Military (film)

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Military
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Poster
Directed by G. Saisuresh
Screenplay byG. Saisuresh
Story by Siddique
Based on Hitler
Produced byS. Siddiq
Starring Sathyaraj
Rambha
CinematographyD. Sankar
Edited bySuresh Rajan
Music by Deva
Production
company
Cine Times Entertainment
Release date
  • 28 February 2003 (2003-02-28)
Running time
142 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Military is a 2003 Indian Tamil-language action drama film directed by Suraj, credited as G. Saisuresh. The film stars Sathyaraj and Rambha. A remake of the Malayalam film Hitler (1996), it was released on 28 February 2003, and became a box office failure. [1]

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Plot

Madhavan, locally known as Military, is a protective brother of five younger sisters: Ammu, Seetha, Nandhini, Kamali and Archana. Their father remarried after his first wife's death, and because of that his children do not speak to him. With his second wife, he has two daughters. Ammu, the eldest of Madhavan's sisters, was raped by her widower professor. Madhavan asked Ammu to marry the professor, who was quite old. The other sisters did not know about the matter. Seetha elopes with her cousin Balasubramaniam and they later come to stay in their neighbourhood. Madhavan's enemies try to kill his brother-in-law and put the blame on Madhavan. Luckily, his brother-in-law survives and tells the truth.

Cast

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Deva. [2]

SongSinger(s)LyricsDuration
"Ammamma" P. Unnikrishnan, Sujatha Pa. Vijay 5:22
"Chittu Kuruvi" Harini, Krishnaraj Na. Muthukumar 5:21
"Mama Mama"Deva, Sabesh, Murali, Ramji, SundarrajanKalidasan3:30
"Suriyanae Suriyanae" Srinivas Pa. Vijay5:13
"Therodum Veedhiyilae" Anuradha Sriram, Srinivas Palani Bharathi 5:38

Release and reception

Military was released on 28 February 2003. [3] Malini Mannath of Chennai Online felt "the remake fails to live up to the original" and added "while remaking it, the makers seem to have lost out on the feel of the original. It’s like they’ve just borrowed the scenes and situations, and rushed through the whole scenario. The natural flow is missing, leading to jerky narration." [4] Sify wrote the film "fails to live up to the original" and that Sathyaraj "fails to make an impression as the elder brother of five sisters". [5] Visual Dasan of Kalki wrote despite being a sentimental plot about brother and sisters, it sustains the interest till the end due to new kind of scenes and natural humour and also praised the director keeping the flashback short but felt the only negative is antics of Vinu Chakravarthy and Ponnambalam and concluded the director deserves military salute for making a film which can be watched with families. [6] IndiaInfo wrote "Except Satyaraj’s performance, the film has nothing much to rave about". [7]

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