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directed by Manivasagam. The film stars Vijayakumar and

Gautami Gautami Tadimalla (born 2 July 1969), known mononymously as Gautami, is an Indian actress and politician who has worked mainly in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films in addition to Hindi, and Kannada films. She was one of the leading South Indi ...

leading an

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including Manorama, Goundamani,

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and Manivasagam. The film, produced by Rajeswari Manivasagam and P.S. Mani, had musical score by

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and was released on 14 August 1992.

Plot

Jalagandeswaran and Rayappan are brothers and house owners of a small colony. The tenants refused to pay up their rents, knowing that the houses were built on State land. Rayappan has the idea to rent a vacant house to Usha, a beautiful company manageress. Usha is married to a middle-aged man Sundaram. The couple moves into their new house and befriends the neighbours. The married neighbours Jalagandeswaran, Viswanathan, Ganesan and Coimbatore fall in love with the beautiful Usha. They begin to woo the young woman. What transpires later forms the crux of the story.

Cast

* Vijayakumar as Sundaram *

as Usha * Manorama as Muniamma * Goundamani as Jalagandeswaran *

as Viswanathan *

as Ganesan * E V Velu as Coimbatore *

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*Vijayaraj as Nagaraj *

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as Yamuna *

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as Savitri *Vasuki as Mami *

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*Mahesh as Ramakrishnan *

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as Shanthi *

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* Vellai Subbaiah * Thideer Kannaiah *

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* R. Sundarrajan in a guest appearance

Soundtrack

The film score and the soundtrack were composed by

. The soundtrack, released in 1992, features 5 tracks with lyrics written by Kalidasan.

Reception

K. Vijayan of ''

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'' gave the film a mixed review citing "See it with your wife and you probably enjoy it yourself" and described the film as "comedy loses steam midway". ''

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'' praised the artiste's performances and dialogues.

References

{{reflist 1992 films Films scored by Deva (composer) 1990s Tamil-language films Films directed by Manivasagam