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Wikipedia article
'Madhurey' is a 2004 Indian Tamil-language action film directed by Ramana Madhesh. It stars Vijay, Sonia Agarwal and Rakshitha while Vadivelu, Pasupathy, Seetha, and Tejashree play supporting roles. The film released on 29 August 2004. It received positive reviews and was a superhit.
Plot
Madhuravel works as a vegetable vendor with his friend Pandu. He is a do-gooder and protector of the family of Kamatchi and her two daughters. Madurey eradicates loan sharks and fights "bad guys" in the market. Meanwhile, Anitha has a liking towards Madurey and manages to win him over from Maheshwari. One day, while Madhurey was fighting some goons, a goon attempts to throw a briefcase at Madurey, but it falls. When the briefcase opens, Kamakshi finds a newspaper with Madurey and her daughter Susheela's photos in it. She then shoots Madurey, and he is hospitalized. At the hospital, when Kamakshi questions Pandu about how he can be an accomplice to someone who she thought was a murderer, he asks her if he knows who Madurey really is.
The story shifts to a flashback, where Madurey is the district collector of Madurai, with Susheela and Pandu as his assistants. He is the action-packed bureaucrat who takes to the streets to solve the citizens' problems. He does the job of policing and is up against criminals. He does not believe in IPS and police force to clean up the city. So one such clean up operation takes him to KTR, a don who is running a parallel law enforcement system with his own court. He doles out justice to all and is God to the ordinary. Madurey does not take lightly to this parallel outfit. A clash takes place, and Susheela is killed in a fight between Madurey and KTR. KTR puts the blame on Madurey.
Now, Madurey goes undercover to surface as a vegetable vendor because his aim is to pin down KTR. From now onwards, it is Madurey on a rampage until KTR is finished and the murder charge is removed forms rest of the plot.
Cast
* Vijay as Maduravel IAS (Madurey)
* Pasupathy as KTR The Main Antagonist
* Sonia Agarwal as Susheela
* Rakshitha as Anitha
* Tejashree as Maheshwari
* Vadivelu as Pandu
* Seetha as Kamakshi Susheela's mother
* Hemalatha as Susheela's sister
* Manicka Vinayagam as Madurey's father
* Ilavarasu as Anitha's father
* Shanmugarajan as Police Inspector
* Yugendran as Jeevan
* Venniradai Moorthy as Anitha's house owner
* Karate Raja as Kumarasamy
* A. V. Ramanan as Officer Karthikeyan
* Bala Singh as Gopal
* Raj Kapoor
* Vijay Ganesh
* Sridhar as himself in the song "Machan Peru Madhurey"
Production
Development
R. Madhesh, an assistant of director S. Shankar, was initially assigned to direct 'Jai' with Prashanth, However, after filming a song featuring Prashanth and lead actress Simran, he left the project and began work on another film 'Madurey'.[http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-cinemaplus/maverick-maker/article3460457.ece Maverick maker Hosur]. The Hindu (27 May 2012). Retrieved on 2015-09-22.
Casting
Simran and Jyothika were earlier selected as the lead actresses of the film But, both were replaced by Sonia Agarwal and Rakshitha while Tejashree who earlier appeared in 'Ottran' was selected to appear in a cameo appearance. The supporting cast has Vadivel, Ilavarasu, Murthy, Seetha and Rajkapoor.
Filming
A stint of shooting took place at a set erected opposite Ponniyamman Kovil, at Saligramam, Chennai. The set, designed by art director Rajeevan, was on a five-acre land and is reported to have cost 16 crore consisting of a garden, marketplace, fish-market, flower shop, lorry stand, cinema theatre, temple, church, railway line, housing colony and slum, most of the film's shooting was done here.[https://web.archive.org/web/20040823195220/http://www.chennaionline.com/film/onlocation/mathura.asp Madhurey]. Web.archive.org. Retrieved on 22 September 2015.
Music
Track listing
One song " Varanda Varanda" is included only in the screen and not in the audio disc separately.
Release
The film released on 29 August 2004.
Reception
'Ananda Vikatan' rated the film 39 out of 100. Malathi Rangarajan of 'The Hindu' wrote that "It isn't just a question of pace cohesiveness is what is missing in "'Madhura'". Malini Mannath of 'Chennai Online' noted that "Producing, scripting and directing it, he seems to have concentrated more on the glamour and the frills, alternating action with dance numbers, and missing out on a coherent script".
References
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