Rendu
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Rendu is a Tamil
film
directed by critically acclaimed director Sundar C
. The movie stars Madhavan
, Reema Sen
, Anushka Shetty
, Bhagyaraj
and Vadivelu
. The film's music is composed by music director, D.Imaan. Early reports suggested that Nayantara
or Nila
was set to play heroine and others claimed that Sundar C was set to star himself in the lead role. But , Madhavan had cleared his dates giving the film the go ahead. Shooting started on 6 July 2006 and released for a 24 November 2006 release.
, an A.R. Murugadoss film. The major elements of the plot, a man out to revenge a wrong doing by murdering the culprit, is identical.
Shakti
(Madhavan
) is a young man from a village, with no job but
tons of ambition and dreams. As he sees his life pass him by, stuck
in a rut in his hometown, he decides that he will try his fortunes
elsewhere. Chennai beckons him and off goes Shakti, to join his
uncle Kirikalam (Vadivelu
), who has a stall of magic tricks at an
exhibition. No, Kirikalam is not really a magician, but is posing as one and his
amateurish tricks don't exactly bring in big crowds
.
Next door to Shakti and Kirikalam's stall though, is ever-populated
with visitors. The reason: it's an all-girls stand, with mermaid
costumes as the theme! Velli
(Reema Sen
) is the 'head mermaid' at
this stall run by her sister, and bitter quarrels between Shakti and
Velli ensue, when Shakti feels that Velli and her team are unfairly
taking their customers away and Velli has this impression of Shakti
being an unsavoury character. We see this misunderstanding at
different occasions where Velli and Madhavan just happen to be in
the wrong place at the wrong time - be it when Shakti gets off the
bus from his village, asks for directions and is told to follow
Velli, walking in the distance (Velli thinks he's a womaniser
!) or
when Shakti finally catches up with a miscreant who had picked his
pocket and demands his money back....only Velli walks into the scene
only at the demanding part! This whole collage of scenes is animated, with Kirikalam and Shakti
trying to woo customers back to their stall, Shakti and Velli
getting into arguments and a general state of "fun" ruckus. Of course, love has been brewing as an undercurrent between the two
young people...
Manivannan
plays the character of the owner of the exhibition
grounds and keeps harassing Velli under some pretext or the other,
like the rent not being paid on time. In fact, he has a soft spot
for Velli, feelings thoroughly rejected by her. He finally abducts
her, but Shakti rescues Velli. Similarly, Velli's plight is repeated
when her "mora maapillai" (betrothed suitor) enters the scene and
tries to force her to be with him; and Shakti steps in once again to
save and protect Velli. The undercurrents of love blow up into a full-fledged torrent and
Velli and Shakti make up for all of their lost time professing their
love for each other and romancing their way happily through the
exhibition.
Meanwhile, we see a series of murders in different towns of the
state and two perpetrators of these crimes slinking away from each.
Not every time is it foolproof
though, and at one crime scene, a
witness spots the main culprit. He is instructed by the police to
sketch and give them a pictorial description of the murderer, when
it comes to the police's knowledge that both the criminals have been
seen at Kumbakonam
some time ago. Going thru various fact files, the
police comes across the incident of a bad fire at a marriage hall in
Kumbakonam and as the officer in charge of the investigation (played
by Bhagyaraj
) flips through the picture files of the deceased,
Kannan's (Madhavan - the 2nd!) face is shown and the witness jumps!
He tells the police he doesn't need to sketch anything when the face
of the main murderer itself is staring them in the eye - he points
to the photo of Kannan - it is the face of Shakti, only this one has
light eyes...
Investigations into the murder lead the police to Chennai and as
luck would have it, Shakti is spotted, recognized and arrested.
Kannan, on the other hand follows the murder investigation and is
upset to find that an innocent man has been captured for crimes he
has committed. He meets Kirikalam and Velli and plots to help Shakti
get out. And so he does, and Shakti and he escape by the skin of
their teeth.
After much chase-and-hide, Kannan tells the story of what led him to
murder all those people - flashback time....
Kannan, his elder brother and his father were renowned caterers and
were commissioned to cook for a marriage function in Kumbakonam. The
host was Kannan's father's friend and this gentleman's daughter was
getting married in a joyous ceremony. There, Kannan meets Jyoti
(Anushka
) and falls in love instantly. At first he panics that Jyoti
is the bride at the function but is vastly relieved when he finds
out she is not. She really likes Kannan too and it all seems like
Wonderland.
