Thenkasipattanam
Thenkasipattanam (English: Thenkasi Town) is a 2000 Indian Malayalam action comedy film written and directed by Rafi Mecartin, produced by Lal, and starring Suresh Gopi, Lal and Dileep with Samyuktha Varma, Geethu Mohandas Kavya Madhavan, Salim Kumar and Spadikam George in supporting roles.[1][2]
| Thenkasipattanam | |
|---|---|
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| Directed by | Rafi Mecartin |
| Produced by | Lal |
| Written by | Rafi Mecartin |
| Starring | |
| Music by | Suresh Peters |
| Cinematography | Saloo George |
| Edited by | Harihara Puthran |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Lal Release |
Release date | 23 December 2000 |
Running time | 150 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam |
| Budget | 4 crores INR |
| Box office | 20 crores INR |
SynopsisEdit
Kannan and Dasan are two powerful individuals in their village. Shathrugnan. a newcomer, is in love with Dasan's sister, Devootty, but she is not interested in him. Shathru joins Kannan's and Dasan's firm, KD & Company, as the manager, in an attempt to win the love of Devootty. KD & Company keeps as hostage a music troupe who comes to their village to perform. The main singer of that troupe, Sangeetha, gets expelled from her home because of this and Kannan and Dasan give her refuge, at the insistence of Devootty. Meenakshi and Kannan are in love. But due to some misunderstanding, Dasan falls in love with Meenakshi and Sangeetha falls in love with Kannan. Shathru takes the responsibility of sorting it out and linking Dasan with Sangeetha. In the chaos and confusions that follows, he manages to be victorious and wins his lady love Devootty too.[3]
CastEdit
- Suresh Gopi as Kannan
- Lal as Dasan
- Dileep as Shathrughnan
- Samyuktha Varma as Meenakshi
- Geethu Mohandas as Sangeetha
- Kavya Madhavan as Devootty
- Salim Kumar as Muthuraman
- Spadikam George as Devarajan
- T. P. Madhavan as Sangeetha's uncle
- Usharani as Sangeetha's aunty
- Manka Mahesh
- Kochu Preman
- Vinu Chakravarthy
- Narayanankutty
- Bindhu Krishna
- Sajitha Betti
- Dimple Rose
- Manjima Mohan as Jr. Devootty
- Pandu
SoundtrackEdit
The film's soundtrack contains 7 songs, all composed by Suresh Peters, with lyrics by Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri.[4]
| # | Title | Singer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Engu Poy Nee" | Dr. K. J. Yesudas |
| 2 | "Golmaalu" | M. G. Sreekumar, Sujatha Mohan, Mano |
| 3 | "Pachappavizha (Ente Thenkaasi)" | K. S. Chitra, Suresh Peters |
| 4 | "Kadamizhiyil" | Mano, Swarnalatha |
| 5 | "Oru Simhamalayum Kaattil" | Sujatha Mohan, Chorus |
| 6 | "Kadamizhiyil (Version 2)" | K. L. Sreeram, Swarnalatha |
| 7 | "Pachappavizha (Ente Thenkaasi)" | M. G. Sreekumar, Suresh Peters |
Box officeEdit
The film was a commercial success at the box office and one of the biggest hits of 2000. [5][6] It ran for 275 days in theatres [7][8]and collected ₹20 crore (US$2.3 million)[9]then became one of the highest grossed movies of the year.
RemakesEdit
This film was remade in Tamil with the same name, starring Sarath Kumar and Napoleon. In Telugu, it was remade as Hanuman Junction with Arjun and Jagapathi Babu. And in Kannada as Kodanda Rama with Ravichandran and Shivrajkumar. It was also remade in Bengali as Golmaal. Suresh Peters was retained as composer for Tamil and Telugu remakes reusing the tunes from the film.
| Year | Film | Language | Cast | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Hanuman Junction | Telugu | Arjun, Jagapathi Babu | Jayam Raja |
| 2002 | Kodanda Rama | Kannada | Ravichandran, Shivrajkumar | Ravichandran |
| 2002 | Thenkasi Pattanam | Tamil | Sarath Kumar, Napoleon | Rafi Mecartin |
| 2008 | Golmaal | Bengali | Prasenjit, Tota Ray Chowdhury, Jisshu Sengupta | Swapan Saha |
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ "Thenkasipattanam (U)". .filmibeat.com.
- ↑ "Thenkasipattanam (2000)". .nowrunning.com.
- ↑ "Cast of Thenkasipattanam". .ranker.com.
- ↑ "Thenkasi Pattanam Movie Song Lyrics". .friendlysms.com.
- ↑ "Rafi-Mecartin reunite with a family entertainer". The Times of India. 24 April 2014.
- ↑ "The show must surely go on..." The New Indian Express. 7 June 2020.
- ↑ "Super hero makes a clean sweep". The Hindu. 10 May 2002. Archived from the original on 4 April 2003.
- ↑ http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/article24129.ece?service=print
- ↑ "Highest grossing Malayalam films". Movie Box Office Collection.