Peranmai
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Peranmai is a 2009
Tamil
action
-adventure film
. Directed and written by S. P. Jananathan in his venture and produced by Ayngaran International
, it stars Jayam Ravi
and Roland Kickinger
in the lead roles while Ponvannan
, Vadivelu
and Urvashi
, prominent actors from the Tamil industry, played supporting roles in the film.
The film revolves around is a tribal forest guard who works for the welfare of his tribe and spreading education among them. Whilst, on a team bonding mission with five college girls, whom initially mistreat him due to his caste
, they stumble on a group of foreign mercenaries who are planning to stop India’s scientific progress by destroying a rocket launch by using missiles. How the team bonds together and defeat the potential threat forms the crux of the story.
The film opened to audiences worldwide on 16 October 2009, coinciding with Diwali
. The film received predominantly mixed to good reviews, praising the film for the patriotic theme.
remote sensing satellite
which would help scientists identify land suitable for agriculture. Within a short range of this operation, in the same forest, the state forest department runs an NCC
camp for women cadets. Dhuruvan (Jayam Ravi
) is a trainer at the camp. Being a Scheduled tribe, he is deprecated for being positioned as a cadet officer in the forest security force through reservation system by his senior officer Ganapathiram (Ponvannan
). But Dhuruvan's integrity and co-living with other tribes in the forest abnegates aboriginal allegations by other forward caste officials and cadets in the department. As a part of the training camp, an expedition is organized into the forest for a selected five cadets from the troop.
Dhuruvan selects the five most insolent and disobedient girls in the troop for the expedition intending to provide them better training. As an attempt at a practical joke, the haughty girls post a complaint to Ganapathiram claiming that they didn't feel save with Dhuruvan and that he was responsible for whatever that was to happen to them. Meanwhile, the expedition begins and while Dhuruvan is caught up in some procedures at the forest check post, the girls non-chanlantly try to drive the jeep and run it down the slope of a hill. After losing their the vehicle, the troop decides to stay in the forest for the night and go by an alternate route the next morning. But the plot thickens, when Kalpana (Vasundhara) describes two white men with advanced armaments in the Indian forest heading towards the direction of the Indian satellite research station in the forest.
Dhuruvan guesses that they must be out to sabotage the space mission and makes plans to defeat the operation of the foreign mercenaries. He sends a cadet back to inform the officials and the rest join him in the operation. He manages to lodge their troop ahead of mercenaries by his navigation acumen. Later he deliberately obstructs the movement of mercenaries by cutting the trees to distract them. Anderson (Roland Kickinger) who heads the foreign terrorist group decides to stay back until a clear notion from the opposite side. He deploys two of his men to investigate the situation. But, Duruvan’s troops successfully kill the two men. Anderson sends another three men to the opposite side to find out what happened to the two guys he has sent; on the other hand Dhuruvan’s troops are eagerly waiting for them to collect their armaments. When Anderson finds that he has lost five of his group, he decides to kill whoever is obstructing him move further.
But, Dhuruvan's troops cleverly plant the land mines they acquired from one of the five men they killed. As per their expectation, one of the terrorists steps on a land mine and dies. This scares the terrorists and they decide that Anderson and one another man would go hunt for the land mines while the rest would set up a camp there. That night, Dhuruvan’s troops break into their camp and seize one of two boxes that the terrorists carry around with them. expecting it to contain information about the air missile. By the morning, Anderson finds most of his men dead and is enraged at Dhuruvan. On the other side, Ganapathiram gathers his team and creates allusions against Dhuruvan among the public. He manages to get a shoot on sight order for Dhuruvan from the district collector. He finds Ajitha's body in the quick sand of the river (previously sent by Dhuruvan to inform about terrorist group to the Army, but trapped into the quicksand and dies) and perceives that Dhuruvun must have killed her. Ganapathiram on the way, finds Dhuruvan and tries to shoot him, but Dhuruvan escapes .He later realizes the situation when he sees the corpses of the terrorists and informs the Army head that he killed the terrorists and promises him to hand over the dead bodies. Dhuruvan now has killed almost all of his enemies except Anderson and another guy at the counter missile sight. Anderson, this time gets an opportunity to kill his enemy from Dhuruvan troop by identifying their secret signals.
