Azhagesan
4 /10 1 Votes
Director Arthi Kumar Duration Language Tamil | 3.8/10 IMDb Genre Action, Drama Country India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date 20 August 2004 (2004-08-20) Songs Jintha Jinakku Jintha Cast Sathyaraj (Azhagesan), Manorama (Nandinis grandmother), Prema (Nandini), Delhi Ganesh (Govinda), Vinu Chakravarthy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Azhagesan is an Indian movie released in 2004 in Tamil and the movie was directed by Director Arthi Kumar. The film features Sathyaraj and Prema in lead roles. The film, produced by B. Avinash and C. Inayathullah, had musical score by Deva and was released on 20 August 2004. The film is a remake of the critical acclaimed 2001 Malayalam film Karumadikkuttan.
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Plot
Azhagesan (Sathyaraj), loves his cousin Nandini (Prema), a college student. Neelakandan (Pithamagan Mahadevan), the village landlord, has a son Sekhar (Manoj K. Jayan) who is a womaniser.
Chandra, Nandini's college professor, falls in love with Nandini, he proposes to marry her and she accepts. Sekhar, who has an eye on Nandini, is humiliated and slapped by Nandini. Sekhar evicts Nandini and Nandini's grandmother (Manorama) from their house. Her marriage is immediately stopped and her grandmother falls ill.
Azhagesan accommodates them in his house. Nandini's grandmother dies and Nandini is raped by Sekhar. Nandini begins to feel sympathy for Sekhar, she aborts with Neelakandan's daughter support. Neelakandan requests Nandini to come in his house and they can prepare for the marriage but she refuses and Azhagesan humiliates Neelakandan. Sekhar decides to kill Azhagesan. First, he kills Azhagesan's family friend Govinda (Delhi Ganesh). Neelakandan dies because of his illness. Sekhar's henchmen beats Azhagesan and Nandini kills Sekhar.
Few years later, she is released from the jail and live happily with Azhagesan.
Cast
Soundtrack
The film score and the soundtrack were composed by film composer Deva. The soundtrack, released in 2004, 5 features tracks with lyrics written by Kalidasan and Kalaikumar.
Reception
B. Balaji rated the film 1.5 out of 5 stating that : "Azhagesan, which although a remake of Malayalam film Karumadikuttan, seems more like a rip-off of the classic 16 Vayadhinile". Movies.bizhat.com said that : "The film is an unmitigated endurance test for the audience" and concluded that : "the film is an amateurish attempt and is strictly avoidable".
References
Azhagesan WikipediaAzhagesan IMDb