''Mappillai Sir'' () is a 1988 Indian

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-language film written and directed by D. S. Balagan from a story by

Balachandra Menon Balachandra Menon ( ml, ബാലചന്ദ്ര മേനോൻ) (born 11 January 1954) is an Indian actor, director and script writer. He made a number of films in the Malayalam films of the 1980s, 1980s and Malayalam films of the 1990s, ...

. The film stars

Visu Meenakshisundaram Ramasamy Viswanathan (1 July 1945 – 22 March 2020), best known by his stage name Visu, was an Indian writer, director, stage, film and television actor and talk-show host. Visu initially worked as an assistant to director K ...

, Mohan and

Rekha Bhanurekha Ganesan (born 10 October 1954), better known by her stage name Rekha, is an Indian actress who appears predominantly in Hindi films. Acknowledged as one of the finest actresses in Indian cinema, she has starred in more than 180 fil ...

. It was released on 12 August 1988. The film was a remake of the

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film ''

Karyam Nissaram ''Karyam Nissaram'' ( en, The Matter is Simple) is a 1983 Indian Malayalam-language drama film produced by Raju Mathew under the banner of Century Films and written and directed by Balachandra Menon. The film stars Prem Nazir and Lakshmi, along ...

''.

Plot

Varadarajan is a trained attorney who does not practice due to having promised his father-in-law when he married his wife. They have two daughters. His neighbour is a retired Army Colonel who has health issues, is married to Sumithra. The daughters marry their lovers with their father's consent, despite their mother's disapproval. The story then focuses on their reconciliation.

Cast

as Varadarajan * Mohan as the driving master *

* Jayanti as Meenakshi *

Kishmu Meenakshisundaram Ramasamy Krishnamurthy better known as Kishmu was an Indian film and stage actor. He is also brother of famous actor and director Visu. Kishmu made his debut in the Visu-directed film Manal Kayiru in 1982. Other notable film ...

as Colonel * Dilip as Dilip *

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 ...

* Master Suresh as Viji * Sumithra as Mary * Manorama as social worker * Pournami as Tara

Production

''Mappillai Sir'' was written and directed by D. S. Balagan from a story by

. The film was produced by T. Subbulakshmi under Lakshmi Raja Films, photographed by V. Ramamurthy and edited by the duo Ganesh–Kumar.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was composed by the duo

Shankar–Ganesh Shankar–Ganesh is an Indian music director duo who has worked on Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada movies for around 50 years. Career They started as assistants to Tamil music composers M. S. Viswanathan and T. K. Ramamoorthy in 1964 a ...

, with lyrics by Idya Chandran.

Release and reception

''Mappillai Sir'' was released on 12 August 1988. NKS of ''

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'' wrote, "The ''Maappillai Saar'' objective is the taming of the arrogant Jayanthi ..The taming of the shrew line having exhausted itself midway, the film occupies itself with an assortment of cooked up conflicts". Jayamanmadhan of ''

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'' criticised the film for its writing, likening it to a car being driven without a brake.Kalkionline.com

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, id=7567422 1980s Tamil-language films 1988 comedy-drama films Films scored by Shankar–Ganesh Indian comedy-drama films Tamil remakes of Malayalam films