Unfortunately, the groom creates trouble at the wedding and walks
out, leaving the family distraught and desperate. Suddenly Kannan
makes a suggestion: Father, this is our friend's wedding and the
bride is a wonderful girl. Why can't Anna (elder brother) marry her?
A brilliant idea and it is decided... only fate has to fell her axe
right then, when all hell breaks loose and a raging fire attacks the
marriage house. The father of the bride is a good man, and a dignitary in the town
of Kumbakonam. He comes to know that a bunch of powerful thugs and
gang leaders have sold a large piece of government property to a
north Indian businessman, completely illegally at exorbitant prices,
with no gain for the townspeople themselves! He strongly opposes
them and all their mischief comes to public notice and foils their
plans. They want his blood as revenge.
They set fire to the building of the wedding and kill every single
inmate inside - but two people escape, Kannan and his friend. Kannan,
whose light eyes are a result of the fire (he walks with help and
not very clear sight) is heartbroken and devastated at the loss of
his entire family and lady love at what was to be a joyous, happy
occasion. He vows retribution on the villains and sets about cold-
bloodedly fulfilling this. Shakti decides to help Kannan achieve his revenge. At the end, however, Kannan sacrifices his own life to kill the final baddie, and he reunites with his family and lady love in heaven.
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
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
directed by critically acclaimed director Sundar C
Sundar C
Sundar C. is a Tamil film director and actor. He has directed 24 films in Kollywood and debuted his acting career in 2006 with the film Thalai Nagaram. His most notable films include Ullathai Allitha, Arunachalam and Anbe Sivam and other notable films include Mettukudi, Winner, Naam Iruvar...
. The movie stars Madhavan
R. Madhavan
R. Madhavan is an Indian actor, writer, film producer and television host. Madhavan has received a Filmfare Award, an award from the Tamil Nadu State Film Awards alongside recognition and nominations from other organisations...
, Reema Sen
Reema Sen
Reema Sen is an Indian actress and model.-Early life:Reema Sen was born in Kolkata, into a middle class Kayastha family in 1981. She completed high school from Calcutta, after which her family moved to Mumbai.-Film career:...
, Anushka Shetty
Anushka Shetty
Anushka Shetty is an Indian film actress who works mainly in the Telugu and Tamil film industries. She debuted in the 2005 Telugu film Super and rose to fame following her performance in Vikramarkudu...
, Bhagyaraj
Bhagyaraj
K. Bhagyaraj is a Tamil film director, actor, writer and producer. He has directed and produced several Tamil films, along with a few Telugu and Hindi films. He is well known for his mastery in screenplay. He has won a Filmfare Best Actor Award for Mundhanai Mudichu, a film he wrote, directed and...
and 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...
. The film's music is composed by music director, D.Imaan. Early reports suggested that Nayantara
Nayantara
Nayantara , is an Indian film actress. She made her acting debut in 2003 in the Malayalam film Manassinakkare. She debuted in Tamil cinema with Ayya and in Telugu cinema with Lakshmi , following which she starred alongside popular lead actors...
or Nila
Meera Chopra
Meera Chopra , also known as Nila, is an Indian film actress, who appears in Telugu and Tamil films.- Background :Meera started her graduation at SGTB Khalsa College but completed her Bachelors degree from Saginaw Valley State University in Saginaw, Michigan, U.S.,after which she went to New York...
was set to play heroine and others claimed that Sundar C was set to star himself in the lead role. But , Madhavan had cleared his dates giving the film the go ahead. Shooting started on 6 July 2006 and released for a 24 November 2006 release.
Plot
The movie's plot shares a lot in common with GhajiniGhajini
Ghajini is a 2005 Tamil psychological thriller film directed by A. R. Murugadoss released on October 14, 2005. The film stars Suriya, Asin, Nayantara, Pradeep Rawat and Riyaz Khan. It was dubbed and released in Telugu by Allu Aravind in November 2005, and both versions enjoyed critical and...
, an A.R. Murugadoss film. The major elements of the plot, a man out to revenge a wrong doing by murdering the culprit, is identical.
Shakti
Shakti
Shakti from Sanskrit shak - "to be able," meaning sacred force or empowerment, is the primordial cosmic energy and represents the dynamic forces that are thought to move through the entire universe in Hinduism. Shakti is the concept, or personification, of divine feminine creative power, sometimes...
