Dowry Kalyanam

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Dowry Kalyanam
Directed byVisu
Written byVisu
Produced byS. Suseela
StarringVisu
Vijayakanth
Srividya
M.N. Nambiar
Viji
S. V. Sekhar
Music byM. S. Viswanathan
Production
company
Charuchithra Films
Release date
  • 31 May 1983 (1983-05-31)
[1]
Running time
138 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Dowry Kalyanam (transl. Dowry Marriage) is a 1983 Indian Tamil-language black comedy film, directed by Visu and produced by S. Suseela. The film stars Visu, Vijayakanth, Srividya, S. V. Sekhar and Viji.[2] The film had musical score by M. S. Viswanathan. The film was remade in Kannada as Madhuve Madu Tamashe Nodu. It was based on a play by Visu and Kathadi Ramamurthy.

Plot[]

Ganeshan and Ethiraj are best friends and colleagues. Ethiraj is a widower and an alcoholic while Ganeshan is married and has a sister and a brother. Ganeshan does not earn enough and borrows from Ethiraj and Rowthar, a Muslim man who runs a grocery shop, frequently.

A misunderstanding arises when Ethiraj's mother proposes marriage between Ganeshan's sister and Ethiraj leading to a rift in their friendship. He challenges that he would get his sister married in a pompous manner.

However, the groom's family is behind dowry. The mother of the groom runs the family tyrannically. How Ganeshan struggles to make ends meet with many subplots makes it an interesting movie to watch.

In the end, with help from many people, he gets his sister married only for his own sister to ask him about the remainder of the dowry.

Cast[]

Soundtrack[]

The music was composed by M. S. Viswanathan.[3][4]

No. Song Singers Lyrics Length
1 "Sreeraman Sreedevi" S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Vani Jairam Vaali
2 "Enthan Kannana Kannatti" P. Jayachandran, S. P. Sailaja Vaali
3 "Andavane Kanthirandu" M. S. Viswanathan Vaali

Censor controversies[]

Visu mentioned that the censor board wanted 87 cuts for the film as they were not impressed with the portrayal of the character Rowther (M.N. Nambiar) speak in Hindi mixed tamil because Rowthers speaks Pure Tamil. Visu had to come up with the scene where he explains about his portrayal.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ "டௌரி கல்யாணம் / Dowry Kalyanam (1983)". Screen4Screen (in English and Tamil). Archived from the original on 8 June 2021. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  2. ^ https://kalkionline.com/kalkionline_archive/imagegallery/archiveimages/kalki/1983/jul/24-07-1983/p42.jpg
  3. ^ "Dowry Kalyanam". Songs4all. Archived from the original on 8 August 2019. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  4. ^ "Dowry Kalyanam Tamil Film EP Vinyl Record by M S Viswanathan". Archived from the original on 8 June 2021. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  5. ^ IndiaGlitz Tamil Movies (4 July 2016). "Director Visu Interview : Censor asked me to make 87 cuts for my film". YouTube. Archived from the original on 27 November 2021. Retrieved 27 November 2021.

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