| Thenkasipattanam | |
|---|---|
 50 days successful running release poster | |
| Directed by | Rafi Mecartin |
| Written by | Rafi Mecartin |
| Produced by | Lal |
| Starring | Suresh Gopi Lal Dileep Samyuktha Varma Geethu Mohandas Kavya Madhavan |
| Cinematography | Saloo George |
| Edited by | K. P. Hariharaputhran |
| Music by | Suresh Peters |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Lal Release |
Release date |
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Running time | 128 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam |
Thenkasipattanam (transl. Thenkasi Town) is a 2000 Indian Malayalam-language action comedy film written and directed by Rafi Mecartin, produced by Lal, and starring Suresh Gopi, Lal and Dileep as male leads and Samyuktha Varma, Geethu Mohandas and Kavya Madhavan as female leads with Salim Kumar and Spadikam George in supporting roles. The film went on to become an industry hit surpassing the records of the movie Narasimham.
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Plot
Kannan and Dassan are owners of the market in their village in Thenkasi Pattinam. They become the famous rowdies under the guidance of their godfather. Dassan has a sister called Devootty who is the educated girl and wants to get rid of their rudeness from their behaviour. Shatrugnan alias Shathru joined as the manager of Kannan's and Dasan's firm KD & Co who is regularly beaten by them due to his stupidity. Soon later it is revealed that Shathru is in love with their sister, but she is not interested in him. He joins KD & Co as the manager in an attempt to win Devootty's love and her brothers. She enquires about his coming to their village and he says he wanted to marry her. She neglected it saying that first she need to make her brothers marry and to have a family life. To make her happy, Shathru decides to find the brides for Dasan and Kannan. Meenakshi is the childhood friend of Kannan, who is their enemy's daughter. Meenakshi tries to prove her love and Kannan does not reciprocate it because he knows that Dasan won't accept this relationship.
Once KD & Co 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, so Kannan and Dasan gives her refuge upon Devootty's insistence. Shathru plans to unite Dasan and Sangeetha.
Soon, Kannan asks Dasan for the marriage with Meenakshi for him, but Dasan mistakenly understands Meenakshi as his bride. On the other hand, Sangeetha is in love with Kannan.
After some fights, Dasan and Kannan bring Meenakshi to their home, and starts wedding preparation. Soon, Shathru realises his mistake and wants to change the brides to their respective grooms. When the truth is revealed, Dassan who is madly in love with Meenakshi, forces her in a marriage with him. Kannan gets badly beaten by Dassan. Devootty tries to stop this which leads Dasan to beat her. This provokes Kannan and he fights back. Dasan falls down and Kannan says him he is ready to give up his love for his friendship. Dasan changes his mind, allows Kannan and Meenakshi to unite. Sangeetha is ready to marry Dasan.
Cast
- Suresh Gopi as Kannappan (Kannan)
- Biyon as Young Kannappan
- Lal as Dasappan (Dasan)
- Arjun Shivadas as Young Dasan
- Dileep as Shathrugnan (Shathru)
- Samyuktha Varma as Meenakshi
- Geethu Mohandas as Sangeetha
- Kavya Madhavan as Devootty
- Manjima Mohan as Young Devootty
- Salim Kumar as Muthuraman
- Spadikam George as Devarajan
- T. P. Madhavan as Sangeetha's uncle
- Machan Varghese as the milkman
- Kochu Preman as Machambi
- Usharani as Sangeetha's aunt
- Manka Mahesh as Maheshwari Amma
- Vinu Chakravarthy as Thevar
- Narayanankutty as music troop manager
- Kalabhavan Haneef as the prospective groom
- Sajitha Betti as Meenakshi's younger friend
- Dimple Rose
- Bindhu Krishna
- Kavi Raj
Soundtrack
The film's soundtrack contains 7 songs, all composed by Suresh Peters, with lyrics by Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri.[2]
| # | Title | Singer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Engu Poy Nee" | Dr. K. J. Yesudas |
| 2 | "Golmaalu" | M. G. Sreekumar, Sujatha Mohan, Mano |
| 3 | "Pachappavizha (Ente Thenkaasi)" | M.G. Sreekumar,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.[3][4] It ran for 275 days in theatres [5][6] and collected ₹22 crore (US$2.6 million)[7] then became the highest grossing Malayalam film of the year as well as an industry hit surpassing records of the movie Narasimham, released early in the same year.
Remakes
This film was remade into different languages such as in Telugu as Hanuman Junction (2001), in Kannada as Kodanda Rama (2002), in Bengali as Golmaal (2008) and in Tamil with the same name (2002) by the same director with Samyuktha Varma reprise her role.
References
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Hitting the right notes- The New Indian Express". Archived from the original on 2 October 2016.
- ^ "Highest grossing Malayalam films". Movie Box Office Collection.
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