Padayappa

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Padayappa
Directed by	K.S. Ravikumar
Produced by	A. M. Rathnam
Written by	K.S. Ravikumar
Starring	Rajinikanth Soundarya Ramya Krishnan Sivaji Ganesan Manivannan Nassar Senthil Ramesh Khanna Abbas Preita Vadivvukarasi Lakshmi Radharavi Sitara Anu Mohan Satyapriya K.S. Ravikumar
Music by	A.R. Rahman
Release date(s)	1999
Running time	172 mins
Language	Tamil
Budget	Rs.23 crores

Padayappa (1999) is a Tamil film directed by K.S. Ravikumar. The film stars Rajinikanth, Soundarya, Ramya Krishnan, Sivaji Ganesan and Manivannan among others in this high budgeted multi-starrer. The film's score and soundtrack are composed by A.R. Rahman.

[edit] Plot

Padayappa (Rajni) goes to his home city to visit his sister's wedding. His family is forced to leave the family's house due to his Uncle requiring that half the property belonging to them goes to him, but Padayappa's dad(Sivaji Ganesan) gives all of the property to him. Due to that, his father dies at sight and his sister's wedding is cancelled because the groom went for money and married someone else. Meanwhile, Padayappa finds out that the hill that is beside the house that he lives in has granite, and he digs it out and becomes a very famous name in the city. His family, once again, is able to settle down. His sister gets married to an engineer Padayappa hired, and Padayappa maintains his father's position in the village. Nilambari (Ramya Krishnan), the sister of the groom Padayappa's sister originally was intended to marry, has fallen in love with Padayappa and wishes to marry him. However, he loves Vasundhara (Soundarya), her servant. When Nilambari finds this out, she goes crazy. Her parents beg Padayappa's widowed mother to allow Nilambari to marry Padayappa. Padayappa obeys his mother's orders to get married. However, Padayappa's mother becomes wise and tells off her brother in front of the entire village, giving a proposal of marriage to Vasundhara's mother instead of her brother, not letting her brother forget the humiliation he put her through when Padayappa's dad died. Nilambari's dad commits suicide in humiliation. Nilambari, meanwhile, tries to kill the servant unsuccessfully. After the wedding, Nilambari retreats into a room in her brother's house, only having Padayappa in her mind for 18 years. However, when her brother finally wakes her up, she plans her revenge on Padayappa, now an father of two adult daughters.Nelambri's brother also has a son. He studies in the same college as padayappa eldest daughter and is told by nelabrai that he should make padaypa's daughter fall in love with him. In the same time padayappa plans to get his eldest daughter married to his sisters son. as a tradion in the their vilage the groom and bride are asked if they both are not bein forced to marry eachother. nelabrais plaan is to make padayappas daughter say that she doesnt wish to get married to the groom that her parents want her to marry and that she is in love with somone else and in that process get padayappa humilated..rent the movie to see how it ends..

[edit] Cast

Actor	Role
Rajinikanth	Padayappa
Soundarya	Vasundhara, Padayappa's love interest/wife
Ramya Krishnan	Nilambari, Padayappa's enemy (Fallen in love with him)
Sivaji Ganesan	Padayappa's Father
Manivannan	Padayappa's fathers half brother which makes him his half uncle

[edit] Box Office

• The film opened big in Tamil Nadu and within a week the producers were looking at profits.
• The film raised approximately 26 crores[1].
• It was dubbed in Telugu as Narasimha which had a 50 day run in 49 centres and 100 day run in 34 centres.[2]
• Supposedly a typical Rajnikanth vehicle, this movie came at a time, when general perception was Rajnikanth was aging. By apearing in an aged role with beard, Rajnikanth however displayed his enormous sytle with many a stunts, dailogues and dances that he rules the roost, even though he's 50+. Infact, his bearded look was much appreciated for it's intensity.