''Thenkasipattanam'' () is a 2000 Indian

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-language

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written and directed by

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, produced by

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, and starring

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as male leads and

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as female leads with

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and

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in supporting roles.

Synopsis

Kannan (

) and Dassan (

) are owners of the market in their village in Thenkasi Pattinam. They become the famous rowdies under the guidance of their godfather (

Vinu Chakravarthy Vinu Chakravarthy (15 December 1945 – 27 April 2017) was an Indian actor, screenwriter and director who is known for acting in more than 1000 movies in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Badaga and Malayalam mostly as a comedian, supporting actor or in ...

). Dassan has a sister called Devootty (

) who is the educated girl and wants to get rid of their rudeness from their behaviour. Shatrugnan (shortened as Shathru) (

) who later joined as the manager of the KD & Co who is regularly beaten by them due to his stupidity. Soon later it is revealed that Shathru is in love with their sister, but she is not interested in him. He joins Kannan's and Dasan's firm KD & Company as the manager in an attempt to win Devootty's love and her brothers. She enquires about his coming to their village and he says he wanted to marry her. She neglected it saying that first she need to make her brothers marry and to have a family life. To make her happy, Shathru decides to find the brides for Dassan and Kannan.Meenakshi (

) is the childhood friend of Kannan, who is their enemy's daughter. Meenakshi tries to prove her love and Kannan does not reciprocate it because he knows that Daasan won't accept this relationship. Once KD & Co keeps as hostage a music troupe who comes to their village to perform. The main singer of that troupe, Sangeetha ( Geethu Mohandas), gets expelled from her home because of this, so Kannan and Dasan gives her refuge upon Devootty's insistence. Shathru plans to unite Dassan and Sangeetha. Soon, Kannan asks Dassan for the marriage with Meenakshi for him, but Dasan mistakenly understands Meenakshi as his bride. On the other hand, Sangeetha is in love with Kannan. After some fights, Dassan and Kannan bring Meenakshi to their home, and starts wedding preparation. Soon Shathru realises his mistake and wants to change the brides to their respective grooms. When the truth is revealed, Dassan who is madly in love with Meenakshi, forces her in a marriage with him, Kannan who is badly beaten by Dassan. Devootty tries to stop this which leads Dasan to beat her. This provokes Kannan and he fights Daasan.Dasan falls down and kannan says him he is ready to give up his love for his friendship. Dasan changes his mind, allows Kannan and Meenakshi to unite. Sangeetha is ready to marry Dassan.

Cast

as Kannan , owner of KD & company . Closest friend of Dasan. Love interest of Meenakshi. *

as Dasan , owner of KD & company . Close friend of Kannan . Falls for Meenakshi due to some misunderstanding. Brother of Devootty *

as Shathrughnan, employee of KD company. College mate of Devootty. Fall for Devootty *

as Meenakshi , love interest of Kannan , whom she reciprocates , and Dasan. Also, Daughter of Devarajan *

as Sangeetha , singer of the troupe captivated by Kannan & Dasan. Falls for Kannan under some misunderstandings. *

as Devootty, sister of Dasan and Kannan . Love interest of Shatru . *

as Muthuraman, a bullock cart driver in Thenkashi whom Shatru befriends. *

as Devarajan, rich man in Thenkasi , who is rivalry of Kannan & Dasan . *

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as Santhosh, Sangeetha's uncle *

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as Karavettan *

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as Rangaraj, Devarajan's right hand *

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as Sangeetha's aunty * Manka Mahesh as Maheshwari Amma *

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* Bindhu Krishna *

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as Meenakshi's younger friend * Dimple Rose *

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as Young Devootty *

Soundtrack

The film's soundtrack contains 7 songs, all composed by

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, with lyrics by

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Box office

The film was a commercial success at the box office and one of the biggest hits of 2000. It ran for 275 days in theatres and collected then became highest grossing Malayalam film of the year 2000 beating Narasimham.

Remakes

This film was remade in Telugu as ''

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'' (2001), in Kannada as '' Kodanda Rama'' (2002), in

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with the same name (2002) by the same director and in Bengali as ''

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'' (2008) and in Bhojpuri as Sab Gol Maal Ha starring Ravi Kishan. Suresh Peters was retained as composer for the Telugu and Tamil remakes reusing the tunes from the film.

References

External links

* {{Rafi Mecartin 2000s Malayalam-language films 2000 films 2000 action comedy films Indian action comedy films Films scored by Suresh Peters Films shot in Tamil Nadu Malayalam films remade in other languages Films set in Tamil Nadu 2000 comedy films Films directed by Rafi–Mecartin