Padikkadavan (English: Illiterate) is a 2009 Indian Tamil-language action comedy film written and directed by Suraj. It stars Dhanush, Tamannaah, Vivek, Atul Kulkarni, Suman, Sayaji Shinde, and Pratap Pothan in the lead roles[1] amongst a huge supporting cast in small pivotal and cameo roles. The music was composed by Mani Sharma with cinematography by A. Venkatesh and editing by Manoj. The film released on 14 January 2009 during Pongal and received a huge positive response.[2] The film was successful grossing ₹17 crore in Tamil Nadu and established Dhanush as one of top five saleable heroes of Tamil cinema then.[3] Filming began in March 2008 and was released in Pongal 2009.

PadikkadavanDirected bySurajProduced byB. Venkatarama ReddyWritten bySurajStarringDhanush
Tamannaah
Vivek
Atul Kulkarni
Suman
Sayaji Shinde
Prathap PothanMusic byMani SharmaCinematographyA. VenkateshEdited byManoj

Production
company

Vijaya Productions

Distributed bySun Pictures

Release date

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14 January 2009

Running time

160 minutesCountryIndiaLanguageTamilBox officeest. ₹47 crore

PlotEdit

Radhakrishnan alias Rocky (Dhanush) is a 10th grade dropout youngster who is looked down upon by his father Ramakrishnan (Pratap Pothan) because of his sharp contrast to the rest of the family, who are well-qualified in education. Rocky spends most of his time in a mechanic shop with his friends. Rocky's friends advise him to love and marry a well-educated girl so his name will be added with her name after marriage (i.e. indirectly he gets a degree after his name). He looks around by hovering around women's colleges to find a perfect girl for his mission. He succeeds in his attempt and makes Gayathri (Tamannaah), a well-educated rich girl, fall in love with him. He starts to love her and takes her to a shopping mall where she is confronted by a group of rogues who work for Rami Reddy (Sayaji Shinde), a rival of her father Samarasimha Reddy (Suman), a notorious don in Andhra Pradesh who protects his daughter by destroying the gang and taking her back to Andhra from Tamil Nadu. Rocky goes to thug-for-hire Assault Arumugam (Vivek) to help him marry Gayathri. Rocky saves Gayathri from Rami and follows her home, where he realizes that another Thirunelveli rowdy named Kasi Anandan (Atul Kulkarni), whose brother (Sashikumar) he accidentally kills, has put a price on his head. Kasi declares that if Rocky wins him in hand-to-hand combat, he will never be disturbed by him. Rocky accepts his deal and smashes him down. The movie ends as Rocky walks out while his gang applauds for him.

CastEdit

Dhanush as Rocky (Radhakrishnan)

Tamannaah as Gayathri

Vivek as Assault Arumugam

Atul Kulkarni as Kasi Anandan

Suman as Samarasimha Reddy

Sayaji Shinde as Rami Reddy

Pratap Pothan as Ramakrishnan

Meera Krishnan as Janaki Ramakrishnan

Devadarshini as Kousalya Gowtham

Chetan as Gowtham

Dr. Sharmila as Kavitha

Ganeshkar as Ganesh, Rocky's friend

Suman Setty as Ramesh, Rocky's friend

Mayilsamy as Mayilu (Mayilsamy), Rocky's friend

Sendrayan as Kumaran, Rocky's friend

Sashikumar as Pandi, Kasi's brother

Bonda Mani as Bonda Mani

Crane Manohar as Appa Rao

Mahanadi Shankar as Subba Rao

Cell Murugan as Cell Murugan

Madhan Bob as Srinivasan, Gayathri's uncle

Nirosha as Andal, Srinivasan's wife

Aarthi as Thirukaani, Radhakrishnan's niece

Swaminathan as Malaisamy, Thirukaani's father

Santhana Bharathi as Ramalingam

Karate Raja as Bhaskar

Suruli Manohar as Maarimuthu, Aarumugam's sidekick

Nellai Siva as Kothandam, a mechanic

Dhandapani as Veerapandi, Kasi's enemy

Pandu as Professor Sundaramurthy

Balu Anand as Shanmugam

Munnar Ramesh as Samarasimha Reddy's henchman

Cool Suresh as Veerapandi's henchman

Shankar

Ennatha Kannaiya as Kannaiya (guest appearance)

Baba Bhaskar (special appearance in the song "Hey Vetri Velaa")

No.SongSingersLength (min:sec)LyricsNotes1"Hey Vetri Velaa"Ranjith, Naveen Madhav4:50P. Vijay2"Hey Rosu Rosu"Jey, Ranjith5:00Thabu Shankarfrom Athidhi3"Raanki Rangamma"Udit Narayan, Malathy Lakshman4:47P. Vijayfrom Choodalani Vundi4"Kadavulum Kadhalum"Karthik, Harini5:17Snehanfrom Yuvatha5"Appa Amma Vilayattu"Ranjith, Saindhavi4:44Snehanfrom Adavi Ramudu


Indiaglitz wrote "Padikathavan is worth a watch for its unadulterated masala".[4] Behindwoods wrote "On the whole, Padikathavan struggles to identify itself between comedy and violence and ends up not being both".[5]

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