Dowry Kalyanam

Dowry Kalyanam (Tamil: டௌரி கல்யாணம்; English: Dowry Marriage – it is a play on the word Gowry Kalyanam (Gowry's Marriage)) is a 1983 Indian Tamil film, directed by Visu and produced by S. Suseela. The film stars Visu, Vijayakanth, Srividya, S. V. Sekhar and Viji. The film had musical score by M. S. Viswanathan.[1] The film was remade in Kannada as Madhuve Madu Tamashe Nodu. It was based on a play by Visu and Kathadi Ramamurthy. The film is a black comedy showing the evils of Dowry.

Dowry Kalyanam
Directed byVisu
Produced byS. Suseela
Written byVisu
Screenplay byVisu
StarringVisu
Vijayakanth
Srividya
Viji
S. V. Sekhar
Music byM. S. Viswanathan
Production
company
Charuchithra Films
Distributed byCharuchithra Films
Release date
31 May 1983
Running time
138 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

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 frequently runs a grocery shop.

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.[2]

No.SongSingersLyricsLength (m:ss)
1"Sreeraman Sreedevi"S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Vani JayaramVaali
2"Enthan Kannana Kannatti"P. Jayachandran, S. P. SailajaVaali
3"Andavane Kanthirandu"M. S. ViswanathanVaali

Censor Controversies

Visu mentioned that the censor wanted 87 cuts for the film as they were not impressed with the caricatured portrayal of character Rowther (portrayed by M. N. Nambiar). Visu had to come up with the scene where he explains about his portrayal.[3]

References
  1. "Dowry Kalyanam". spicyonion.com. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  2. http://tamilsongslyrics123.com/listlyrics/38902
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tppYz7ZuxU
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