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Penmani Aval Kanmani
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox film
| name = Penmani Aval Kanmani
| image = Penmani Aval Kanmani.jpg
| border = no
| caption = Poster
| director = Visu
| writer = Visu
| producer = Rajam Balachander
Pushpa Kandaswamy
| starring = Pratap Pothen
Seetha
Visu
Kishmu
| cinematography = N. Balakrishnan
| editing = GaneshKumar
| music = ShankarGanesh
| studio = Kavithalayaa Productions
| released =
| runtime = 147 minutes
| country = India
| language = Tamil
}}
'Penmani Aval Kanmani' is a 1988 Indian Tamil-language film, directed by Visu and produced by Rajam Balachander and Pushpa Kandaswamy. The film stars Pratap Pothen, Seetha, Visu and Kishmu. The film had musical score by ShankarGanesh. The film was remade in Telugu as 'Aadade Adharam'.
Plot
The movie deals with how Radio Mama (Visu) solves the family related problems in the other neighbouring households. Four families are principally involved in this movie. Visu's family consists of his son Prathap Pothen, daughter-in-law Kutti Padmini and their two kids. Visu always causes trouble at home by ignoring household chores and instead focussing on neighbouring household's problems. Ilavarasan's family consists of his wife Aruna and parents Delhi Ganesh and Kamala Kamesh. Aruna ill-treats her in-laws. Dilip's family consists of his wife Seetha and mother M.N.Rajam. Seetha is tortured by her mother-in-law. Kishmu's family consists of his wife Vadivukkarasi, son Ramesh Arvind and daughter-in-law Madhuri. Kishmu and his son are drunkards and do not earn anything for their family.
How Radio Mama solves the different problems of Dowry, Ill treatment of mother and father-in-laws by daughter-in-law, Ill treatment of daughter-in-laws by mother-in-law, Alcoholism in slums, etc with his wit, courage and humour forms the story of the movie.
Cast
'Radio Mama's family'
*Prathap Pothen as Parandhaman
*Kutty Padmini as Kalpana
*Visu as Radio Mama
'Kamala's family'
*Delhi Ganesh as Kamala's husband
*Kamala Kamesh as Kamala
*Ilavarasan as Sudha's husband
*Aruna as Sudha
'Uma's family'
*Dilip as Dilip
*Seetha as Uma
*M. N. Rajam as Dilip's mother
*G. Srinivasan as Uma's father
'Vadivu's family'
*Vadivukkarasi as Vadivu
*Kishmu as Vadivu's husband
*Madhuri as Meenakshi
*Ramesh Aravind as Meenakshi's husband
'Penmani magazine'
*Manorama as Ambujam Viswanath, Editor-in-Chief of 'Penmani' magazine
'Old age home scene' (Cameo appearance)
*Kula Deivam V. R. Rajagopal
*Typist Gopu
*Omakuchi Narasimhan
*Sethu Vinayagam
Soundtrack
Soundtrack was composed by ShankarGanesh. The lyrics were penned by Vaali.
References
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