Pattiyal

Pattiyal
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Directed by	Vishnuvardhan
Produced by	Punnagai Poo Gheetha
Written by	Rajkannan (Dialogue)
Screenplay by	Vishnuvardhan
Starring	Bharath Arya Pooja Padmapriya
Music by	Yuvan Shankar Raja
Cinematography	Nirav Shah
Edited by	A. Sreekar Prasad
Production company	SG Films
Distributed by	SG Films
Release date	17 March 2006 (2006-03-17)
Running time	140 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Pattiyal (transl. List) is a 2006 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film written and directed by Vishnuvardhan and produced by Punnagai Poo Gheetha. It stars Bharath, Arya, Pooja Umashankar, and Padmapriya Janakiraman while Cochin Haneefa and Santhana Bharathi play pivotal roles. The film tackles the issue of dons and was based on the 1999 Thai film Bangkok Dangerous.

The film's score and soundtrack are composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja with cinematography by Nirav Shah and editing by A. Sreekar Prasad. It was released on 17 March 2006 and became a commercial success.

Plot

Kosi and Selva are contract killers working for a middleman with the ironic name, Sami who also works as a government employee and is known to use the dialogue "Koduthu Vachavanga da neenga" when he is talking to the boys. Director Vishnuvardan portrays this morbid telling of two orphaned youths who have been friends from a very young age with incredible realism of trust, friendship, and ultimate betrayal. Kosi is an unblinking man with a stubborn feel for life, refusing to love and be loved. He only cares about himself and Selva, who is deaf and dumb, is also equally intrepid, although he has a heart ticking beneath the dark, dire exterior. The duo spend their time watching movies, smoking cigarettes, and playing football when they are not working and Kosi is known to drink a lot a trait which Selva doesn't share.

Saroja, a salesgirl at a garment company, is an outgoing, sprightly girl and a friend of both Kosi and Selva. She is deeply in love with Kosi, but the latter only finds her presence as a nuisance, whereas Saroja's chief manager Azhagu stubbornly tries to make Saroja fall in love with him even though she does not like him and even slaps him when he starts making lewd comments to her. In stark contrast to this romance is the love between Selva and Sandhya who are smitten with each other after some fate-based encounters that bring some lighthearted humor to the film in which Selva introduces Sandhya to Kosi and Saroja.

Kosi and Selva are given more assignments by Saami as the film progresses and Saami even gives them a gun to finish their targets henceforward which Kosi is initially against using as he prefers to use the knife and Aruval which they usually use to kill their targets. Kosi and Selva then use the gun to kill their targets henceforward after spending time practicing on how to use it. Saami then instructs the duo to assassinate Avinashi Nachimuthu Gounder, a business tycoon and uprising politician. They mutually agree to make this assignment their last to begin leading normal lives. A new twist occurs when the people who hired Saami tell him to finish off Kosi and Selva once the job is completed. Kosi and Saroja end up sleeping together when Kosi begins to drink excessively, promptly making him start to realise his feelings for Saroja. Unfortunately, this newfound happiness does not last as their profession does not allow it even though the duo decided to make this assignment their last to begin a new life with their newfound loves Saroja and Sandhya, respectively.

Upon preparing for the assassination, Kosi becomes unable to think as he finds himself overwhelmed with feelings of love. Selva decides that he should finish the execution himself and Kosi should speak with Saroja. Kosi visits Saroja outside her home where he finds her shivering and with bruises. Saroja then tells Kosi how her chief manager Azhagu intruded on the house and sexually violated her after she refused to love him. Infuriated at this, an emotionally shaken Kosi finds Azhagu in a public restroom and engages in a duel with him before finally beating him up to a horrific death by throwing a urinal on his face. Meanwhile, Selva had cunningly assassinated Gounder and his concubine using the gun with help of Saami's assistants Neelan and Murugan and is returning home. The manager' Azhagu's s boss and father in law Rana, who happens to be a big don himself, finds out Kosi is the one responsible for Azhagu's death and seeks out revenge. He gets hold of Saami through his henchmen and blackmails him to bring Kosi to him for his life. Unknowingly, Kosi goes with Saami and is killed in the ambush by a gunshot to his head by Rana himself as Kosi managed to defeat Rana's henchman and even kills a few of them before dying.

