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{{short description|2002 film by K. S. Ravikumar}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2016}}
{{Use Indian English|date=October 2015}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Panchatanthiram
| native_name = {{film name|ta|பஞ்சதந்திரம்}}
| image = Panchatanthiram poster.jpg
| caption = Promotional poster
| director = [[K. S. Ravikumar]]
| producer = [[P. L. Thenappan]]
| writer = [[Crazy Mohan]] (dialogues)
| story = [[Kamal Haasan]]
| screenplay = K. S. Ravikumar [[Kamal Haasan]]
| starring = {{plainlist|
* [[Kamal Haasan]]
* [[Jayaram]]
* [[Simran (actress)|Simran]]
* [[Ramya Krishnan]]
* [[Ramesh Aravind]]
* [[Yugi Sethu]]
* [[Sriman (actor)|Sriman]]
}}
| music = [[Deva (composer)|Deva]]
| cinematography = [[Arthur A. Wilson]]
| editing = Thanigachalam
| studio = Sri Rajlakshmi Film (P) Ltd
| distributor = [[Raaj Kamal Films International]]<ref>{{cite AV media | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC2wWkAEmsA | title=Panchathanthiram | date=2002 | people=[[Kamal Haasan]], [[Simran (actress)|Simran]], [[K. S. Ravikumar]] |publisher=[[KTV (India)|KTV]] | medium=Motion Picture | location=India}} Clip from 00:19 to 00:29.</ref>
| released = 28 June 2002<ref name="BBFC">{{cite web | url=http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/panchathanthiram-1970-0 | title=Panchathanthiram | work=[[British Board of Film Classification]] | access-date=7 November 2016}}</ref>
| runtime = 148 minutes<ref name="BBFC" />
| country = India
| language = Tamil
| budget =
| gross =
}}

'''''Panchatanthiram''''' ({{Translation|Five Ruses}}) is a 2002 Indian [[Tamil language|Tamil]]-language [[comedy film]] directed by [[K. S. Ravikumar]] and written with [[Kamal Haasan]] and [[Crazy Mohan]]. The film features [[Kamal Haasan]], [[ Jayaram]], [[Simran (actress)|Simran]] and [[Ramya Krishnan]] leading an [[ensemble cast]] that includes [[Ramesh Aravind]], [[Sriman (actor)|Sriman]], [[Yugi Sethu]], [[Urvashi (actress)|Urvashi]], [[Aishwarya (actress)|Aishwarya]] and [[Nagesh]]. Dialogues were written by Crazy Mohan.

The film released on 28 June 2002. It opened to positive reviews from critics.<ref name="skirt-chaser" /> The 2013 Punjabi film ''[[Lucky Di Unlucky Story]]'' was inspired from ''Panchatanthiram''.

Jayaram won [[Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor – Tamil]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://portal.bsnl.in/intranetnews.asp?url=/bsnl/asp/content%20mgmt/html%20content/entertainment/entertainment14489.html | title=Manikchand Filmfare Awards: Sizzling at 50 | work=[[BSNL]] | access-date=2009-10-19 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721152719/http://portal.bsnl.in/intranetnews.asp?url=%2Fbsnl%2Fasp%2Fcontent%20mgmt%2Fhtml%20content%2Fentertainment%2Fentertainment14489.html | archive-date=21 July 2011 | url-status=dead}}</ref> at the 50th South Filmfare Awards in 2003.

== Plot ==
Ramachandramurthy alias Ram. C. M. is a Canada-based Indian Tamil pilot and a [[Promiscuity#Male promiscuity|womaniser]]. In the course of an [[aircraft hijacking]], he meets a passenger named Mythili. Ram and Mythili stop the hijacking and save the passengers. Soon after, they fall in love and get married. Ram's four closest friends, Ayyapan Nair, Vedhantham Iyengar, Ganesh Hegde, and Hanumant Reddy attend the wedding.

After marriage, Ram quits his playboy character and remains faithful to Mythili. One day, when Ram prevents Hegde's ex-girlfriend, Nirmala, from committing suicide as she was going accuse Hegde for it, Mythili misinterprets the situation as Ram having an affair with Nirmala. She then leaves him to be with her parents. Ram comes to her home many times to reveal the truth to her and her parents. But she didn't listen to him. Further misunderstanding occurs when he sets out to meet Mythili, drunk, in the middle of the night as his friends tells him he enters the wrong room. He gets caught by the tenants in the room. When they ask them to hand over Ram to the police, Mythili tells him to don't do it but instead she tells him to beat and chase Ram out of the house.