At climax, Dhuruvan and Anderson fight face to face and the girls try to disarm the counter missile from firing at the space rocket. After an intense fight between the men, Anderson is killed by Dhuruvan. Dhuruvan finally reaches the site of the missile launch and helps the girls. He increases the time set of the rocket by 25 seconds and changes the direction of the missile. Indian space rocket launches from the station and speeds up into the atmosphere. After 25 seconds, the counter missile diverted from its direction explodes into the desolate forest. The troop prides themselves for being successful on their mission. At the end of the movie, Ganapathiram is being awarded by the Indian government for his bravery while Dhuruvan is back at the camp site training another set of NCC cadets.
underwent physical training for the role of a forest officer in this film. He plays a one-man army in this film similar to that of Sylvester Stallone
in Rambo.
Actors Vasundhara, Saranya, Varsha, Tanusika, Maha and Liyasree played the lead female roles.
.Jayam Ravi was praised for his performance in this film.
2009 in film
The year 2009 saw the release of many films. Seven made the top 50 list of highest-grossing films, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that as of this year, their Best Picture category would consist of ten nominees, rather than five .- Highest-grossing films :Please note...
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...
action
Action film
Action film is a film genre where one or more heroes is thrust into a series of challenges that require physical feats, extended fights and frenetic chases...
-adventure film
Adventure film
Adventure films are a genre of film.Unlike pure, low-budget action films they often use their action scenes preferably to display and explore exotic locations in an energetic way....
. Directed and written by S. P. Jananathan in his venture and produced by Ayngaran International
Ayngaran International
Ayngaran is a film distribution and production company of Tamil films, based in the United Kingdom. The company has distributed various Indian-produced Tamil films in Europe and North America. It is also responsible for the production of Tamil films into home media, such as VHS, DVD, and blu-ray...
, it stars Jayam Ravi
Jayam Ravi
Jayam Ravi is an Indian film actor. Ravi has appeared in films including Jayam, M. Kumaran Son Of Mahalakshmi, Unakkum Enakkum, Santhosh Subramaniam and Thillalangadi all of which have been directed by his brother, M...
and Roland Kickinger
Roland Kickinger
Roland Kickinger is an Austrian-born bodybuilder and actor from Vienna. Standing 6-feet-4-inches-tall and weighing from 250-300 pounds, he has appeared in numerous bodybuilding competitions, fitness magazines and training videos...
in the lead roles while Ponvannan
Ponvannan
Ponvannan is an Indian film actor, who has played supporting roles throughout his career. He directed the award-winning film, Jamila. He is married to fellow actor, Saranya.- Tamil TV Serials -...
, Vadivelu
Vadivelu
Vadivelu , often referred to as Vadivel, is a Tamil film actor,comedian and playback singer. Since 2000, he has acted as a comedian in various Tamil films. During his career, Vadivelu has won several Filmfare Awards and Tamil Nadu State Film Awards...
and Urvashi
Urvashi (actress)
Kavitha Ranjini, better known by her stage name Urvashi , is an Indian film actress and producer. She was a prominent lead actress during the 1980s and 1990s in Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, and Telugu films. She has dubbed in her own voice in all these languages. And she produced the film Pidakkozhi...
, prominent actors from the Tamil industry, played supporting roles in the film.
The film revolves around is a tribal forest guard who works for the welfare of his tribe and spreading education among them. Whilst, on a team bonding mission with five college girls, whom initially mistreat him due to his caste
Caste
Caste is an elaborate and complex social system that combines elements of endogamy, occupation, culture, social class, tribal affiliation and political power. It should not be confused with race or social class, e.g. members of different castes in one society may belong to the same race, as in India...
, they stumble on a group of foreign mercenaries who are planning to stop India’s scientific progress by destroying a rocket launch by using missiles. How the team bonds together and defeat the potential threat forms the crux of the story.
The film opened to audiences worldwide on 16 October 2009, coinciding with Diwali
Diwali
Diwali or DeepavaliThe name of the festival in various regional languages include:, , , , , , , , , , , , , popularly known as the "festival of lights," is a festival celebrated between mid-October and mid-December for different reasons...
. The film received predominantly mixed to good reviews, praising the film for the patriotic theme.
Plot
The film begins with the announcement of the scheduled launch of a space vehicle carrying an IndianIndia
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
remote sensing satellite
Satellite
In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an object which has been placed into orbit by human endeavour. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon....
which would help scientists identify land suitable for agriculture. Within a short range of this operation, in the same forest, the state forest department runs an NCC
National Cadet Corps (India)
The National Cadet Corps is the Indian military cadet corps with its Headquarters at New Delhi. It is open to school and college students on voluntary basis....
camp for women cadets. Dhuruvan (Jayam Ravi
Jayam Ravi
Jayam Ravi is an Indian film actor. Ravi has appeared in films including Jayam, M. Kumaran Son Of Mahalakshmi, Unakkum Enakkum, Santhosh Subramaniam and Thillalangadi all of which have been directed by his brother, M...
