Puli Varudhu

Puli Varudhu (English:Tiger is coming) is a 2007 Tamil film starring Githan Ramesh and Mallika Kapoor in the lead roles, directed by G. V. Kumar.

Plot

Ramesh (Jithan Ramesh) son of Manivannan and Saranya. Manivannan is the leading Ad-Film maker. Karupa(Karunaas) and other friends stay in Ramesh's house as paying guests. Ramesh's parents treat them as their own. Manivannan and Saranya desperately want their son to fall in love and get married. Ramesh prefers arranged marriage.

A mutual friend of Ramesh and Karunaas is getting a fixed marriage. Along with Karunaas, Ramesh goes to their friend's village to attend the marriage. On the way there he dreams he meets a beautiful girl, but also that his friend would die in an accident. He wakes up with a shout. Both Ramesh and Karunaas attend their friend's wedding anyway. Ramesh meets Gayathri(Mallika Kappoor) a beautiful girl, and falls in love. She is none other than his dream girl. Karunaas informs the love of Ramesh and Gayathri to Ramesh's parents.

Upon returning home, Ramesh's parents accept his love and affection for Gayathri. They plan to meet her along with her parents in order to finalize their engagement and fix the date for marriage. During travel, Ramesh dreams again of his engagement to Gayathri. This time, before the marriage, his father passes away due to a heart attack and Gayathri attempts to commit suicide. Again this time he wakes up from the dream with a shout. Ramesh's parents ask him about the sudden scream. He refuses to tell. Karunaas then asks him about it and Ramesh tells his dream. In the morning they wake up in the village and things go as planned, but some of his dreams become reality. Gayathri speaks to him and they visit some of the places she took him in his dream. After the engagement Ramesh, his friends and his family return home.

Ramesh fears that more of his dreams might come true and panics. He begins to avoid everyone and everything, including Gayathri. He even goes to the extent of cancelling the wedding. Does Ramesh overcome his fearsome dreams? Do the lovers marry?

Cast

• Jithan Ramesh
• Mallika Kapoor
• Manivannan
• Karunas
• Saranya

Soundtrack

Soundtrack was composed by Srikanth Deva and lyrics were written by Na. Muthukumar.^[1]

• Oru Murai — Madhu Balakrishnan, Anitha
• Aasai Vachen — Chithra, Vijay Yesudas
• Theru Varudhu — Manikka Vinayagam
• Kanava Nijama — Harish Raghavendra, Anuradha Sriram
• Kadhalikka Solludi — Manikka Vinayagam, Karunas, Swarnalatha

Critical reception

Sify wrote "While provision has to be made for suspension of disbelief in popular entertainment; Puli Varuthu stretches beyond belief and endurance too and ends up as a big bore".^[2] Behindwoods wrote "Director GV Kumar comes in for adulations for having chosen a wafer thin plot and adding some interesting twists and turns to what is otherwise only an average fare."^[3] Indiaglitz wrote "Debutant director G.V. Kumar has succeeded in narrating a wafer thin story based on the fear psychology in an entertaining manner."^[4]

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