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Engal Anna is a film of genre Drama directed by Siddique with Prabhu Deva
Engal Anna (2004)
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Add to a movie listEngal Anna is a 2004 Tamil romantic comedy drama film. It is a remake of the Malayalam film Chronic Bachelor. The film was released to positive reviews and was declared a successful film and managed to collect 30 crores.
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The film opens with a flashback showing the family feud between families of Prabhakaran (Vijayakanth) and Bhavani (Indraja). Prabhakaran and Bhavani are in love. The murder of Bhavani's father, is wrongly accused on SP's father. He starts to help Bhavani's family and mortgages his own house to finance her factory with the intention of making it up to them as he still believes that it's his father who killed Bhavani's father. But Bhavani is now trying to take revenge for her father's murder. SP's mother is now on her deathbed. While in the hospital, his mom tells how his father had a different wife and he should ask them forgiveness. He storms into Bhavani's house and accuses her uncle (who really killed Bhavni's dad), also trying to make her understand the truth but she doesn't believe him. Then Prabhakaran says he doesn't love her any more and vows that he will never trust a woman by remaining a chronic bachelor forever.Actors
Prabhu Deva
(Kannan)
Namitha
(Gowri)
Swarnamalya
(Parvathi)
Vadivelu
(Mayilsamy (Mayil))
Pandiarajan
(Cheenu)
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