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{{Infobox film
| name = Kathanayagan
| image = Kathanayagan (1988 film).jpg
| caption = Poster
| director = [[Muktha Srinivasan]]
| producer = [[Muktha Ramaswamy]]
| screenplay = [[Srinivasan]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Balakumar |first=K |date=11 June 2019 |title=How Kamal met Crazy Mohan: The story involves a graveyard |url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/how-kamal-met-crazy-mohan-story-involves-graveyard-103391 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190611085802/https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/how-kamal-met-crazy-mohan-story-involves-graveyard-103391 |archive-date=11 June 2019 |access-date=11 June 2021 |website=[[The News Minute]]}}</ref>
| story = [[Siddique–Lal]]
| starring = [[Pandiarajan]]<br />[[S. V. Sekhar]]<br />[[Rekha Harris|Rekha]]
| music = [[Chandrabose (composer)|Chandra Bose]]
| cinematography = [[Muktha S. Sundar]]
| editing = V. P. Krishnan
| studio = Mukthaa Films
| released = {{Film date|1988|05|20|df=y}}
| country = India
| language = Tamil
}}

'''''Kathanayagan''''' ({{translation|Hero of the story}}) is a 1988 Indian [[Tamil language|Tamil]]-language [[comedy film]] directed by [[Muktha Srinivasan]]<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Subhakeerthana |first1=S |last2=Rajendran |first2=Gopinath |date=30 May 2018 |title='Muktha Srinivasan was a people's person' |work=[[Cinema Express]] |url=https://www.cinemaexpress.com/stories/trends/2018/may/30/muktha-srinivasan-was-a-peoples-person-6277.html |url-status=live |access-date=11 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211125130442/https://www.cinemaexpress.com/stories/trends/2018/may/30/muktha-srinivasan-was-a-peoples-person-6277.html |archive-date=25 November 2021}}</ref> and produced by Ramaswamy Govind and Muktha S. Ravi. The film stars [[Pandiarajan]], [[S. Ve. Shekher|S. V. Sekhar]], [[Rekha Harris|Rekha]] and [[Manorama (Tamil actress)|Manorama]]. It is a remake of the 1987 [[Malayalam]] film ''[[Nadodikkattu]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |date=5 July 2015 |title=மோகன்லாலும், பின்னே தமிழ் ரீமேக்கும்... |language=Ta |work=[[Dinamalar]] |url=https://cinema.dinamalar.com/tamil-news/34110/cinema/Kollywood/Mohanlal-movies-and-their-remakes.htm |url-status=live |access-date=19 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180519032352/http://cinema.dinamalar.com/tamil-news/34110/cinema/Kollywood/Mohanlal-movies-and-their-remakes.htm |archive-date=19 May 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-05-23 |title=மலையாளத்தில் மோகன்லால்.. தமிழில் பாண்டியராஜன்.. ரசிகர்களை கவர்ந்த காமெடி படம்! |url=https://tamil.news18.com/entertainment/cinema-the-katha-nayagan-movie-tamil-remake-of-nadodikkattu-completed-35-years-last-saturday-may-20-988458.html |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=[[News18]] |language=Tamil |archive-date=24 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230524000318/https://tamil.news18.com/entertainment/cinema-the-katha-nayagan-movie-tamil-remake-of-nadodikkattu-completed-35-years-last-saturday-may-20-988458.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The film was released on 20 May 1988 and was a success.<ref>{{Cite web |title=கதாநாயகன் / Katha Nayagan (1988) |url=https://screen4screen.com/movies/katha-nayagan |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231117055020/https://screen4screen.com/movies/katha-nayagan |archive-date=17 November 2023 |access-date=17 November 2023 |website=Screen 4 Screen}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2007/07/28/stories/2007072850030100.htm|title=The master of humour|location=Tiruchirapalli|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080317140232/https://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2007/07/28/stories/2007072850030100.htm|archive-date=17 March 2008|work=[[The Hindu]]|access-date=14 April 2026}}</ref>

