Ananda Tandavam
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Ananda Tandavam is a 2009 Tamil-language
film adaptation of the Sujatha Rangarajan
serialized
novel
Pirivom Santhippom, directed by A.R. Gandhi Krishna
and produced by Oscar V. Ravichandran
of Aascar Films.This is one of the love stories by the late author Sujatha.The characters Raghu(Siddharth Venugopal) & Madhumitha(Tamanna Bhatia
): their love story captured so many hearts that writer Sujatha, who had initially finished the first novel, started the second part due to high demand from readers.
in Sivaji made his directorial debut with the film Chellamae. Sujatha Rangarajan
wrote the dialogue for the screenplay
before his death. Filming began on location in Ooty, then moved to Tenkasi
, Kuttralam, Ambasamudram
, Papanasam
and Multimedia University Cyberjaya. G V Prakash
scored the music for the movie while award-winning lyricist Vairamuthu
penned the lyrics. Vairamuthu
said one of his best recent works was the song he wrote for this film. Vairamuthu said, "On reading the lines, Gandhi Krishna was floored totally and was in fail of words". Ananda Thandavam was produced by Aascar Films' V Ravichandran. Sankar
, who worked as associate to the late cinematographer Jeeva
, was "cranking the camera"..
Her parents also bring joy in Raghu's life as they accept who Raghu is and eventually, Raghu finds employment. Everything seems to go well when trouble comes in the form of Radha Krishnan. He is a spoilt NRI boy and worst of all, Madhu agrees with her parents opinion and marries Radha. They both leave for the US while Raghu attempts to commit suicide. He escapes it narrowly and with further encouragement from his father and friends, leaves for US to study.
He meets Ratna(Rukmini Vijayakumar
) and love slowly begins to blossom between them. One time, Raghu faces his ex-lover Madhumitha and discovers that her husband is a traitor to her and that she is unaware of it. He resolves to tell her the truth but Madhu is blinded against Radha's faults because of respect for him. She later discovers her husband in bed with another woman, but this just makes her situation worse because she had been under abuse.
One day, she escapes from Radha and goes to meet Raghu. Unfortunately for her, Raghu gets engaged to Ratna the very same day, and unable to bear any more sadness, ends up cutting her veins and begging Raghu to take her back. Ratna intervenes and Madhu asks for Raghu, Ratna is disgusted and complains to her family. They come and take Raghu away, leaving Madhu devastated, drunk and bleeding through her veins, she drives like a maniac and ends up driving into oncoming traffic and gets killed by a truck.
At the airport, everyone is gathered and Madhu's parents are collecting the coffin with Madhu's body. Radha tries to lie to Madhu's parents that he was perfect to her in every way and cannot understand why this happened. In the meantime, Raghu arrives who had also come to see Madhu's body gets enraged and charges at him with a revolver
finds out that it is locked. He is later soothed by Ratna.
.
was originally cast but opted out and was replaced by Siddharth Venugopal Siddarth,a newcomer was picked by the director for the lead role,when he saw one of the ads he had done previously.
Tamil language
Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...
film adaptation of the Sujatha Rangarajan
Sujatha Rangarajan
Sujatha was the pseudonym of the Tamil writer S. Rangarajan, author of over 100 novels, 250 short stories, ten books on science, ten stage plays, and a slim volume of poems. He was one of the most popular writers in Tamil literature, and a regular contributor to topical columns in Tamil...
serialized
Serial (literature)
In literature, a serial is a publishing format by which a single large work, most often a work of narrative fiction, is presented in contiguous installments—also known as numbers, parts, or fascicles—either issued as separate publications or appearing in sequential issues of a single periodical...
novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
Pirivom Santhippom, directed by A.R. Gandhi Krishna
Gandhi Krishna
Gandhi Krishna is a Tamil film director. He has worked as an assistant to Shankar before he made his first film.-Filmography:-References:...
and produced by Oscar V. Ravichandran
Venu Ravichandran
Venu Ravichandran is an Indian film producer and distributor in Chennai, India. He is the founder and owner of the production and distribution company, Aascar Films.-Career:...
of Aascar Films.This is one of the love stories by the late author Sujatha.The characters Raghu(Siddharth Venugopal) & Madhumitha(Tamanna Bhatia
Tamanna Bhatia
Tamannaah Bhatia is an Indian film actress and model, who predominantly appears in Tamil and Telugu-language films. In 2005, she made her acting debut in her only Hindi film so far, Chand Sa Roshan Chehra, before working in the major South Indian film industries.Also in 2005, Tamannaah made her...
): their love story captured so many hearts that writer Sujatha, who had initially finished the first novel, started the second part due to high demand from readers.