) is a trainer at the camp. Being a Scheduled tribe, he is deprecated for being positioned as a cadet officer in the forest security force through reservation system by his senior officer Ganapathiram (Ponvannan
Ponvannan
Ponvannan is an Indian film actor, who has played supporting roles throughout his career. He directed the award-winning film, Jamila. He is married to fellow actor, Saranya.- Tamil TV Serials -...
). But Dhuruvan's integrity and co-living with other tribes in the forest abnegates aboriginal allegations by other forward caste officials and cadets in the department. As a part of the training camp, an expedition is organized into the forest for a selected five cadets from the troop.
Dhuruvan selects the five most insolent and disobedient girls in the troop for the expedition intending to provide them better training. As an attempt at a practical joke, the haughty girls post a complaint to Ganapathiram claiming that they didn't feel save with Dhuruvan and that he was responsible for whatever that was to happen to them. Meanwhile, the expedition begins and while Dhuruvan is caught up in some procedures at the forest check post, the girls non-chanlantly try to drive the jeep and run it down the slope of a hill. After losing their the vehicle, the troop decides to stay in the forest for the night and go by an alternate route the next morning. But the plot thickens, when Kalpana (Vasundhara) describes two white men with advanced armaments in the Indian forest heading towards the direction of the Indian satellite research station in the forest.
Dhuruvan guesses that they must be out to sabotage the space mission and makes plans to defeat the operation of the foreign mercenaries. He sends a cadet back to inform the officials and the rest join him in the operation. He manages to lodge their troop ahead of mercenaries by his navigation acumen. Later he deliberately obstructs the movement of mercenaries by cutting the trees to distract them. Anderson (Roland Kickinger) who heads the foreign terrorist group decides to stay back until a clear notion from the opposite side. He deploys two of his men to investigate the situation. But, Duruvan’s troops successfully kill the two men. Anderson sends another three men to the opposite side to find out what happened to the two guys he has sent; on the other hand Dhuruvan’s troops are eagerly waiting for them to collect their armaments. When Anderson finds that he has lost five of his group, he decides to kill whoever is obstructing him move further.
But, Dhuruvan's troops cleverly plant the land mines they acquired from one of the five men they killed. As per their expectation, one of the terrorists steps on a land mine and dies. This scares the terrorists and they decide that Anderson and one another man would go hunt for the land mines while the rest would set up a camp there. That night, Dhuruvan’s troops break into their camp and seize one of two boxes that the terrorists carry around with them. expecting it to contain information about the air missile. By the morning, Anderson finds most of his men dead and is enraged at Dhuruvan. On the other side, Ganapathiram gathers his team and creates allusions against Dhuruvan among the public. He manages to get a shoot on sight order for Dhuruvan from the district collector. He finds Ajitha's body in the quick sand of the river (previously sent by Dhuruvan to inform about terrorist group to the Army, but trapped into the quicksand and dies) and perceives that Dhuruvun must have killed her. Ganapathiram on the way, finds Dhuruvan and tries to shoot him, but Dhuruvan escapes .He later realizes the situation when he sees the corpses of the terrorists and informs the Army head that he killed the terrorists and promises him to hand over the dead bodies. Dhuruvan now has killed almost all of his enemies except Anderson and another guy at the counter missile sight. Anderson, this time gets an opportunity to kill his enemy from Dhuruvan troop by identifying their secret signals.
At climax, Dhuruvan and Anderson fight face to face and the girls try to disarm the counter missile from firing at the space rocket. After an intense fight between the men, Anderson is killed by Dhuruvan. Dhuruvan finally reaches the site of the missile launch and helps the girls. He increases the time set of the rocket by 25 seconds and changes the direction of the missile. Indian space rocket launches from the station and speeds up into the atmosphere. After 25 seconds, the counter missile diverted from its direction explodes into the desolate forest. The troop prides themselves for being successful on their mission. At the end of the movie, Ganapathiram is being awarded by the Indian government for his bravery while Dhuruvan is back at the camp site training another set of NCC cadets.
