En Pondatti Nallava

En Pondatti Nallava
Directed bySenthilnathan
Screenplay bySenthilnathan
Story byS. Kala
Produced byS. Giri
Starring
CinematographyRamesh Viyas
Edited byJ. Elango
Music byDeva
Production
company
Ramakrishna Movie Makers
Release date
  • 14 April 1995 (1995-04-14)
Running time
140 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

En Pondatti Nallava (transl. My wife is kind) is a 1995 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by Senthilnathan. The film stars Napoleon and Khushbu, with Senthil, Vadivelu, Janagaraj, Y. G. Mahendra, Kovai Sarala, Sathyapriya and Jayamala playing supporting roles. It was released on 14 April 1995.[1]

Plot

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Radhika is an honest government employee and she is in charge of the food ration shop. She is then transferred to a remote village. In the village, everything goes well until the release from jail of the dreaded Rajappa who spent 5 years in jail. Rajappa is known to be a dangerous man who sold illicit arrack and raped the village girls. Half of the villagers flee the village and they settle down in the nearby village. The village police Inspector wants to send Rajappa back in jail.

Upon his arrival at the village, Rajappa rapes the poor Radhika. Much to his surprise, Radhika challenges him to change him as a good man. Later, Radhika becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby girl. When Radhika names her daughter as Sivagami, Rajappa turns berserk (Sivagami was his mother's name). Radhika tells him his past and his mother's past.

When Rajappa was a school student, he was brainwashed by the illicit arrack seller Uthamarasa and he began to sell his illicit products. His mother Sivagami and his sister left him and started a new life in Sivakasi, his sister got married and had a girl : Radhika. Many years later, Rajappa's mother Sivagami and his niece Radhika came to see Rajappa during the village festival. His mother strongly believed that he had changed and became a good man. But Rajappa became a womaniser and a dreaded arrack seller. At the festival, he got into a fight with the local arrack merchants and killed them all. After seeing this, Sivagami died of heart attack in Radhika's hands. That day, Radhika decided to change Rajappa as a good man.

What transpires next forms the rest of the story.

Cast

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Soundtrack

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The music was composed by Deva.[2][3]

Song Singer(s) Lyrics Duration
"Kathadicha Parakkuthadi" Malaysia Vasudevan Pulamaipithan 4:58
"Maari Manasu" Swarnalatha Muthulingam 4:42
"Ulukka Ulukka" Malgudi Subha, Napoleon 3:33
"Appan Enna" S. Janaki Pulamaipithan 3:07
"Ponnukulle" Napoleon 4:25
"Nethu Samanja Ponnu" Malaysia Vasudevan Muthulingam 4:44
"Kovai Kodi" Tamilselvi, K. S. Chithra Pulamaipithan 7:01

Reception

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Thulasi of Kalki wrote one of the immortal subjects of Tamil cinema is Mangamma Sabatham, and by mixing action, sentiments and other things together, you get En Pondatti Nallava, but it makes us sit at the edge of the seat with amazing screenplay.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "En Pondati Nallava (Tamil)". actornepoleon.com. Archived from the original on 6 March 2023. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
  2. ^ "En Pondaatti Nallava". JioSaavn. 11 October 2017. Archived from the original on 26 September 2022. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
  3. ^ "Kattumarakkaaran- En Pondatti Nallava Tamil Film Audio CD by Ilayaraaja". Mossymart. Archived from the original on 4 March 2024. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
  4. ^ துளசி (23 April 1995). "என் பொண்டாட்டி நல்லவ". Kalki (in Tamil). p. 14. Archived from the original on 10 May 2023. Retrieved 10 May 2023 – via Internet Archive.
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