Madhurey is a 2004 Indian Tamil-language masala film directed by Ramana Madhesh.[1] It stars Vijay in the main lead role alongside Sonia Agarwal and Rakshita while Vadivelu, Pasupathy, Seetha, and Tejashree play supporting roles. The film released on 29 August 2004. It received mixed reviews, ran in theatres for 150 days, and was a commercial hit.[2]
| Madhurey | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Ramana Madhesh |
| Screenplay by | Ramana Madhesh |
| Dialogues by | |
| Story by | Ramana Madhesh |
| Produced by | Ramana Madhesh |
| Starring | Vijay Sonia Agarwal Rakshita |
| Cinematography | S. Saravanan |
| Edited by | Anthony |
| Music by | Vidyasagar |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Kalasangham Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 146 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Tamil |
Plot
editMadhuravel works as a vegetable vendor with his friend Pandu. He is a do-gooder and protector of the family of Kamatchi and her two daughters. Madurey eradicates loan sharks and fights "bad guys" in the market. Meanwhile, Anitha has a liking for Madurey and manages to win him over from Maheshwari. One day, while Madhurey was fighting some goons, a goon attempts to throw a briefcase at Madurey, but it falls. When the briefcase opens, Kamakshi finds a newspaper with Madurey and her daughter Susheela's photos in it. She then shoots Madurey, and he is hospitalized. At the hospital, when Kamakshi questions Pandu about how he can be an accomplice to someone who she thought was a murderer, he asks her if he knows who Madurey really is.
The story shifts to a flashback, where Madurey is the district collector of Madurai, with Susheela and Pandu as his assistants. He is the action-packed bureaucrat who takes to the streets to solve the citizens' problems. He does the job of policing and is up against criminals. He does not believe in the IPS and the police force to clean up the city. So one such clean up operation takes him to KTR, a don who is running a parallel law enforcement system with his own court. He doles out justice to all and is God to the ordinary. Madurey does not take lightly to this parallel outfit. A clash takes place, and Susheela is killed in a fight between Madurey and KTR. KTR puts the blame on Madurey.
Now, Madurey goes undercover to surface as a vegetable vendor because his aim is to pin down KTR. From now on, Madurey is on a rampage until KTR is finished and the murder charge is removed.
Cast
edit- Vijay as Maduravel IAS (Madurey)
- Sonia Agarwal as Susheela
- Rakshita as Anitha
- Tejashree as Maheshwari
- Vadivelu as Pandu
- Seetha as Kamakshi, Susheela's mother
- Pasupathy as KTR, the main antagonist
- Hemalatha as Susheela's sister
- Manicka Vinayagam as Madurey's father
- Ilavarasu as Anitha's father
- Shanmugarajan as Commissioner
- Yugendran as Jeevan
- Vennira Aadai Moorthy as Anitha's house owner
- Karate Raja as Kumarasamy, KTR's henchmen
- A. V. Ramanan as Officer Karthikeyan
- Bala Singh as Gopal
- Raj Kapoor
- Vijay Ganesh
- Nellai Siva
- Sridhar as himself in the song "Machan Peru Madhurey"
Production
editDevelopment
editR. Madhesh, an assistant of director S. Shankar, was initially assigned to direct Jai with Prashanth, However, after filming a song featuring Prashanth and lead actress Simran, he left the project and began work on another film Madurey.[3] For the character of vegetable seller, Vijay prepared himself by observing real-life vegetable sellers from Koyambedu.[4]
Filming
editThe set resembling vegetable market designed by Rajeevan was erected on a five-acre land opposite Ponniyamman Kovil, at Saligramam, Chennai. The set which cost around ₹16 crore consisting of a garden, marketplace, fish-market, flower shop, lorry stand, cinema theatre, temple, church, railway line, housing colony and slum, most of the film's shooting was done on that set.[5]
Music
edit| Madhurey | ||||
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| Soundtrack album by | ||||
| Released | 27 June 2004 | |||
| Recorded | 2004 | |||
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
| Label | Star Music Hit Musics | |||
| Producer | Vidyasagar | |||
| Vidyasagar chronology | ||||
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Soundtrack was composed by Vidyasagar.
| Song Title | Singers | Lyrics |
|---|---|---|
| "Kandaen Kandaen" | Sadhana Sargam, Madhu Balakrishnan | Yugabharathi |
| "Bambara Kannu" | Udit Narayan, Srilekha Parthasarathy | |
| "Elantha Pazham" | Tippu, Anuradha Sriram | P. Vijay |
| "Ice Katti Ice Katti" | Karthik, Sayanora Philip | |
| "Machan Peru Madhurey" | Shankar Mahadevan | Kabilan |
One song " Varanda Varanda", sung by Pushpavanam Kuppusamy, is included only in the screen and not in the audio disc separately.
Reception
editAnanda Vikatan rated the film 39 out of 100.[6] Malathi Rangarajan of The Hindu wrote that "It isn't just a question of pace — cohesiveness is what is missing in "Madhura".[7] Malini Mannath of Chennai Online noted that "Producing, scripting and directing it, he seems to have concentrated more on the glamour and the frills, alternating action with dance numbers, and missing out on a coherent script".[8] Sify wrote "You can?t judge a film by its teaser trailors. After that racy entertainer, Ghillli, everyone anticipated Vijay?s next release to be a cracker of a movie, Alas, it turns out to be another assembly-line product, particularly post-interval. Still Vijay makes the film happening with his macho heroism, savvy one-liners and knockout performance. Clearly he is at home, playing this larger-than life character".[9] Visual Dasan of Kalki called it a "chocolate pill" for Vijay's fans.[10]
References
edit- ^ Menon, Vishal (19 February 2018). "'I knew Vijay could do it'". The Hindu.
- ^ "'Love Today' to 'Vettaikaran': Ten times when Vijay delivered a super hit film with a debutant director". The Times of India. 17 June 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
- ^ "Maverick maker – Hosur". The Hindu. 27 May 2012. Archived from the original on 15 January 2023.
- ^ "விஜய் கில்லி பதில்கள்". Kalki (in Tamil). 20 June 2004. pp. 68–69.
- ^ Madhurey. Web.archive.org. Retrieved on 22 September 2015.
- ^ சார்லஸ், தேவன் (22 June 2021). "பீஸ்ட் : 'நாளைய தீர்ப்பு' டு 'மாஸ்டர்'... விஜய்க்கு விகடனின் மார்க்கும், விமர்சனமும் என்ன? #Beast". Ananda Vikatan (in Tamil). Archived from the original on 8 October 2021. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
- ^ Rangarajan, Malathi (9 September 2004). ""Madhura"". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 9 January 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
- ^ Mannath, Malini (4 September 2004). "Madhurey". Chennai Online. Archived from the original on 16 October 2006.
- ^ "Madurae". Sify. Archived from the original on 22 April 2022.
- ^ "மதுர". Kalki (in Tamil). 19 September 2004. p. 32.