Cast
- Jayam RaviJayam RaviJayam Ravi is an Indian film actor. Ravi has appeared in films including Jayam, M. Kumaran Son Of Mahalakshmi, Unakkum Enakkum, Santhosh Subramaniam and Thillalangadi all of which have been directed by his brother, M...
as Dhuruvan - Roland KickingerRoland KickingerRoland Kickinger is an Austrian-born bodybuilder and actor from Vienna. Standing 6-feet-4-inches-tall and weighing from 250-300 pounds, he has appeared in numerous bodybuilding competitions, fitness magazines and training videos...
as Anderson - Vasundhara as Kalpana
- Saranya as Ajitha
- Varsha as Thulasi
- Dhansika as Jennifer
- Liyasree as Susheela
- PonvannanPonvannanPonvannan is an Indian film actor, who has played supporting roles throughout his career. He directed the award-winning film, Jamila. He is married to fellow actor, Saranya.- Tamil TV Serials -...
as Ganapathi Ram - VadiveluVadiveluVadivelu , often referred to as Vadivel, is a Tamil film actor,comedian and playback singer. Since 2000, he has acted as a comedian in various Tamil films. During his career, Vadivelu has won several Filmfare Awards and Tamil Nadu State Film Awards...
as Soosai - UrvashiUrvashi (actress)Kavitha Ranjini, better known by her stage name Urvashi , is an Indian film actress and producer. She was a prominent lead actress during the 1980s and 1990s in Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, and Telugu films. She has dubbed in her own voice in all these languages. And she produced the film Pidakkozhi...
as Victoria Madam - Svilen Kamburov as Benny
Casting
Jayam RaviJayam Ravi
Jayam Ravi is an Indian film actor. Ravi has appeared in films including Jayam, M. Kumaran Son Of Mahalakshmi, Unakkum Enakkum, Santhosh Subramaniam and Thillalangadi all of which have been directed by his brother, M...
underwent physical training for the role of a forest officer in this film. He plays a one-man army in this film similar to that of Sylvester Stallone
Sylvester Stallone
Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone , commonly known as Sylvester Stallone, and nicknamed Sly Stallone, is an American actor, filmmaker, screenwriter, film director and occasional painter. Stallone is known for his machismo and Hollywood action roles. Two of the notable characters he has portrayed...
in Rambo.
Actors Vasundhara, Saranya, Varsha, Tanusika, Maha and Liyasree played the lead female roles.
Soundtrack
- "Kaattu Puli Adichu" by Kay KayKay KayKrishnakumar Kunnath , also known as KK, is an Indian playback singer. He is a prominent singer in Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Tamil films....
and Jassie GiftJassie GiftJassie Gift is a Malayalam film music composer and singer from Thiruvananthapuram, India. He became famous after his song "Lajjavathiye" in the film 4 the people.-Biography:... - "Kaadu Kaalai Katta" by Madhu BalakrishnanMadhu BalakrishnanMadhu Balakrishnan is an Indian playback singer, who sings in Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada languages.-Biography:Madhu Balakrishnan is from Tripunithura, Cochin, Kerala in India. A Graded artist in All India Radio and Doordarshan, he has performed with all major playback singers in Kerala...
- "Yera Thala" by Sadhana SargamSadhana SargamSadhana Sargam is an acclaimed Indian playback singer. She is a recipient of the prestigious National Film Award and Filmfare Awards.Sargam has sung in many Indian languages for films, television serials and music albums. She is well known for her 90s Hindi songs and recent South Indian songs. She...
- "When The Boys" by Sonia Irabar and Sianed Jones
- "Thuppaaki Penne" by Shalini, MeghaMeghaMegha is 1996 Hindi Movie directed by Mohanji Prasad and starring Shammi Kapoor, Rahul Roy, Karishma Kapoor. Other cast include Mohnish Bahl, Saeed Jaffrey, Rakesh Bedi, Ronit Roy, Aparajita, Satyendra Kapoor, Dinesh Hingoo, Rajendra Nath, Paintal, Tiku Talsania.-Plot:Pretty collegian Megha has...
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Boxoffice
This film was declared as a blockbuster hit by trade pundits.This film released alongside surys's AadhavanAadhavan
Aadhavan is a 2009 Tamil action thriller, directed by K. S. Ravikumar and written by Ramesh Khanna. The film features Surya Sivakumar in the title role along with Nayantara in lead roles and Murali, Vadivelu, Anand Babu, Ramesh Khanna, B. Saroja Devi, Rahul Dev, Sayaji Shinde in its supporting...
.Jayam Ravi was praised for his performance in this film.