar.com/tamil-news/34110/cinema/Kollywood/Mohanlal-movies-and-their-remakes.htm |archive-date=11 January 2021 |access-date=7 May 2021 |website=[[Dinamalar]] |language=ta}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=1 October 2015 |title=Did you know that these popular Hindi movies that were actually copied from South Indian films? |url=http://www.businessinsider.in/Did-you-know-that-these-popular-Hindi-movies-that-were-actually-copied-from-South-Indian-films/articleshow/49183038.cms |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151225165922/http://www.businessinsider.in/Did-you-know-that-these-popular-Hindi-movies-that-were-actually-copied-from-South-Indian-films/articleshow/49183038.cms |archive-date=25 December 2015 |access-date=14 April 2017 |website=[[Business Insider]]}}</ref> which itself was loosely based on the English novel ''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel)|One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=8 August 2017 |title=Bollywood remakes of South Indian films |url=https://www.msn.com/en-in/entertainment/bollywood/bollywood-remakes-of-south-indian-films/ss-BBxBiG9#image=11 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922195616/http://www.msn.com/en-in/entertainment/bollywood/bollywood-remakes-of-south-indian-films/ss-BBxBiG9#image=11 |archive-date=22 September 2017 |access-date=22 September 2017 |website=[[MSN]]}}</ref>

== Soundtrack ==
Soundtrack was composed by [[S. A. Rajkumar]], while lyrics written by himself.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Manasukkul Mathappu |url=https://mio.to/album/Manasukkul+Mathappu+%281986%29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190220124516/https://mio.to/album/Manasukkul+Mathappu+(1986) |archive-date=20 February 2019 |access-date=20 February 2019 |website=Music India Online}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;"
! No. !! Song !! Singers !! Lyrics !! Length
|-
| 1 || "Adadoi Mettu" || [[Malaysia Vasudevan]] || rowspan=6|S. A. Rajkumar || 03:46
|-
| 2 || "Oh Ponmaan Kuyil" || [[S. P. Balasubrahmanyam]] || 04:19
|-
| 3 || "Poonthendrale" (Duet) || [[P. Jayachandran]], Sunandha || 04:16
|-
| 4 || "Poonthendrale" (Solo) || [[K. S. Chithra]] || 04:46
|-
| 5 || "Vaa Kanmani" || S. A. Rajkumar || 04:28
|-
| 6 || "Yaar Yaar Inge" || S. P. Balasubrahmanyam || 03:25
|-
|}

== Release and reception ==
''Manasukkul Mathappu'' was released on 24 June 1988.<ref>{{Cite web |title=மனசுக்குள் மத்தாப்பு / Manasukkul Mathappu (1988) |url=https://screen4screen.com/yearly-movies/1988/manasukkul-mathappu |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507041518/https://screen4screen.com/yearly-movies/1988/manasukkul-mathappu |archive-date=7 May 2021 |access-date=7 May 2021 |website=Screen4Screen}}</ref> On 1 July 1988, ''[[The Indian Express]]'' wrote, "With some films you don't want to say much about the performances though they might be good or sort of as much as you want to write home about the bright idea the scenarist had of disposing of a heroine he wanted to kill by electrocuting her while she is playing the electric guitar or the masterstroke of the filmmaker in cutting from the shriek of the hero in the shock chamber to a happy times song-dance sequence till then obscured by the iron curtain of amnesia."<ref name="IndianExpressReview" /> Prabhu won the [[Cinema Express Award for Best Actor – Tamil]] at the [[9th Cinema Express Awards]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=11 March 1989 |title=Cinema Express readers choose Agni Nakshathiram |page=4 |work=[[The Indian Express]] |agency=Express News Service |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19890311&printsec=frontpage |url-status=live |access-date=7 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210221102608/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19890311&printsec=frontpage |archive-date=21 February 2021}}</ref>

== References ==
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<ref name="IndianExpressReview">{{Cite news |date=1 July 1988 |title=Manasukkul Mathappu |page=5 |work=[[The Indian Express]] |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19880701&printsec=frontpage&hl=en |url-status=live |access-date=6 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028073756/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19880701&printsec=frontpage&hl=en |archive-date=28 October 2020}}</ref>
}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|id=4246776}}
{{One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest}}

[[Category:1980s Tamil-language films]]
[[Category:1988 films]]
[[Category:Films based on American novels]]
[[Category:Films scored by S. A. Rajkumar]]
[[Category:Films set in psychiatric hospitals]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Patricide in fiction]]
[[Category:Tamil remakes of Malayalam films]]

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