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Ezhumalai
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Wikipedia article
'Ezhumalai' is a 2002 Indian Tamil-language action drama film directed by Arjun, who also played the titular character. It also features Simran, Gajala and Mumtaj as the female leads, while Vijayakumar and Ashish Vidhyarthi play supporting roles. This film is the Tamil remake of the Telugu film 'Narasimha Naidu' (2001), starring Balakrishna and Simran, where the latter reprised her role in the Tamil version. It was dubbed into Hindi as "Main hoon rangbaaz".Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211205/PlH75ApXRnI Ghostarchive] and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20140118133211/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlH75ApXRnI Wayback Machine]: The film released on 21 June 2002 and was a superhit at the box office.
Plot
Ezhumalai (Arjun) leads a peaceful life as a dance master in the village. Anjali (Gajala) falls in love with him before learning that he has a son and that his wife Lakshmi (Simran) is dead. She wishes to marry him but faces competition from Lakshmi's sister Sandhya (Mumtaj), who also wishes to wed him. Anjali is the daughter of Nagalingam (Ashish Vidyarthi), who is from a neighboring village. When she reveals this fact to Ezhumalai, she learns he and her father are sworn enemies and that her father killed Lakshmi.
Cast
* Arjun as Ezhumalai
* Simran as Lakshmi
* Gajala as Anjali Nagalingam
* Mumtaj as Sandhya, Lakshmi's sister
* Vijayakumar as Venkatachalam
* Ashish Vidhyarthi as Nagalingam, Anjali's father
* Gowtham Sundararajan as Ezhumalai's elder brother
* Thyagu as Ezhumalai's elder brother
* Sathyapriya as Nagalingam's sister
* Venniradai Moorthy as Marriage Broker
* Chandrasekhar as Venkatachalam's friend
* Anandaraj as Nagalingam's brother in law
* Peeli Sivam as Lakshmi and Sandhya's father
* Charle as Ezhumalai's assistant
* Vaiyapuri as Marriage Broker's assistant
* Keerikkadan Jose as Kalingarayan
* Scissor Manohar as drummer
Soundtrack
;'Track listing'
The songs are by Mani Sharma, with lyrics written by Vaali and Thamarai.
Critical reception
'Thiraipadam' wrote that the film "itself is an age-old revenge tale that offers nothing new and so, the proceedings are predictable, most of the time." 'The Hindu' wrote "The screenplay is Arjun's. So is the direction. And the action hero thrills his fans with stunts aplenty. Yet fights alone, however well choreographed, cannot make a film watchable. You need a well-narrated story something "Ezhumalai" lacks. Most of the time action waits for no reason and seems to need no logic." 'Sify' wrote that "the film caters strictly to the frontbenchers".
References
Category:2002 films
Category:Tamil remakes of Telugu films
Category:2000s Tamil-language films
Category:Films directed by Arjun Sarja
Category:Films scored by Mani Sharma
Category:Indian action drama films
Category:Indian vigilante films
Category:2000s action drama films
Category:2000s vigilante films
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