(Madhavan
R. Madhavan
R. Madhavan is an Indian actor, writer, film producer and television host. Madhavan has received a Filmfare Award, an award from the Tamil Nadu State Film Awards alongside recognition and nominations from other organisations...
) is a young man from a village, with no job but
tons of ambition and dreams. As he sees his life pass him by, stuck
in a rut in his hometown, he decides that he will try his fortunes
elsewhere. Chennai beckons him and off goes Shakti, to join his
uncle Kirikalam (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...
), who has a stall of magic tricks at an
exhibition. No, Kirikalam is not really a magician, but is posing as one and his
amateurish tricks don't exactly bring in big crowds
Crowds
Crowds is a proposed anonymity network that gives probable innocence in the face of a large number of attackers. Crowds was designed by Michael K. Reiter and Aviel D. Rubin and defends against internal attackers and a corrupt receiver, but provides no anonymity against a global attacker or a local...
.
Next door to Shakti and Kirikalam's stall though, is ever-populated
with visitors. The reason: it's an all-girls stand, with mermaid
Mermaid
A mermaid is a mythological aquatic creature with a female human head, arms, and torso and the tail of a fish. A male version of a mermaid is known as a "merman" and in general both males and females are known as "merfolk"...
costumes as the theme! Velli
Velli
Velli is the sixth and last album released by Punjabi Bhangra artist Kulwinder Dhillon before is death in a car accident on March 19 of 2006. This album is also believed to be his most successful album which is believed to have sold over four hundred thousand copies worldwide.-Track listing:# Gaddi...
(Reema Sen
Reema Sen
Reema Sen is an Indian actress and model.-Early life:Reema Sen was born in Kolkata, into a middle class Kayastha family in 1981. She completed high school from Calcutta, after which her family moved to Mumbai.-Film career:...
) is the 'head mermaid' at
this stall run by her sister, and bitter quarrels between Shakti and
Velli ensue, when Shakti feels that Velli and her team are unfairly
taking their customers away and Velli has this impression of Shakti
being an unsavoury character. We see this misunderstanding at
different occasions where Velli and Madhavan just happen to be in
the wrong place at the wrong time - be it when Shakti gets off the
bus from his village, asks for directions and is told to follow
Velli, walking in the distance (Velli thinks he's a womaniser
Womaniser
Womaniser or womanizer may refer to:*Womaniser, a promiscuous heterosexual man*"Womanizer" , a 2008 song by Britney Spears...
!) or
when Shakti finally catches up with a miscreant who had picked his
pocket and demands his money back....only Velli walks into the scene
only at the demanding part! This whole collage of scenes is animated, with Kirikalam and Shakti
trying to woo customers back to their stall, Shakti and Velli
getting into arguments and a general state of "fun" ruckus. Of course, love has been brewing as an undercurrent between the two
young people...
Manivannan
Manivannan
Manivannan is a popular Tamil actor and director. With over 400 films to his name, Manivannan is one of the most experienced actors in the field. He normally plays the role of a dad or a senior comedian.- Background :...
plays the character of the owner of the exhibition
Exhibition
An exhibition, in the most general sense, is an organized presentation and display of a selection of items. In practice, exhibitions usually occur within museums, galleries and exhibition halls, and World's Fairs...
grounds and keeps harassing Velli under some pretext or the other,
like the rent not being paid on time. In fact, he has a soft spot
for Velli, feelings thoroughly rejected by her. He finally abducts
her, but Shakti rescues Velli. Similarly, Velli's plight is repeated
when her "mora maapillai" (betrothed suitor) enters the scene and
tries to force her to be with him; and Shakti steps in once again to
save and protect Velli. The undercurrents of love blow up into a full-fledged torrent and
Velli and Shakti make up for all of their lost time professing their
love for each other and romancing their way happily through the
exhibition.
Meanwhile, we see a series of murders in different towns of the
state and two perpetrators of these crimes slinking away from each.
Not every time is it foolproof
Foolproof
Foolproof is a 2003 Canadian heist film directed by William Phillips and starring Ryan Reynolds, David Suchet, Kristin Booth, Joris Jarsky, and James Allodi. It was the first attempt by a Canadian studio to create a heist movie, in the same vein as Ocean's Eleven...
though, and at one crime scene, a
witness spots the main culprit. He is instructed by the police to
sketch and give them a pictorial description of the murderer, when
it comes to the police's knowledge that both the criminals have been
seen at Kumbakonam
Kumbakonam
Kumbakonam , also spelt as Coombaconum in the records of British India , is a town and a special grade municipality in the Thanjavur district in the southeast Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Located 40 kilometres from Thanjavur and 272 kilometres from Chennai, it is the headquarters of the Kumbakonam...
some time ago. Going thru various fact files, the
police comes across the incident of a bad fire at a marriage hall in
Kumbakonam and as the officer in charge of the investigation (played
by Bhagyaraj
Bhagyaraj
K. Bhagyaraj is a Tamil film director, actor, writer and producer. He has directed and produced several Tamil films, along with a few Telugu and Hindi films. He is well known for his mastery in screenplay. He has won a Filmfare Best Actor Award for Mundhanai Mudichu, a film he wrote, directed and...
