Chatrapathy (2004 film)

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Chatrapathy
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Poster
Directed bySrimahesh
Produced byBabu Raja
Starring R. Sarathkumar
Nikita Thukral
CinematographyKarthik Raja
Edited byV. Jaishankar
Music by S. A. Rajkumar
Production
company
JJ Films
Release date
  • 11 November 2004 (2004-11-11)
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Chatrapathy is a 2004 Indian Tamil language action thriller film directed by Srimahesh. The film stars R. Sarathkumar and Nikita Thukral whilst Vadivelu, Mahadevan, and Adithya Menon play supporting roles. The film was released on 11 November 2004. [1]

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Plot

Saravanan is a bus driver and Kili is the bus cleaner in a college. He also takes care of an orphanage which is home to many children and old-aged people. Indhu, a student of the college, tries to woo Saravanan. Meanwhile, a few rowdies are found dead. Those rowdies happened to be henchmen of Chakravarthy, a local powerful politician. It is revealed that Saravanan is the man behind the murders.

A flashback is shown where Saravanan's actual name is Chatrapathy. He is an army major and recipient of Param Vir Chakra, the highest military decoration in India. On his visit to his native village in Tamil Nadu, Chatrapathy finds that Chakravarthy has grabbed majority of the land in his village from poor farmers with plans of constructing a beer factory. Chakravarthy also troubles Chatrapathy's widowed sister by forcing her to hand over her land where she runs a small orphanage. As Chatrapathy opposes this, Chakravarthy and his henchmen beat up Chatrapathy and his sister, following which she dies. They also demolish the orphanage, which leads to the deaths of a few children. They also finally grab the land. An angered Chatrapathy kills Chakravarthy's henchmen and goes into hiding to escape from police, waiting for an opportunity to kill Chakravarthy.

Chakravarthy finds out that Chatrapathy is behind him for taking revenge and tries to protect himself. However Chatrapathy kills Chakravarthy in the end and surrenders to the police. The court hands over Chatrapathy to the army.

Cast

Soundtrack

The music was composed by S. A. Rajkumar and released on Star Music. [2]

Track listing
No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."Kaadhal Theviravathi" Arivumathi Mathangi Jagdish, Srinivas 4:39
2."Naanga Ninna" Vaali Pop Shalini, Palakkad Sreeram, Kalpana 4:30
3."Nee Ragasiyamaga" P. Vijay Vasundhara Das, Karthik 4:34
4."Ore Oru Raathirikku" Na. Muthukumar Malathi 4:42
5."Vettripathi Veerapathi" S. A. Rajkumar Nellai Muthuperumal, S.A. Rajkumar3:34
Total length:21:59

Reception

S. R. Ashok Kumar of The Hindu wrote, "The film has love, sentiment, and heroism as the title suggests. The dialogue is crisp and director Srimahesh who makes his debut is also in charge of story, screenplay and dialogue. He should have worked a little more, mainly in the second half". [3] Visual Dasan of Kalki praised the acting of Sarathkumar and Nikitha and Rajkumar's music and also appreciated the director portraying Sarathkumar's transformation and flashback. [4] Sify wrote, "Chatrapathy is an escapist film meant only for those who enjoy mass masala films devoid of any logic or reason". [5]

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