''Mercury Pookkal'' () is a 2006

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romantic drama film Romance films or movies involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion (emotion), passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typica ...

, directed by S. S. Stanley starring Srikanth,

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. The music is composed by

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. This film's name is based on the famous Tamil novel of Balakumaran.

Plot

Karthik, is from a middle-class family and is doing his MCA final year. He is an outstanding student with high ambitions. He works part-time in a courier company and takes care of his expenses. He also yearns for beautiful classy girls. Anbu Selvi is from a rural landlord's family and is doing her B.Com in Trichy. Her pranks and her outgoing personality makes her father Rathnam fear that she might bring disrepute to the family name and so he decides to give her in marriage to his friend's son, Karthik. Both the youngsters try to resist marriage but are compelled to agree in the end. The unwilling couple make an agreement on the first night that they will play according to the elders' tune for a while and once they are capable of taking care of themselves, they can part their own ways. Anbu is also admitted to the same college as Karthik and the turn of events makes Anbu realize the importance of a good married life and how she has to make her husband like her. In spite of her attempts, Karthik remains elusive and after some frames he also realizes the meaning of a good wedded life. When he is about to expose his love, turn of events separate the couple. But the couple stay determined to unite despite the stubborn stance of both their fathers. After much drama they unite happily.

Cast

* Srikanth as Karthik *

as Anbu Selvi *

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*Kurinji Nathan * Mahadevan as Rathnam *

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in a cameo appearance

Soundtrack

Film score (BGM) was composed by Balabarathi and soundtrack was by

, while lyrics written by

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. * "Jaladheepam" -

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, Karthik * "Malarvaai" —

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, Bobbie * "Mugurtha Neram" — Feji Mani,

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* "Pachakiliye" —

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, Priya * "Solla Vaarthaigal II" -

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* "Solla Vaarthaigal I" — Ganga,

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, Hariharan

Release and reception

''Mercury Pookkal'' was advertised as a film "like ''

Missiamma ''Missiamma'' () is a 1955 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film directed by L. V. Prasad. Produced by B. Nagi Reddy and Aluri Chakrapani Vijaya Vauhini Studios, the script was adapted by Chakrapani from the Bengali novel ''Manmoyee Girl ...

''". ''Indiaglitz'' wrote "Stanley needs a pat in the back for thinking out of the box. Unfortunately towards the second-half needless stunt sequences and couple of songs certainly stems the flow of the brisk screenplay." ''Rediff'' wrote "The simple plot had all the potential to be a great film. But Stanly .stumbles in the narration and comes up with a pathetic ending." ''The Hindu'' wrote "Stanley's treatment in `Mercury ... ' shows more maturity and class than his earlier films."

References

{{Reflist 2006 films Indian romantic drama films 2006 romantic drama films 2000s Tamil-language films Films directed by S. S. Stanley Films scored by Karthik Raja