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Polladhavan (2007 film)
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Polladhavan is a Tamil film
written and directed by Vetrimaran
. it stars Dhanush
and Divya Spandana in the main leads and it was released on 8 November 2007. The musical score is by G. V. Prakash Kumar
, while Yogi B and Dhina composed each one song. Velraj is the director of cinematography and Rambo Rajkumar was the stunt choreographer. This film was a super hit. This movie was loosely based on Bicycle Thieves
. It had nothing to do with the 1980 film of the same name
which starred Dhanush's father-in-law Rajinikanth.
) is a happy-go-lucky middle class family guy who spends time playing carrom
in the streets with his friends Santhanam, Karunas
. His father (Murali
) and he keep falling into minor misunderstandings, and he indulges in a hopeless romance with a strange girl (Divya Spandana) who he meets at a bus stop. When he is caught in the act of stealing a pittance from his father for booze with his friends, Prabhu questions his father’s responsibility towards his upbringing. His angry father gives Prabhu some of his savings and tells him to do something with his life. Prabhu purchases a Bajaj Pulsar bike instead and finds a job. The bike eventually saves his life from a freak incident and gets lost, subjecting him to interminable anguish as he searches for his bike. When his family members asks him about his bike, he tells them that he has given it for dealer service.
Prabhu comes into conflict with the underworld, courtesy a brutal murder planned by Out, the right hand of an underworld smuggling don, Selvam(Kishore).Prabhu finds out that his bike was stolen a petty bike thief who turns out to be in connection with Selvam's younger brother Ravi(Daniel Balaji
). Prabhu traces down the culprit as Senthurayan and hands him over to the local police station after some beat down. A formal complaint was lodged on Senthurayan on the same night. Later that night Prabhu confesses to his family that his bike was indeed stolen and not that he has given it for service. The next day morning Ravi visits Prabhu's residence and threatens him to withdraw the complaint against Senthurayan. When Prabhu refuses, a fight breaks in between Prabhu and Ravi, where Ravi is joined by few of his accomplices, Prabhu manages to fight them all and leaves Ravi beaten and embarrassed among the public.Ravi's brother Selvam returns home in bail after a murder charge.When he find out that What happened to Ravi, he gets furious and sends his henchmen to kill Prabhu without knowing what really was the reason for his brother's beat down. Meanwhile Prabhu himself along with his friend and auto driver Kumar(Karunas
) meets Selvam at his own territorial residence.Ravi was not home at that time and in fact he was searching for Prabhu in his area. Prabhu tells the truth to Selvam but refuses to believe that his brother Ravi and his men stole his bike. After hearing from his close ally (Pavan
) Out, Selvam believes Prabhu, apologizing for what happened and promises Prabhu that he will do whatever he can to get his bike back. But it was too late for Prabhu's father Murali who receives the attack from Ravi's men. He was admitted in a hospital and Prabhu breaks down after knowing that his father may never walk again after his right leg is paralysed by the attack. Selvam, Ravi and their men visit Prabhu to condole and apologize for what happened this time. Prabhu turns down the apology and again an immediate fight was about to break between Prabhu and Ravi before Selvam separates them both. Although he wants to stay away, Prabhu invariably gets dragged into rubbing shoulders with the criminals who now target his family to seek revenge.
