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 SaranNamitha, 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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