Madhurey
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| Directed by | Ramana Madhesh |
| Written by | Ramana Madhesh |
| Starring | Vijay, Rakshitha, Sonia Agarwal, Tejashree, Vadivelu |
| Music by | Vidyasagar |
| Distributed by | Movie Magic |
| Release date(s) | August 7, 2004 |
| Running time | 165 min. |
| Language | Tamil |
| Budget | $1.5 million |
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Madhurey is a Tamil film which released on August 7, 2004 and was directed by Ramana Madhesh. This film has Vijay in the main lead. Sonia Agarwal, Rakshitha and Tejashree played his love interests. But this film was a success and ran for 154 days and was a musical blockbuster. Vijay's successful year of 2004 continued after Ghilli.
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[edit] Story
Vijay in the first half is Madhura a vegetable vendor along with his aide Pandu (Vadivelu) is a do gooder and protector of the family of Seetha and her two daughters. He eradicates loan sharks and fights bad guys in the market. The usual hero worship is shown and only a clue of a policeman saluting the vendor gives you an inkling of what is going to come. Now Seetha’s eldest daughter Sonia Agarwal who was working with Vijay was killed and mother blames it on Vijay and shoots him down. It’s turn of the film to shift to Swamy track. Vadivelu now opens the story of Vijay actually being Madhuravel IAS the district collector of Madurai. He is the action packed bureaucrat who takes to the streets to solve the problems of the citizens. He does the job of policing too and is up against criminals. He does not believe in IPS and police force to clean up the city. So one such clean up operation takes him to KTR (Pasupathi) who is running a parallel law enforcement system with his own court. He doles out justice to all and his God to the ordinary. Now Madhuravel does not take lightly to this parallel outfit . A clash takes place and Sonia Agarwal then PA to Collector gets killed. KTR puts the blame on the Collector. Now the IAS officer goes underground to surface as vegetable vendor because his aim is to pin down the KTR and his outfit. From now onwards it is Vijay on a rampage till KTR is finished and the murder charge removed.
[edit] Crew
- Writing credits: Ramana Madhesh
- Music: Vidyasagar
- Cinematography: Saravanan
- Directed: Ramana Madhesh
[edit] Box Office
The movie opened big thanks to Vijay's monsterous sucess of his previous film Ghilli, but it could not hold up to it's opening, and collections fell drastically. Madurey's Box Office performance was termed as "Below Average".
[edit] Trivia
- This movie is famous for its songs composed by Vidyasagar which were musical blockbusters of 2004.
- This movie helped Vijay remain popular in Tamil Cinema after the success of Ghilli.