The next day, when it was Ram's birthday, Ram's four friends drive him down to [[Bangalore]] and rent a room to hire a [[call girl]], Maragathavalli, alias Maggie to take his mind off Mythili for a while. Ram's friends lies to their wives and comes to Bangalore. But during the trip, Vedam's father-in-law Parthasarathy joins them. He finds out that they lied to their wives. He thinks that they are going to reunite Ram with his wife. Parthasarathy promises them that he won't reveal the truth to Vedam's wife. When they travel with him, they tells him that she is conducting a musical class and she sings and dances well. They drops Parthasarathy in a place and they goes to the hotel room. But when Parthasarathy enters the room, they lies to him by telling that Maggie is Ram's wife. Ram, who is still not able to forget Mythili and does not wish to betray her, gets into a fight with Maggie. To salvage the situation, Vedham hurries back to Maggie's room, only to find Maggie dead. Panicking, Nair, Vedham, Hegde, and Reddy decide to discreetly dispose of the body in spite of Ram's pleas to call the police. They manage to roll the body in a blanket, dispose it in a dry river and drive back to Chennai to return to their normal lives.

A few days after, the friends get very nervous when they learn of a news article regarding the discovery of a corpse in the same area where they disposed Maggie's body. At that time, the tenants who caught Ram on that day tells Mythili that they are going vacate the house due to the incident. They came to know that Ram is her husband and he came there that day to meet Mythili. Her father tells her that Ram will be always thinking about her, which made her to realise her mistake. She then plans to go Ram's apartment to apologise to him. Meanwhile, a Punjabi man who saw them carrying Maggie's body enters there, checks Maggie's bag and throws her dress and other things. Ram sees this and fights with him. Mythili comes there and sees the fight. During the fight, Ram removes the Punjabi's turban and when Mythili watches the fight she again mistakes him of having an affair with a girl due to his hairstyle which was like a girl's hair. Without knowing the truth, she tries to leave the apartment but Ram manages to tell her the truth which she believed. But when she saw Maggie's dress, he lies to her telling that it was the Punjabi's but she didn't believe it and he tells that the Punjabi threw it. She again gets angry and tries leaves but he tells her that he will reveal what all happened. During that time, he gets a call from Vedam asking whether he took Maggie's dress and other evidences from Bangalore otherwise he will be accused for killing her. Mythili hears this and angrily leaves him. He tries to stop her, but she tells him that she is going to marry again which made Ram sad. One day, Mythili meets the wives of Ram's four friends in a beauty parlour. She reveals to them what all as happened and they plan to unite Ram and Mythili by holding a party on the traditional festival of [[Ugadi]]. The wives invite Mythili to the party to be reunited. Ram discovers a cache of diamonds inside Maggie's mobile phone. He does not report about it to the police, fearing he would be arrested for murdering Maggie, which he did not commit.

At the party, Maggie appears, demanding her diamonds back. Maggie then reveals the truth behind her death. The diamonds belong to a smuggler, and that she stole it from him for her own personal gain. She chose to merely fake her death as she realised that the diamonds would be temporarily safe in Ram's possession. She also blackmails Ram that she would reveal the truth about their rendezvous in Bangalore to Mythili and their wives if he does not give the diamonds back. But when, Ram tells her that only his friend's wife has come but Mythili didn't come, she arrives at the party, she spots Ram and Maggie together. But then he manages to lie to her that Maggie is Reddy's sister. When the wives of Ram's four friends, ask them who is Mythili they lies to them that she is Maggie's sister. Then Reddy's father-in-law tells Maggie to sing and dance. Mythili sees this. She thinks that they are telling her to sing. During the song, Mythili again believes that Ram has not changed his ways as she saw Maggie going towards Ram and touching him. Angrily, she goes and sings and dances with Maggie. This makes his friend's wives angry. They take a banana and passes it to Nair's wife Ammini and she throws its peel on to the floor to make her fall and gives the banana to Ram for blaming him for the fall and it gets succeeded. Soon after the song, Maggie goes with Ram, Nair and Reddy to ask them about the diamond. Mythili follows them but she gets stopped by his friend's wives. She tries to tell them that Ram is her actual husband but no one listens to it and they tries to sent her out but she tells that she herself will go. Hegde and Vedam sees it but they acts as they didn't see anything. Mythili soon leaves the party sadly, but an undercover police inspector (who was the Punjabi man) who was after Maggie and the smuggler stops her. He reveals to her that Maggie is a diamond smuggler and he witnessed their rendezvous in Bangalore and the lies what Ram and his friends told her and his friend's wives which she didn't see or hear. She tells him that she wants to live with Ram. He asks her to help him to find Maggie and the smuggler to which she agrees to help him. Parthasarathy sees this. Mythili, along with the undercover police inspector, follows them to Ram's apartment where he went to take the diamonds. Meanwhile, everyone in the house learns the truth that Mythili is Ram's original wife and their rendezvous in Bangalore with Maggie.

