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Punnagai Mannan is a film of genre Drama directed by Kailasam Balachander with Kamal Haasan
Punnagai Mannan (1986)
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Add to a movie listPunnagai Mannan (English: King of Smiles) is a 1986 Indian Tamil drama film directed by K. Balachander. Starring Kamal Haasan and Revathi in the lead roles, the film is Haasan's 25th film with Balachander. Coincidentally, it is music director Ilaiyaraaja's last film with lyricist Vairamuthu. The film was dubbed into Telugu as Dance Master. The film was later dubbed into Hindi as Cha Cha Charlee in 1996. This was Revathi's last tamil film before her marriage to cinematographer Suresh Chandra Menon in 1986.
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Sethu (Kamal Haasan) and Ranjani (Rekha) arrive at a cliff where they plan to commit suicide due to the pressure put up by Ranjani's parents against their marriage. Sethu who is the son of an ordinary drunkard cook (Delhi Ganesh) and is also a dancer is not accepted as groom for Ranjani by her parents. The parents threaten Ranjani that either they would kill Sethu or commit suicide. While jumping from the cliff Sethu accidentally gets trapped in a tree and escapes but Ranjani dies. Despite the attempts made by Ranjani's father to jail Sethu by framing a fault case that Sethu killed Ranjani, no strong evidence was there to prove it. He is jailed for the offence of attempted suicide for one year.Actors
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