Production notes
AR Gandhi Krishna, former assistant to ShankarS. Shankar
Shankar is an Indian film director and producer who predominantly works in Tamil cinema. He made his directional debut in Gentleman for which he was awarded the Filmfare Best Director Award...
in Sivaji made his directorial debut with the film Chellamae. Sujatha Rangarajan
Sujatha Rangarajan
Sujatha was the pseudonym of the Tamil writer S. Rangarajan, author of over 100 novels, 250 short stories, ten books on science, ten stage plays, and a slim volume of poems. He was one of the most popular writers in Tamil literature, and a regular contributor to topical columns in Tamil...
wrote the dialogue for the screenplay
Screenplay
A screenplay or script is a written work that is made especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. In them, the movement, actions, expression, and dialogues of the characters are also narrated...
before his death. Filming began on location in Ooty, then moved to Tenkasi
Tenkasi
Tenkasi pronounced as is a town and a municipality in Tirunelveli district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located in the foothills of the Western Ghats near the Courtallam Waterfalls.Tenkasi is also famous for saaral...
, Kuttralam, Ambasamudram
Ambasamudram
Ambasamudram is a taluk in Tirunelveli district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. The entire taluk had a population of 392,226 as of 2001, with 42.5% classified as rural. The taluk is named for the principal town with the same name...
, Papanasam
Papanasam
Papanasam is a panchayat town in Thanjavur district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. In otherwords it is a grown up village and Growing Town. This is the town 25 km from Tanjore and 15 km from Kumbakonam...
and Multimedia University Cyberjaya. G V Prakash
G. V. Prakash Kumar
G. V. Prakash Kumar is an Indian film score and soundtrack composer and singer. He has mainly scored music for Tamil, while also doing three Telugu films and a Hindi film...
scored the music for the movie while award-winning lyricist Vairamuthu
Vairamuthu
Vairamuthu Ramaswamy Thevar is an award-winning Tamil poet and lyricist.Debuting in the film Nizhalgal with the lyrics for the song "Ponmalai Pozhudhu", he has now about 5800 songs to his credit as of January 2009. His partnership with the composers Ilaiyaraaja, and later A. R...
penned the lyrics. Vairamuthu
Vairamuthu
Vairamuthu Ramaswamy Thevar is an award-winning Tamil poet and lyricist.Debuting in the film Nizhalgal with the lyrics for the song "Ponmalai Pozhudhu", he has now about 5800 songs to his credit as of January 2009. His partnership with the composers Ilaiyaraaja, and later A. R...
said one of his best recent works was the song he wrote for this film. Vairamuthu said, "On reading the lines, Gandhi Krishna was floored totally and was in fail of words". Ananda Thandavam was produced by Aascar Films' V Ravichandran. Sankar
Sankar
Sankar is a village development committee in Baitadi District in the Mahakali Zone of western Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 1,964 and had 404 houses in the village....
, who worked as associate to the late cinematographer Jeeva
Jeeva (director)
Jeeva was a popular cinematographer and film director in Tamil cinema.-Career:The four completed films he directed, namely 12B, Run , Ullam Ketkumae and Unnale Unnale, have become blockbusters. He died after suffering acute cardiac arrest in Russia on 25 June at the age of 43...
, was "cranking the camera"..
Plot
It deals with the life of Raghu, whose mother dies in childbirth, he grows with plenty of affection from his father and grows into a quiet, sensible and a bit of a serious person. He is frustrated because he is unemployed, when he meets Madhumitha; a naive character, she plays childish pranks and brings energy into his life.Her parents also bring joy in Raghu's life as they accept who Raghu is and eventually, Raghu finds employment. Everything seems to go well when trouble comes in the form of Radha Krishnan. He is a spoilt NRI boy and worst of all, Madhu agrees with her parents opinion and marries Radha. They both leave for the US while Raghu attempts to commit suicide. He escapes it narrowly and with further encouragement from his father and friends, leaves for US to study.
He meets Ratna(Rukmini Vijayakumar
Rukmini Vijayakumar
Rukmini Vijayakumar, is a Tamil film actress and a Bharatanatyam dancer.-Personal Life And Career:Rukmini Vijayakumar began her dance training at the age of eight. She studied Bharatanatyam under Guru Narmada, Guru Padmini Rao and Guru Sundari Santhanam and practiced the Karanas for several years...
) and love slowly begins to blossom between them. One time, Raghu faces his ex-lover Madhumitha and discovers that her husband is a traitor to her and that she is unaware of it. He resolves to tell her the truth but Madhu is blinded against Radha's faults because of respect for him. She later discovers her husband in bed with another woman, but this just makes her situation worse because she had been under abuse.
One day, she escapes from Radha and goes to meet Raghu. Unfortunately for her, Raghu gets engaged to Ratna the very same day, and unable to bear any more sadness, ends up cutting her veins and begging Raghu to take her back. Ratna intervenes and Madhu asks for Raghu, Ratna is disgusted and complains to her family. They come and take Raghu away, leaving Madhu devastated, drunk and bleeding through her veins, she drives like a maniac and ends up driving into oncoming traffic and gets killed by a truck.
At the airport, everyone is gathered and Madhu's parents are collecting the coffin with Madhu's body. Radha tries to lie to Madhu's parents that he was perfect to her in every way and cannot understand why this happened. In the meantime, Raghu arrives who had also come to see Madhu's body gets enraged and charges at him with a revolver
Revolver
A revolver is a repeating firearm that has a cylinder containing multiple chambers and at least one barrel for firing. The first revolver ever made was built by Elisha Collier in 1818. The percussion cap revolver was invented by Samuel Colt in 1836. This weapon became known as the Colt Paterson...
finds out that it is locked. He is later soothed by Ratna.
