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Panchathantiram
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Panchatanthiram () is a 2002 Indian Tamil-language black comedy film co-written and directed by K. S. Ravikumar. The story is written by Kamal Haasan with the dialogues by Crazy Mohan. The film stars Haasan, Jayaram, Ramesh Aravind, Sriman, Yugi Sethu, Simran and Ramya Krishnan, with Urvashi, Aishwarya, Sanghavi, Vidhya Venkatesh, Devayani and Nagesh in supporting roles. It loosely adapts from the 1998 film Very Bad Things with new elements added to it.
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7.0Ram's friends hire Maggie, a call girl, to help him get over his wife, who mistakenly believes him to be a philanderer. However, they get in trouble when Maggie ends up dead.
Cast
- Kamal Haasan as 'Ram' Ramachandramurthy
- Jayaram as Ayyappan Nair
- Ramesh Aravind as Ganesh Hegde
- Sriman as Hanumanth Reddy
- Yugi Sethu as 'Vedham' Vedhantham Iyer
- Simran as Mythili Ramachandramurthy
Themes
- comedy of errors
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- black comedy film
- Country of origin
- India
- Original language
- Tamil
- Director
- K. S. Ravikumar
- Screenwriter
- Crazy Mohan
- Composer
- Deva
- Narrative location
- Bengaluru
- Performer
- Deva
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- publication date
- 2002-01-01
- title
- பஞ்சதந்திரம்
- distributed by
- Raaj Kamal Films International
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Plot
- Cast
- Production
- Soundtrack
- Release and reception
- Dropped sequel
- References
- External links
Panchatanthiram () is a 2002 Indian Tamil-language black comedy film co-written and directed by K. S. Ravikumar. The story is written by Kamal Haasan with the dialogues by Crazy Mohan. The film stars Haasan, Jayaram, Ramesh Aravind, Sriman, Yugi Sethu, Simran and Ramya Krishnan, with Urvashi, Aishwarya, Sanghavi, Vidhya Venkatesh, Devayani and Nagesh in supporting roles. It loosely adapts from the 1998 film Very Bad Things with new elements added to it.
Panchatanthiram released on 28 June 2002 and became a commercial success. Jayaram won Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor – Tamil at the 50th South Filmfare Awards.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Panchathantiram” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.