Dharmaprabhu

Dharma Prabhu
File:Dharmaprabhu first look poster 2019.jpg First look poster
Directed by	Muthukumaran
Produced by	P Ranganathan
Written by	Muthukumaran
Starring	Yogi Babu Radha Ravi Janani Iyer Rekha Sam Jones Ramesh Thilak Rajendran
Music by	Justin Prabhakaran
Cinematography	Mahesh Muthuswami
Edited by	San Lokesh
Production company	Sri Vaari Films
Release date	28 June 2019 (2019-06-28)
Running time	135 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Dharma Prabhu is a 2019 Indian Tamil language political fantasy comedy film written and directed by Muthukumaran. Yogi Babu plays the lead role in the film, and supporting roles are done by Radha Ravi, Sam Jones, Ramesh Thilak, Rekha and Rajendran among others. Justin Prabhakaran composed the music for the film, editing was done by San Lokesh, and cinematography was by Mahesh Muthuswamy.

Plot

The God of death, the senior Yama (Radha Ravi), retires so that his son (Yogi Babu) has become the immediate successor. Yamaloga’s Chitragupta (Ramesh Thilak) is enraged with the decision of Yama. He cunningly plans to dethrone Yama Jr. who has just become the king of their world. Chitragupta’s plan works when Yama Jr. visits the earth and saves the life of an innocent child along with a deadly politician (Azhagam Perumal). Now, Lord Shiva (Rajendran) orders Yama Jr. to kill the politician in a week and rectify all the mistakes. Can the fun-loving Yama rectify his mistakes?

Cast

• Yogi Babu as Dharma Prabhu
• Radha Ravi as Yaman
• Sam Jones as Bala
• Ramesh Thilak as Chitragupta
• Rajendran as Shiva
• Rekha as Ayyo
• Meghna Naidu cameo appearance
• Azhagam Perumal as Kumaradasan the Politician
• Bose Venkat as Minister
• Bosskey as "Kho" Rangasamy
• Shanmugam Muthusamy as Yama Guru
• Supergood Subramani
• PV Chandramoulli
• Ashvin Raja as Cameo appearance
• Janani Iyer as Politician Kumaradasan's daughter (Cameo appearance)

Production

This film shooting was held in a fictional place due to the cast and the story. Yaman stays in place called Yamaloka, so the art works were done mostly in a fictional way. The first look poster of Dharmaprabhu was released on 2 November, where Yogi Babu stands as Yaman with the weapon Gada. The film shooting was a short time of period and the movie features was released soon. The film was shot in Chennai and the songs were composed abroad. One of the first look poster reminds one of Thambi Ramiah’s directorial film Indiralohathil Na Azhagappan.

Soundtrack

Soundtrack was composed by Justin Prabhakaran.

• "Oorar Unna" - Tm Selvakumar
• "Usurula Ethayo" - Yogi Sekar, Aishwarya Ravichandran
• "Katta Karuppa" - Acs Ravichandran, Ranina Reddy

Reception

Times of India wrote "The plot had enough scope for making it a wholesome entertainer, but one needs to watch the movie to know how it has been badly wasted." Cinema Express wrote "Dharma Prabhu quite needlessly takes on the mantle of messaging. It appears even narakalokam isn’t immune to the rampant disease of posturing." Sify wrote "Apart from Imsai Arasan 23am Pulikecei, none of the Tamil fantasy comedies have clicked in Tamil mainly because of shoddy writing and execution. Leading comedy actor Yogi Babu’s Dharmaprabhu in which he plays the lead title role is another addition to the genre, which disappoints."