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{{Infobox film
| name = Thalaimagan
| image = Thalaimagan poster.jpg
| caption = Poster
| director = [[R. Sarathkumar]]
| writer = Rajkannan (dialogues)
| screenplay = [[Cheran (director)|Cheran]]
| story = Kaveri Vendhan
| producer = [[Radhika Sarathkumar]]
| starring = R. Sarathkumar [[Nayanthara]]
| cinematography = Krish Kymal
| editing = [[V. T. Vijayan]]
| music = '''Songs:''' [[Srikanth Deva]] Paul J. '''Score:''' [[Sabesh–Murali]]
| studio = Radaan Mediaworks
| released = {{Film date|df=y|2006|10|21}}
| runtime = 153 minutes
| country = India
| language = Tamil
}}

'''''Thalaimagan''''' ({{Translation|[[firstborn|Eldest Son]]}}) is a 2006 Indian [[Tamil language|Tamil]]-language [[action film]] directed by [[R. Sarathkumar]], starring himself alongside [[Nayanthara]], [[Vadivelu]] and [[Vijayakumar (Tamil actor)|Vijayakumar]]. The film marked Sarathkumar's directorial debut, and is his 100th film as an actor.<ref>{{Cite web |date=14 September 2005 |title=Sarat Kumar's 100th film |url=https://www.rediff.com/movies/2005/sep/14sarat.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190831180034/https://www.rediff.com/movies/2005/sep/14sarat.htm |archive-date=31 August 2019 |access-date=3 July 2020 |website=[[Rediff.com]]}}</ref> It was released on 21 October 2006.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Thalaimagan (2006) |url=https://screen4screen.com/movies/thalaimagan-2 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240409045616/https://screen4screen.com/movies/thalaimagan-2 |archive-date=9 April 2024 |access-date=9 April 2024 |website=Screen 4 Screen}}</ref>

== Plot ==
The story is set around the bulwark of honest and public good institution of everest. A journalistic anachronism at a time when media houses have become mouthpieces for corporate houses. It is helmed by the fearless Ayya. It has among its ranks an intrepid scribe Dheeran. He is no journeyman journalist. He is writer as well as a doer. When the power of the pen looks like slackening, he uses the hands that push the pen, so to say. And then there is harried colleague Erimalai, who is often just a step away from trouble. Meghala is an enterprising intern who drives Dheeran to distraction.

Dheeran runs into the evil axis of politico and police web as represented by the corrupt Minister Shanmuga Vadivelu and a venal cop Alankaram. Dheeran, through his mixed ways, frustrates all the duo's evil plans. But a new water bottling plant of an MNC becomes a major confrontation issue. Dheeran goes hammer and tongs against the project, as it would be harmful to villagers. Dheeran painstakingly exposes all the chinks in the project. Shanmugasundaram has to come with a violent reprisal and he sure does and thinks he has done away with Dheeran.

Did he? But Dheeran comes back from dead as a new man with renewed force. In the two years, Shanmugha Sundaram and Alankaram had come a long way. But Dheeran, slowly but stealthily, exposes them with a cunning of a mountain fox. He exposes all their bad deeds with clinching evidence. How? Well, it all leads to an action-packed climax.

== Cast ==
{{cast listing|
* [[R. Sarathkumar]] as Dheeran
* [[Nayanthara]] as Meghala
* [[Vadivelu]] as Erimalai/Panimalai
* [[Vijayakumar (Tamil actor)|Vijayakumar]] as L. Sathya Moorthy
* [[Seema Biswas]] as S. Alankaram
* [[Mukesh Tiwari]] as Shanmuga Vadivelu
* [[Sangili Murugan]]
* [[Nizhalgal Ravi]] as Meghala's father
* [[Delhi Ganesh]]
* [[Bala Singh]]
* [[Alex (actor)|Alex]]
* [[Thennavan (actor)|Thennavan]]
* [[Besant Ravi]] as Henchman
* [[John Vijay]]
* [[Thambi Ramaiah]] as Inspector Veeraraj
* [[Lavanya (actress)|Lavanya]] as Abhirami
* [[Khushbu Sundar|Khushbu]] in a cameo appearance
* [[K. S. Ravikumar]] in a cameo appearance
* [[Mumaith Khan]] as an item number in "Velli Kinnathil"
;Uncredited
* [[Rajendran]] as Fighter
* [[Krishnamoorthy (actor)|Krishnamoorthy]]
* [[Master Haja Sheriff|Haja Sheriff]]
* Birla Bose as police officer
* Ramjee
}}

