Thenkasipattanam

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.[1][2]

Thenkasipattanam
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Directed byRafi Mecartin
Written byRafi Mecartin
Produced byLal
StarringSuresh Gopi
Lal
Dileep
Samyuktha Varma
Geethu Mohandas
Kavya Madhavan
CinematographySaloo George
Edited byHarihara Puthran
Music bySuresh Peters
Production
company
Distributed byLal Release
Release date
23 December 2000
Running time
128 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

Synopsis

Kannan and Dasan are two powerful individuals in their village. Kannan is in love with a Tamil girl Meenakshi, who is their enemy Devarajan's daughter. 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. Due to some misunderstandings, 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
  • Suresh Gopi as Kannan , owner of KD & company . Closest friend of Dasan. Love interest of Meenakshi.
  • Lal as Dasan , owner of KD & company . Close friend of Kannan . Falls for Meenakshi due to some misunderstanding. Brother of Devootty
  • Dileep as Shathrughnan, employee of KD company. College mate of Devootty. Fall for Devootty
  • Samyuktha Varma as Meenakshi , love interest of Kannan , whom she reciprocates , and Dasan. Also, Daughter of Devarajan
  • Geethu Mohandas as Sangeetha , singer of the troupe captivated by Kannan & Dasan. Falls for Kannan under some misunderstandings.
  • Kavya Madhavan as Devootty, sister of Dasan and Kannan . Love interest of Shatru .
  • Salim Kumar as Muthuraman , a bullock cart driver in Thenkashi whom Shatru befriends.
  • Spadikam George as Devarajan, rich man in Thenkasi , who is rivalry of Kannan & Dasan .
  • T. P. Madhavan as Sangeetha's uncle
  • Machan Varghese as Karavettan
  • Kochu Preman as Devarajan's right hand
  • Usharani as Sangeetha's aunty
  • Manka Mahesh as Maheshwari Amma
  • Vinu Chakravarthy
  • Narayanankutty
  • Bindhu Krishna
  • Sajitha Betti as Meenakshi's younger friend
  • Dimple Rose
  • Manjima Mohan as Young Devootty

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][6] It ran for 275 days in theatres [7][8] and collected ₹20 crore (US$2.6 million)[9] then became one of the highest grossed movies of the year.

Remakes

This film was remade in Telugu as Hanuman Junction (2001), in Kannada as Kodanda Rama (2002), in Tamil with the same name (2002) by the same director and in Bengali as Golmaal (2008). Suresh Peters was retained as composer for the Telugu and Tamil remakes reusing the tunes from the film.

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. "The show must surely go on..." The New Indian Express. 7 June 2020.
  7. "Super hero makes a clean sweep". The Hindu. 10 May 2002. Archived from the original on 4 April 2003.
  8. "Hitting the right notes- The New Indian Express".
  9. "Highest grossing Malayalam films". Movie Box Office Collection.
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