Satham Podathey

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Satham Podathey is a Kollywood film directed by Vasanth and produced by produces Shankar and Senthilnathan. It stars Prithviraj and Padmapriya in the lead roles with Nassar, Suhasini while Nithin Sathya and Raghav playing pivotal roles. The film, which is set to be released under the Kaivallya banner, has music scored by Yuvan Shankar Raja, which has opened to rave reviews. 2007. The film was released on September 14, 2007 to positive reviews.

[edit] Plot

The story revolves around Bhanu (Padmapriya) who gets married to Ratnavel (Nitin Satya) a guy who works in railways as a Hockey Player. He married Bhanu, by hiding the facts that he is impotent and is a drunkard. Soon the relationship turns sour, when the couple realize after a gynecologist ( Suhasini in a cameo) tells them that Ratnavel is impotent. In spite family pressures to get a mutual divorce, the old fashioned Bhanu decides to go ahead with the marriage by adopting a child.

But with the arrival of the baby, Ratnavel becomes more insecure and tells her that the child reminds him about his weakness! And all hell breaks lose when Bhanu realizes that her husband was an alcoholic who knew about his impotency and had betrayed her. She walks out on him. Bhanu meets Ravichandran (Pritviraj) a happy-go-lucky guy who is a friend of her brother's.He proposes to her. But Ratnavel who had vowed to make life miserable for Bhanu returns. After kidnapping Bhanu and replacing her body with a dead corpse he burns the house leading Ravichandran and his family to believe she is dead. After that, Ratnavel brings Bhanu to his bungalow and traps her in a sound proof room. When Ravichandran goes to Ratnavelu's house to get some life insurance papers a series of clues lead him to find Bhanu. After distracting Ratnavel, Ravichandran calls the police and rescues Bhanu. Ratnavel is sent to a mental assylum. There, Ratnavel hangs himself. This seems to be a true story which happened in Andhra Pradesh in late 90's and the family members of Ratnavel(name changed) are still there in Kakinada! But the movie ends with a happy note when we see that Ravichandran and Bhanu are still happily married and Bhanu is visibly pregnant.