The smuggler then arrives and captures Maggie, Ram, and his friends. While the smuggler demands his diamonds back, Mythili appears. Upon seeing Ram and Maggie together, she believes that Ram is having fun with Maggie along with his friends, when in reality Ram, Maggie and his friends are kept in captivity and tied up by the smuggler and his men. She swallows some sleeping pills, which turns out to be where Ram hid the diamonds. Mythili decides to commit suicide and runs away. Maggie and the smuggler sees Mythili committing suicide by jumping off to the sea. They wear divers suit to save her and to take the diamonds from her stomach and to flee to Dubai. But when they save her they are caught by the police. Ram arrives there and sees Mythili drowning to the sea. He jumps to the sea and saves her. He admits her to a hospital, where an argument happens between Ram, his friends and their wives. They scolds Ram and his friends for cheating them and Mythili. The wives tells their husbands to cut their friendship with Ram to which they agree and they all leave, leaving Ram heartbroken. Ram's friends soon after lying to their wives in the same way how they lied to their wives to meet Maggie, comes again to meet him and apologises to him. Nair tells that this is a punishment for taking Ram to Bangalore to meet Maggie to forget Mythili. Reddy tells that Ram was in control and what he did was right. Mythili, who overhears the conversation between the 5 friends promises to reform her suspicious ways. The two then reunite. Ram and Mythili then lived happily ever after without getting separated.

The entire story was told by Mythili as a bedtime story to their 9-month-old baby. The film ends showing Ram's friends who are living happily with their family not meeting him and Maggie and the smuggler who has escaped from the prison again getting chased by the undercover police inspector.

== Cast ==
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* [[Kamal Haasan]] as Ramachandramurthy (Ram. C. M/Ram)
* [[Jayaram]] as Ayyappan Nair
* [[Simran (actress)|Simran]] as Mythili Ramachandramurthy
* [[Ramya Krishnan]] as Maragathavalli alias Maggie<ref>http://www.deccanchronicle.com/entertainment/kollywood/130517/when-neelambari-became-sivagami.html</ref>
* [[Ramesh Aravind]] as Ganesh Hegde
* [[Sriman (actor)|Sriman]] as Hanumant Reddy
* [[Yugi Sethu]] as Vedhantham Iyengar
* [[Urvashi (actress)|Urvashi]] as Ammini Ayyappan Nair
* [[Aishwarya (actress)|Aishwarya]] as Janaki Vedhantham Iyengar
* [[Sanghavi]] as Chamundi Ganesh Hegde
* [[Vidhya Venkatesh]] as Mrs. Hanumant Reddy
* [[Nagesh]] as Parthasarathy, Vedhantham's father-in-law
* [[Kaikala Satyanarayana]] as Reddy
* [[Dubbing Janaki]] as Mrs. Reddy
* [[Manivannan]] as the diamond-smuggling boss
* [[Ramesh Khanna]] as Milkha Singh/Undercover Police Inspector
* [[Vijayakumar (Tamil actor)|Vijayakumar]] as Mythili's Father
* [[Alphonsa (actress)|Alphonsa]] as Smuggling boss' Mistress
* [[K. S. Ravikumar]] as Co-Pilot<ref>{{cite news |last1=Srinivasan |first1=Meera |title=Big stars glitter in small roles |url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/Big-stars-glitter-in-small-roles/article14949084.ece |access-date=24 April 2020 |work=The Hindu |date=16 March 2011 |language=en-IN}}</ref>
* [[Santhana Bharathi]] as Bharathi
* [[Kovai Sarala]] as Bharathi's wife
* [[Vasu Vikram]] as a Traffic Police
* [[Devayani (actress)|Devayani]] as Nirmala, Ganesh Hegde's ex-girlfriend
* [[R. Neelakantan]] as Ammini's Father
* [[Master Bharath]] as Nair's son
* [[Scissor Manohar]]
{{div col end}}

