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Padikkadavan (transl. Illiterate) is a 2009 Indian Tamil-language masala film written and directed by Suraj. It stars Dhanush, Tamannaah, Vivek, Atul Kulkarni, Suman, Sayaji Shinde, and Pratap Pothan[1] amongst a huge supporting cast in small pivotal and cameo roles. The music was composed by Mani Sharma with cinematography by A. Venkatesh and editing by Manoj. The film released on 14 January 2009 during Pongal and received a huge positive response.[2] The film was successful grossing ₹15 crore in Tamil Nadu and established Dhanush as one of top 5 saleable heroes of Tamil cinema after then.[3] Filming began in March 2008 and was released in Pongal 2009.

Padikkadavan
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Suraj
Written by	Suraj
Produced by	B. Venkatarama Reddy
Starring	Dhanush Tamannaah Vivek Atul Kulkarni Suman Sayaji Shinde Prathap Pothan
Cinematography	A. Venkatesh
Edited by	Manoj
Music by	Mani Sharma
Production company	Vijaya Productions
Distributed by	Sun Pictures
Release date	January 14, 2009 (2009-01-14) (India)
Running time	160 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Plot

Radhakrishnan a.k.a. Rocky (Dhanush) is a 24 years old 10th grade dropout youth, who is looked down upon by his father Ramakrishnan (Pratap Pothan) because of his sharp contrast to the rest of the family, who are well-qualified in education. Rocky spends most of his time in a mechanic shop with his friends. Rocky's friends advise him to love and marry a well-educated girl so his name will be added with her name after marriage (i.e. indirectly he gets a degree after his name). He looks around by hovering around women's colleges to find a perfect girl for his mission. He succeeds in his attempt and makes Gayathri (Tamannaah), a well-educated rich girl, fall in love with him. He starts to love her and takes her to a shopping mall where she is confronted by a group of rogues who work for Rami Reddy (Sayaji Shinde), a rival of her father Samarasimha Reddy (Suman), a notorious don in Andhra Pradesh who protects his daughter by destroying the gang and taking her back to Andhra from Tamil Nadu. Rocky goes to thug-for-hire Assault Arumugam (Vivek) to help him marry Gayathri. Rocky saves Gayathri from Rami and follows her home, where he realizes that another Thirunelveli rowdy named Kasi Anandan (Atul Kulkarni), whose brother (Sashikumar Subramani) he accidentally kills, has put a price on his head. Kasi declares that if Rocky wins him in hand-to-hand combat, he will never be disturbed by him. Rocky accepts his deal and smashes him down. The movie ends as Rocky walks out while his gang applauds for him.

Cast

Music

The soundtrack consists of five songs composed by Mani Sharma. Four of them were reused from Telugu movies composed by Sharma.

No.	Song	Singers	Length (min:sec)	Lyrics	Notes
1	"Hey Vetri Velaa"	Ranjith, Naveen Madhav	4:50	P. Vijay
2	"Hey Rosu Rosu"	Jey, Ranjith	5:00	Thabu Shankar	Reused "Ratraina" from Athidhi
3	"Raanki Rangamma"	Udit Narayan, Malathy Lakshman	4:47	P. Vijay	Reused "Ramma Chilakammma" from Choodalani Vundi
4	"Kadavulum Kadhalum"	Karthik, Harini	5:17	Snehan	Reused "Yevarunnarani Neekaina" from Yuvatha
5	"Appa Amma Vilayattu"	Ranjith, Saindhavi	4:44	Snehan	Reused "Aresukoboye" from Adavi Ramudu

Reception

Critical response

Indiaglitz wrote, "Padikathavan is worth a watch for its unadulterated masala".[4] Behindwoods wrote, "On the whole, Padikathavan struggles to identify itself between comedy and violence and ends up not being both".[5]

References

External links

• Padikkadavan at IMDb

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