Thenkasipattanam

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Thenkasipattanam
Thenkasipattanam.jpg
VCD Cover Designed
Directed byRafi Mecartin
Written byRafi Mecartin
Produced byLal
Starring
CinematographySaloo George
Edited byHarihara Puthran
Music bySuresh Peters
Production
company
Lal Creations
Distributed byLal Release
Release date
23 December 2000
Running time
150 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam
Budget4 crores INR
Box office20 crores INR

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]

Synopsis[]

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]

Cast[]

  • Suresh Gopi as Kannan , owner of KD & company . Closest friend of Dasan. Love interest of Meenakshi and Sangeetha.
  • Lal as Dasan , owner of KD & company . Close friend of Kannan . Falls for Meenakshi due to some misunderstanding. Brother of Devootty
  • Dileep as Shathrughnan, employee of KD company. College mate of Devootty. Fall for Devootty
  • Samyuktha Varma as Meenakshi , love interest of Kannan , whom she reciprocates , and Dasan. Also, Daughter of Devarajan
  • Geethu Mohandas as Sangeetha , singer of the troupe captivated by Kannan & Dasan. Falls for Kannan under some misunderstandings.
  • Kavya Madhavan as Devootty, sister of Dasan and Kannan . Love interest of Shatru .
  • Salim Kumar as Muthuraman , a bullock cart driver in Thenkashi whom Shatru befriends.
  • Spadikam George as Devarajan, rich man in Thenkasi , who is rivalry of Kannan & Dasan .
  • T. P. Madhavan as Sangeetha's uncle
  • Usharani as Sangeetha's aunty
  • Manka Mahesh
  • Kochu Preman as Devarajan's right hand
  • Vinu Chakravarthy
  • Narayanankutty
  • Bindhu Krishna
  • Sajitha Betti as Meenakshi's younger friend
  • Dimple Rose
  • Manjima Mohan as Young Devootty
  • Pandu

Soundtrack[]

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 office[]

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$2.7 million)[9] then became one of the highest grossed movies of the year.

Remakes[]

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

References[]

  1. ^ "Thenkasipattanam (U)". .filmibeat.com.
  2. ^ "Thenkasipattanam (2000)". .nowrunning.com.
  3. ^ "Cast of Thenkasipattanam". .ranker.com.
  4. ^ "Thenkasi Pattanam Movie Song Lyrics". .friendlysms.com.
  5. ^ "Rafi-Mecartin reunite with a family entertainer". The Times of India. 24 April 2014.
  6. ^ "The show must surely go on..." The New Indian Express. 7 June 2020.
  7. ^ "Super hero makes a clean sweep". The Hindu. 10 May 2002. Archived from the original on 4 April 2003.
  8. ^ "Hitting the ight notes- The New Indian Express".
  9. ^ "Highest grossing Malayalam films". Movie Box Office Collection.

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