WIKIPEDIA Kadhalan Kadhalan (prosounced (ka:dalan] transl, Loverboy) is a 1994 Indian Tamil-language romantic thriller film written and directed by S. Shankar and produced by K.'T. Kunjumon. The film stars Prabhu Deva and Nagma, while Vadivelu, Raghuvaran, Girish Karnad, and S._P. Balasubrahmanyam play supporting roles. It focuses on a college student who falls in love with the state governor's daughter. The governor opposes this, and unknown to anyone, plans on toppling the state government. Kadhalan was released on 17 September 1994. The film was a commercial success and won many recognitions and honours, including two South Filmfare Awards, and four National Film Awards, The film was dubbed and released in ‘Telugu with the title Premikudu and in Hindi as Humse Hai Mugabal Contents Plot Cast Production Development Casting Filming Music Release and reception Awards Controversy Legacy References Bibliography Kadhalan ‘Theatrical release poster Directed by. Shankar Produced by —_K. T. Kunjumon Dialogue by Balakumaran Screenplay by S. Shankar ‘Story by S. Shankar Starring Prabhu Deva Nagma Music by AR. Rahman Cinematography JeevaExternal links Edited by B.Lenin VT. Wijayan Production ARS. Film Plot company” International Prabhu is the student chairman of the Government Arts College, Madras and his best friend |Release date 17 September 1994 YVasanth is the joint secretary. He goes to invite governor Kakarla Sathyanarayana as the chief Running time 170 minutes guest for the college annual day along with Vasanth, during which he sees his daughter Shruti and instantly falls in love with her. Kakatla aceepts the invitation and on the function day he arrives with his wife and Shruti; Prabhu is excited to see her again. Language Tamil Country India To get close to Shruti, Prabhu joins her dance school. Shruti initially hates him for disrespecting classical dance. Prabhu's father, police constable Kathiresan, advises him to impress her by learning classical dance properly and Prabhu assents, Unknown to anyone, Kakarla intends to topple the state government by planting bombs in the state; a recent bomb blast at a wholesale market inaugurated by Kakarla was actually orchestrated by him. ‘Shruti refuses to go to the Natyanjali festival at Chidambaram if Prabhu attends, for fear of him insulting the art. To disprove her, Prabhu secretly enters her house and demonstrates his dance skills to her. She is amazed and agrees to go but, due to fear of terrorism, Kakarla refuses to Tet her leave. She escapes with Prabhu and Vasanth via motorbike, outwitting her bodyguards. Meanwhile, Kakarla and bomb specialist Mallikarjuna plan the next bomb blast at the Nataraja Temple where Natyanjali is to take place. Commander Ajay informs Kakarla that Shruti left with two men to attend Natyanjali. Kakarla orders Malli to remove the bomb, Prabhiw and Shruti are chased by the police and Malli; that night they stay in a paddy field. Shruti realises Prabhu’s love for her and reciprocates. They reach Chidambaram as planned. Due to Mall's inability to remove the bomb, Kakarla sends Ajay and a police squad to the temple. Ajay and the squad reach the temple, remove the bomb and bring Shruti back. Kakarla doubts Shruti's virginity as she was with Prabhu for a night. Upset at this, Shruti meets with Prabhu and asks him to marry her, but then Ajay and his commandos imprison Prabhu and accuse him of planting the bomb. The police order Prabhu to confess, but he refuses while Shruti becomes embittered over his imprisonment, and expresses her love for him to her parents. Vasanth informs all the students about the happenings and a strike is called by all the students against Kakarla, Prabhu’s release is ordered by Kakarla after Shruti’s requesting. Shruti is sent to her paternal grandparents’ house in Andhra Pradesh. Prabhu and Vasanth reach the village and find her. Shruti's ‘grandparents support their romance and unite them. Malli sees Prabhu and informs Kakarla over a wireless transmission which Prabhu. overhears, He discovers evidence of Kakarla's attempts to blast Nataraja Temple, and learns of his plans of blasting the Government General Hospital, After subduing Malli, Prabhu and Vasanth escape with the evidence.‘Malli informs Kakarla, who orders the police to find Prabhu, Police arrest Prabhu and Vasanth, and Kakarla tells Malli to make the bomb detonate after his visit to the hospital to see the Viee-President undergoing treatment there. They plan to dump Prabhu and Vasanth in the hospital. However, Prabhu and Vasanth escape, and Prabhu informs Kathiresan about the bomb. Malli plants the bomb, but Kakarla betrays him by trying to kill him with a bomb radio. Malli survives, and in revenge re-times the bomb to detonate during Kakarla's scheduled visit Prabhu searches for the bomb, while Vasanth brings students to vacate the patients. After meeting the Vice-President, Kakarla gets stuck in a lit with his wife and daughter. Shruti is helped out, while Prabhu, having located the bomb, runs to a river and throws it there; the bomb detonates without killing anyone. Malli manages to kill Kakarla with a live wire, and succumbs to his injuries. Prabhu and Shrati reunite. Cast = Prabhu Deva as Prabhu = Allu Ramalingaiah as Shruthi's grandfather!) = Nagma as Shruthi = Manorama as Shruthi's grandmother!) = edveuas sont) + Ajay Rathnam as Ajay! = Raghuvaran as Mallikarjuna “Mali = Padmapriya as Prabhu's mother] + Girish Kamad as Kakarla Sathyanarayana +S, Shankar in a