Bale Pandiya (2010 film)
Bale Pandiya is a 2010 Tamil action comedy film written and directed by Siddharth Chandrasekhar. It stars Vishnu Vishal and Piaa Bajpai in the lead roles. The film was released on 3 September 2010 to mixed reviews. The movie is based on the 1990 movie I Hired a Contract Killer.
| Bale Pandiya | |
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| Directed by | Siddharth Chandrasekhar |
| Produced by | Kalpathi S. Aghoram Kalpathi S. Ganesh Kalpathi S. Suresh |
| Written by | Siddharth Chandrasekhar |
| Starring | Vishnu Vishal Piaa Bajpai |
| Music by | Devan Ekambaram |
| Cinematography | Soundarrajan |
| Edited by | Shiva Saravanan |
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Release date |
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Running time | 140 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Tamil |
| Budget | $3 million |
Plot
Contract killer AKP (R. Amarendran) and his two sidekicks (one of which is a driver that does a full 360-degree flip from the car window and opens the door, allowing AKP to exit from the passenger seat) arrive at a club. The group walks into the club and starts showing their power before reaching their table. A finger with a ring is placed on the table. Pandian (Vishnu Vishal) considers himself unlucky. All his efforts to come up in life end on wrong side. He approaches AKP and urges to kill him. A shocked AKP is initially hesitant. Soon, he decides to give him some time. Hence, he gives Pandian some money and entrusts him with a job of turning a human bomb, a job that he should execute within 20 days. Life changes for Pandian after he meets Vaishnavi (Piaa Bajpai). They fall in love with each other. When Pandian decides to go tell AKP that he would rather prefer to live, he gets a rude shock: AKP and his men are found murdered. The blame falls on Pandian. Meanwhile, Vaishnavi gets kidnapped by a gang for a big deal. It is chaos and confusion everywhere, before Pandian sets things right.
Cast
- Vishnu Vishal as Pandiya
- Piaa Bajpai as Vaishnavi
- R. Amarendran as AKP
- Vivek as London
- Gibran Osman as Kachitham
- Appukutty as Kachitham's assistant
- John Vijay as Pasupathy
- Jayaprakash as Vannaiyar
- Dr. Sharmila as Pandiya's mother
- Vijay Sethupathi as Pandiya's brother
- Gadam Kishan as Raju
- Vaiyapuri
- Aarthi
- Cell Murugan as Thirupathi
- Shamsundar Asrani as Anand Rangan
- Syamantha
- Crane Manohar
Guest appearances in Happy song by: (in alphabetical order)
- Aalap Raju
- Anuradha Sriram
- Devan Ekambaram
- Divya Vijay
- Haricharan
- K. J. Yesudas
- Malaysia Vasudevan
- Malgudi Subha
- Manikka Vinayagam
- Megha
- Mukesh
- Naresh Iyer
- Naveen Madhav
- Paravai Muniyamma
- Rahul Nambiar
- Ranjith
- Raqueeb Alam
- S. P. Balasubramaniam
- Shaan Rahman
- Srinivas
- Suchitra
- Sundar
- Swetha Mohan
- Velmurugan
- Vijay Yesudas
Production
The film marked the directorial debut of leading advertising designer Siddharth Chandrasekhar. The filming was held at Phuket, Pondicherry and Chennai. The song "Happy" featured 20 playback singers in cameo appearances.[1]
Soundtrack
| Bale Pandiya | |
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| Released | 18 April 2010 |
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack |
| Length | 31:29 |
| Label | SonyMusicSouthVEVO |
| Producer | Devan Ekambaram |
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Singers | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Sirikkiren" | Vaali | Naresh Iyer, Mano, Sirkazhi G. Sivachidambaram, Burn, Uma Shankar | 5:05 |
| 2. | "Happy" | Vaali | Malaysia Vasudevan, Haricharan, Devan Ekambaram, Naresh Iyer, Naveen Mathav, Ranjith, Rahul Nambiar, Paravai Muniamma, Manicka Vinayagam, Anuradha Sriram, Srinivas, Mukesh, Divya, Suchitra Karthik, Velmurugan, Malgudi Subha, Vijay Yesudoss, Aalap Raju | 4:59 |
| 3. | "Aaradha Kobamillai" | Thamarai | Raman Mahadevan, Mahalakshmi Iyer | 4:48 |
| 4. | "Ivan Thedal" | Dr. Burn | Dr. Burn, Arun Ramamurthi | 3:39 |
| 5. | "Kangalae Kamalalayam" | Thamarai | P. Unnikrishnan, Mrinalini | 4:06 |
| 6. | "Bale Pandiya" | Vaali | Velumurugan, Ranjith, Naresh Iyer | 4:27 |
| 7. | "Sirikkiren" (Instrumental) | Arun Ramamurthi | 5:05 | |
| Total length: | 31:29 | |||
Critical reception
Behindwoods rated the film 2 out of 5 and mentioned "The attempts of director Siddharth appear fresh and there are touches of his ad world experience in a few scenes. [..] However, Siddharth has not held the screen play tightly through out and loses his grasp especially towards the end. The film seems to drag on with a meandering narration in the latter half".[2] Rediff wrote "Sidharth Chandrasekar's debut film hits the right note at certain places, and it certainly has its funny moments. If it had sustained that momentum in the second half, Bale Pandiya would have been even better".[3] Sify mentioned that "The trouble with Bale Pandiya is that the director just do not know whether to make a spoof or a comedy with songs and action, in the process he falls between two stools" and called it "half baked and contrived".[4]
See also
- Bale Pandiya (1962 film), an unrelated film starring Sivaji Ganesan
References
- http://movies.rediff.com/slide-show/2010/sep/02/slide-show-1-south-interview-with-siddharth-chandrasekhar.htm#4
- http://behindwoods.com/tamil-movie-reviews/reviews-2/bale-pandiya-movie-review.html
- http://www.rediff.com/movies/review/south-tamil-review-bale-pandiya/20100903.htm
- http://www.sify.com/movies/bale-pandiya-review-tamil-pclxGahgheace.html
External links
- Bale Pandiya at IMDb