Prabhu's bike was caught by Anti-Narcotics wing police cops and they nab Prabhu suspecting him of Drug-smuggling in his bike.They release him after Prabhu tells them that his bike was stolen and shows them his FIR copy. But he doesn't tell them about Ravi or Selvam about who really was responsible for his bike theft. Now Prabhu learns that his bike was stolen by Selvam's men to escspe from a murder scene but it was Ravi who smuggled drugs in his bike's petrol tank. Prabhu loses his job as an employee in his workplace since his bike was a source of work for him as a customer bill collector,and also he was kept at police custody for one night. Prabhu also gets despair from Hema's father for being involved unwllingly with Selvam's men. Ravi makes one more attempt at Prabhu's life but he was snubbed again by Prabhu. Selvam becomes unhappy about this and warns him to quit smuggling if he ever gets in Prabhu's business anymore. Ravi accuses Selvam of being a non-caring brother and Out intervenes and warns Ravi to mind his language. then surprisingly Selvam himself comes in support of his brother to lash out at Out. Out separates briefly from Selvam after this conflict. The next day Selvam and Ravi gets attacked by unknown gangsters when they were travelling in their car outside the city. Selvam asks his brother to stay inside the car and handles the killers on his own. He gets brutally injured though only to find out that he's been stabbed on back by his own Brother Ravi.The attack was arranged by Ravi himself to kill Selvam. Ravi delivers the killer blow before telling that Selvam is too complacent of Prabhu and he's going to kill him after killing Selvam. Selvam dies. Ravi creates a scene among Selvam's family, henchmen and Out that he's not aware of who launched the assault on Selvam. Out gets furious and vows to kill every enemy of his mentor Selvam including Prabhu.
Prabhu gets his bike back and was relieved for a brief time before coming to know what is going on and Ravi is after him and his family. He first goes to save Hema. After securing her, he goes to save his family. He thinks the only way to stop this is to confront Ravi himself. he takes down all the men sent by Ravi who comes in his way. Meanwhile Prabhu's family were chased down in Kumar's auto-rickshaw by Ravi's men. Prabhu finds Ravi hiding in an Ice-factory and engages him in a fight. Prabhu gets Ravi under the knife, threatening him to ask his men to leave Prabhu's family. Ravi does so. When prabhu is about to leave, Ravi provokes him to continue the fight til one of them gets killed. Prabhu manages to dodge Ravi's swing of his knife and gets a steel rod to fatally knock down Ravi. Out arrives at the acene. Surprisingly he lets Prabhu to go to let Ravi know he discovered Ravi's conspiracy of killing Selvam before Ravi dies. Prabhu leaves the scene in his much beloved Pulsar bike.
It is said to be an inspiration from the Italian movie Bicycle Thieves
, while rapper Yogi B and Dhina
composed each one track. The song Engeyum Eppodhum is a remix of the same-titled song from the 1979 film Ninaithale Inikkum.
Tamil cinema
Tamil cinema is the film industry based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, dedicated to the production of films in the Tamil language. It is based in Chennai's Kodambakkam district, where several South Indian film production companies are headquartered...
written and directed by Vetrimaran
Vetrimaran
Vetrimaaran is a Tamil film director, working primarily in the Tamil film industry based in Tamil Nadu. He made his directorial debut with the critically acclaimed Polladhavan . His second feature film Aadukalam won six National Film Awards, with Vetrimaaran receiving two awards for Best...
. it stars Dhanush
Dhanush
Venkatesh Prabhu Kasthuri Raja , better known by his stage name Dhanush , is an Indian film actor, occasional playback singer and lyricist, working in the Tamil film industry...
and Divya Spandana in the main leads and it was released on 8 November 2007. The musical score is by G. V. Prakash Kumar
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...
, while Yogi B and Dhina composed each one song. Velraj is the director of cinematography and Rambo Rajkumar was the stunt choreographer. This film was a super hit. This movie was loosely based on Bicycle Thieves
Bicycle Thieves
Bicycle Thieves , also known as The Bicycle Thief, is a 1948 Italian neorealist film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It tells the story of a poor man searching the streets of Rome for his stolen bicycle, which he needs to be able to work. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Luigi...
. It had nothing to do with the 1980 film of the same name
Polladhavan (1980 film)
Polladhavan is a 1980 Tamil film directed V. Srinivasan which stars Rajinikanth, Lakshmi and Sri Priya in the lead roles.-Plot:...
which starred Dhanush's father-in-law Rajinikanth.
Plot
Prabhu (DhanushDhanush
Venkatesh Prabhu Kasthuri Raja , better known by his stage name Dhanush , is an Indian film actor, occasional playback singer and lyricist, working in the Tamil film industry...
