My Dear Marthandan is a Tamil language film starring Prabhu Ganesan and Kushboo Sundar for Sivaji Productions

Sivaji Productions

Sivaji Productions is a film distributing and producing company of Tamil and Hindi language films.- History :Sivaji Productions company is owned by Prabhu Ganesan and his brother Ramkumar Ganesan. It is named after their father, the thespian Sivaji Ganesan...

 in the lead roles. The film has been directed by Prathap K. Pothan

Prathap K. Pothan

Prathap K. Pothan , popularly known by his first name , is an Indian actor, director, writer, producer who has acted in about 95 films. He has acted in Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu as well as Hindi films...

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Plot

My Dear Marthandan.Marthandan lives with his parents in a palace.He sets out to Chennai to find a girl.There he meets "Idea Mani"(Goundamani) who is very cunning and tries to take money from the innocent marthandan in comical ways.He meets his girl(Kushbu)in a bakery shop and tries to win her.The rest of the story is about how he tries to win her over and how he understands the value of money.It is a remake of a Hollywood film Coming to America

Coming to America

Coming to America is a 1988 comedy film directed by John Landis. The screenplay was written by David Sheffield and Barry W. Blaustein, from a story by Eddie Murphy, who also stars in the film. Murphy plays an African prince, who heads to the United States in hopes of finding a woman he can marry...

 starring Eddie Murphy

Eddie Murphy

Edward Regan "Eddie" Murphy is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, singer, director, and musician....

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This movie however did not do well at the box office.