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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Mercury Pookal<br />
| image =<br />
| director = [[S. S. Stanley]]<br />
| writer = S. S. Stanley<br />
| starring = [[Srikanth (Tamil actor, born 1979)|Srikanth]]<br /> [[Meera Jasmine]]<br/> [[Sameksha]]<br />
| producer = Aaradhana Reddy<br />
| country = India<br />
| language = Tamil<br />
| cinematography =Ramesh Babu<br />
| editing =[[Anil Malnad]]<br />
| studio=[[Vijaya Studios|Vijaya Productions]]<br />
| music ='''Original songs:'''<br />[[Karthik Raja]]<br/>'''Background Score'''<br/>Bala Bharathi<br />
| released = {{Film date|2006|03|17|df=y}}<br />
}}<br />
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'''''Mercury Pookkal''''' ({{lit|Mercury flowers}}) is a 2006 [[Tamil language|Tamil]] [[romance film|romantic]] [[drama film]], directed by [[S. S. Stanley]] starring [[Srikanth (Tamil actor, born 1979)|Srikanth]], [[Meera Jasmine]]. The music is composed by [[Karthik Raja]]. This film's name is based on the famous tamil novel of Balakumaran and a song from ''[[Ratchagan]]''.<br />
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==Plot==<br />
Karthik, is from a middle-class family and is doing his MCA final year. He is an outstanding student with high ambitions. He works part-time in a courier company and takes care of his expenses. He also yearns for beautiful classy girls. Anbu Selvi is from a rural landlord's family and is doing her B.Com in Trichy. Her pranks and her outgoing personality makes her father Rathnam fear that she might bring disrepute to the family name and so he decides to give her in marriage to his friend's son, Karthik.<br />
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Both the youngsters try to resist marriage but are compelled to agree in the end. The unwilling couple make an agreement on the first night that they will play according to the elders' tune for a while and once they are capable of taking care of themselves, they can part their own ways. Anbu is also admitted to the same college as Karthik and the turn of events makes Anbu realize the importance of a good married life and how she has to make her husband like her. In spite of her attempts, Karthik remains elusive and after some frames he also realizes the meaning of a good wedded life. When he is about to expose his love, turn of events separate the couple. But the couple stay determined to unite despite the stubborn stance of both their fathers. After much drama they unite happily.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Srikanth (Tamil actor, born 1979)|Srikanth]] as Karthik<br />
* [[Meera Jasmine]] as Anbu Selvi<br />
* [[Sameksha]]<br />
* [[Karunas]]<br />
* [[Delhi Ganesh]]<br />
* [[Mahadevan (actor)|Mahadevan]] as Rathnam<br />
* [[Irfan (actor)|Irfan]] in a cameo appearance<br />
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==Soundtrack==<br />
Film score (BGM) was composed by Balabarathi and soundtrack was by [[Karthik Raja]].<ref>https://www.raaga.com/tamil/movie/Mercury-Pookkal-songs-T0000789</ref><br />
* "Jaladheepam" - [[Karthik (actor)|Karthik]], Sruthi Unnikrishnan<br />
* "Malarvaai" — Bobby, [[Sukhwinder Singh]]<br />
* "Mugurtha Neram" — Fejimani, Ganga, Hamshika Iyer, [[Kunal]]<br />
* "Pachakiliye" — Priya, [[Shankar Mahadevan]]<br />
* "Solla Vaarthaigal" - [[Karthik Raja]], [[Shreya Ghoshal]]<br />
* "Solla Vaarthaigal" — Ganga, [[Hariharan (singer)|Hariharan]], [[Udit Narayan]]<br />
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==Release and reception==<br />
''Mercury Pookkal'' was advertised as a film "like ''[[Missiamma]]''".<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HreICwAAQBAJ |title=Madras Studios: Narrative, Genre, and Ideology in Tamil Cinema |last=Pillai |first=Swarnavel Eswaran |publisher=[[SAGE Publications]] |year=2015 |isbn=978-93-5150-212-8 |pages=253–254 }}</ref> ''Indiaglitz'' wrote "Stanley needs a pat in the back for thinking out of the box. Unfortunately towards the second-half needless stunt sequences and couple of songs certainly stems the flow of the brisk screenplay."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiaglitz.com/mercury-pookal-review-tamil-movie-7942|title = Mercury Pookal review. Mercury Pookal Tamil movie review, story, rating}}</ref> ''Rediff'' wrote "The simple plot had all the potential to be a great film. But Stanly [..] stumbles in the narration and comes up with a pathetic ending."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/movies/2006/mar/20mercury.htm|title=Mercury Pookal disappoints}}</ref> ''The Hindu'' wrote "Stanley's treatment in `Mercury ... ' shows more maturity and class than his earlier films."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/simple-story-simply-told-mercury-pookal/article3217568.ece|title = Simple story simply told - Mercury Pookal|newspaper = The Hindu|date = 24 March 2006}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Indian films]]<br />
[[Category:2006 films]]<br />
[[Category:Indian romantic drama films]]<br />
[[Category:2006 romantic drama films]]<br />
[[Category:2000s Tamil-language films]]<br />
[[Category:Films directed by S. S. Stanley]]</div>->Citation bot