) is a happy-go-lucky middle class family guy who spends time playing carrom
Carrom
Carrom is a family of tabletop games with gameplay that lies somewhere between billiards and table shuffleboard. Carrom is known by many names around the world, including carrum, couronne, carum, karam, karom, karum, fatta and finger billiards...
in the streets with his friends Santhanam, Karunas
Karunas
Karunaas is a Tamil comedic film actor in the Tamil film industry. He has acted with many prominent actors and starred in successful films. Appearing mostly in supporting roles and providing comical relief, he also played lead roles in Dindigul Sarathy and Ambasamudram Ambani...
. His father (Murali
Murali (Tamil actor)
Murali was a Tamil film actor who appeared in the leading and supporting roles throughout his career. Murali has acted with many stars including Vijaykanth, Prabhu, Sathyaraj, Karthik, Prabhu Deva, Surya, Parthiban, Sarath Kumar, Mammootty and Sivaji Ganesan...
) and he keep falling into minor misunderstandings, and he indulges in a hopeless romance with a strange girl (Divya Spandana) who he meets at a bus stop. When he is caught in the act of stealing a pittance from his father for booze with his friends, Prabhu questions his father’s responsibility towards his upbringing. His angry father gives Prabhu some of his savings and tells him to do something with his life. Prabhu purchases a Bajaj Pulsar bike instead and finds a job. The bike eventually saves his life from a freak incident and gets lost, subjecting him to interminable anguish as he searches for his bike. When his family members asks him about his bike, he tells them that he has given it for dealer service.
Prabhu comes into conflict with the underworld, courtesy a brutal murder planned by Out, the right hand of an underworld smuggling don, Selvam(Kishore).Prabhu finds out that his bike was stolen a petty bike thief who turns out to be in connection with Selvam's younger brother Ravi(Daniel Balaji
Daniel Balaji
Daniel Balaji is a film actor from south india.-Career:His first role was in the television serial Chithi, where he played a character named Daniel...
). Prabhu traces down the culprit as Senthurayan and hands him over to the local police station after some beat down. A formal complaint was lodged on Senthurayan on the same night. Later that night Prabhu confesses to his family that his bike was indeed stolen and not that he has given it for service. The next day morning Ravi visits Prabhu's residence and threatens him to withdraw the complaint against Senthurayan. When Prabhu refuses, a fight breaks in between Prabhu and Ravi, where Ravi is joined by few of his accomplices, Prabhu manages to fight them all and leaves Ravi beaten and embarrassed among the public.Ravi's brother Selvam returns home in bail after a murder charge.When he find out that What happened to Ravi, he gets furious and sends his henchmen to kill Prabhu without knowing what really was the reason for his brother's beat down. Meanwhile Prabhu himself along with his friend and auto driver Kumar(Karunas
Karunas
Karunaas is a Tamil comedic film actor in the Tamil film industry. He has acted with many prominent actors and starred in successful films. Appearing mostly in supporting roles and providing comical relief, he also played lead roles in Dindigul Sarathy and Ambasamudram Ambani...
) meets Selvam at his own territorial residence.Ravi was not home at that time and in fact he was searching for Prabhu in his area. Prabhu tells the truth to Selvam but refuses to believe that his brother Ravi and his men stole his bike. After hearing from his close ally (Pavan
Pavan
Pavan may refer to:* Pavan , a slow processional dance* Pavan , a god of wind in Hindu mythology and father of HanumanPeople with the given name Pavan:* Pavan Duggal...
) Out, Selvam believes Prabhu, apologizing for what happened and promises Prabhu that he will do whatever he can to get his bike back. But it was too late for Prabhu's father Murali who receives the attack from Ravi's men. He was admitted in a hospital and Prabhu breaks down after knowing that his father may never walk again after his right leg is paralysed by the attack. Selvam, Ravi and their men visit Prabhu to condole and apologize for what happened this time. Prabhu turns down the apology and again an immediate fight was about to break between Prabhu and Ravi before Selvam separates them both. Although he wants to stay away, Prabhu invariably gets dragged into rubbing shoulders with the criminals who now target his family to seek revenge.