== Production ==
The film marked the debut production of director [[K. S. Ravikumar]]'s manager P. L. Thenappan, and the team initially planned a film starring Kamal Haasan with music composed by [[A. R. Rahman]]. Though recordings had taken place, Thenappan became apprehensive of the budget and chose to make a smaller budget film, meaning [[Deva (composer)|Deva]] replaced Rahman. Hence ''Panchathanthiram'', a comedy about five friends, materialised instead. Originally [[Krishnamachari Srikkanth]] was supposed to essay the role later played by [[Yugi Sethu]], but dropped out.<ref>https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/entertainment/regional/tamil/krish-srikkanth-missed-chances-to-act-with-kamal-haasan/videoshow/73664196.cms</ref> Sethu signed on revealing that Kamal Haasan had approached him to be a part of his two previous films, ''[[Thenali]]'' (2000) and ''[[Pammal K. Sambandam]]'' (2002) too, which he did not take up.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mp/2002/07/10/stories/2002071000050200.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030730091056/http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mp/2002/07/10/stories/2002071000050200.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 July 2003|title=Sheer will to succeed|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=10 July 2002|access-date=13 October 2014|first=Sreedhar|last=Pillai}}</ref> Simran was signed after appearing alongside Kamal Haasan in ''Pammal K. Sambandam'', with which the latter was impressed.

The film started shoot in February 2002 and shot in Canada for seventeen days.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/lf/2002/02/17/stories/2002021701600200.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030621053855/http://thehindu.com/thehindu/lf/2002/02/17/stories/2002021701600200.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=21 June 2003|title=Return of the native|date=17 February 2002|access-date=12 February 2012|first=Sudhish|last=Kamath|work=[[The Hindu]]|author-link=Sudhish Kamath}}</ref> In April 2002, Kamal Haasan was prevented from boarding a [[Los Angeles]]-bound flight in [[Toronto]] during the making of the film, with the security preventing him from passing due to his [[Islamic]]-sounding surname.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/kamal-hassan-grilled-in-toronto-airport/articleshow/8506178.cms|title=Kamal Hassan grilled in Toronto airport|work=[[The Economic Times]]|date=1 May 2002|access-date=12 February 2012}}</ref> In June 2002, the five friends in the film along with Deva took part in a promotional tour to publicise the soundtrack in [[Bangalore]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/lf/2002/06/10/stories/2002061001030200.htm|title=Ready with the punchlines|date=10 June 2002|access-date=12 February 2012|first=Sudhish|work=[[The Hindu]]|last=Kamath}}{{dead link|date=April 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> The film faced trouble during censorship and parts of a song featuring [[Ramya Krishnan]] were subsequently cut.<ref name="rediff2002">{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/entertai/2002/jul/16kamal.htm|title='I'm working to clear debts'|publisher=[[Rediff.com|Rediff]]|date=16 July 2002|access-date=12 February 2012|first=Subhash|last=K. Jha|author-link=Subhash K. Jha}}</ref>

== Soundtrack ==
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The soundtrack of the film was composed by [[Deva (composer)|Deva]], with lyrics written by [[Vairamuthu]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://gaana.com/album/panchathanthiram |title=Panchathanthiram |website=[[Gaana.com]] |access-date=7 November 2016}}</ref> The song "Vai Raja Vai" incorporates lyrics from the Hindi song "Aana Meri Jaan" from ''[[Shehnai (1947 film)|Shehnai]]'' (1947), while "Manmatha Leelai" was partly influenced by [[Linkin Park]]'s "[[Points of Authority]]".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.itwofs.com/tamil-deva.html |title=Deva [Tamil] |last=Srinivasan |first=Karthik |website=ItwoFS |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20191009132542/http://www.itwofs.com/tamil-deva.html |archive-date=9 October 2019 |access-date=9 October 2019 }}</ref>

