Mannar Vagaiyara (transl. Rulers Clan) is a 2018 Indian Tamil-language action comedy film written and directed by G. Boopathy Pandian. The film is produced by actor Vimal, who also stars alongside Anandhi, while Prabhu, Saranya Ponvannan, Chandini Tamilarasan and Karthik Kumar among others appear in supporting roles. Featuring music composed by Jakes Bejoy and cinematography by P. G. Muthiah and Sooraj Nallusami, the film was released on 26 January 2018 and become a decent hit by completing 100 days of theatrical run.[1]

Mannar Vagaiyara
Directed byG. Boopathy Pandian
Written byG. Boopathy Pandian
Produced byVimal
StarringVimal
Anandhi
CinematographyP. G. Muthiah
Sooraj Nallusami
Edited byGopi Krishna
Music byJakes Bejoy
Production
company
A3V Cinemaz
Distributed byCinema City
Release date
  • 26 January 2018 (2018-01-26)
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Plot

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Govindaraja Mooriyar is a respected person in a town living with his wife and two sons – Arivazhagan and Madhi. Ilayarani also hails from a nearby town and lives with her parents Rajangam, and Kalaiyarasi as well as her elder sister Selvarani and her elder brother JP. Madhi falls in love with Ilayarani which she reciprocates.

Karunakaran is a local business man and a relative of Rajangam, however, enmity prevails between both families. Kalaiyarasi plans to unite both families by getting Selvarani married to Karunakaran’s brother. To everyone’s surprise, Selvarani elopes on the day of her wedding along with Arivazhagan with the help of Madhi. It is revealed that Selvarani and Arivzhagan are in love. Knowing this, both families disown the couple forcing them to stay alone on the outskirts of town with the help of Madhi. Selvarani is conceived and Madhi convinces both his and Selvarani's families that they are united.

Karunakaran suggests his brother to be married to Ilayarani to which everyone agrees. Govindaraj learns of Madhi and Ilayarani's love affair and is infuriated. Madhi decides to sacrifice his love so that Rajangam and Karunakaran's families can be united. Madhi promises Govindaraj that he will move away from Ilayarani's life. On the day of Ilayarani's wedding, she goes missing and Govindaraj doubts Madhi as he has planned something. However, Madhi denies any wrongdoing but everyone in the marriage hall learns of the love between Madhi and Ilayarani.

Finally, it is found that Ilayarani is still staying at her house and calls Rajangam and JP requesting to cancel the wedding as she is not interested in it. Everyone decides to get Ilayarani married to Madhi and they are united at the end. Madhi feels sorry for Karunakaran’s brother as his wedding is cancelled twice because of him and gets him married to another girl.

Cast

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Production

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In May 2015, Boopathy Pandian announced that his next film would be a comedy entertainer featuring Vimal in the lead role, while actor Sathyaraj would play Vimal's father in the film. Escape Artists Motion Pictures were revealed as the film's producers and stated that the film would begin production during late 2015.[2][3] The film began production during December 2015 in Alathur, Thanjavur Pattukottai, Madukkur, Keeramangalam and Thambikkottai, with Karthik Kumar joining the team.[4][5][6] The film went through a change of producers in early 2016, with Arasu Films briefly attached to the project before Vemal took over as the main producer with his newly launched A3V Cinemaz.[7] He thus chose to prioritise the production of Mannar Vagaiyara and opted against working on other projects simultaneously.[8] As a result of his busy schedule, Prabhu replaced Sathyaraj in the film, while Anandhi was signed on as the female lead.[9] Soori was supposed to work on the film, but his busy schedule meant that Robo Shankar later took the role, and parodied Dhanush's character in Maari (2015) as a part of his character.[10]

Production continued throughout 2016 but was delayed in December following the effects of Cyclone Vardah.[11] The team planned to release the film for the Pongal season of 2018, but were forced to delay due to a lack of screens. Vimal had written an emotional letter to theatre owners to screen his film for Pongal, but later accepted to delay the film for two weeks.[12] The Satellite rights of this movie sold to Zee Tamil.

Soundtrack

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Mannar Vagaiyara
Soundtrack album by
Released3 January 2018 (2018-01-03)[13]
GenreFilm soundtrack
Length22:08
LabelNew Music
ProducerJakes Bejoy
Jakes Bejoy chronology
Queen
(2018)
Mannar Vagaiyara
(2018)
Swathandriam Ardharathriyil
(2018)
External audio
  Audio Jukebox on YouTube

The film's music was composed by Jakes Bejoy, and the soundtrack was released on 3 January 2018 through New Music.[citation needed]

Track listing
No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."Ada Ada"SarathiMadhu Balakrishnan3:02
2."Annana Pathi"Boopathy PandianRemya Nambeesan, Renjith, Inzamam-Ul-Huq3:57
3."Mama Mama"Mani AmudhavanMukesh4:13
4."Mannar Mannar"SarathiAnanthu, Velmurugan, Kavitha Gopi4:20
5."Oru Thattane Pole"Mani AmuthavanSathyaprakash Dharmar, Vandana Srinivasan4:20
6."Vanna Vanna"Mani AmuthavanKeshav Vinod, Deepika2:16
Total length:22:08

Release

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Tamil Nadu theatrical rights of the film were sold for 5.5 crore.[14]

References

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  1. ^ "StudioFlicks". 12 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Vimal join hands with Boopathy Pandian". tamilplex.com. Archived from the original on 16 February 2016. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
  3. ^ "Vimal to star with Sathyaraj in Boopathy Pandian's new film". www.kollytalk.com. 11 May 2015.
  4. ^ "IFlicks: Pasanga Vimal starts his next project". www.iflicks.in. 24 December 2015. Archived from the original on 16 February 2016. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
  5. ^ "Shooting of Boopathy Pandian-Vemal film begins". tamilomovie.com. Archived from the original on 16 February 2016. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
  6. ^ "Mannar Vagera is the title of the upcoming Boopathy Pandian — Vemal film". www.behindwoods.com. 22 May 2015.
  7. ^ "Vimal gets a hot heroine and a huge star cast for his next". IndiaGlitz.com. 14 June 2016. Archived from the original on 23 January 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  8. ^ "Anandhi's request to Bhoopathy Pandian". Deccan Chronicle. 6 January 2018. Archived from the original on 23 January 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  9. ^ "Vimal gets a hot heroine and a huge star cast for his next". IndiaGlitz.com. 14 June 2016. Archived from the original on 7 April 2023. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  10. ^ "Robo Shankar replaces Soori". IndiaGlitz.com. 30 November 2015. Archived from the original on 23 January 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  11. ^ "Vemal with a debutant". www.nowrunning.com. Archived from the original on 23 January 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  12. ^ "Vimal's Request To Distributors And Theater Owners!". www.nettv4u.com. Archived from the original on 23 January 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  13. ^ "Mannar Vagaiyara - Jakes Bejoy". Saavn. 3 January 2018. Archived from the original on 17 May 2018. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
  14. ^ "Mannar Vagaiyara TN theatrical rights". YouTube. Archived from the original on 7 April 2023. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
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