Prabhu's bike was caught by Anti-Narcotics wing police cops and they nab Prabhu suspecting him of Drug-smuggling in his bike.They release him after Prabhu tells them that his bike was stolen and shows them his FIR copy. But he doesn't tell them about Ravi or Selvam about who really was responsible for his bike theft. Now Prabhu learns that his bike was stolen by Selvam's men to escspe from a murder scene but it was Ravi who smuggled drugs in his bike's petrol tank. Prabhu loses his job as an employee in his workplace since his bike was a source of work for him as a customer bill collector,and also he was kept at police custody for one night. Prabhu also gets despair from Hema's father for being involved unwllingly with Selvam's men. Ravi makes one more attempt at Prabhu's life but he was snubbed again by Prabhu. Selvam becomes unhappy about this and warns him to quit smuggling if he ever gets in Prabhu's business anymore. Ravi accuses Selvam of being a non-caring brother and Out intervenes and warns Ravi to mind his language. then surprisingly Selvam himself comes in support of his brother to lash out at Out. Out separates briefly from Selvam after this conflict. The next day Selvam and Ravi gets attacked by unknown gangsters when they were travelling in their car outside the city. Selvam asks his brother to stay inside the car and handles the killers on his own. He gets brutally injured though only to find out that he's been stabbed on back by his own Brother Ravi.The attack was arranged by Ravi himself to kill Selvam. Ravi delivers the killer blow before telling that Selvam is too complacent of Prabhu and he's going to kill him after killing Selvam. Selvam dies. Ravi creates a scene among Selvam's family, henchmen and Out that he's not aware of who launched the assault on Selvam. Out gets furious and vows to kill every enemy of his mentor Selvam including Prabhu.
Prabhu gets his bike back and was relieved for a brief time before coming to know what is going on and Ravi is after him and his family. He first goes to save Hema. After securing her, he goes to save his family. He thinks the only way to stop this is to confront Ravi himself. he takes down all the men sent by Ravi who comes in his way. Meanwhile Prabhu's family were chased down in Kumar's auto-rickshaw by Ravi's men. Prabhu finds Ravi hiding in an Ice-factory and engages him in a fight. Prabhu gets Ravi under the knife, threatening him to ask his men to leave Prabhu's family. Ravi does so. When prabhu is about to leave, Ravi provokes him to continue the fight til one of them gets killed. Prabhu manages to dodge Ravi's swing of his knife and gets a steel rod to fatally knock down Ravi. Out arrives at the acene. Surprisingly he lets Prabhu to go to let Ravi know he discovered Ravi's conspiracy of killing Selvam before Ravi dies. Prabhu leaves the scene in his much beloved Pulsar bike.
It is said to be an inspiration from the Italian movie Bicycle Thieves
Bicycle Thieves
Bicycle Thieves , also known as The Bicycle Thief, is a 1948 Italian neorealist film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It tells the story of a poor man searching the streets of Rome for his stolen bicycle, which he needs to be able to work. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Luigi...
Cast
- DhanushDhanushVenkatesh Prabhu Kasthuri Raja , better known by his stage name Dhanush , is an Indian film actor, occasional playback singer and lyricist, working in the Tamil film industry...
as Prabhu - Daniel BalajiDaniel BalajiDaniel Balaji is a film actor from south india.-Career:His first role was in the television serial Chithi, where he played a character named Daniel...
as Ravi - KishoreKishore (actor)Kishore is an South Indian film actor. His best known films include Duniya, He was working as a lecture at a women's college in Bangalore and as a part-time fashion designer, when has offered an acting role in the film Kanti, for which he was supposed to design the costumes...
as Selvam - Divya Spandana as Hema
- Murali as Prabhu's Father
- BhanupriyaBhanupriyaBhanu Priya is an Indian actress. She was a former leading actress of the Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam film industries from 1980 to 1993...
as Prabhu's Mother - Santhanam as Sathish
- KarunasKarunasKarunaas is a Tamil comedic film actor in the Tamil film industry. He has acted with many prominent actors and starred in successful films. Appearing mostly in supporting roles and providing comical relief, he also played lead roles in Dindigul Sarathy and Ambasamudram Ambani...
as kumar
Box office
- The film grossed $2 million at the box office.