Cast
- Siddharth as Raghu
- Tamanna BhatiaTamanna BhatiaTamannaah Bhatia is an Indian film actress and model, who predominantly appears in Tamil and Telugu-language films. In 2005, she made her acting debut in her only Hindi film so far, Chand Sa Roshan Chehra, before working in the major South Indian film industries.Also in 2005, Tamannaah made her...
as Madhumitha (Raghu's ex-lover) - Rukmini VijayakumarRukmini VijayakumarRukmini Vijayakumar, is a Tamil film actress and a Bharatanatyam dancer.-Personal Life And Career:Rukmini Vijayakumar began her dance training at the age of eight. She studied Bharatanatyam under Guru Narmada, Guru Padmini Rao and Guru Sundari Santhanam and practiced the Karanas for several years...
as Ratna (Raghu's fiance) - RishiRishi (actor)Rishi is an Indian film and television actor. After appearing in several television soaps, his breakthrough came through Sun TV's Deala No Deala.-Early life:...
as Radhakrishnan (Madhumitha's Husband) - Ammu
- AmitaAmitaAmita is a female Indian given name. The name means "infinite" in Sanskrit and is a wordstem of Amitabha. It can refer to:* Amita Bhushan, Indian politician* Amita Dhiri, English actress* Amita Kanekar, Indian writer* Amita Malik, Indian film critic...
- Charlie
- Venki
- Bala Singh
- Kalai Rani
- Madan Bob
- Kitty as Raghu's father
- Rama Natarajan as Mohanram (as Raghu's Guardian in USA)
- Ann Marie Seall as Jennifer
- Aditi Sriram (as mohanram's daughter)
- Sanchaya Satish (as Mohanram's daughter)
- Sanjana Satish (as mohanram's daughter)
- SrinathSrinath (actor)For Malayali actor see SreenathSrinath is an Indian actor and director. He starting in drama troupes, and has transitioned to the film industry. After appearing in various television serials such as Kadhalikka Neramillai, he started to play supporting roles in films such as Ullam Ketkumae and...
- The Satish's Van as Jennifer's car
Soundtrack
The songs were composed by G. V. PrakashG. V. Prakash Kumar
G. V. Prakash Kumar is an Indian film score and soundtrack composer and singer. He has mainly scored music for Tamil, while also doing three Telugu films and a Hindi film...
.
| Song title | Singers |
|---|---|
| "Poovinai" | Srinivas Srinivas (singer) Srinivas 'Srini' is an award winning playback singer who has sung over 2000 songs in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi. He is also a music composer.-Early life:... , Shreya Ghoshal |
| "Pattu Poochi" | Naresh Iyer Naresh Iyer Naresh Iyer is a playback singer from Chennai, India. Naresh Iyer has rendered film songs in several Indian languages and has several chart hits to his credit. His rendition of "Roobaroo" from the movie Rang De Basanti composed by A. R. Rahman topped the music charts for many weeks in 2006 and won... , Harmony |
| "Kallil Aadum" | Benny Dayal Benny Dayal Benny Dayal is an Indian singer. He is a member of the band S5 launched by the channel SS Music. Originally from Kerala, he has worked as a playback singer with many noted composers to produce successful soundtracks.-Biography:Benny Dayal's parents hail from Kollam district, Kerala... , Swetha Mohan |
| "Kaana Kangiren" | Nithyashree, Shubha Mudgal Shubha Mudgal Shubha Mudgal is a well-known Indian singer of Hindustani classical music, Khayal, Thumri, Dadra, and popular Indian Pop music.She has been awarded the 1996 National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film Music Direction for 'Amrit Beej', the 1998 Gold Plaque Award for Special Achievement in Music,... , Vinita |
| "Megam Pola" | Shankar Mahadevan Shankar Mahadevan Shankar Mahadevan is an Indian music composer and singer. He is a part of the Shankar Ehsaan Loy trio team that composes for Indian films and a playback singer.-Early life:... |
| "Ananda Thandavam theme" | G.V. Prakash G. V. Prakash Kumar G. V. Prakash Kumar is an Indian film score and soundtrack composer and singer. He has mainly scored music for Tamil, while also doing three Telugu films and a Hindi film... , Naresh Iyer Naresh Iyer Naresh Iyer is a playback singer from Chennai, India. Naresh Iyer has rendered film songs in several Indian languages and has several chart hits to his credit. His rendition of "Roobaroo" from the movie Rang De Basanti composed by A. R. Rahman topped the music charts for many weeks in 2006 and won... |
Production
VinayVinay
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was originally cast but opted out and was replaced by Siddharth Venugopal Siddarth,a newcomer was picked by the director for the lead role,when he saw one of the ads he had done previously.
External links
- Prasad Kovilkar, http://www.cinegoer.com/todayintollywood/310308/anandatandavam.htm
- S.R. Ashok Kumar ,Hindu.com, 10 May 2008, "Sujatha’s novel on the big screen"