Azhagiya Tamil Magan
Azhagiya Tamil Magan is a 2007 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film written and
directed by Bharathan, written by S. K. Jeeva and
produced by Swargachitra Appachan. The film stars
actor Vijay in a dual role as an ESP athlete and a play-boy for the
first time in his career as both the hero and antagonist, while Shriya Saran, Namitha,
and N. Santhanam play in supporting roles.
With cinematography by K.
Balasubramaniam and editing by Anthony,
the film's score and soundtrack is composed by A. R. Rahman.
The film revolves around an excelling athlete who has
the ability to predict future events. With his
unique ability, he identifies several tragic future events, including the
attempted murder of his lover by a look-alike.
The film was released on 8th of November 2007 and distributed worldwide
by Pyramid Saimira. The film collected $1,043,064
or ₹8 crore at the overseas box office. The film received mixed reviews
and became a moderate successful venture.
The film was inspired from the Hollywood film Final Destination, similar to which protagonist Vijay has ESP.
Plot
Gurumoorthy alias Guru is an MBA student and
athlete living in the suburban area of Pallavaram in Chennai.
He participates in a state-level running competition where he meets Shakthi,
who also participates in the competition. Guru understands that Shakthi needs
to win the competition which will help him secure a job through sports quota as
he is the only breadwinner for his family. Abinaya alias Abi is the only
daughter of the rich businessman Anand Chelliah and is a friend of Shakthi's
sister. Abi challenges Guru that Shakthi will be the winner of the competition.
Guru decides to run slowly so that Shakthi can win. Later
Abi understands that Guru has purposefully run slow behind Shakthi and starts
liking his character. They become good friends and slowly love starts to
blossom between the duo.
Suddenly, Guru visualizes a few bizarre incidents which also
occur sometimes later. Guru consults a psychiatrist and he says that Guru
suffers with a syndrome called extrasensory perception (ESP) whereby
he can get to know about certain future incidents. Guru worries that such
thoughts disturb him mentally and he cannot live a peaceful life.
Guru and Abi's parents get to know about their love and they
plan to get the couple married. One day, Guru dreams of stabbing Abi and gets
frightened that Abi will be killed by himself someday. So he decides to stay
away from Abi for a few days and leaves to Mumbai without
informing anyone. In Mumbai, he sees his look-alike, Prasad, who is a billionaire
businessman and a Mumbai-based Tamilan.Now Guru believes that it would be
Prasad who will stab Abi and follows the latter. But while crossing a road,
Guru meets with an accident and gets hospitalised by the local people for a few
days.
Meanwhile, Abi starts looking for Guru as he has not
contacted her for a few days due to the argument before the interval. Now, Abi
meets Prasad in a shopping mall and mistakes him for Guru. Abi talks to Prasad
and takes him to her home. Prasad is a money minded womanizer, who was once
born with a rich and wealthy lifestyle, only for it to end, when his parents
died in a plane accident and their business partners took all the money away.
Prasad understands that he has a look-alike and Abi has mistaken him as her lover.
Prasad decides to utilize the opportunity and plan to marry Abi, so that he can
lead a corrupted lavish lifestyle, with the help of a corrupt jeweler named
Sait, who is also his colleague and friend.
Guru gets discharged from the hospital and tries to contact
Abi. He also comes to Chennai to meet Abi at her house. Now everyone is shocked
to see Guru and Prasad as they both look exactly similar and Abi is confused
that who is really Guru. Prasad pretends as Guru and made everyone believe.
Guru's friends conduct a running race to find the real Guru, as Guru is an
athlete, but as Guru does not perform well due to his accident in Mumbai,
Prasad wins the race which makes Abi and his friends believe him as Guru. The
next day, while Abi talks to Prasad, she finds that he misinterprets an event
occurred before which makes her realize that Prasad is the one who is with her
and not Guru. She tries to run away from Prasad, while Prasad chases her. Guru
tries to rescue Abi and kill Prasad. But when Guru is about to stab Prasad, Abi
accidentally pushes Prasad and gets stabbed by Guru.
Guru is shocked and Prasad knocks Guru over and takes Abi with him. Prasad admits Abi in a hospital and again pretends as Guru. Abi believes again that Prasad is Guru. Abi tells that how come someone is try to taking away a girl who is in love with someone else and she says that Prasad must not have born to legitimate parents. Prasad realizes his cheap behaviour upon hearing this and confesses that he is Prasad and not Guru. Meanwhile, Guru also rushes to the hospital. Prasad apologizes to Guru and Abi and leaves the place. On the way, he meets Dhanalakshmi, whom he met during his train journey to Chennai with whom he made love during the journey. But she happily announces that she is pregnant with twins and they both unite.
Cast
·
Vijay as
Guru Moorthi aka Guru and Prasad (dual role)
·
Poorna as
Mathilda
·
Shriya Saran as
Abhinaya alias Abhi, Guru's love interest
·
Namitha as
Dhanalakshmi, Prasad's love interest
·
Santhanam as
Muruga
·
Sathyan as
Guru's friend
·
Sayaji Shinde as
Sait, a corrupt jeweler, second antagonist
·
Ashish
Vidyarthi as Anand Chelliah
·
Tanikella
Bharani as Kathiravan, Guru's father
·
Geetha as
Muthulakshmi, Guru's mother
·
Ganja Karuppu as
Kathiravan's assistant
·
M. S. Bhaskar as
Guru's coach
·
Sriman as
Shakthi, an athlete with whom Guru competed with
·
Manobala as
Train Travelling Ticket Examiner
·
Baby
Niveditha as Renu
·
Dhritiman Chatterjee as Lakshmidas
Selvan
·
Chaams as
a train passenger travelling from Bombay to Madras
·
Bombay Gnanam as
Renu's Tamil teacher
·
Kripa
as Shwetha, Abhinaya's friend and Shakthi's sister
·
Shakeela as
Shakeela (special appearance)
·
Appukutty as
a priest (uncredited cameo)
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