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== Release ==
The film released on 28 June 2002. It opened to positive reviews from critics, with the critic from [[The Hindu]] citing that [[Crazy Mohan]]'s dialogue was "the mainstay", describing the film as "completely entertaining". The reviewer also praised the film's performances claiming that "with suitable slapstick, apt body language and timing and modulation that tickle, the veteran (Kamal Haasan) makes a mark yet again."<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/fr/2002/07/05/stories/2002070501040200.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020815133819/http://thehindu.com/thehindu/fr/2002/07/05/stories/2002070501040200.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=15 August 2002 | title="Pancha-thanthiram" | date=5 July 2002 | access-date=7 November 2016 | first=Malathi | work=[[The Hindu]] | last=Rangarajan}}</ref> Furthermore, reviewers from [[Screen (magazine)|''Screen'']] magazine dubbed the film as a "clean comic-entertainer", adding that "director KS Ravikumar deserves a pat for weaving out a good screenplay based on Kamal Haasan's story idea and creating a laugh riot".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.cscsarchive.org:8081/MediaArchive/art.nsf/(docid)/2EC3A7FCA04F3FB6E5256BFF0033A9F5 | title=Panchathanthiram | publisher=[[Screen (magazine)|Screen]] | date=19 July 2002 | access-date=7 November 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322151649/http://www.cscsarchive.org:8081/MediaArchive/art.nsf/(docid)/2EC3A7FCA04F3FB6E5256BFF0033A9F5 | archive-date=22 March 2012}}</ref> Tulika of [[Rediff.com|Rediff]] labelled the film as "a barrel of laughs".<ref name="skirt-chaser">{{Cite web |url=http://www.rediff.com/movies/2002/jul/24panch.htm |title=A skirt-chaser with panache |last=Tulika |date=24 July 2002 |website=Rediff.com |access-date=7 November 2016}}</ref>

The film was blockbuster and remained a cult classic in the comedy genre.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/fr/2003/01/17/stories/2003011701310200.htm | title=Anbe Sivam | date=17 January 2003 | access-date=7 November 2016 | first=Malathi | last=Rangarajan | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160326075815/http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/fr/2003/01/17/stories/2003011701310200.htm | archive-date=26 March 2016 | work=[[The Hindu]] | url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/et-cool/Funds-elude-Kamal-Hassans-mega-flick/articleshow/44105868.cms | title=Funds elude Kamal Hassan's mega flick | work=The Economic Times | date=22 April 2003 | access-date=7 November 2016}}</ref> Kamal Haasan distributed the film himself in the Karnataka region.<ref name="rediff2002" /> A sequel to the film was planned and Ravikumar had hoped to film scenes on a cruise liner, but the project failed to take off. Elements from the proposed sequel were, however, used in Ravikumar's 2010 directorial film ''[[Manmadan Ambu]]'', which also featured Haasan.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tamil/movies/news/Trishas-a-fine-talent-K-S-Ravikumar/articleshow/6841909.cms? | title=Trisha's a fine talent: K S Ravikumar | work=[[The Times of India]] | date=31 October 2010 | access-date=7 November 2016 | first=V. | last=Lakshmi}}</ref> This film met with mixed reviews and was an average grosser.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://baradwajrangan.wordpress.com/2010/12/23/bullet-point-report-man-madan-ambu/ | title=Bullet-point Report: Man Madan Ambu | publisher=baradwajrangan.wordpress.com | date=23 December 2010 | access-date=7 November 2016 | first=Baradwaj | last=Rangan | author-link=Baradwaj Rangan}} {{cite news | url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-cinemaplus/article979772.ece | title=Cruising with Kamal | work=The Hindu | date=26 December 2010 | access-date=7 November 2016 | first=Malathi | last=Rangarajan}} {{cite web | url=http://www.sify.com/movies/review-manmadhan-ambu-review-tamil-pclxNgibggcgj.html | title=Review- Manmadhan Ambu | publisher=[[Sify]] | access-date=7 November 2016}} {{cite web | url=http://www.sify.com/movies/boxoffice.php?id=14960403&cid=13525926 | title=Chennai Box Office — Jan 7 to 9 | publisher=Sify | date=13 January 2011 | access-date=7 November 2016}}</ref>

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|0385928|Panchatanthiram}}
* {{Rotten Tomatoes|m/panchathanthiram}}
{{K. S. Ravikumar}}
{{Kamal Haasan}}

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