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Aan Paavam
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Wikipedia article
'Aan Paavam' is a 1985 Indian Tamil-language comedy film directed by Pandiarajan. It was his second directorial venture and first as actor. The film also stars Pandiyan, Revathi and Seetha.
The film was released on 7 December 1985. It received positive reviews
and became a box office success, making it the fourth highest-grossing film of 1985. It was remade into Telugu as 'Naku Pellam Kavali' (1987), in Kannada as 'Rama Krishna' and in Marathi as 'Chal Lavkar'.
Plot
Periya Pandi (Pandiyan) and Chinna Pandi (Pandiarajan) are two notorious sons of the village cinema theatre owner Ramasamy (V. K. Ramasamy). Periya Pandi goes to a neighboring village to see a girl as arranged by his father towards his marriage and ends up in the wrong house. Coincidentally, those in the wrong house are also expecting a man to see their daughter on the same time and the same day. Contrary to real-time arranged marriages, Periya Pandi goes to see the girl totally un-aided by parents, relatives and friends. Nevertheless, he takes a liking to the girl, Seetha (Seetha), and decides to marry her. Seetha likes Periya Pandi and decides to accept the proposal. Meanwhile, Seetha's marriage broker shows up and clarifies that Periya Pandi was supposed to have gone to see some other girl but ended up in the wrong house. Hearing this, Periya Pandi, Seetha and Seetha's parents seem disappointed. Ramasamy fixes dates for his marriage to the girl originally chosen for him Revathi (Revathi), a school teacher's daughter. Periya Pandi's adamance to marry Seetha causes a strange turn of events. Chinna Pandi finally marries Revathi, while Periya Pandi ties the knot with his love Seetha.
Cast
* Pandiyan as Periya Pandi
* Pandiarajan as Chinna Pandi
* Revathi as Revathi
* Seetha as Seetha
* V. K. Ramasamy as Ramasamy
* Meesai Murugesan as Murugesan
* Poornam Viswanathan as Viswanathan Vathiyar
* Janagaraj as Kanagaraj
* Usilai Mani as Kanagaraj's restaurant cook
* Kollangudi Karuppayee as Pandi's grandmother
* Ramesh Khanna as Kalyana Tharagar
* Omakuchi Narasimhan as Parotta Master
* Pasi Narayanan
* Nellai Siva as Villager
* Super Subburayan in guest appearance
* Khaja Sharif as guest appearance
*Krishnamurthy mutudha car scene comedy
Production
'Aan Paavam' was Pandiarajan's second film as director and his debut film as an actor. Seetha who was studying 12th at that time was selected to play the lead actress after director saw her in a video at a marriage.
Soundtrack
The music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja. The song "Kadhal Kasakkudayya" is based on Shanmukhapriya raga, and "Kuyile Kuyile" is based on Madhyamavati.
Legacy
The film was included by 'Behindwoods' in their list "of All Time Top Ten comedy movies". A television series of the same name was aired in Sun TV in 2012.
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