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Mounam Pesiyadhe
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| Mounam Pesiyadhe | |
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| File:Mounam Pesiyadhe.jpg Official poster | |
| Directed by | Ameer |
| Produced by | Ganesh Raghu Karthik Radhakrishnan Venky Narayanan Rajan Radhakrishnan |
| Written by | Ameer |
| Starring | Suriya Trisha Nandha |
| Music by | Yuvan Shankar Raja |
| Cinematography | Ramji |
| Edited by | Suresh Urs |
Production company | Aparajeeth Films |
| Distributed by | Gemini Productions |
Release date |
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Running time | 148 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Tamil |
Mounam Pesiyadhe (transl. Silence spoke) is a 2002 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film, written and directed by Ameer in his directorial debut. It stars Suriya and debutant Trisha in the lead along with newcomers Nandha, Neha Pendse and choreographer-turned-actor Anju Mahendra in supporting roles along with several other newcomers, while Laila appears in a cameo role during the climax. The major part of the film is shot in Pondicherry. The film, released on 13 December 2002 and turned out to be a hit at the box office. It was remade in Telugu as Aadanthe Ado Type (2003) and later dubbed in the same language as Kanchu (2006).[1] The music by Yuvan Shankar Raja was released to positive response. It was also dubbed in Hindi as Ghatak Returns (2012).
Plot[edit]
Gautham (Suriya) and Kannan (Nandha) are close friends from childhood days. Gautham owns a restaurant while Kannan works as a sales executive in a firm. Kannan is in love with Mahalakshmmi "Maha" (Neha Pendse) while Gautham has no interest towards girls and prefers to be single despite his family members trying to get him married. Sandhya (Trisha) is the relative of Kannan and their family members plan to get them married. Kannan is scared of his father and he is unable to inform about his love. So he requests Gautham to meet Sandhya and inform about the love between Kannan and Maha.
Gautham agrees and informs Sandhya about Kannan's love with Maha. Sandhya also says that even she is not interested in the marriage proposal and instead she prefers to marry someone like Gautham. Hearing this, Gautham is shocked and also confused.
Kannan and Sandhya's parents understand that neither Kannan nor Sandhya are interested in marriage and cancels the wedding plans between them. Meanwhile, Gautham develops affection towards Sandhya. Gautham receives frequent phone calls and he believes it to be from Sandhya. Gautham also gets gifts which he also believes to be sent by Sandhya.
Maha's father gets angry knowing about her love and engages a few thugs to beat up Kannan. Kannan is injured which angers Gautham. He smashes all those thugs and scolds Maha's father for involving in such activities. Maha's father realizes his mistake and apologizes. Kannan and Maha's wedding is fixed.
One day, Sandhya calls Gautham to a restaurant. Gautham believes that she has called to convey her love but is shocked when she introduces Aravind as her lover. She also says that even Aravind is like Gautham who was not interested in girls but somehow is convinced by Sandhya. Gautham starts worrying and is confused about the happenings as he believed the phone calls and gifts were from Sandhya.
On the day of Kannan and Maha's wedding, Gautham walks alone in the street thinking about his love failure. Suddenly a car comes in front of him and it is Laila. She walks towards Gautham and proposes her love. A small flashback is shown where Laila and Gautham were college mates and Laila was in love with Gautham. But Gautham did not reciprocate and avoided her during college.
On the last day of the college, Laila told Gautham that she will keep following him always and will never forget him. As she told, she kept following Gautham and it was her who kept calling Gautham and sent him frequent gifts which Gautham misunderstood to be from Sandhya. Gautham realizes Laila's true love and accepts it. The movie ends with both leaving together in the car.
