Malaikottai

Malaikottai (transl. Mountain Fort) is a 2007 Indian Tamil-language action film written and directed by Boopathy Pandian. The film stars Vishal, Priyamani, Devaraj, Ajay, Ashish Vidyarthi, and Urvashi. The music was composed by Mani Sharma, while the cinematography and editing were handled by Vaidy S and G. Sasikumar respectively. The movie was remade into Bengali Bangladesh as Jaan Kurbaan (2011).

Malaikottai
Poster
Directed byBoopathy Pandian
Written byBoopathy Pandian
Produced byT. Ajay Kumar
StarringVishal
Priyamani
CinematographyVaidy S
Edited byG. Sasikumar
Music byMani Sharma
Production
company
Sri Lakshmi Productions
Release date
  • 28 September 2007 (2007-09-28)
Running time
145 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil
Box officeest. ₹15 crore

Plot

Anbu is a happy-go-lucky engineering student who lives with his family in Pattukottai and has fun with his friends. One day, Anbu gets into a fracas with a local politician and his henchmen while trying to save his friend, where he gets arrested and has a case registered against him. The local court gives him a conditional bail, provided that he signs the register in a Trichy police station. On the way to the police station, Anbu sees a college girl named Malar and falls in love with her. The police station, where Anbu has to sign daily, is handled by his uncle Inspector Kandasamy, whose ex-lover Kamala is the constable at the station. Anbu kindles his uncle's love life and makes merry at Malar’s college, leading to funny situations.

Meanwhile, Trichy is run by a powerful politician named Palani and his brother Guna, who have killed the local RDO in cold blood, watched by a huge crowd of onlookers. While trying to save Malar from a situation with Palani, Anbu ends up getting the wrath of Palani and his brothers. Although Malar's mother wants to move away from the city, Anbu and his aunt convince her to stay and makes Anbu as her protector. After seeing his care, Malar slowly falls for Anbu. Palani causes problems for Anbu, but Anbu overcomes them and gets Palani killed by Kandasamy in an encounter. In the aftermath, Malar and Anbu graduates from college and they get married.

Cast

Production

Shooting for the film commenced on 12 May 2007, at the Kumbakonam Mahamaham tank with picturisation of a song on Vishal.

This was followed by shooting near the Srirangam temple, Tiruchirapalli central bus stand, Kollidam bridge, Thiruvaiyaru court and near the Cauvery bridge in Tiruchirapalli.[1]

Soundtrack
Malaikottai
Soundtrack album by
Mani Sharma
Released2007
GenreFeature film soundtrack
LabelStar Music
ProducerMani Sharma

The music was scored by Mani Sharma. The track "Yeh Aatha" is a remix of the same-titled song scored by Ilaiyaraaja for the 1982 film Payanangal Mudivathillai.[2]

No.SongLyricistSingersTimeRemarks
1"Devathaye Vaa Vaa"YugabharathiVijay Yesudas04:34
2"Kantha Kadamba"Na. MuthukumarNaveen Madhav05:23
3"Oh Baby"YugabharathiRahul Nambiar04:37
4"Uyire Uyire"Ranjith, Rita Thyagarajan05:02
5"Yeh Aatha"Gangai AmaranTippu, Anuradha Sriram04:01

Release

The satellite rights of the film were sold to Kalaignar TV.[3]

Reception

Critical response

Malaikottai received mixed reviews from critics.[4]

Rediff wrote that "Director G Boopathy Pandian probably thought he had the next best story since Ben-Hur, and fell prey to the ever-present Director's Folly".[4] Sify wrote the film as "big let-down".[5] Behindwoods wrote as an "average masala-mix entertainer".[6] The film was dubbed in Telugu as Bhayya.[7][8]

Box office

The film grossed ₹ 15 crore.[9][10][11] The movie was declared a super hit at the box office.

References
  1. "Malaikottai shooting begins". Archived from the original on 12 January 2008. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
  2. Malaikottai (Tamil – Mani Sharma) by Milliblog!
  3. "Malaikottai Movie on Kalaignar TV". The Times of India. 14 June 2015. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
  4. Malaikkottai review
  5. Movie Review : Malaikottai
  6. Malaikottai Movie Review
  7. "Bhayya - Telugu & Tamil cinema Review - Vishal and Priyamani".
  8. http://movies.fullhyderabad.com/bhayya/telugu/bhayya-movie-reviews-2156-2.html?sort=positive
  9. "Malaikottai top the charts," One India, 25 October 2007.
  10. Comedy 'Malaikottai' tops Tamil films
  11. "Dailynews - Tramenders people to 'malaikottai'". Archived from the original on 4 October 2007.
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