Ponnu Veetukkaran

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Ponnu Veetukkaran is a 1999 Indian Tamil-language comedy drama film written and directed by P. Vasu. The film stars Sathyaraj and Preetha Vijayakumar, while Vijay Adhiraj, Goundamani, Vijayakumar and Radharavi play supporting roles. It was released on 15 January 1999.[1]

Ponnu Veetukkaran
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Directed byP. Vasu
Written byP. Vasu
Produced byN. Vishnu Ram
Starring
CinematographyAshok Rajan
Edited byP. Mohan Raj
Music byIlaiyaraaja
Production
company
Ganga Gowri Productions
Release date
  • 15 January 1999 (1999-01-15)
Running time
141 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Plot

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Jeeva is the perfect handyman and the protector of a big rich family of the Tamil Country, constituted by Gangadaran, Muralidaran, and Giridaran. These three brothers are spouses and fathers, each of several children. Traders of sarees precious, they hold one of the most beautiful and furthermore with the aim of the stores of the capital, so making their colossal fortune.

But what makes their happiness and their pride overcoat everything is Indu, the youngest child of this big welded family. Intelligent, beautiful and roguish as one pleases, she cheers up, illuminates with her presence their everyday life, as well as their cousin, the useless Yégambharam, but nevertheless very nice, always in conflict with his father Védatchalam, the dean moved by the family.

Jeeva comes from a family which was always in the service of three brothers and it since its father who was him with theirs, as driver. Far from maintaining employeur-d'employee's standard relation, the brothers' father got used to fraternizing with Jeeva's father to the point that they became as brother. Jeeva frequented one time, the same schools as three brothers.

Nevertheless, a misfortune struck the family. Their respective parents were victims of a car accident. His wives were killed instantly. Whereas the fathers, in the agony, made promise to their children to part never and on no account, of Jeeva and mutually. The good mood and the know-how and the practical sense of Jeeva put everybody all right. He shares a beautiful complicity with Indu, who is sometimes badly understood outside the family circle and gives rise to gossips maintained by the fact that Jeeva remains incorrigible bachelor. In the truth, he dreads that his future wife (if he finds one) tears away him from his family of adoption and house thus only, to avoid this problem, but regrettably, this happiness is going to be again broken. Indeed, Indu loses her husband, just before their honeymoon, a few days after their marriage celebrated in formal dinners, with all the splendor. Everybody is bewildered and appalled.

Jeeva, who had just left the marriage, knows only after his return about the death of the son-in-law. Annihilated as everybody, at the beginning, Jeeva quickly gets over it, by giving for mission to find a new pretender for Indu. Nevertheless, he finds the one person in a million, in the person of Muthu, an old acquaintance of Indu. Assisted by Yégambharam, Jeeva helps as best he can Muthu to conquer Indu, in spite of the secular obstacles against the widows considered as one bet in India.

Cast

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Soundtrack

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The music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja.[2][3]

Song Singers Lyrics Length
"Annan Ivan" S. P. Balasubrahmanyam Gangai Amaran 04:37
"Nandhavana Kuyile I" Hariharan Palani Bharathi 05:01
"Nandhavana Kuyile II" Ilaiyaraaja 04:56
"Ponnu Veettu" S. P. Balasubrahmanyam Gangai Amaran 04:56
"Ilaya Nilave" Srinivas, Bhavatharini Palani Bharathi 05:05
"Kettukamma" Mano 05:05

Release and reception

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The film was initially scheduled to release on 19 October 1998 during Diwali, but was delayed by three months.[4][5] D. S. Ramanujam of The Hindu wrote, "More than a dozen leading artistes have participated making it enjoyable. It is a different role for Satyaraj [...] The role fits him like a glove". He added, "It is not an easy task to provide dialogues for the many artistes but the director manages this fairly well".[6]

References

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  1. ^ "ponnu veetu kaaran ( 1999 )". Cinesouth. Archived from the original on 29 October 2006. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
  2. ^ "Ponnu Veetukaaran (1998)". Raaga.com. Archived from the original on 5 July 2023. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
  3. ^ "PONNU VEETUKAARAN / ELLAME EN PONDATITHAN / UYIRAE - Ilayaraja & A.R. Rahman Audio Cd". Audio CDs World. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  4. ^ Rajitha (17 October 1998). "Southern bonanza". Rediff.com. Archived from the original on 1 June 2023. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
  5. ^ ஜி (25 October 1998). "பொண்ணு வீட்டுக்காரன்". Kalki (in Tamil). p. 1. Archived from the original on 13 February 2023. Retrieved 5 July 2023 – via Internet Archive.
  6. ^ Ramanujam, D. S. (29 January 1999). "Film Reviews: PoonuVeettukaran/Urban Legend/Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain/Aa Ab Laut Chalen". The Hindu. p. 27. Archived from the original on 7 April 2001. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
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