== Plot ==
{{more plot|date=May 2022}}
Friends Mani and Ramani are [[Bachelor of Commerce|B.Com]] and [[Secondary School Leaving Certificate|SSLC]] graduates respectively. They have difficulties finding jobs suited to their qualification. Even if they find jobs, they are unable to sustain in the jobs for long due to their attitude. Due to their innocence, Mani and Ramani are often fooled by people. One man sells them a cow saying it will give them many litres of milk per day, but the cow ends up hardly giving them any milk. After such failed endeavours, they meet an agent, who promises them to take them to Dubai and give them a job there. They give all their money to the agent, and he tells them to get on a boat. But they are fooled because the boat goes to Kerala instead. In Kerala, a drug smuggling gang mistakes them for [[Criminal Investigation Department (India)|CID]] officers due to some hilarious misconceptions and funny incidents. How Mani and Ramani survive in Kerala, and at the same time, how they unintentionally cause the smuggling gang to get caught by the police, forms the rest of the story.

== Cast ==
{{Cast listing|
*[[Pandiarajan]] as Mani
*[[S. V. Sekhar]] as Ramani
*[[Rekha Harris|Rekha]] as Radha
*[[Ramya Krishnan]] in a Guest Appearance
*[[Manorama (Tamil actress)|Manorama]] as Radha's mother
*[[Kamala Kamesh]] as Mani's mother
*[[S. S. Chandran]] as Kannayiram
*[[Malaysia Vasudevan]] as Mamandur Maasilamani
*[[Delhi Ganesh]] as Inspector of police
*[[K. Natraj]]
*[[Kumarimuthu]] as Annan Krishnan
*[[Kallapetti Singaram]] as Konar
*[[Kathadi Ramamurthy]] as Bank officer
*[[Typist Gopu]]
*[[Neelu]] as Head clark
*[[Oru Viral Krishna Rao]] as cow buyer
*[[Pradeep Shakthi]] as Mayil Ravanan
*[[Bayilvan Ranganathan]] as Mamandur Maasilamani's henchman
*Nagarajachozhan
*Kovai Anuradha
*[[Pasi Narayanan]] as Gaja
}}

== Soundtrack ==
The soundtrack consist of four songs composed by [[Chandrabose (composer)|Chandrabose]], with lyrics written by [[Vairamuthu]]. The song "Vaisakha Sandhye" from ''Nadodikattu'' was retained in Tamil as "Poo Poothathu".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Katha Nayagan – Tamil Bollywood Vinyl LP |url=https://bollywoodvinyl.in/collections/kannada-malayalam-telugu-tamil-lps/products/katha-nayagan-tamil-bollywood-vinyl-lp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401134100/https://bollywoodvinyl.in/collections/kannada-malayalam-telugu-tamil-lps/products/katha-nayagan-tamil-bollywood-vinyl-lp |archive-date=1 April 2019 |access-date=11 June 2021 |website=BollywoodVinyl}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Kadhanayagan |url=https://www.jiosaavn.com/album/kadhanayagan/TdmlEooh8so_ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220526090237/https://www.jiosaavn.com/album/kadhanayagan/TdmlEooh8so_ |archive-date=26 May 2022 |access-date=26 May 2022 |website=[[JioSaavn]]|date=January 1988 }}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"
! Song !! Singers !! Length
|-
| "Ada Avatharam Eduthu Vanthal" || Malaysia Vasudevan ||04:19
|-
| "Naanthanda Hanuman Payran" || Malaysia Vasudevan, Kovai Murali and chorus ||03:53
|-
| "Poo Poothathai Yar Pathathu" || K. J. Yesudas ||04:25
|-
| "Poo Poothathai Yar Pathathu" || Kovai Murali ||04:24
|}

== Reception ==
''[[The Indian Express]]'' wrote, "The comedy line sometimes falters as it does when [Pandiarajan] keeps harping to the point of nausea on his educational attainment and his friend's lack of it".<ref>{{Cite news |date=28 May 1988 |title=Kathanayagan |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19880528&printsec=frontpage&hl=en |access-date=20 March 2019 |work=[[The Indian Express]] |pages=5 |via=[[Google News Archive]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
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{{Muktha Srinivasan}}

[[Category:1988 Indian films]]
[[Category:1988 Tamil-language films]]
[[Category:1988 films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Muktha Srinivasan]]
[[Category:Films scored by Chandrabose (composer)]]
[[Category:Films with screenplays by Crazy Mohan]]
[[Category:Indian comedy films]]
[[Category:Tamil remakes of Malayalam films]]
[[Category:Tamil-language Indian films]]

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