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Kunguma Pottu Gounder
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Wikipedia article
'Kunguma Pottu Gounder' is a 2001 Indian Tamil-language film directed by Suraj (credited as G. Saisuresh) and produced by Vishnuram under Ganga Gowri Productions. The film stars Sathyaraj and Rambha, with Kausalya, Karan, Mouli and Goundamani in supporting roles. The film was remade in Kannada as 'Mutthu' (2002).
Plot
Kandasamy is an illiterate man working in a textile shop with his friend Chinnasamy. He is married to the illiterate Alamelu and the couple has a son named Sakthivel. Kandasamy wants his son to study in a renowned school where the parents are required to be graduates. Saraswati, a young and educated woman, then starts to work in the textile shop and Kandasamy asks her to act as his child's mother. In a flashback, his father Kunguma Pottu Gounder was a kindhearted and a rich man who helped the needy but he was illiterate and he didn't send his son to school. One day, he lost all his wealth because of his lack of education. Kunguma Pottu Gounder then died of shock. Before dying, he asked his son Kandasamy to not make the same mistake as he did and begged him to send his son to school. Saraswati finally accepts to act as his child's mother and his son joins the school. Everything goes well as Kandasamy's planned until Saraswati's lover Shiva and Kandasamy's wife Alamelu find out about the cham.
Cast
*Sathyaraj as Kandasamy/Kunguma Pottu Gounder (dual role)
*Rambha as Alamelu
*Kausalya as Saraswati
*Goundamani as Chinnasamy
*Karan as Shiva
*Ramesh Khanna as Paramasivam
*T. S. B. K. Moulee as School principal and Shiva's brother
*Vinu Chakravarthy as Alamelu's father
*Pandu as Sundaram Pillai
*Sindhu as School teacher
*Balu Anand as Textile shop owner
*Bayilvan Ranganathan as Police inspector
*Vichu Viswanath as Lawyer
*Master Kaushik as Sakthivel, Kandasamy's son
*Master Bharath as young Kandasamy
*Suryakanth
*Kalidoss
*Arulmani
*MLA Thangaraj
*Omakuchi Narasimhan
*Gowthami Vembunathan
*Priyanka as Saraswati's friend
*Soundar as Munusamy
*Lekhasri in a special appearance
*Radhika Chaudhari in a special appearance
Soundtrack
The soundtrack was composed by Sirpy.
Reception
Malathi Rangarajan of 'The Hindu' praised the comic exchanges of Sathyaraj and Goundamani and said, "despite fairly good acting and appealing dialogue the film does not make an impact, it is the pitfalls in the story and screenplay that are to be blamed". Visual Dasan of 'Kalki' gave the film a verdict of "average". Malini Mannath wrote in 'Chennai Online', "The message that the director intended to convey, about the importance of education and the stringent rules certain prestigious schools follow, is diluted as the director shuttles between the comic and the serious, and gives more importance to the marital discord and the jealous wife story".
References
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