Cheran Pandiyan

Cheran Pandiyan is a 1991 Indian Tamil-language action drama film screenplay and directed by K. S. Ravikumar, starring Vijayakumar, Sarathkumar, Anand Babu and Sreeja. The film proved to be successful at the box office and completed 150 days .

Cheran Pandiyan
Poster
Directed byK. S. Ravikumar
Produced byR. B. Choudary
Written byK. S. Ravikumar
Story byErode Soundar
StarringVijayakumar
Sarathkumar
Sreeja
Nagesh
Anand Babu
Manjula Vijayakumar
Chitra
Goundamani
Senthil
K.S. Ravikumar
Music bySoundaryan
CinematographyAshok Rajan
Edited byK. Thanikachalam
Production
company
Distributed bySuper Good Films
Release date
  • 31 May 1991 (1991-05-31)
Running time
144 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Plot

Manicheran Gounder or Periya Gounder (Vijayakumar), the rich head of the village with his wife Paarvathi (Manjula Vijayakumar) and beautiful daughter Vennila (Sreeja), is a person who strictly adheres to the caste system. Rajapaandi or Chinna Gounder (Sarathkumar) is Periya Gounder's half brother and also a rich landlord in the same village and Parimalam (Chitra) is his sister. Since Rajapaandi's mother was from a lower caste, Periya Gounder stays aloof from him and always ignores and berates Rajapaandi and Parimalam. Their father, before dying had divided his entire property including the house equally between the two brothers and they live on either side of the house split by a wall. Yet Periya Gounder's family gets first respect within the village and the local temple and he refuses to yield any privilege to Rajapaandi.

Chandran (Anand Babu), a young man, who is a relative of Rajapaandi comes to meet and work under him in the village and falls in love with Vennila. Periya Gounder is furious when he comes to know about this and tries to get Vennila married to his brother-in-law and after being rebuked by him, he makes arrangements for Vennila's marriage with a womanizing thug (K.S. Ravikumar), son of a devious village elder (Nagesh), since he belongs to his own caste. After a serious turn of events, Periya Gounder has a change of heart with some heartfelt advice from Paarvathi, renounces his casteist mindset and accepts Rajapaandi as his equal sibling and Chandran and Vennila end up getting married.

Cast

Production

After the film's success, Ravikumar regularly collaborated with actor Sarath Kumar, went on to do films like Nattamai (1994), Natpukkaga (1998), Paattali (1999) and Samudhiram (2001) after which he became a highly sought after film maker in the Tamil film industry.[1][2]

Soundtrack

Cheran Pandiyan
Soundtrack album by
Released1991
Recorded1991
GenreSoundtrack
Length40: 22
LabelLahari Music
T-Series
ProducerSoundaryan
Soundaryan chronology
Cheran Pandiyan
(1991)
Putham Pudhu Payanam
(1991)

The music composed by Soundaryan while lyrics also written by himself.[3] The song "Kadhal Kaditham" is set in Mohana raga.[4]

No.TitleSinger(s)LyricsLength
1"Kangal Ondraga"Mano, K. S. Chithra04:49
2"Kadhal Kaditham"Mano, Swarnalatha04:34
3"Samba Naathu"Swarnalatha04:41
4"Va Va Endhan"S. P. Balasubrahmaniam04:43
5"Kodiyum thoranamum"Malaysia Vasudevan, Sunandha05:05
6"Chinna Thangam"K. J. Yesudas4:33
7"Ethirveetu"Arunmozhi, Chitra5:22
8"Ooru Vittu Ooru"S. P. Sailaja5:24

Remakes

This film was remade in Telugu in 1992 as Balaramakrishnulu, with Shobhan Babu, Dr. Rajashekhar, Jagapathi Babu, Ramya Krishna in the lead roles. It was also remade in Hindi in 1999 as Sautela with Mithun Chakraborty.

References

  1. "Its a special day for KSRavikumar". indiaglitz.com. IndiaGlitz. 30 May 2014. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  2. "Time for a flashback - Chennai". The Hindu. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  3. Raaga.com. "Songs, Download songs by . Raaga.com Tamil Songs". Play.raaga.com. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  4. "A Sunday vibrates with razzmatazz". The Hindu. 7 February 2006. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
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