Chidambarathil Oru Appasamy

Chidambarathil Oru Appasamy
Directed by Thangar Bachan
Written by Sreenivasan (uncredited)
Starring Thangar Bachan
Navya Nair
Music by Ilaiyaraaja
Release dates
  • 24 August 2005 (2005-08-24)
Country India
Language Tamil

Chidambarathil Oru Appasamy is a South Indian Tamil film released in 2005. Directed by Thangar Bachchan, and also starring Thangar Bachchan and Navya Nair.[1]

Plot

Elangovan (Thankar Bachchan) is a school teacher in Chidambaram who is a jack of all trades but master of none. He spends time with friends boozing, gambling and trying out new business that always fails.

His wife is Thenmozhi (Navya Nair) and has two daughters. Elangovan’s father (Pyramid Natarajan) and his father-in-law (Sundararajan) try to make him responsible towards his family but our man refuses to take up anything serious in life. On advice of everyone, Elangovan goes to Sabarimala after taking Vrath but returns to continue as sanyasi without being least bothered about his duties towards family. Fearing his wife and relatives he decides to join a mutt but there also he is unable to sustain.

In the meantime Thenmozhi works hard to educate her children. She is mentally prepared to live without her husband when Elangovan returns and pleads with her as usual. But this time Thenmozhi is not willing to pardon him and she ignores him. What happens then forms the climax and message of the film.

Cast

Critical reception

The film received mixed reviews from critics, most of the critics appreciated Navya Nair's performance. Sify wrote:"The goodness of COA lies in the simple story, an outstanding performance by Navya Nair and soulful music of Ilayaraja. The film with its cute message seeped in real life situations will keep you engrossed".[2] Indiaglitz wrote:"On the whole Chidambarathil Oru Appasamy is a movie for women folk with a strong message".[3] Behindwoods wrote:"Altogether, the movie is made to target the minds of women without much of commercialism".[4] Balaji of Thiraipadam wrote:"Chidambarathil Oru Appasamy is loud, drawn-out, irritating and eventually pointless".[5]

Soundtrack

The film soundtrack was composed by Ilaiyaraja. The lyrics for the songs were written by Vaali, Gangai Amaran, Muthulingam, Mu. Metha and Palanibharathi.[6] Indiaglitz praied the songs saying that "Ilayaraja did a splendid work [..] Maestro has not lost his touch."[7]

The audio launch of Chidambarathil Oru Appasamy held in Chennai on 12 August 2005. The audio was released by director Bharathiraja and was received by Balu Mahendra.[8] during the audio launch, Thangar lashed against actors for not accepting the lead role in the film.[9]

Box office

References

  1. ↑ "Chidambarathil Oru Appasamy". Retrieved 19 July 2011.
  2. ↑ http://www.sify.com/movies/chidambarathil-oru-appasamy-review-tamil-13947786.html
  3. ↑ http://www.indiaglitz.com/chidambarathil-oru-appasamy-tamil-movie-review-7675
  4. ↑ http://www.behindwoods.com/features/Reviews/reviews1/chidambarathiloruappasamy/tamil-movie-review-chidambarathioruappasamy.html
  5. ↑ http://www.thiraipadam.com/cgi-bin/movie_review.pl?id=488&user_name=bbalaji&review_lang=english&lang=english
  6. ↑ http://play.raaga.com/hindustani/album/Chidambarathil-Oru-Appasamy-T0000695
  7. ↑ http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamilfont/musicreview/7675.html
  8. ↑ http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/events/7931.html
  9. ↑ http://www.indiaglitz.com/thangars-hard-talk-continues-tamilfont-news-16204
  10. ↑ http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/article/17784.html

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