Manmadhan

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Manmadhan
Directed by A J Murugan
Produced by Krishnakanth
Starring Silambarasan
Jyothika
Sindhu Tolani
Goundamani
Mandira Bedi
Atul Kulkarni
Yana Gupta
Brinda Parekh
Music by Yuvan Shankar Raja
Release date(s) Deepavali 2004
Language Tamil/ Telugu(Manmadha)
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Manmadhan (2004) is a Tamil film directed by A J Murugan. The film is a romantic thriller that stars Silambarasan and Jyothika as the male and female lead. The film's score and soundtrack are composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja. This film ran for a whopping 275 days and was the best release of Deepavali in 2004. The film has guest appearances by Mandira Bedi as a psychologist, Brinda Parekh as playgirl and Yana Gupta as a club dancer. The film was later dubbed in Telugu as Manmadha. It is an adaptation of the English movie Valentine to south Indian audiences.

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[edit] Plot

Manmadhan(Silambarasan) poses as a mental patient who pours his woes of being dumped by his first love to a female doctor and ends up raping her. Right after that, the film moves to main female lead Mythili's(Jyothika) bedroom. Manmadhan attempts to rape her and apparently succeeds. And then Mythili wakes up...to realize it is all a dream. She had never seen Manmadhan and does not know him before the dream. But on the day itself, she spots his look-alike in the same lift as her, recognises him as the rapist from her dream and is scared to death. From then on, she runs away from him each time she bumps into him, much to his bafflement. He is an auditor who had just joined her music college. Soon, she quits the point of worrying and befriends the new student named Madhan Kumar(also played by Simbu). She gets a pregnancy scare, despite being a full-fledged virgin, when she vomits all of a sudden repeatedly. Madhan Kumar comes to the rescue and solves the matter. It is then when she starts falling in love with him. He realises this and tries to avoid her by lying that he is married. His plan backfires and they soon become close friends. She falls really hard for him but realises he is hard to get. There was something mysterious about him she could simply not fathom or even ask. It is then that she glimpses him on a motorbike late on a Saturday night with a sleeping female. Naturally, she is heartbroken until she sees the photograph of his female rider in the News on TV the next day. She was missing since the last night she saw her with him! What completely shocked her is that the culprit is believed to be the same person who has abducted countless women who have never returned-the culprit had called the Inspector-in-charge of the kidnaps, Deva(Atul Kulkarni), and called himself 'Manmadhan' meaning 'casanova' in ordinary terms. In periodic intervals, episodes about Manmadhan's exploits with different women were shown: how he finds out about their unfaithfulness, rapes them and murders them before taking them to a secret underground location before electrifying them to ashes. 1 episode shows a long passionate French-kiss of seduction, not censored in the VCD (kissing is rare in Tamil movies). The ashes of each women was put in a bottle and labelled with her name on it. The secret location was never found. So the police never knew if the womens were abducted or killed. After hearing what Mythili had witnessed, her friend urges her to make a police report about witnessing Manmadhan and the missing girl, and she does.

Over 500 policemen swarm the music college and arrest Madhan Kumar. In the interrogation room, he tells Inspector Deva of his past in a flashback. He had a younger twin Madhan Raj who was cheated on by his girlfriend. He caught her making love to his friend and murders them both before returning to his older brother's place and relating the event to him. Then they have an argument and Madhan Raj escapes saying that he would assume the identity of 'Manmadhan' from then on and bring justice by murdering every girl he finds who cheats on her partner. He vanishes after that without a clue. The police, after hearing his account, does all the necessary investigations on the existence of Madhan Raj. After having solid evidence that Madhan Raj had indeed existed and disappeared into oblivion, the police release Madhan Kumar after the court hearing. When he is free, Mythili falls into his arms and begs for his forgiveness before revealing her true feelings to him. He rejects her on the spot, not citing proper reason. She implores to him to reciprocate, confessing that she first saw him in her dream where he raped her.

She says, "In my dream, i gave you my virginity. In real life, when I found out you are a good guy, I gave you my heart. Now if you tell me you won't be there for me, I will give you my life!". He scolds her for her foolish statement. Finally she gives up, sensing his stubbornness. Before she leaves, she tells him that she is confident that he will return her feelings one day.

As he watches her leave with tears in his eyes, he narrates to her in his mind that he too loves her but could not reveal it. The reason behind it comes as the final plot twist. He is "Manmadhan". He was the serial-killer who lured unfaithful women to his underground location and burned them. The true flashback comes as he narrates that Madhan Raj, his younger twin, only killed the girl he loved and the man she was making love to. After he came to his older brother's apartment, he narrated his murders and once Madhan Kumar was out of sight, he locked the front door from the inside and hanged himself, despite his brother's continuous pleas from the window. After he dies, Madhan Kumar breaks open the front door, astonished that he was not able to break it open earlier. He tells Raj's corpse, "1 girl cheated you, you killed her. Many girls cheat men all over the world. I will kill them, in your place. I will conceal your death". He carries his corpse to THE underground location and burns the corpse. That became the place where he burns the other cheating women he catches in the future. To save the world from cheated and hurt men like his brother, he decided to go on a revenge killing spree.

When we are returned to the present, he continued narrating to Mythili(even when she was long gone), "If my brother found a good girl like you, he would have lived. And we would have been happy together. But everything happens as per fate. I will continue this secret life of mine(so i can't love you because I don't want to be unfaithful to you). Only this is important to me. I don't whether I'm right or wrong. Only God knows. The Lord is with me" and he looks upward to Heaven. This ends with the quote "To Be Continued..." and then the credits start rolling.

[edit] Cast

Actor Role
Silambarasan Madhan Raj/Madhan Kumar/Manmadhan
Jyothika Mythili
Sindhu Tolani Vaishnavi
Atul Kulkarni Assisrant Commissioner Deva
Goundamani Uncle
Santhanam Bobby

[edit] Soundtrack

The soundtrack features 6 songs composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja.

[edit] Trivia

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  • 'Manmadhan' is actually another name for Kama, the Indian God of Love.
  • At the end of the film, a 'to be continued' sign flashes, hinting a sequel.
  • The sequel is believed to be Vallavan directed by Silambarasan himself and slated for a mid-2006 release but this is not true as Vallavan has a completely different story and that to ends as the same as Manmadhan

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