Cast[edit]
- Suriya as Gowtham
- Trisha as Sandhya
- Nandha as Kannan
- Neha Pendse as Mahalakshmi
- Anju Mahendra as Selvam
- Duraipandi as Sundaram
- Vaidyanathan as Govindaraj
- V. C. Venkatesh as Shankaran
- Gopikumar as Shanmuganathan
- Saravanan as Auto Pandi
- Govindaraj as Palanisamy
- Kamalesh as Aravind
- Senthil as Sudhakar
- Johnprakash as Raj
- Master Tarun Kumar as Suresh
- Viji as Savithri
- Vijayalakshmi as Kamakshi
- Lakshmi as Varalakshmi
- Vaishnavi as Lakshmi
- Hemalatha as Shanthi
- Swetha as Indu
- Vidharth as drunkard
- Ameer as peon in Mahalakshmi's father's office
- Laila as Gautham's lover (cameo)
- RJ Sanobar Sultana (cameo)
Production[edit]
The film's titled is based on a serial that was supposed to be directed by Vikram with Ameer working as the assistant director.[2] Shooting took place in New Zealand, Italy, Mauritius, Egypt and other scenic locations in and around India.[3] Moreover, a huge 30-lakhs-worth set was erected by art director Rajeevan at Pondicherry, India for a song.[3] "Valentine" song was shot at AVM Studios, the rest of the songs were shot at locations in Mysore and Puducherry.[4]
Soundtrack[edit]
| Mounam Pesiyadhe | ||||
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| Released | 6 October 2002 (India) | |||
| Recorded | 2002 | |||
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
| Label | New Music Classic Audio Roja/Mass Audios | |||
| Producer | Yuvan Shankar Raja | |||
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The soundtrack was composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja and released on 6 October 2002. It features 8 tracks overall with lyrics penned by Vaali, Kamakodiyan, Snehan, Puthuvai Nambi and director Ameer himself. The soundtrack, upon release, was very much appreciated and became very successful. Yuvan Shankar Raja himself claimed the album to be "the best he ever created since he became music director" till then.[3]
| Track | Song | Singer(s) | Duration | Lyricist | Notes |
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| 1 | "En Anbae En Anbae" | Shankar Mahadevan | 4:45 | Snehan | |
| 2 | "Chinna Chinnathai" | Hariharan, Yuvan Shankar Raja | 5:16 | Pudhuvai Nambi | |
| 3 | "Aadatha Aatamellam" | Karthik | 4:29 | Snehan | |
| 4 | "Eh Nanbane Kopam" | Hariharan, Shankar Mahadevan | 4:13 | Snehan | |
| 5 | "Arupadhu Aayidichu" | Manikka Vinayagam, Malgudi Subha | 3:50 | Vaali | |
| 6 | "Ilamai Oorai Sutrum" | Nidhesh Gopalan, Yuvan Shankar Raja | 4:01 | Vaali | |
| 7 | "Love All Day" (Theme Music) | Instrumental | 1:52 | Ameer | |
| 8 | "Kannil Kanthamey" | S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Thara | 4:50 | Ameer| |
Release[edit]
E. V. V. Satyanarayana remade this film in Telugu as Aadanthe Ado Type with his son Aryan Rajesh in lead role, Yuvan composed the music for Telugu version too. The satellite rights of the film's Tamil version were sold to Sun TV.[5]
Critical reception[edit]
Malathi Rangarajan of The Hindu wrote, "But to his credit Ameer [...] has introduced an element of suspense in the story. The end shows that the director has tried to make things a little different. The comedy merges well with the main narration and the asides are examples of healthy humour".[6]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Mounam Pesiyadhe Telugu version to release - Times of India". The Times of India.
- ↑ Rangan, Baradwaj (1 December 2013). "Man of Steel – How suffering turned a college lad into a Tamil superstar". The Caravan. Archived from the original on 1 February 2015. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Mounam Pesiyadhe". chennaionline.com. Archived from the original on 2 March 2003. Retrieved 1 June 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ↑ "Mounam Pesiyathe". 15 February 2003. Archived from the original on 15 February 2003.
- ↑ "Mounam Pesiyadhe" – via Facebook.
- ↑ Rangarajan, Malathi (27 December 2002). "Mounam Pesiyadhae". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 25 January 2013. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
External links[edit]
- Tamil-language movies
- 2002 films
- Indian films
- Indian romantic comedy-drama films
- Tamil films remade in other languages
- Films directed by Ameer (director)
- Films scored by Yuvan Shankar Raja
- 2000s Tamil-language films
- 2002 romantic comedy-drama films
- Films shot in Puducherry
- Films shot in New Zealand
- Films shot in Mysore
- Films shot in Egypt
- Films shot in Mauritius
- Films shot in Italy
- 2002 directorial debut films
- 2002 comedy films
- 2002 drama films