cameo appearance (‘Kachalkum Pennin” song) ‘= 8. P. Balasubrahmanyam as Kathiresan({] = Raju Sundaram in a cameo appearance ("Kadhalikum Pennin’ song) Production Development After the success of Gentleman (1993), producer K, ‘T. Kunjumon decided to collaborate with director S. Shankar for the second time, Shankar narrated the plot of “a young dancer from a normal middle-class household falling in love with a girl from a very influential household”. Kunjumon liked the plot and, "to turn this into as grand a film as was possible", he decided to incorporate the cold-war between the then Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa and the then governor Marri Chena Reddy into the screenplay.3) Casting ‘Shankar wanted Prashanth to play the lead actor, but due to busy schedules he could not actin the film Prabhu Deva, who worked as a dancer for Kunjumon’s previous ventures, was later finalised by Kunjumon. Shankar was intially reluctant to have him as the lead actor as distributors felt audience would not accept him in that role beeause of his "lean physique" and "bearded look". However Kunjumon wasfirm with his choice and wanted to prove distributors wrong.) Dubbing voice for Prabhu Deva was provided by then struggling actor Vikram.{*1 Madhuri Dixit was originally considered as the lead actress, Busy schedules meant that Nagma was instead chosen. Kunjumon, initially wanted to have Goundamani play Vasanth, but he could not accept due to scheduling conflicts; Vadivelu was instead chosen. Girish Karnad was not initially interested in playing the governor, but after convincing by Kunjumon, he agreed.{31 Filming ‘The song "Urvasi Urvasi" was shot near the SPIC building in Guindy and other landmarks across Chennai.‘6! Art director Thota Tharani specially created a glass framed bus for the song. Since the crew made a film with a relatively new cast it created doubts on the trade, so the crew decided "to use the newest technology at that time to make the film appealing to audiences. They decided to go all out with visual effects in the songs, making them the attraction." S. T. Venky was chosen to handle the visual effects for the film and he had done by ‘outsourcing the work to technicians from abroad. It became the final film to be shot inside the temple premises of Nataraja Temple after the film's erew was sued by court for shooting inside the temple.(2) Music ‘The background music seore and soundtrack were composed by A. R. Rahman, with Iyries written by Vali, Vairamuthu and director Shankar who penned the "Pettai Rap" number. The song, "Mukkabla” became popular and was plagiarised freely by tunesmiths. Nearly a dozen versions of the song were churned out, a feat that earned "Mukkabla” and Rahman a place in the Limea Book of Records 7] New styles were experimented with, as in the song “Pettai Rap", a Madras Bashai song which was written in a rap-like style, interspersing Tamil with English words. The synthesiser and the keyboard also feature while drawing from Tamil folk music. P. Unnikrishnan made his playback singing debut with the song "Ennavale Ennavale" which is set in Kedaram raga/®1 ‘The dubbed Hindi version of the soundtrack, Humse Hai Mugabala, sold 2.5 million units in India!®)" inspired the 2014 song"It's My Birthday" by American rapper will.am {#01 1t was remade in Hindi as a single, "Urvashi" in 2018, sung and composed by Yo Yo Honey Singh, with the music video starring Shahid Kapoor and Kiara Advani.(!1 “Mukkabla” was remade as "Mugabla" in Hindi for ‘the 2020 film Street Dancer 3D, in which Prabbu Deva stars as one of the leads, and an accompanying video song, was released in late 2019 as promotion for the film. (#1 Release and reception Kadhalan was released on 17 September 1994.4) Malini Mannath of The Indian Express sad, “(Kadhalan] is better than expected, and will appeal to the college crowd." K. Viiyin of New Straits Times said, "Sadly, the love story isnot all that endearing as it is eclipsed by the dance songs."26) Balaji LK. of Indolink wrote, "With a tighter seript and more attention to the story's development instead of gimmicks like computer Graphics and having S.P-B. cavort in drag for song, this would have made a great entertainer. Still the songs and picturization makes this worthwhile” [27Awards . Unnikrishnan won the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer with his first ever film song for "nnavale Ennavale’ Ceremony Award Awardee Ret, Best ale Playback Singer |. Unnikrshnan ‘A.S. Laxmi Narayanan Best Ausiography 42nd National Fim Awards V.S. Murthy ro Bost Eating B. Lenin and V.T. iayan est Special Effecte Venky Best Director- Tamil S. Shankar 42nd Fifare Awards South 20 Musle Diector— Tamil | AR. Rahman Controversy Congress MP Era. 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Retrieves 16 December 2015. a 1 22, 23Bibliography = Dhananjayan, G (2014), Pride of Tamil Cinema: 1931 to 2013: Tamil Films that have eamed National and International Recognition. Blue Ocean Publishers. ISN 978.0-670.08620-7. External links * Kadhalan (hitps:liwww imdb coruitlet0097416)) at IMDb Retrieved trom "hpsien wkipeda orgiwlindex php? le Kadhalan&elaid=1019418577" ‘This page was last etd on 23 April 2021, at 06:47 (UTC). ‘Texcis avaiable unger tha Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License: addtional terms may apply using tis ste, you agree tothe Tere of Use and Privacy Poly. Waipeda® is a registred vademark ofthe Wikimedia Foundation, Inc, anon prot organization.