== Production ==
In 2005, [[R. Sarathkumar]] announced his 100th film as an actor, titled ''Thalaimagan''. The film was launched on 15 September 2005 with R. D. Balaji, an advertisement filmmaker making his feature directorial debut and [[Cheran (director)|Cheran]] writing the screenplay.<ref>{{Cite web |date=14 September 2005 |title=Sarathkumar's 100th film inaugration tomorrow |url=http://www.behindwoods.com/features/News/News29/14-9-05e/tamil-movies-news-sarathkumar.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190212011547/http://www.behindwoods.com/features/News/News29/14-9-05e/tamil-movies-news-sarathkumar.html |archive-date=12 February 2019 |access-date=3 July 2020 |website=Behindwoods.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=15 September 2005 |title=Thalaimagan launch today |url=http://www.behindwoods.com/features/News/News29/15-9-05e/tamil-movies-news-sarathkumar.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190212070543/http://www.behindwoods.com/features/News/News29/15-9-05e/tamil-movies-news-sarathkumar.html |archive-date=12 February 2019 |access-date=3 July 2020 |website=Behindwoods.com}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Thalaimagan |url=https://www.sify.com/movies/thalaimagan-imagegallery-movies-jdwmHzjhbjbsi.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211215210737/https://www.sify.com/movies/thalaimagan-imagegallery-movies-jdwmHzjhbjbsi.html |archive-date=15 December 2021 |access-date=15 December 2021 |website=[[Sify]]}}</ref> However, in a sudden turn of events, Balaji left the film after the shoot became delayed. Sarathkumar replaced Balaji as director, thus making his directorial debut.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Warrier |first=Shobha |author-link=Shobha Warrier |date=11 October 2006 |title=First Look: Sarath Kumar turns 100! |url=https://www.rediff.com/entertai/2006/oct/11sarath.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131031210929/http://www.rediff.com/entertai/2006/oct/11sarath.htm |archive-date=31 October 2013 |access-date=20 April 2024 |website=[[Rediff.com]] |language=en}}</ref><ref name="ka" /> Khushbu and K. S. Ravikumar made cameo appearances in a song as themselves.<ref>{{Cite web |date=21 September 2006 |title=Kushboo and K S Ravikumar in Thalaimagan |url=http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movie-news/sep-06-03/21-09-06-kushboo.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703012831/http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movie-news/sep-06-03/21-09-06-kushboo.html |archive-date=3 July 2018 |access-date=3 July 2020 |website=Behindwoods.com}}</ref><ref name="ka">{{Cite magazine |last=நந்தினி |date=22 October 2006 |title=நடிப்பு என் சாய்ஸ்! |trans-title=Acting is my choice! |url=https://archive.org/details/kalki2006-10-22/page/62/mode/2up |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240406152424/https://archive.org/details/kalki2006-10-22/page/62/mode/2up |archive-date=6 April 2024 |access-date=6 April 2024 |magazine=[[Kalki (magazine)|Kalki]] |page=63 |language=ta |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref> Krish Kymal who earlier worked in advertisement films made his debut as cinematographer with this film. The climax was shot at sugar mill in Porur during the first schedule which "was the most difficult part to shoot" as it involved "close to 850 artistes" and was completed within eight days.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rangaraj |first=R |date=9 September 2006 |title=Thalaimagan |url=http://www.chennaionline.com/film/News/2006/09thalaimagan.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061101222550/http://www.chennaionline.com/film/News/2006/09thalaimagan.asp |archive-date=1 November 2006 |access-date=20 April 2024 |website=Chennai Online}}</ref><ref name="cs">{{Cite web |date=11 October 2006 |title=Thalaimagan |url=http://www.cinesouth.com/scopes/previews/new/thalaimagan.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061203065009/http://www.cinesouth.com/scopes/previews/new/thalaimagan.shtml |archive-date=3 December 2006 |access-date=21 July 2024 |website=Cinesouth}}</ref> The filming was also held at Kochi, Chikmagalur, Madurai and Dindigul.<ref name="cs" />

