''Ponnu Veetukkaran'' is a 1999

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film directed by

P. Vasu Vasudevan Peethambharan, known professionally as P Vasu, is an Indian director, writer and actor who works in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, and Malayalam language films. In a career spanning three decades, Vasu has directed over 64 films. ...

. The film stars

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and

Preetha Vijayakumar Preetha Vijayakumar (born 10 January 1982) is an former Indian actress. Career Preetha had first signed up to portray the leading role in Ravi Raja Pinisetty's Telugu film ''Rukmini'' opposite Vineeth in 1997, but delays meant her Tamil film ...

, while Vijay Adhiraj,

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, Vijayakumar and

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play supporting roles. The film released in January 1999.

Plot

Ponnu Veetukkaran is a drama which tells the story of nice Jeeva (

), who is the perfect handyman and the protector of a big rich family of the

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, constituted by Gangadaran (

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), Muralidaran (Ilavarasan), and Giridaran (

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). These three brothers are spouses and fathers, each of several children. Traders of sarees precious, they hold one of the most beautiful and furthermore with the aim of the stores of the capital, so making their colossal fortune. But what makes their happiness and their pride overcoat everything is Indu (

), the youngest child of this big welded family. Intelligent, beautiful and roguish as one pleases, she cheers up, illuminates with her presence their everyday life, as well as their cousin, the useless person, Yégambharam (

), but nevertheless very nice, always in conflict with his father Védatchalam, the dean moved by the family. Jeeva comes from a family which was always in the service of three brothers and it since its father (Ravikumar) who was him with theirs, as driver. Far from maintaining employeur-d'employee's standard relation, the brothers' father ( Rajeev) got used to fraternizing with Jeeva's father to the point that they became as brother. Jeeva frequented one time, the same schools as three brothers. Nevertheless, a misfortune struck the family. Their respective parents were victims of a car accident. His wives were killed instantly. Whereas the fathers, in the agony, made promise to their children to part never and on no account, of Jeeva and mutually. The good mood and the know-how and the practical sense of Jeeva put everybody all right. He shares a beautiful complicity with Indu, who is sometimes badly understood outside the family circle and gives rise to gossips maintained by the fact that Jeeva remains incorrigible bachelor. In the truth, he dreads that his future wife (if he finds one) tears away him from his family of adoption and house thus only, to avoid this problem, but regrettably, this happiness is going to be again broken. Indeed, Indu loses her husband, just before their honeymoon, a few days after their marriage celebrated in formal dinners, with all the splendor. Everybody is bewildered and appalled. Jeeva, who had just left the marriage, knows only after his return about the death of the son-in-law. Annihilated as everybody, at the beginning, Jeeva quickly gets over it, by giving for mission to find a new pretender for Indu. Nevertheless, he finds the one person in a million, in the person of Muthu ( Vijay Adhiraj), an old acquaintance of Indu. Assisted by Yégambharam, Jeeva helps as best he can Muthu to conquer Indu, in spite of the secular obstacles against the widows considered as one bet in India.

Cast

as Jeeva *

as Indu (5th among siblings) *

as Yégambharam also Charles * Vijayakumar as Indu's father-in-law *

as Gangadaran (1st brother) *Ilavarasan as Muralidaran (2nd brother) *

as Giridaran (3rd brother) *

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as Indu's sister (4th among siblings) * Fathima Babu as Gangadaran's wife * Vijay Adhiraj as Muthu *

K. S. Ravikumar K. S. Ravikumar (born 30 May 1958) is an Indian film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, primarily working in Tamil films. Career 1990–1997 Ravikumar worked as co-director on R. B. Choudary's production ''Pudhu Vasantham'' direct ...

as Manogar, Muthu's father * Ganthimathi as Old Widow *

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as Groom * Rajiv as the brothers' father * Ravikumar as Jeeva's father * Vichithra as Diana, Yégambharam's girlfriend *

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(Guest Appearance) as Jeeva's wife

Soundtrack

The music was composed by

Ilaiyaraaja Ilaiyaraaja (born R. Gnanathesikan, 3 June 1943) is an Indian musician, composer, arranger, conductor, orchestrator, instrumentalist, lyricist and singer, popular for his works in Indian Cinema, prominently in Tamil films. Reputed to be one o ...

Release

The film was initially scheduled to release on 19 October 1998 to coincide with Diwali, but was delayed by three months.

References

External links

* {{P. Vasu 1999 films 1990s Tamil-language films Films directed by P. Vasu Films scored by Ilaiyaraaja