''Manal Kayiru'' () is a 1982 Indian

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-language

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film written and directed by Visu in his directorial debut. The film stars S. Ve. Shekher and

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, with Visu, Manorama, Kishmu and Kuriakose Ranga portraying supporting roles. It is based on Visu's play ''Modi Masthan''. The film was remade in Kannada as ''

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'', in Telugu as ''Pelli Chesi Chupistham'' and in Malayalam as ''

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'' (with the ending changed). A sequel, ''

Manal Kayiru 2 ''Manal Kayiru 2'' () is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language comedy drama film directed by Madhan Kumar, starring S. Ve. Shekher, Jaishree, Ashwin Shekhar and Poorna. The film is a sequel to the 1982 film, ''Manal Kayiru'' and Shekher, Visu, and K ...

'', was released in 2016 with Shekar, Visu, and Ranga reprising their roles.

Plot

Kittumani lays down eight conditions which the girl he marries should fulfill. His uncle Naradar Naidu is fed up with seeking a girl for him. The eight conditions are as follows- * As Kittumani is a B.sc, she should have started studying, but should have left off in between. * (condition # 1(a)) She should know Hindi as his company has branches in Hindi-speaking cities. * She should look pretty only to Kittumani, but not to anyone else. * She should be bold to withstand thieves, kidnappers, etc. * She should never weep for any reason. * She should cook both veg and Non-veg as he is a vegetarian and his best friend is a non-vegetarian. * As he can play Mridangam, she should know how to dance to it. * Their secrets should be known to each other, but not to anyone else. * After Kittumani's death, she should remarry and live happily. At last, Naradar Naidu finds a girl who is very nice, but unfortunately doesn't fulfill any condition. After some zig-zag work, he arranges their marriage. After four days, Kittumani finds that not a single condition has been fulfilled. He plans to send her out of his house, but Naidu, who pretends to support Kittumani, stops him. Later they realise that she is pregnant with Kittumani's child. After his sister is expelled from her husband's house as per Naidu's instructions and his wife is learning and speaking Hindi, Kittumani agrees to let her stay with him. He also has his own selfish reasons as he experiences much trouble cooking. At last they all convince, but Naidu is thrown out of the house as he is said to be the only reason behind the confusion. Naidu reveals that he did this as he, like Kittumani, had placed conditions which should be fulfilled by his fiancée and just before the marriage, he discovered that some conditions had not been fulfilled. The girl had killed herself and from then, Naidu had pledged to save people's lives from these types of issues.

Cast

* S. Ve. Shekher as Kittumani *

as Uma * Visu as Naradhar Naidu * Manorama as Durga * Kishmu as Kamalakannan * M. R. Rajamani as Manickam Pillai *

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as Uma's mother * Kuriakose Ranga as Lakshmanaswamy and Ramaswamy * Boopathy as Thangappan

Production

''Manal Kayiru'' is the directorial debut of Visu, and was adapted from his own play ''Modi Masthan''.

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was initially offered the lead role, but could not accept since his mother gave him permission to act only in stage plays. The role of the character, Kittumani, later went to S. Ve. Shekher.

Soundtrack

Soundtrack was composed by

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and lyrics by Vaali.

Reception

Manal Kayiru is widely considered as a cult classic comedy-drama that accelerated Visu’s and SVe Sekar’s careers in Tamil movies. S. Shivakumar of ''

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'' gave a negative review citing the film "is full of inane situations with double meaning, taking unnecessary digs at politicians and crude insinuations at vulgarity" and also criticised the photography as "uniformly bad" and M. S. Viswanathan's music as "jarring and harsh on the ears". Manjula Ramesh of ''

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'' criticised Shekher for not being able to emote his anger without making her laugh, but appreciated Visu's acting the most of the cast.

Sequel

The 2016 sequel for the film has Shekar, Visu, and Kuriakose Ranga reprising their roles, with Shekar's son Ashwin portraying the lead role.

References

External links

* {{Visu 1980s Tamil-language films 1982 comedy-drama films 1982 directorial debut films 1982 films Films about Indian weddings Films directed by Visu Films scored by M. S. Viswanathan Films with screenplays by Visu Indian comedy-drama films Indian films based on plays Tamil films remade in other languages