- The movie received four Vijay Awards, including one for Best Director. The film is slated to be remade in Kannada as Punda and another remake in TeluguTelugu languageTelugu is a Central Dravidian language primarily spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India, where it is an official language. It is also spoken in the neighbouring states of Chattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa and Tamil Nadu...
'Kurradu' starring Varun SandeshVarun SandeshVarun Sandesh Jeedigunta is a south Indian actor and singer who started his film career through Sekhar Kammula's film Happy Days. He was the youngest actor in that film when he was chosen to do the lead role of Chandu....
hasn't repeated the success of the original version.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack consisted of five song, three of them composed by G. V. Prakash KumarG. 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...
, while rapper Yogi B and Dhina
Dhina
Dhina is an Indian film composer and television series composer from Tamil Nadu, India.-Biography and career:Dhina first worked as an assistant musician under popular composer G. K. Venkatesh, later being engaged by Meastro Ilaiyaraaja as a music conductor. He later became a music director for...
composed each one track. The song Engeyum Eppodhum is a remix of the same-titled song from the 1979 film Ninaithale Inikkum.
| Title | Singers | Composer |
|---|---|---|
| "Alibaba Thangam" | Suchitra Suchitra Suchitra Karthik Kumar is an Indian Tamil Radio Jockey and Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu playback singer. Born and brought up in Kerala, she had her school education in Bhavans Vidya Mandir Giri Nagar, Kochi. She is a graduate from the Kerala University... |
G. V. Prakash Kumar 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... |
| "Neeye Sol" | 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... , Sunitha Sarathy Sunitha Sarathy Sunitha Sarathy is a vocalist and performer in both Indian and Western musical genres.She is winner of Channel [V]'s voice hunt.She debuted with Tamil song Yei Nee Romba Azhaga Irukke,singing along with singer Srinivas.-Career:... |
G. V. Prakash Kumar |
| "Engeyum Eppothum" | S. P. Balasubrahmanyam S. P. Balasubrahmanyam Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam is a multilingual Indian playback singer, actor, music director, voice actor and a film producer. He is referred to as S. P. B. or Balu by the media. He has won the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer six times closely following K. J. Yesudas... , Yogi B, Sunitha Sarathy Sunitha Sarathy Sunitha Sarathy is a vocalist and performer in both Indian and Western musical genres.She is winner of Channel [V]'s voice hunt.She debuted with Tamil song Yei Nee Romba Azhaga Irukke,singing along with singer Srinivas.-Career:... |
Yogi B |
| "Minnalgall Koothadum" | Karthik Karthik (singer) Karthik is an Indian playback singer.Karthik started his professional singing career as a backing vocalist and has since been a playback singer in Tamil cinema while also single in other Indian languages for various composers... , Bombay Jayashri Bombay Jayashri Bombay Jayashri Ramnath is an Indian Carnatic music vocalist. She has also recorded songs as a playback singer in South Indian films. She has many albums to her credit, released as cassettes and CDs.... |
G. V. Prakash Kumar |
| "Padichu Pathen" | 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:... |
Dhina Dhina Dhina is an Indian film composer and television series composer from Tamil Nadu, India.-Biography and career:Dhina first worked as an assistant musician under popular composer G. K. Venkatesh, later being engaged by Meastro Ilaiyaraaja as a music conductor. He later became a music director for... |
See also
- Bicycle ThievesBicycle ThievesBicycle Thieves , also known as The Bicycle Thief, is a 1948 Italian neorealist film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It tells the story of a poor man searching the streets of Rome for his stolen bicycle, which he needs to be able to work. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Luigi...
- Polladhavan (1980 film)Polladhavan (1980 film)Polladhavan is a 1980 Tamil film directed V. Srinivasan which stars Rajinikanth, Lakshmi and Sri Priya in the lead roles.-Plot:...
, an unrelated film starring Rajinikanth