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'Manikanda' is a 2007 Indian Tamil action film directed by Selva. Arjun plays a dual role, that of father and son. The film, which began production in 2002, went through more production, and was finally released in 2007, was promoted as Jyothika's "last release". It is a remake of the 2000 Telugu movie 'Jayam Manadera'. 'Manikanda' was opened to negative reviews.http://www.thiraipadam.com/cgi-bin/movie_review.pl?id=549&user_name=bbalaji&review_lang=english&lang=english

Plot



Raja lives in Mumbai with his father. Mahalakshmi goes to Bombay to get the blessings of a godwoman but since she is unable to meet Mataji immediately, she is forced to stay in Mumbai for ten days and rents a guestroom among the many run by Raja. Love blossoms between Raja and Maha and when she returns to her village Maniyoor, he follows a few days later on her invitation. After he lands there, he discovers his own link to the village.

Cast



*Arjun as Manikandan/Raja (dual role)

*Jyothika as Mahalakshmi (Maha)

*Uma as Lakshmi Manikandan

*Vadivelu as Madhayaanai

*Ashish Vidyarthi as Balasingam

*Chandrasekhar as Veerasamy

*Nalini as Mahalakshmi's mother

*P. Vasu as Mahalakshmi's grandfather

*Pasupathy

*Malavika

*Poovilangu Mohan

*Periya Karuppu Thevar

*Madhan Bob

*Aryan

*Singamuthu

*Thennavan

*Bonda Mani

*Halwa Vasu

*Priyanka as Maha's friend

*Jeeva

*O. A. K. Sundar

*Satya Prakash

*Vijay Ganesh

*Chelladurai

*Nellai Siva

*Kovai Senthil

Production



Selva who earlier directed 'Karnaa' (1995) with Arjun announced the project in mid-2003. Jyothika was selected to play the lead role uniting with Arjun for second time after 'Rhythm' (2000). P. Vasu, Pasupathi, Ashish Vidyarthi were selected to play villains. There were rumours that film's title would be changed as 'Nanba' but later proved untrue. The film's story happens in a village called Keeripatti where elections were never held for so many years. M.G.R's hit song "Mama Mama" has been remixed in this film. Due to financial crisis the film was shelved for sometime and Selva and Arjun went on to do 'Aanai' (2005). During the time, Selva shelved other projects like 'Mamu' (with Sathyaraj and Sibiraj) and 'Thotta' (2008) (with Jeevan and Priyamani which he later continued) and finished 'Nenjil' (2006) with Navdeep. Project was restarted in 2006 with a change of storyline and it was finally completed.

Release



The satellite rights of the film were sold to Raj TV.

Critical reception



The Hindu wrote: "looks outdated". Cinefundas wrote:"The scenes are disjointed, have many loose ends, and lack uniformity and a smooth flow. Its only towards the end that it perks up".http://www.cinefundas.com/2008/02/10/manikanda-tamil-movie-review

Soundtrack



Soundtrack was composed by Deva, with lyrics written by Piraisoodan, Na. Muthukumar and Kabilan.http://www.raaga.com/channels/tamil/moviedetail.asp?mid=T0000696

References




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