Home | Movies By Year | Movies from 1990


Vaigasi Poranthachu

Buy Vaigasi Poranthachu now from Amazon

First, read the Wikipedia article. Then, scroll down to see what other TopShelfReviews readers thought about the movie. And once you've experienced the movie, tell everyone what you thought about it.

Wikipedia article




'Vaigasi Poranthachu' is a 1990 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film directed by Radha Bharathi. The film stars debutants Prashanth (actor Thiagarajan's son) and Kaveri. The film, produced by K. Prabhakaran, had musical score by Deva and was released on 16 November 1990. The film was a commercial success. The film was remade in Hindi as 'I Love You' (1992) with Prashanth reprising his role.

Plot



Kumaresan (Prashanth) belongs to a poor Hindu family living with his mother Lakshmi (Sulakshana) and his grandmother (Kala). Kumaresan is a brilliant student but naughty at school. Along with his friends, he teases Ranjitha (Kavery) the daughter of Pandidhurai (K. Prabhakaran) the village head. A few months later, attracted by Kumaresan's wits & pranks Ranjitha falls in love with him. Pandidurai becomes insane knowing his daughter's love affair. His henchmen lock Kumaresan up, in Pandidhurai's house and lash him with a whip. Not able to stand this savage treatment on Kumaresan Ranjitha swoons. Ranjitha's mother Parvathi (K. R. Vijaya) helps her daughter to elope with Kumaresan. A massive hunt is launched by the village head & what happened to the young lovers is the rest of the story.

Cast



*Prashanth as Kumaresan

*Kaveri (Dubbing voice by Kokila) as Ranjitha

*Sulakshana as Lakshmi, Kumaresan's mother

*Sangeetha as Ranjitha's mother

*K. Prabhakaran as Pandidurai, Ranjitha's father

*K. R. Vijaya as Parvathi, Pandidurai's first wife

*Janagaraj as Chinnarasu

*Charle as Teacher

*Chinni Jayanth as Headmaster

*Kumarimuthu as Vaiyapuri

*Cochin Haneefa as Malaiyappan, Kumaresan's father

Awards



The film has won the following awards since its release :

'1990's - Tamil Nadu State film Awards '

*Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Music Director Deva

Soundtrack



The soundtrack was composed by Deva, with lyrics written by Kalidasan. Deva composed all the songs in one day.

Remakes



References



Category:1990 films

Category:Indian romantic drama films

Category:Films scored by Deva (composer)

Category:Tamil films remade in other languages

Category:1990s Tamil-language films

Category:1990 directorial debut films

Category:Films directed by Radha Bharathi

Category:1990 romantic drama films

Buy Vaigasi Poranthachu now from Amazon

<-- Return to movies from 1990



This work is released under CC-BY-SA. Some or all of this content attributed to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1110600542.