''Veedu Manaivi Makkal'' () is a 1988 Indian

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-language drama film directed by

T. P. Gajendran T. P. Gajendran (1955 – 5 February 2023) was an Indian film director and actor who played minor roles. He directed more than 15 films and acted in more than 100 films. He was the son of Tuticorin MR.Perumal. Actress T. P. Muthulakshmi, his s ...

in his directorial debut. 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 ...

K. R. Vijaya Deivanayaki better known by her stage name K. R. Vijaya is an Indian actress who has featured in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada films. She started her career in 1963 and has been acting for more than five decades in South Indian cinema. ...

, Pandiyan and

Seetha Sita (; ) also called as Janaki and Vaidehi is a Hindu goddess and the female protagonist of the Hindu epic, ''Ramayana''. She is the consort of Rama, the avatar of the god Vishnu, and is regarded as a form of Vishnu's consort, Lakshmi. She ...

. It was released on 15 January 1988, and was commercially successful. The film was remade in Kannada as ''Ganda Mane Makkalu'', in Telugu as ''Illu Illalu Pillalu'' and in Malayalam as ''

Kudumba Vishesham ''Kudumba Vishesham'' is a 1994 Indian Malayalam film, directed by P. Anil, Babu Narayanan, starring Thilakan and Kaviyoor Ponnamma in the lead roles. This movie is the remake of Tamil movie '' Veedu_Manaivi_Makkal''. Cast * Thilakan as Madh ...

''.

Plot

Visu is the head of a middle-class family comprising his wife KR Vijaya, two sons – Anand Babu and Ganaga and two daughters – Seetha and Sulochana. They live in a rented place owned by a cruel landlord in Chennai with whom Visu often gets into quarrel. Visu challenges his landlord that he will build a new house in less than three months and vacate his current rented premises. Visu finalises a plot in the outskirts of Chennai and decides to build a house there. Anand Babu is a dancer and is married to his cousin, but he develops an illegitimate affair with his co-dancer and starts living together. Visu and KR Vijaya try hard to re-unite Anand Babu with his wife which they accomplish successfully after so much struggles. After re-uniting, Anand Babau's wife transforms and prefers to lead a nuclear family away from her in-laws for which Anand Babu agrees as well. Visu and KR Vijaya feel bad about Anand Babu and his wife's decision to leave them. Sulochana falls in love with their neighbour S.Ve. Shekar. who has been employed in Dubai and had come to Chennai for holidays. Visu learns of his daughter's love and agrees for their wedding. To Visu's shock, S.Ve.Shekar loses his job and starts staying along with Visu and his family which makes Visu angry and shouts at him once. S.Ve. Shekar feels insulted and leaves the home along with his wife. Seetha falls in love with Pandian who is employed with the landlord but trying to get a good job. Visu's younger son Ganga could not find a job and keeps trying repeatedly. Finally Ganga gets a job in a company owned by Delhi Ganesh and falls in love with boss' daughter. Ganga also settles with his father-in-law. Visu accumulates some money and starts building the house, however he further needs some more financing. He decides to get the help from his children, but none of them come for rescue. Sulochana lies that she has already sold her gold necklace which was given by Visu while Ganga demands a sign in a bond paper which shows his lack of trust on his parents. Seetha is the only daughter who still stays will her parents. KR Vijaya falls sick and passes away. Visu decides to burn her body at the place where he has been building a house. Hearing the news of KR Vijaya's death, their family members – Anand Babu, Ganga and Sulochana rush to see, however, Visu denies permission to allow them having a look at KR Vijaya's dead body. Finally, Seetha and Pandian are united.

Cast

as Subbaiah Pillai *

as Lakshmi * Pandiyan as henchman *

* Delhi Ganesh *

S. Ve. Shekher Sattanathapuram Venkataraman Shekher (born 26 December 1950) is an Indian actor, director, screenwriter, politician and a playwright of Tamil-language plays. In 2006, he was elected as an MLA for the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIA ...

as Sigamani *

Ganga The Ganges ( ) (in India: Ganga ( ); in Bangladesh: Padma ( )). "The Ganges Basin, known in India as the Ganga and in Bangladesh as the Padma, is an international river to which India, Bangladesh, Nepal and China are the riparian states." is ...

as Subbaiah Pillai's younger son * Anand Babu as Subbaiah Pillai's elder son * Kuladeivam Rajagopal as Broker Bullet *

Pushpalatha Pushpalatha is an Indian actress, who has worked predominantly in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam language films. She has acted as heroine and character roles in more than 100 films. Her debut film was '' Sengottai Singam'', released in 1958. When ...

as Jagadamba

Production

''Veedu Manaivi Makkal'' was the directorial debut of

, and was produced by N. Radha under M/S Thenandal Films. Gajendran wrote the screenplay based on a story by T. Durairaj. The story was written in a way that would suit Visu's image. Cinematography was handled by Baby Philips, and the editing jointly by N. R. Kittu and Ganesh Kumar. The final cut of the film was .

Soundtrack

The soundtrack of the film was composed by Shankar–Ganesh. The lyrics for all songs were written by Vairamuthu except one, which was written by Idhaya Chandran.

Release and reception

''Veedu Manaivi Makkal'' was released on 15 January 1988. The following week, N. Krishnaswamy of '' The Indian Express'' felt the film was too similar to the directorial films of Visu like '' Kudumbam Oru Kadambam'', ''

Manal Kayiru ''Manal Kayiru'' () is a 1982 Indian Tamil-language comedy drama film written and directed by Visu in his directorial debut. The film stars S. Ve. Shekher and Shanthi Krishna, with Visu, Manorama, Kishmu and Kuriakose Ranga portraying suppor ...

'', '' Samsaram Adhu Minsaram'' and '' Thirumathi Oru Vegumathi'', but praised the performance of K. R. Vijaya, who he said "steals the show". Jayamanmadhan of '' Kalki'' appreciated the film for its comedy. The film was commercially successful.

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 7479972 1980s Tamil-language films 1988 directorial debut films 1988 films Films directed by T. P. Gajendran Films scored by Shankar–Ganesh Indian drama films Tamil films remade in other languages