Home | Movies By Year | Movies from 2002


Sundhara Travels

Buy Sundhara Travels 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




'Sundara Travels' is a 2002 Tamil-language comedy film directed by Asokan. The film stars Murali, Radha, and Vadivelu. Vasu, Sabitha Anand, and Vinu Chakravarthy appear in supporting roles. Written by Govind Padman and Mahesh Mithra, it is a remake of their Malayalam film 'Ee Parakkum Thalika' (2001). The music was composed by Bharani, with editing done by P. C. Mohanan. The film released on 30 August 2002.

Plot



Gopikrishna (Murali) owns an old bus which was received as compensation for his father's road accident. Gopi now faces many consequences due to the bus's pathetic condition. He had sold many valuable things to maintain this bus, and his friend Azhagu (Vadivelu) was his only companion and the bus's cleaner. A mouse had eaten Azhagu's passport and spoiled his chances of going abroad. Some part of the film's comedy involves Azhagu running behind the mouse for revenge. A live TV show in which Gopi insults the City Traffic Commissioner (Vinu Chakravarthy) lands him in more trouble when the latter commands Gopi to leave the city with the bus. His other friends, advocates, and well-wishers try to help him with a bank loan to run a mobile kitchen (Tattukada) from his bus. The plot took a turn when a girl named Vasanthi (Radha) enters the bus as a nomad, but she was actually Gayathri, the daughter of an influential and politically powerful minister (P. Vasu) in Puducherry. Her father forced her to join politics, which made her leave home. Initially, Gayathri declines to leave the bus, despite Azhagu's and Gopi's constant efforts. The police traces her and takes her back to her father's custody. Her father was making arrangements for her marriage with someone else. Meanwhile, Gopi realized that he could not live without Gayathri. Gopi and Azhagu secretly entered her house, and finally, all ended well by winning the heart of Gayathri's father.

Cast



*Murali as Gopikrishna

*Radha as Gayathri / Vasanthi

*Vadivelu as Azhagu

*P. Vasu as Santhanam, Gayathri's father

*Sabitha Anand as Lakshmi, Gayathri's mother

*Vinu Chakravarthy as City Traffic Commissioner Veerappan

*Lavanya as TV Reporter

*Manivannan as Mahendran

*Delhi Ganesh as Krishnan Pillai

*Madhan Bob as Moneylender

*Ilavarasu as Parotta Master Kasi

*Pandu as Police Inspector

*Bala Singh as Politician

*Bonda Mani as Groom

Production



Malayalam hit "Ee Parakkum Thalika" starring Dileep, Harisree Ashokan and Nitya Das and directed by Thaha was made as "Sundara Travels" in Tamil. While Thaha directed the Malayalam version, Asokan directed the Tamil one, the lead roles are played by Murali and Radha from Andhra. The supporting cast has Vadivelu, Vinu Chakravarthy, Manivannan, Sabita Anand, Ilavarasu, Pandu, Delhi Ganesh, Madan Bob, with director P. Vasu too enacting a crucial role.

Bharani sets to tune the lyrics by Pa. Vijay, Snehan and Newton. While cinematography is by Selva, editing is by Mohan, sets are by Mohan Mahendran, and dance choreography by Cool Jayant. Shooting commenced at Kodaikanal, and held at locations in Kerala and Thenkasi.

Critical reception



Gopinath said that: "Sundara Travels is one of the best comedy movie for the 90's kids. Murali and Vadivel in Vinu chakravarthi house comedy was epic laugh riot". The Hindu wrote: "The director starts off very well but loses steam midway and presents something predictable". Bizhat wrote " On the whole this remake does not gel with Tamil film comedies which have to be made in a more slapstick way".

Soundtrack



There are the 6 songs in this film composed by Bharani. The song "Kannum Kannum" was later reused as "Ding Ding" in Telugu film 'Siva Rama Raju'.

References



Category:Tamil remakes of Malayalam films

Category:2002 films

Category:2000s Tamil-language films

Category:Indian comedy films

Category:Films shot in Kerala

Category:Films shot in Kodaikanal

Category:2002 comedy films

Buy Sundhara Travels now from Amazon

<-- Return to movies from 2002



This work is released under CC-BY-SA. Some or all of this content attributed to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1105478044.