- Panchathantiram
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name = Panchathantiram
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director =K. S. Ravikumar
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writer =Bave Kugan
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starring =Kamal Haasan Simran Bagga Jayaram Devayani Ramya Krishnan Sanghavi Ramesh Aravind
SrimanYugi Sethu Urvashi
AishwaryaNagesh Ramesh Khanna K. S. Ravikumar
music = DevaShankar Ganesh
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country =India
language = Tamil
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imdb_id ="Panchathantiram" is a Tamil language film starring
Kamal Haasan andSimran Bagga in lead roles of the protagonist.It is a comedy film and this film was major hit and made huge collections in the box office.Even Kamal-KSRavikumar's earlier combinations(Thenali and Avvai Shanmughi) were smash hits at the box office. In the film he potrays the role of a pilot and he is still in a gang of five friends which turn to be hilarous comedy.Plot
Ram (Kamal Haasan) is a pilot in Canada and an irredeemable skirt-chaser. In course of a midair hijack situation, he meets Mythili (Simran). They fall in love and marry. Ram's four closest buddies Nair (Jayaram), Iyer (Yugi Sethu), Hegde (Ramesh Arvind) and Reddy (Shriman) are present at the wedding --- minus their wives.Comes a day when Ram helps a damsel in distress. Wife Mythili misinterprets, presumes that he is two-timing her, and flies off to India to her parents' home. And Ram goes chasing after. The friends follow. By way of a treat for Ram's birthday, they drive him down to Bangalore and fix him up in a room, complete with toy girl Maggi (Ramya Krishnan). Ram won't have any of it. He gets into a fight with Maggi, then dashes over to his friends' room. To salvage the situation, Iyer hurries off to Ram's room and finds Maggi 'dead'.Panicked, the friends dispose of the body and then Ram discovers a cache of diamonds inside the dead girl's cell phone.A traditional festival has the wives of the four friends plan a get-together with Mythili as guest. The twist comes when the supposedly 'dead Maggi' lands up, demanding her diamonds back. Ram with help from his friends, their wives, and the film director --- has to resolve the tangle, exacerbated by the fact that Mythili thinks he's been up to his tricks again, this time with Maggi.
Such a simple plot. But the screenplay and dialogues has a lot to make us laugh at our extremes.
Box Office
* This film was a huge hit in the box office and ran for 100 days grossing Rs.30 crores
Trivia
* This film is the biggest hit of any Comedy based tamil movies.
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