''Irugapatru'' () is a 2023 Indian
Tamil
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* Tamils, an ethnic group native to India and some other parts of Asia
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* Tamil language, nati ...
-language
romantic drama
Romance films or movies involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their journey ...
film written and directed by
Yuvaraj Dhayalan
Yuvaraj Dhayalan is an Indian film director.
Career
Yuvaraj Dhayalan hails from Chengalpattu. He joined as an assistant director to director M. Raja for his Tamil film ''Santosh Subramaniam''. He had also assisted Chimbu Deven in the Cowboy f ...
. The film stars
Vikram Prabhu
Vikram Prabhu is an Indian actor working in Tamil language films who made his debut in Prabhu Solomon's '' Kumki'' (2012). He also played the protagonist in ''Ivan Veramathiri'' (2013) and ''Vellaikaara Durai'' (2014). He is the son of actor Pr ...
,
Shraddha Srinath
Shraddha Rama Srinath known Professionally as Shraddha Srinath (born 29 September 1990) is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Tamil, Kannada and Telugu films. She debuted with the Malayalam film '' Kohinoor'' and gained wide acclai ...
,
Vidharth
Vidharth is an Indian actor, appearing in Tamil films. He started his career in 2001 doing uncredited roles. His first major role was in ''Mynaa'' (2010), which became a huge success. He has also done a film for AVM Productions titled ''Mudhal ...
,
Sri
Shri (; , ) is a Sanskrit term denoting resplendence, wealth and prosperity, primarily used as an honorific.
The word is widely used in South and Southeast Asian languages such as Marathi, Malay (including Indonesian and Malaysian), Javanese, ...
,
Abarnathi, and
Saniya Iyappan
Saniya Iyappan (born 20 April 2002) an Indian actress who works in Malayalam films and television shows. She is best known for her roles in the films ''Queen'' (2018) and ''Lucifer'' (2019).
Career
Saniya started her career in television, as a ...
. It was released theatrically on 6 October 2023. It received highly positive reviews from critics and became a box office success.
Plot
The life of a marriage counselor gets complicated because of her methods and techniques. The plot follows two married couples who are unhappy in their life.
1) Married couple Rangesh and Pavithra live with their kid. Rangesh works in IT, and Pavithra stays at home to care for the family. Rangesh fat-shames his wife as a way of expressing his dissatisfaction with his work. Pavithra hits the gym and works out to lose weight to get over this. In this process, she also gains confidence and realises that she wants to work out for herself.
One day, an incident at work causes Rangesh to lose his job. In the meantime, he is still dissatisfied with himself, and Pavithra begins to lose weight. He tells Mithra that he knows why he is unhappy and that everyone, including his father, has discouraged him from pursuing his dreams. Mithra shares the same with Pavithra, who understands and encourages Rangesh to follow his passion.
2) Arjun and Divya are an unhappy couple who work in their respective industries. When Divya demonstrates strong intellectual ability in a variety of subjects, Arjun becomes insecure about his masculine dominance and begins to correct her for even the smallest errors. When he finally admits his mistake and asks Divya for a chance, they patch things up.
Mithra begins to have a better grasp of her life decisions and becomes more honest with her spouse. Mano recognizes that Mithra made her decisions and disguised her feelings, even rage, to make him happy. He confronts Mithra about this behaviour, and the couple is on the rocks for a while. Mithra tries to reconcile with him by using techniques in her marriage counseling profession, thinking about what will fix the problem, until she snaps and fights with him. But Mano expresses that even these actions feel like they do not come from her own volition but more like her treating him as a client. Mano then discovers a bag full of notes which Mithra wrote expressing her feelings, realises that her feelings are genuine, and she wasn’t good at expressing them. The couple resolves this issue and reconciles.
Cast
Production
In August 2021, the makers announced the untitled project starring
Sri
Shri (; , ) is a Sanskrit term denoting resplendence, wealth and prosperity, primarily used as an honorific.
The word is widely used in South and Southeast Asian languages such as Marathi, Malay (including Indonesian and Malaysian), Javanese, ...
and
Vidharth
Vidharth is an Indian actor, appearing in Tamil films. He started his career in 2001 doing uncredited roles. His first major role was in ''Mynaa'' (2010), which became a huge success. He has also done a film for AVM Productions titled ''Mudhal ...
and discussed
Nayanthara
Diana Mariam Kurian, known professionally as
Nayanthara, is an Indian actress and film producer who is known for her work in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films. She was in the ''Forbes India'' "Celebrity 100" 2018 list, with her total annual ...
acting as a lead in the film. Later,
Shraddha Srinath
Shraddha Rama Srinath known Professionally as Shraddha Srinath (born 29 September 1990) is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Tamil, Kannada and Telugu films. She debuted with the Malayalam film '' Kohinoor'' and gained wide acclai ...
replaced Nayanthara due to her commitment to her Hindi debut film, ''
Jawan''. The title of the film was unveiled on 16 January 2023. The film was produced by S. R. Prakash Babu,
S. R. Prabhu
S. R. Prabhu is an Indian film producer. During his tenure at Studio Green (2010–13), he has produced 10 Tamil language, Tamil films and distributed 16 films in Tamil and Telugu. Later he founded Dream Warrior Pictures, a film production comp ...
, P. Gopinath and Thanga Prabaharan R under the banner Potential Studios. Cinematography was by handled Gokul Benoy, and editing by J. V. Manikanda Balaji.
Music
The music for the film was composed by
Justin Prabhakaran
Justin Prabhakaran (born 10 June 1986) is an Indian film score and soundtrack composer. He has scored music mostly for Tamil films and also a few Malayalam and Telugu films besides one Hindi film. He made his debut as a film composer in the 2014 ...
. The first single "Piriyathiru" was released on 31 August 2023.
Release
The film was released on 6 October 2023.
Home media
The post-theatrical streaming rights to the film have been acquired by
Netflix
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. The film began streaming on Netflix from 6 November 2023.
Reception
M. Suganth of ''
The Times of India
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'' gave the film 3 out of 5 stars and wrote, "A satisfying relationship drama that could have had less message and more life." Janani K of ''
India Today
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'' gave it 2.5 out of 5 stars and wrote, "This romantic drama has good ideas with problematic takes."
Avinash Ramachandran of ''
Cinema Express
''Cinema Express'' was an Indian Tamil-language entertainment fortnightly magazine published from Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It was a part of The New Indian Express Group, which also publishes ''Samakalika Malayalam Vaarika'' weekly as well as '' Din ...
'' gave it 3 out of 5 stars and wrote, "''Irugapatru'' reminds us that therapy, counseling, etc... might not work unless the couple really wants to work on their relationship, but it will definitely not work if they aren’t ready to work on themselves." Bhuvanesh Chandar of ''
The Hindu
''The Hindu'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It began as a weekly in 1878 and became a daily in 1889. It is one of the Indian newspapers of record and the secon ...
'' gave the film a mixed review and noted that it was "A flawed but heartfelt drama with impressive performances."
References
External links
* {{IMDb title, tt16103606
2020s Tamil-language films
2023 romantic drama films
2023 films
Indian romantic drama films
2020s Indian films
Films produced by S. R. Prabhu