Dharma Durai (2016 film)
Dharma Durai | |
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Directed by | Seenu Ramasamy |
Written by | Seenu Ramasamy |
Produced by | R. K. Suresh |
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Cinematography | M. Sukumar |
Edited by | Kasi Viswanathan |
Music by | Yuvan Shankar Raja |
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Running time | 147 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Tamil |
Box office | ₹25 crore |
Dharma Durai is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language slice-of-life drama film directed by Seenu Ramasamy. The film stars Vijay Sethupathi with Tamannaah Bhatia, Aishwarya Rajesh, Srushti Dange, Radhika Sarathkumar, Ganja Karuppu and Rajesh in supporting roles. Produced by R. K. Suresh and featuring music by Yuvan Shankar Raja, the film began production in December 2015 and was released on 19 August 2016. Amongst other accolades, the film won a prize for Vairamuthu for Best Lyrics at the 64th National Film Awards.[1][2]
Plot
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Dharmadurai is the village drunkard. His antics are a constant source of embarrassment for his brothers and brother-in-law, who run a chit-fund business. The brothers lock him up partially dressed in an empty outhouse most of the time and thrash him whenever he tries to stand up to them. The only people who sympathise with Dharmadurai are his mother Pandiyamma and his close friend Gopalaswamy. One day, fed up of his antics, the brothers plot to kill him, however, Pandiyamma overhears her sons and helps Dharmadurai to escape from the outhouse in the middle of the night, advising him to leave the house for good and lead a good life far away from his brothers. With this in mind, Dharmadurai takes his old clothes and bag and leaves for Madurai. However, unknown to him, the bag contains the chit-fund money. When Dharmadurai's brothers find out that he and the money are missing the following morning, they begin a search for him, but give up eventually.
It is then revealed that Dharmadurai is a general doctor and was the first graduate from his village, having pursued his
Following his graduation, Dharmadurai had returned to his village and had set up a clinic there. One day, he encountered Anbuselvi, a farm labourer who had brought some sick elderly village women to his clinic. He was immediately attracted to Anbuselvi and soon asked permission from her father Paraman to marry her, who agreed. Anbuselvi also agreed to marry Dharmadurai and their marriage was fixed. But Dharmadurai's brothers demanded 50-sovereigns gold ornaments and ₹5,00,000 as dowry from Paraman, who refused to accept their demand and called off the marriage. Heartbroken, Anbuselvi committed suicide. An enraged Dharmadurai, realising that his brothers were the cause of the end of his marriage and Anbuselvi's death, thrashed them mercilessly and was about to kill them, only to be stopped by Pandiyamma. Betrayed and heartbroken, Dharmadurai shut down his clinic and took to alcoholism.
Subhashini, after hearing Dharmadurai's story, takes him to her apartment and nurses him back to sobriety. Following Dharmadurai's recovery, Subhashini reveals to him that she has decided to divorce her husband as he had killed her unborn child, by mixing abortion pills, in the milk she consumed without her knowledge, when she was pregnant, since she had refused to abort the baby and move abroad with him to France as he had desired. She also adds that she is in love with him since their college days. Dharmadurai reciprocates Subhashini's feelings for him and the two enter a
At his village, Dharmadurai learns that his family had to vacate their house as they were forced to sell it to compensate the villagers, who had found out that their money had been stolen. When he goes to the place where his mother and brothers are now living (a hut in the middle of a field), one of his brothers knocks him out with a spanner, enraged that he had brought them to poverty by stealing the chit fund money. But when he realizes that he had brought back the money, he repents his action. Pandiyamma rushes Dharmadurai to hospital, where he is treated by his batch mate, whom he had attacked in the college. While recuperating at the hospital, he gets a call from Subhashini, asking him to return as soon as possible, and that both Subhashini and the unborn baby are waiting for him.
Cast
- Vijay Sethupathi as Dr. Dharmadurai
- Tamannaah Bhatia as Dr. Subhashini
- Aishwarya Rajesh as Anbuselvi
- Srushti Dange as Dr. Stella
- Ganja Karuppu as Gopal
- M. S. Bhaskar as Paraman
- Aruldoss as Beemaraasu
- P. S. Ganesh
- Rajesh as Dr. Kamaraj aka Muniyandi
- Radhika Sarathkumar as Pandiyamma
- Soundararaja as Archunan
- Madhuvanti Arun as police inspector
- Vishalini as Dharmadurai's niece
- Florent Pereira as Stella's father
- Saravana Sakthi
- Jeeva Subramanian as herself, acted as compounder to Dr. Dharma Durai
- Cameo appearance
- R. K. Suresh in the song "Makka".
- Seenu Ramasamy as a Librarian in the song "Andipatti".
Production
In November 2015,
The film began production in mid-December 2015, with actresses Tamannaah Bhatia, Sshivada, Aishwarya Rajesh and Srushti Dange announced as a part of the cast.[6][7] Radhika Sarathkumar would play Sethupathi's mother.[8]
Music
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Feature film soundtrack | ||||
Length | 19:15 | |||
Language | Tamil | |||
Label | TrendMusic | |||
Producer | Yuvan Shankar Raja | |||
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The music for Dharma Durai (2016) is composed by
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Singer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Endha Pakkam" | Chinmayi Sripada, Rahul Nambiar | 5:02 | |
2. | "Poi Vaada" | Vairamuthu | Srimathumitha | 2:03 |
3. | "Makka Kalanguthappa" | Mathichiyam Bala | Mathichiyam Bala | 4:05 |
4. | "Naan Kaatrilae" | Vairamuthu | Karthik | 3:33 |
5. | "Andipatti" | Vairamuthu | Senthildass Velayutham, Surmukhi Raman | 4:32 |
Total length: | 19:15 |
Accolades
Year | Award | Category | Awardee | Outcome | Ref. |
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2016 | Norway Tamil Film Festival Awards | Best Actor | Vijay Sethupathi | Won | [9] |
Asiavision Awards | Best Actor | Won | |||
Best Actress | Tamannaah Bhatia | Won | [10] | ||
Best Director | Seenu Ramasamy | Won | |||
2017 | 6th South Indian International Movie Awards | Best Actress | Tamannaah Bhatia | Nominated | |
Best Lyrics for "Endha Pakkam" Song | Vairamuthu | Nominated | |||
Best Supporting Actress | Aishwarya Rajesh | Won | |||
64th Filmfare Awards South | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | |||
Best Lyrics for "Endha Pakkam" Song | Vairamuthu | Nominated | |||
64th National Film Awards | Best Lyrics for "Endha Pakkam" Song | Vairamuthu | Won | [1] |
References
- ^ a b "64th National Film Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Directorate of Film Festivals. 7 April 2017. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 June 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ^ "'Joker' and '24' sweep National honours". Top 10 Cinema. 7 April 2017. Archived from the original on 9 April 2017. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
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External links
- Dharma Durai at IMDb