Chennai 600028

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Chennai 600028

Enga Area Ulla Varathey
Directed by Venkat Prabhu
Produced by S.P.B. Charan
J. K. Saravanaa
Written by Venkat Prabhu
Starring Shiva
Jai
Nithin Sathya
Aravind Akash
Premji Amaren
Ajay Raj
Vijay
Prasanna
Ranjith
Karthik
Arun
Vijayalakshmi
Christine Zedek
Ilavarasu
Sampath Kumar
Music by Yuvan Shankar Raja
Release date(s) 2007
Language Tamil

Chennai 600028 is a Tamil feature film directed by Venkat Prabhu, starring Shiva (DJ at Radio Mirchi in Chennai), Ranjith, Vijay, Prasanna, Premji Amaran, Aravind Akash, Jai, Nithin Sathya, Karthik, Ranjith, and Arun along with Vijaylakshmi and Christine, the female lead artistes. The film's score and soundtrack is composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja. The film's and its songs were based on street cricket played in India.

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[edit] Cast

  • Prasanna as Shanmugham
  • Ranjith as Imran
  • Vijay as Gopi - Mechanic
  • Premji Amaran as Seenu
  • Aravind Akash as Aravind
  • Shiva (Radio Mirchi RJ) as Karthik
  • Jai as Raghu
  • Nithin Sathya as Pazhani
  • Ajay Raj as Ezhumalai
  • Arun as Uday
  • Karthick as Arivu
  • Christine as Swetha
  • Vijayalakshmi as Selvi
  • Ilavarasu as Manohar
  • Sampath as Guna

[edit] Plot

The movie is about two small local cricket league teams that compete against each other in local matches and consider each other as sworn enemies. Royapuram Rockers are on top of the chain and keep bashing Sharks year after year. The heroes of the movie are the Sharks team. This movie has cricket as the central theme.

The story begins when Raghu's parents move from Royapuram to Visalakshi Thottam, Chennai 600 028. Raghu,(member of the Royapuram Rockers Cricket team) and a college student living with his parents has no choice but to move with them although he detests the choice. He is not very excited at the prospect of living in the same area as his sworn enemies. Raghu is faithful to his old team Rockers but his team mates ignore him because of the distance. Angered at being replaced by a new guy in the team in one of the matches, Raghu estranges himself from cricket and Rockers.

Raghu informs of Pazhani's sister Selvi's love for Karthick to him. This incident initiates the Raghu's friendship with a few Sharks team players and eventually gets induced into the team. Raghu practices with Sharks to play against Rockers in the upcoming Radio Mirchi trophy. Pazhani, who soon comes to know of his sister's and Karthick's love affair is disappointed and then there is a tiff amongst the friends. The team splits up for a while. But Karthick apologises to Pazhani and they make up. The team is united again and they start practicing for the trophy once again. Unfortunately, Karthick gets stabbed by his brother's enemies and is rendered unfit to play the match. Pazhani replaces Karthick as the captain and the team heads for the match.

Under tight pressure and with a nail biting finish Sharks finally defeat Rockers in the semi-finals of the tournament. Every bit of the cricket tournament portrayed here is done so in a very light and entertaining manner. It is far from boring.

In the finals they meet their nemesis, a bunch of school kids named Bad Boys-II who practice by bunking school to play cricket on the beach. The kids are really good and the Sharks know it because they have lost to them once before and that too very badly...the movie ends with the team really struggling to keep it up in the game.

All loose ends are tied up and the end is also funny and has a positive note. Badawa Gopi is the commentater.

[edit] Soundtrack

Music for the film was composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja with the help of Premji Amaren for playback singing and composition.

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