== Soundtrack ==
Two songs were composed by Srikanth Deva, and four by Paul J.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Thalaimagan (2006) |url=https://www.raaga.com/tamil/movie/thalaimagan-songs-T0000985 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200814175823/https://www.raaga.com/tamil/movie/thalaimagan-songs-T0000985 |archive-date=14 August 2020 |access-date=3 July 2020 |website=[[Raaga.com]]}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"
! Song !! Singers !! Composer !! Lyrics
|-
| "Penakaaran" || [[Kailash Kher]], Yogeswaran Manikkam, Veeramani || rowspan=4|Paul J. || rowspan=2|[[Vairamuthu]]
|-
| "Deen Thena" || [[S. P. Balasubrahmanyam]], [[Chinmayi Sripada|Chinmayi]]
|-
| "Uppumoottai" || [[Grace Karunas]], [[Karunas]] || [[Vaali (poet)|Vaali]]
|-
| "Velli Kinnathil" || [[Sangeetha Sajith]], [[Andrea Jeremiah]] || Vairamuthu
|-
| "Nooru Nooru" I || [[R. Sarathkumar]], Priyadarshini || rowspan=2|[[Srikanth Deva]] || rowspan=2|Mounan
|-
| "Nooru Nooru" II || [[Tippu (singer)|Tippu]], Priyadarshini
|}

== Release and reception ==
The film was released on 21 October 2006, during [[Diwali]], and opened alongside ''[[Varalaru]]'', ''[[Vattaram]]'', ''[[Vallavan]]'' and ''[[Dharmapuri (film)|Dharmapuri]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mannath |first=Malini |date=21 October 2006 |title=Diwali release – 2006 |url=http://www.chennaionline.com/film/News/2006/10diwalirelease.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061115043248/http://www.chennaionline.com/film/News/2006/10diwalirelease.asp |archive-date=15 November 2006 |access-date=9 April 2024 |website=Chennai Online}}</ref>

Venkatachari Jagannathan of ''[[Rediff.com]]'' rated the film two stars out of five, saying, "On the whole, ''Thalaimagan'' is like reading a morning paper in the evening".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jagannathan |first=Venkatachari |date=23 October 2006 |title=Thalaimagan tells a stale story |url=https://www.rediff.com/movies/2006/oct/23thal.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414170038/https://www.rediff.com/movies/2006/oct/23thal.htm |archive-date=14 April 2023 |access-date=3 July 2020 |website=[[Rediff.com]]}}</ref> ''[[Sify]]'' wrote, "Thalaimagan is an utterly hackneyed archaic formula film. It is one man taking on a corrupt system controlled by a powerful politician and his associate, a she-devil of a cop!".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Thalaimagan |url=http://sify.com/movies/tamil/review.php?id=14319175&ctid=5&cid=2429 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071208000607/http://sify.com/movies/tamil/review.php?id=14319175&ctid=5&cid=2429 |archive-date=8 December 2007 |access-date=8 April 2024 |website=[[Sify]]}}</ref> Lajjavathi of ''[[Kalki (magazine)|Kalki]]'' wrote director Sarathkumar cannot do enough to satisfy actor Sarathkumar fans and concluded wishing him better luck next time.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=லஜ்ஜாவதி |date=19 November 2006 |title=தலைமகன் |url=https://archive.org/details/kalki2006-11-19/page/30/mode/2up |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240408141741/https://archive.org/details/kalki2006-11-19/page/30/mode/2up |archive-date=8 April 2024 |access-date=8 April 2024 |magazine=[[Kalki (magazine)|Kalki]] |page=31 |language=ta |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref> ''Cinesouth'' wrote, "The basic story line is strong but the plan of the screenplay is haphazard. The pervading boredom of many scenes makes one wonder if Cheran is indeed the writer of this screenplay".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Thalaimagan |url=http://www.cinesouth.com/scopes/reviews/new/thalaimagan.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061115015242/http://www.cinesouth.com/scopes/reviews/new/thalaimagan.shtml |archive-date=15 November 2006 |access-date=11 August 2024 |website=Cinesouth}}</ref>

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title}}
{{Cheran (director)}}

[[Category:2006 Indian films]]
[[Category:2006 Tamil-language films]]
[[Category:2006 action films]]
[[Category:2006 directorial debut films]]
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[[Category:Films about journalists]]
[[Category:Films about water scarcity]]
[[Category:Films scored by Sabesh–Murali]]
[[Category:Films scored by Srikanth Deva]]
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