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''Galatta Ganapathy'' is a 2003
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directed by Karthik Kumar. The film stars
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and
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, with
Vennira Aadai Moorthy Vennira Aadai Moorthy (born 25 July 1936) is an Indian actor and comedian in Tamil cinema. He has starred in many Tamil films and television serials as a comedian and also played supporting roles. He is a lawyer by education, and holds a B.L. ...
,
Vinu Chakravarthy Vinu Chakravarthy (15 December 1945 – 27 April 2017) was an Indian actor, screenwriter and director who is known for acting in more than 1000 movies in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Badaga and Malayalam mostly as a comedian, supporting actor or in ...
,
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, Chitti Babu,
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,
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Pandu In the Hindu epic ''Mahabharata'', Pandu ( sa, पाण्डु, Pāṇḍu, pale) was a king of the Kuru Kingdom. He was the foster-father of the five Pandava brothers, who were the boons bestowed upon his wife Kunti by a number of deities ...
and
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playing supporting roles. The film, produced by R. Radhakrishnan, had musical score by Soundaryan and was released on 26 September 2003.


Plot

Ganapathy (
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) and Veerappan ( Chitti Babu) are police constables in a village, they force the shopkeepers and the criminals to give them bribes. Veerappan is married to the greedy wife Muthulakshmi (Lekhasri) while Ganapathy is a single man. Ganapathy's mother Annapoorani (
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) earns a living by renting her brother's houses, her brother left her his fortune and vanished. Annapoorani is arrogant and greedy, she makes everyone's life a living hell. Her docile husband Sundaram (
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) does any other sort of domestic work, her elder son Jagan (Jagan) is living away from his wife, Ganapathy has to give his entire salary to his mother and her daughter Abi (Sujibala) is afraid of her. Ganapathy then falls under the spell of Nandhini (
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), who was new to the village. He even stalks her to reveal his love, Nandhini eventually reciprocates his love. During a mass-marriage function, organised by the police, Ganapathy is forced by his superiors to marry Nandhini. Ganapathy comes along with Nandhini following their wedding, Annapoorani asks a dowry of 5 lakh of rupees and Nandhini accepts to pay later. The next day, to everyone's surprise, Nandhini takes charge as a
sub-inspector Sub-inspector (SI), or sub-inspector of police, is a rank used extensively in South Asia: in the police forces of Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, and Sri Lanka, which is primarily based on the British model. It was formerly used in most British col ...
at the village police station, she is an honest and upright police officer who fights against bribery. Nandhini then files a dowry harassment case against her mother. Thereafter, Nandhini confronts Annapoorani on multiple occasions. In the meantime, Sundaram left the home and decides to work as a cycle rickshaw puller. Abi (Sujibala) falls in love with her college mate Raja (Raja). Annapoorani then received money from the village bigwig Periyavar and tried to frame Nandhini for corruption, thus the anti-corruption bureau arrests Nandhini. One day, Annapoorani's brother (Sethu Vinayagam) comes back from pilgrimage and drives his sister out of his house. With her daughter, Annapoorani ends up on the street, Periyavar and his henchmen then kidnap her daughter. Nandhini and Ganapathy beat up Periyavar and his henchmen, and save Abi. Annapoorani then realises her mistakes. Therefore, Jagan gets back together with his wife, Abi marries her lover Raja, Sundaram comes back home while Nandhini and Ganapathy decide to finally consummate their marriage.


Cast

*
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as Ganapathy *
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as Nandhini *
Vennira Aadai Moorthy Vennira Aadai Moorthy (born 25 July 1936) is an Indian actor and comedian in Tamil cinema. He has starred in many Tamil films and television serials as a comedian and also played supporting roles. He is a lawyer by education, and holds a B.L. ...
as Sundaram *
Vinu Chakravarthy Vinu Chakravarthy (15 December 1945 – 27 April 2017) was an Indian actor, screenwriter and director who is known for acting in more than 1000 movies in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Badaga and Malayalam mostly as a comedian, supporting actor or in ...
as Pazhani *
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as Annapoorani * Chitti Babu as Veerappan *
Sethu Vinayagam Sethu Vinayagam was an Indian stage and film actor who worked in Tamil films. He is the member of Visu's drama troupe and mostly seen in all Visu's movies. He has acted more over 100 films and plays and has made his mark as a villain, supportin ...
as Annapoorani's brother *
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as Jagan's wife *
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as Muthuramalingam *
Mahanadi Shankar Mahanadi Shankar is an Indian stage, film and television actor, who has appeared in Tamil language films and serials as supporting actor and negative roles. He has appeared in films including ''Mahanadi'' (1994), ''Baashha'' (1995), ''Ratchagan ...
as Periyavar *Sempuli Jagan as Ekambaram *
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as Sundar Raj *Lekhasri as Muthulakshmi *Jagan as Jagan *Raja as Raja *Sujibala as Abi *
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*Dhadha Muthukumar as Liquor Smuggler *Sivaram Gandhi *Benjamin *Vijay Ganesh *Junior Silk in a special appearance


Production

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, Chitti Babu and
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were selected to act in this comedy film, with
Pandiarajan Pandiarajan is an Indian actor, director who has played leading roles in many humorous Tamil films and currently plays supporting and comedy roles. Personal life Pandiarajan was born to Sulochana in Saidapet, Chennai in a lower-middle-class f ...
playing the role of a police constable. After pairing with
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in ''
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'', Pandiarajan wanted to pair again with her but the film director Karthik Kumar had chosen
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to play the female lead role.


Soundtrack

The film score and the soundtrack were composed by Soundaryan. The soundtrack, released in 2003, features 6 tracks with lyrics written by
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, Muthu Vijayan, Ilaya Kamban and Manipriyan.


References

{{reflist 2003 films 2000s Tamil-language films Indian comedy films 2003 comedy films