Chinna Mapillai is a 1993

1993 in film

The year 1993 in film involved many significant films, including the blockbuster hits Jurassic Park, The Fugitive and The Firm. -Events:...

 Indian Tamil-language film starring Prabhu Ganesan

Prabhu Ganesan

Prabhu Ganesan is a Tamil film actor and producer. He is the son of veteran actor Sivaji Ganesan.-Personal life:A native of Tamil Nadu, Prabhu was born to Sivaji and Kamala Ganesan. He has an elder brother Ramkumar Ganesan who is a film producer, and two sisters, Shanthi and Thenmozhi. He did his...

, Sukanya, Visu

Visu

Visu , born 1941 is a Tamil writer, director, stage, film and television actor and talk show host from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Visu fine tuned his directorial skills under the mentor-ship of legendary K. Balachander until becoming a full fledged director...

.The film was remade in hindi as Coolie No.1

Coolie No.1

For 1995 Hindi language movie, see Coolie No. 1Coolie No.1 is a 1991 Telugu movie written and directed by K. Raghavendra Rao. It stars Venkatesh, Tabu, Mohan Babu, Rao Gopal Rao, and Sharada Urvashi in vital roles. Music was composed by Ilayaraja. The film was produced by Venkatesh's father, D....

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Plot

Prabhu is a kind-hearted poor man who works as a coolie in bus stand. Visu, a marriage broker wants him to pose as a rich man from Singapore and marry Sukanya to break the arrogance and her money-minded father (Radha Ravi).Her father finds out that he ss a coolie. But Prabhu brilliantly lies that it is his younger brother.How he reforms both of them forms the story.

Soundtrack

Meastro Ilaiyaraaja scored some great songs for this movie

• Vaanam Vazhthida - S. P. Balasubramaniam, Minmini
  Minmini
  Minmini is a South Indian film playback singer. She is remembered especially for the song "Chinna Chinna Aasai" from Roja, the debut work of film composer A. R. Rahman. Though she is from Kerala, most of her memorable songs are in Tamil, most of them composed by Ilaiyaraaja and A. R. Rahman...
  
  
• Vennilavu Kothipathana - Mano
  Mano (singer)
  Mano is an Indian playback singer. He sings in Telugu, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Hindi.-Biography:Mano was born in a Muslim family and his original name is Nagoor Babu; he was rechristened Mano by Ilayaraja...
  
  , Swarnalatha
  Swarnalatha
  Swarnalatha was a Indian playback singer. From 1987 onward, she rendered nearly 7000 songs in many languages including Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, Urdu, Bengali, Oriya, Punjabi and Badaga....
  
  
• Kaatu Kuyil Paatu - S. P. Balasubramaniam, Swarnalatha
  Swarnalatha
  Swarnalatha was a Indian playback singer. From 1987 onward, she rendered nearly 7000 songs in many languages including Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, Urdu, Bengali, Oriya, Punjabi and Badaga....
  
  
• Kadhoram Loolakku - Mano
  Mano (singer)
  Mano is an Indian playback singer. He sings in Telugu, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Hindi.-Biography:Mano was born in a Muslim family and his original name is Nagoor Babu; he was rechristened Mano by Ilayaraja...
  
  , S. Janaki
  S. Janaki
  S. Janaki is an Indian female playback singer. Renowned for her voice modulation abilities, she has sung in many Indian languages, most frequently in Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi. Throughout a career spanning more than five decades, she has won four National Film Awards and 35...
  
  
• Kanmanikkul Chinna - S. P. Balasubramaniam, K. S. Chitra
• Ada Mama Nee - Mano
  Mano (singer)
  Mano is an Indian playback singer. He sings in Telugu, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Hindi.-Biography:Mano was born in a Muslim family and his original name is Nagoor Babu; he was rechristened Mano by Ilayaraja...
  
  

Cast

• Prabhu Ganesan
  Prabhu Ganesan
  Prabhu Ganesan is a Tamil film actor and producer. He is the son of veteran actor Sivaji Ganesan.-Personal life:A native of Tamil Nadu, Prabhu was born to Sivaji and Kamala Ganesan. He has an elder brother Ramkumar Ganesan who is a film producer, and two sisters, Shanthi and Thenmozhi. He did his...
  
  
• Radha Ravi
  Radha Ravi
  Radha Ravi is a Tamil film and television actor, who played supporting roles throughout his career. He is the son of yesteryear actor, M. R. Radha and the uncle of Vasu Vikram and halfbrother of Raadhika Sarathkumar. He is a chief member of the South Indian Film Artistes' Association...
  
  
• Visu
  Visu
  Visu , born 1941 is a Tamil writer, director, stage, film and television actor and talk show host from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Visu fine tuned his directorial skills under the mentor-ship of legendary K. Balachander until becoming a full fledged director...
  
  
• Sukanya
  Sukanya
  In Hindu mythology, was the daughter of Shryayati, son of Vaivasvata Manu and the wife of the great sage Chyavana.The sage had spent so long in meditation that he was covered by a termite nest. The beautiful girl Sukanya came upon the nest and saw two shining objects inside...
  
  
• Vinu Chakravarthy
  Vinu Chakravarthy
  Vinu Chakravarthy is a Tamil actor, script writer and director who is known for acting in more than 1000 movies in Tamill, Telugu, Badaga and Malayalam mostly as a comedian, supporting actor or in a villanous role....
  
  
• Anand
  Anand
  *Ananda was one of the principal disciples of the Buddha, Siddhartha GautamaAnand may refer to:-Given name:* Anand Agarawala, Canadian software programmer and creator of BumpTop* Anand Lal Shimpi, founder and editor-in-chief of AnandTech...
  
  
• Sivaranjani

Remakes

Chinna Mapillai was remade in Malayalam with slight changes as Mattupetti Machan and interestingly the same Mattupetti Machan was again remade into Tamil

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...

 as Banda Paramasivam

Banda Paramasivam

-Plot:Cheran and Pandiyan are stepbrotherswho are constantly at loggerheads and their daughters Manjuand Anju continue their enmity. They're always trying to prove to each other that one is better than the other and arealways bickering...

, thus completing a cycle.