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Thendral (transl.Breeze) is a 2004 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by Thangar Bachan. The film stars Parthiban and Uma with Rajashree in a pivotal role. The film, produced by Venu Ravichandran, had musical score by Vidyasagar and was released on 6 February 2004.[1]

Thendral
Directed byThangar Bachan
Produced byViswanathan Ravichandran
StarringParthiban
Uma
CinematographyThangar Bachan
Edited byS. Satish
B. N. Harsha
Music byVidyasagar
Production
company
Aascar Film Pvt. Ltd
Release date
  • 6 February 2004 (2004-02-06)
Running time
162 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Plot


In opening scene,we see a man walking towards a grave in middle of farmland and lighting up lamp and keeping food in banana leaf. He slowly places his head on grave.

The film slowly moves back to 1989,Nalangili (Parthiban) is a reputed writer with revolutionary mindset. He even refuses to take the sahitya award and instead asks the president to provide justice to tamilnadu on cauvery issue.Thamarai aka Thamaraichelvi (Uma) is a huge fan of Nalangili and harbours a secret crush on him. She lives with her mother in a hut in aynavaram, madras where they provide milk to neighbor homes to earn a living. Nalangili also lives in same locality. Venkatrama iyer (Madhan Bob) lives next to nalangili's house and is annoyed by his actions.

One day,Nalangili interferes in temple kumbabishekam in the locality and is arrested. In prison, he comes across (Raghava Lawrence) who is on death Row for a false case on him.He narrates to Nalangili that his father and him used to be parai artists in his village and his father lost his hand in an altercation with a caste hindu. Meanwhile Thamarai's mother dies in a fire accident and she is adopted by her relative family. They plan to marry her to their son.

She escapes to tiruchirapalli but is accidentally trafficked to Nalangili. But he mistakes her to a prostitute and sleeps with her giving her money thinking she is a callgirl. Soon she moves to palani.She gives birth to a boy and names him valavan (Aravind Bachan) and raises him in pazhanii. Valavan occasionally ask for his father but thamarai doesnot reveal it. One day the boys in his locality tease him on his birth.He hits them with stone and runs away. He manages to stumble across Nalangili and stays with him. They slowly bond with each other.One day Valavan and Nalangili fight with each other due to Nalangili bringing in prostitutes.

Valavan disappears and Nalangili tries to find him. Thamarai comes to Madras and searches for him. Finally Nalangili and Valavan go to pazhanii. Nalangili finds out from thamarai's diary that he is the biological father of Valavan. He also understands her love for him.

Thamarai meanwhile falls into sewer and slowly passes away in hospital.She tells Valavan that Nalangili is his father.Nalangili decides to live for Valavan.


Cast



Production


Thangar Bachan had initially approached Karthik to play the lead role in the film, but the actor turned it down.[3]


Soundtrack


Thendral
Soundtrack album by
Vidyasagar
Released2004
RecordedVarsha Vallaki Studios
GenreFeature film Soundtrack
LanguageTamil
LabelHit Musics
ProducerVidyasagar
Vidyasagar chronology
Joot
(2004)
Thendral
(2004)
Varnajalam
(2004)

The music was composed by Vidyasagar.[4][5]

No.SongSingersLyrics
1"Adi Thozhi"Kalyani NairThamarai
2"Aazhakkadalu"Madhu BalakrishnanPalani Bharathi
3"Pachai Kili"Karthik, HariniNa. Muthukumar
4"Pathrakotta Mama"Malathy, Manikka Vinayagam, Vidya, KarthikArivumathi
5"Putham Puthu Paattu"Pushpavanam Kuppusamy, S. P. BalasubrahmanyamYugabharathi
6"Vaanavillin Vannam"Sadhana SargamYugabharathi
7"Yei Penne"Shreya GhoshalThamarai

Release


The film won positive reviews, with a critic noting "the movie moves on without the usual cinematic trends at the start but to make the movie interesting, in the end, the director makes use of those trends. Yet, Thendral has jointly touched the audience with its absorbing story."[6]


References


  1. "Thendral-A Poetic film sans logic | itimes". ww.itimes.com. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
  2. Joseph, Raveena; Ramanujam, Srinivasa (13 November 2015). "Child stars on the big screen". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 6 April 2020. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  3. "Reel Talk". Archived from the original on 12 December 2003. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
  4. "Thendral Songs". Raaga.com. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  5. "Thendral Songs". mio.to. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  6. "Online edition of Daily News - Features". archives.dailynews.lk. Retrieved 20 July 2014.





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