Selva who returns later finds out about this unfortunate event and seeks revenge. He visits Saroja and questions her about Kosi's murder and the people responsible. He also writes a letter to Sandhya who begins to not talk to him after an incident(before the death of Kosi) involving Selva using his gun to save himself and Sandhya from the clutches of a group of henchmen(whom were actually Rana's henchmen who tried to kill Kosi and Selva earlier in the movie when they killed the associates of Rana whilst working for Saami, even though Rana or neither Selva and Kosi did not clearly see each other during the incident) about how he feels about her and how he is lonely now after Kosi is gone. He then intrudes on Rana's house and kills most of his henchmen in his way, and eventually Rana himself by stabbing him with a glass after beating him up several times avenging Kosi's death. When Selva returns home, Sandhya rushes to see him and is shocked to see him with injuries. She tells him to wait by the door while she goes to call for an auto rickshaw to get them both to the hospital. Meanwhile, Sappa(the irritating boy who works as the server at the restaurant where Kosi and Selva used to meet up with Saami kept begging especially Kosi to introduce him to Saami for a job even though he did not know what kind of job they had) stabs Selva outside his home in the same approach as Selva did to an unknown man in the introduction scene in a hotel room. Sappa still recovering from the shock that he actually stabbed Selva stabs him again multiple times and pours sand on him and runs away when he sees Sandhya rushing towards Selva. Selva begins regretting his actions as the contract killer and thinks of the good times he spent with Kosi, Sandhya, and Saroja as he falls and dies from multiple wounds with Sandhya by his side who cries in despair.

In the scene before the credits, it is shown that Saami is having a chat with Sappa who committed the murder after Selva's death at the restaurant where he used to meet up with Kosi and Selva. It is also revealed in this scene that it was Saami who ordered Sappa to kill Selva in the first place and that he should pour sand on the part where he stabbed Selva so that he will be dead before the doctors can clean his wounds. Sappa requests Saami to not kill him like how he killed off Kosi and Selva. The scene is shown as a deja-vu where Saami convinces Kosi and Selva that they are all part of this scheme together. Saami uses the same dialogue "ore team, Koduthu Vachavan da nee" with the boy to convince him that he and Saami are part of the same team, letting the audience connect that the boy will be killed too.

Cast

• Bharath as Selva
• Arya as Kosi
• Pooja as Sandhya
• Padmapriya Janakiraman as Saroja
• Cochin Haneefa as Saami
• Santhana Bharathi as Avinashi Nachimuthu Gounder, the victim Selva kills
• Gowtham Sundararajan as Azhagu
• Krishna as Krishna, Selva's favorite actor
• Vatsala Rajagopal as Sandhya's grandmother
• Aarthi as Aarthi, Sandhya's friend
• Dileepan as Sappa, the boy who kept asking Selva, Kosi, and Saami for a job and eventually becomes Selva and Kosi's successor
• Mohan Natrajan as Don Rana
• Punnagai Poo Gheetha as the politician's wife (cameo appearance)

Production

After Arindhum Ariyamalum (2005), Vishnuvardhan decided to make a film on gangsters of Chennai and he spoke to "real hired killers" for a month. To make it emotional, he decided on the theme of "two orphans on the street" as main theme. The inspiration for Bharath's character was from an undisclosed Asian film while Arya's character was based on a real-life person. The filming was held at Chennai, Goa, Pondicherry and Coimbatore.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was composed by Vishnuvardhan's norm composer Yuvan Shankar Raja. It features 6 tracks overall with lyrics by Pa. Vijay. The interlude from the song "Aadaludan Paadalai Ketu" from Kudiyirundha Koyil (1968) composed by M. S. Viswanathan was re-used in the song "Namma Kattula Mazhai Peiyuthu" which was sung by Yuvan's father Ilaiyaraaja. The song "Poga Poga Boomi Virikirathe" proved a breakthrough for singer Vijay Yesudas.

Song	Singer(s)	Duration
"Dei Namma Melam"	Vijay Yesudas	3:36
"Yedhedo Ennangal Vandhu"	Yuvan Shankar Raja, Shweta Mohan	4:16
"Kannai Vittu Kann Imaigal"	Yuvan	2:26
"Namma Kattula Mazhai Peiyuthu"	Ilaiyaraaja, Roshini	3:54
"Kannai Vittu Kann Imaigal (Remix)"	Yuvan Shankar Raja, Premji Amaran	3:25
"Poga Poga Boomi Virikirathe"	Haricharan, Vijay Yesudas, Saindhavi, Harini Sudhakar	4:42

Reception

S. Sudha of Rediff.com wrote, "In his third film Pattiyal, [Vishnuvardhan] proves that apart from writing a good screenplay, he can make a technically superior film". Lajjavathi of Kalki praised the music, art direction, cinematography and stunt choreography and concluded praising the climax for stressing on the message of violence never pays and applauding Vishnuvardhan for taking to the new route of Tamil cinema. The film was a commercial success, grossing ₹11 crore at the box office. Yuvan Shankar Raja won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Music Director.

External links

• Pattiyal on IMDb