) flips through the picture files of the deceased,
Kannan's (Madhavan - the 2nd!) face is shown and the witness jumps!
He tells the police he doesn't need to sketch anything when the face
of the main murderer itself is staring them in the eye - he points
to the photo of Kannan - it is the face of Shakti, only this one has
light eyes...
Investigations into the murder lead the police to Chennai and as
luck would have it, Shakti is spotted, recognized and arrested.
Kannan, on the other hand follows the murder investigation and is
upset to find that an innocent man has been captured for crimes he
has committed. He meets Kirikalam and Velli and plots to help Shakti
get out. And so he does, and Shakti and he escape by the skin of
their teeth.
After much chase-and-hide, Kannan tells the story of what led him to
murder all those people - flashback time....
Kannan, his elder brother and his father were renowned caterers and
were commissioned to cook for a marriage function in Kumbakonam. The
host was Kannan's father's friend and this gentleman's daughter was
getting married in a joyous ceremony. There, Kannan meets Jyoti
(Anushka
Anushka
Anushka may refer to:*Anushka Shetty, a South Indian actress*Anushka Sharma, an Indian model and Bollywood actress*Anushka Manchanda, a singer...
) and falls in love instantly. At first he panics that Jyoti
is the bride at the function but is vastly relieved when he finds
out she is not. She really likes Kannan too and it all seems like
Wonderland.
Unfortunately, the groom creates trouble at the wedding and walks
out, leaving the family distraught and desperate. Suddenly Kannan
makes a suggestion: Father, this is our friend's wedding and the
bride is a wonderful girl. Why can't Anna (elder brother) marry her?
A brilliant idea and it is decided... only fate has to fell her axe
right then, when all hell breaks loose and a raging fire attacks the
marriage house. The father of the bride is a good man, and a dignitary in the town
of Kumbakonam. He comes to know that a bunch of powerful thugs and
gang leaders have sold a large piece of government property to a
north Indian businessman, completely illegally at exorbitant prices,
with no gain for the townspeople themselves! He strongly opposes
them and all their mischief comes to public notice and foils their
plans. They want his blood as revenge.
They set fire to the building of the wedding and kill every single
inmate inside - but two people escape, Kannan and his friend. Kannan,
whose light eyes are a result of the fire (he walks with help and
not very clear sight) is heartbroken and devastated at the loss of
his entire family and lady love at what was to be a joyous, happy
occasion. He vows retribution on the villains and sets about cold-
bloodedly fulfilling this. Shakti decides to help Kannan achieve his revenge. At the end, however, Kannan sacrifices his own life to kill the final baddie, and he reunites with his family and lady love in heaven.
Cast
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Madhavan R. Madhavan R. Madhavan is an Indian actor, writer, film producer and television host. Madhavan has received a Filmfare Award, an award from the Tamil Nadu State Film Awards alongside recognition and nominations from other organisations... |
Sakthi, Kannan |
| Reema Sen Reema Sen Reema Sen is an Indian actress and model.-Early life:Reema Sen was born in Kolkata, into a middle class Kayastha family in 1981. She completed high school from Calcutta, after which her family moved to Mumbai.-Film career:... |
Velli |
| Anushka Shetty Anushka Shetty Anushka Shetty is an Indian film actress who works mainly in the Telugu and Tamil film industries. She debuted in the 2005 Telugu film Super and rose to fame following her performance in Vikramarkudu... |
Jothy |
| Bhagyaraj Bhagyaraj K. Bhagyaraj is a Tamil film director, actor, writer and producer. He has directed and produced several Tamil films, along with a few Telugu and Hindi films. He is well known for his mastery in screenplay. He has won a Filmfare Best Actor Award for Mundhanai Mudichu, a film he wrote, directed and... |
CBI |
| 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... |
Great Kirikalan |
| Santhanam | Seenu |