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'Annanagar Mudhal Theru' is a 1988 Indian Tamil-language comedy drama film directed by Balu Anand. The film stars Sathyaraj, Prabhu, Ambika, Radha. It a remake of the 1986 Malayalam film 'Gandhinagar 2nd Street'. The film was declared superhit at box office.

Plot



Sivaraman, unable to find a good job, joins a colony as a Gorkha identifying himself as Ramsingh. Ambika lives in the colony with her daughter. Ambika's husband works abroad. A police officer (Jaiganesh) comes to the colony along with his daughter Latha. Latha is none other than Sivaraman's ex-lover. A flashback is shown where Sivaraman and Latha are classmates and in love with each other. But Latha breaks up after a misunderstanding.

Seeing Latha after a long time, Sivaraman gets excited but Latha does not reciprocate. Ambika finds the real identity of Sivaraman and treats him with respect while other colony members ill treat him as he is just a security guard. The colony members also spreads rumour about Ambika having illegal affair with Sivaraman.

Anand, a cunning guy lives in the colony and sets an eye on Latha but gets beaten up by Sivaraman. Now the colony members turn against Sivaraman. But Ambika comes for rescue. Latha also understands that Sivaraman is still in love with her and decides to patch up with him.

Ambika's husband comes from abroad. The colony members speak ill about Ambika to Prabhu. But Prabhu does not believe those and trusts Ambika. It is revealed that Ambika has already informed Prabhu about Sivaraman and Prabhu has also arranged him a job abroad. The movie ends on a positive note with Sivaraman and Latha uniting.

Cast



*Sathyaraj as Sivaraman/Ramsingh

*Prabhu Ramesh

*Ambika as Geetha

*Radha as Latha

*Manorama as Colony Secretary

*Thyagu as Constable

*Janagaraj as Madhavan

*Raghuvaran as Widowed Professor

*Anand as Flirty son of Manorama and smuggler

*Venniradai Moorthy as Script Writer

*T. S. Raghavendra as Smuggler

*Jai Ganesh as Inspector Rajagopal

Soundtrack



The music was composed by Chandrabose. The songs became chartbusters.

Release and reception



'Annanagar Mudhal Theru' was released on 14 January 1988. The following week, N. Krishnaswamy of 'The Indian Express' praised the performances of Janakaraj and Sathyaraj, but noted that, slowly the film "belies its distinctive start and sluds into tiresome cliches so well-beloved to Tamil cinema." Jayamanmadhan of 'Kalki' gave a mixed review for various aspects, including the editing and inclusion of ingredients not relevant to the story.

References




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