Doubles (2000 film)

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Doubles
Directed by Pandiarajan
Written byPandiarajan
Produced by K. Rajan
Starring Prabhu Deva
Meena
Sangeetha
CinematographyR. Raghunatha Reddy
Edited by B. Lenin
V. T. Vijayan
Music by Srikanth Deva
Production
company
K. R. P. Production
Release date
  • 11 August 2000 (2000-08-11)
Running time
125 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Doubles is a 2000 Indian Tamil-language comedy film written and directed by Pandiarajan, who also played a guest appearance in the film. Produced by K. Rajan, the film stars Prabhu Deva, Meena, and Sangeetha, while Vivek, Manivannan, and Kovai Sarala play supporting roles. The film's score and soundtrack are composed by debutant Srikanth Deva. The film was released on 11 August 2000.

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Plot

The movie starts projecting Prabhu as a shopkeeper who sells toys to kids. He does all possible crazy actions in the world, which really irritates everyone. He has many bad habits, such as drinking and smoking. Prabhu marries Meena, but she wants her husband to be like Sree Ram. Prabhu acts as if he is a nice guy and also gets caught a few times when he tries to overact. Sangeetha, Meena's close friend, comes and stays with Meena as she is doing her final year in Madras Medical College. Prabhu had earlier pinched Sangeetha's hip when she was travelling on a bus. He gets slapped by Sangeetha and was thrown from that bus before she meets him. Sangeetha takes the task of seducing Prabhu to prove that he is a womaniser to Meena and fails in many attempts. The film ends as Meena dies of jaundice and Prabhu realising that his true love was only for Meena. Sangeetha marries Ganesh, who comes for one scene in the ending.

Cast

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was composed by Srikanth Deva, son of music composer Deva, who made his debut as composer with this film. All lyrics were written by Vairamuthu. [1] Indiainfo wrote the album "does not have any extraordinary songs" but Srikanth "shows a flair for mass-oriented music". [2]

Track listing
No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Colourful Nilavu" Vasundhara Das, Timmy5:02
2."Hey Pondattikkum" (1) Sukhwinder Singh, Sujatha Mohan 4:01
3."Hey Pondattikkum" (2) Devan Ekambaram, Sujatha Mohan4:01
4."Adi Kadhal" P. Unnikrishnan, Harini 5:17
5."Rama Rama" Swarnalatha, Anuradha Sriram 5:14
6."Naan Ippo" Hariharan 4:27
Total length:28:02

Reception

Tamil Star wrote, "Pandiyarajan seems confused about how to handle Doubles. The ultimate moral he has tried to convey through the movie is that one must be faithful to one's wife. But he doesn't seem to be clear on the story to convey it through, the tone to adopt or even the character of the hero. So we get a movie with a one-line story that is chockful of double entendres for the most part but ends with an attempt at cheap sentiments". [3] Krishna Chidambaram of Kalki wrote though the story is rather dull, the humorous touch throughout the film makes its presentation interesting. [4] K. N. Vijiyan of New Straits Times called the film somewhat "disjoint" due to poor editing. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Doubles (Tamil)". JioSaavn . 20 September 2000. Archived from the original on 7 July 2023. Retrieved 7 July 2023.
  2. ↑ "An unimpressive debut". Indiainfo. Archived from the original on 11 December 2001. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
  3. ↑ "Movie: Doubles". Tamil Star. Archived from the original on 24 August 2005. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
  4. ↑ சிதம்பரம், கிருஷ்ணா (27 August 2000). "டபுள்ஸ்". Kalki (in Tamil). p. 32. Archived from the original on 2 July 2023. Retrieved 2 July 2023– via Internet Archive.
  5. ↑ Vijiyan, K. N. (23 August 2000). "A disjointed comedy". New Straits Times . pp. Spot On 7. Archived from the original on 2 July 2024. Retrieved 19 January 2024– via Google News Archive.
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