Thenkasipattanam

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 in lead roles. Others in the cast include Samyuktha Varma, Geethu Mohandas, Kavya Madhavan, Salim Kumar, and Spadikam George.[1][2]

Thenkasipattanam
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Directed byRafi Mecartin
Produced byLal
Written byRafi Mecartin
StarringSuresh Gopi
Lal
Dileep
Samyuktha Varma
Geethu Mohandas
Kavya Madhavan
Salim Kumar
Spadikam George
Music bySuresh Peters
CinematographySaloo George
Edited byHarihara Puthran
Production
company
Distributed byLal Release
Release date
23 December 2000
Running time
150 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam
Budget4 crores INR
Box office20 crores INR

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

Soundtrack

The film's soundtrack contains 7 songs, all composed by Suresh Peters, with lyrics by Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri.[4]

#TitleSinger(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] It ran for 275 days in theatres [6][7]and collected ₹20 crore (US$2.8 million)[8]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.

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. "Super hero makes a clean sweep". The Hindu. 10 May 2002.
  7. http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/article24129.ece?service=print
  8. https://www.movieboxofficecollection.com/highest-grossing-malayalam-movies-of-all-time-worldwide-kerala/%3famp. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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