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Mounam Pesiyadhe
Official poster
Directed byAmeer
Written byAmeer
Produced byGanesh Raghu
Karthik Radhakrishnan
Venky Narayanan
Rajan Radhakrishnan
StarringSuriya
Trisha
Nandha
CinematographyRamji
Edited bySuresh Urs
Music byYuvan Shankar Raja
Production
company
Aparajeeth Films
Release date
  • 13 December 2002(2002-12-13)
Running time
148 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Mounam Pesiyadhe(transl. Silence spoke) is a 2002 IndianTamil-languageromantic drama film,written and directed byAmeerin his directorial debut. It starsSuriyaandTrishain the lead along with newcomersNandha,Neha Pendseand choreographer-turned-actor Anju Mahendra in supporting roles along with several other newcomers, whileLailaappears in acameo roleduring the climax. It also marks the first film for Trisha as lead actress after playing a cameo role inJodi(1999). The major part of the film is shot inPondicherry.The film, released on 13 December 2002 and turned out to be a hit at the box office. It was remade inTeluguasAadanthe Ado Type(2003)[1]and later dubbed in the same language asKaanchu(2006).[2]

Plot

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Gautham (Suriya) and Kannan (Nandha) are close friends from childhood days. Gautham owns a restaurant while Kannan works as a sales executive in a firm. Kannan is in love with Mahalakshmmi "Maha" (Neha Pendse) while Gautham has no interest towards girls and prefers to be single despite his family members trying to get him married. Sandhya (Trisha) is the relative of Kannan and their family members plan to get them married. Kannan is scared of his father and he is unable to inform about his love. So he requests Gautham to meet Sandhya and inform about the love between Kannan and Maha.

Gautham agrees and informs Sandhya about Kannan's love with Maha. Sandhya also says that even she is not interested in the marriage proposal and instead she prefers to marry someone like Gautham. Hearing this, Gautham is shocked and also confused.

Kannan and Sandhya's parents understand that neither Kannan nor Sandhya are interested in marriage and cancels the wedding plans between them. Meanwhile, Gautham develops affection towards Sandhya. Gautham receives frequent phone calls and he believes it to be from Sandhya. Gautham also gets gifts which he also believes to be sent by Sandhya.

One day, Sandhya calls Gautham to a restaurant. Gautham believes that she has called to convey her love but is shocked when she introduces Aravind as her lover. She also says that even Aravind is like Gautham who was not interested in girls but somehow is convinced by Sandhya. Gautham starts worrying and is confused about the happenings as he believed the phone calls and gifts were from Sandhya.

Maha's father gets angry knowing about her love and engages a few thugs to beat up Kannan. Kannan is injured which angers Gautham. He smashes all those thugs and scolds Maha's father for involving in such activities. Maha's father realises his mistake and apologises. Kannan and Maha's wedding is fixed.

On the day of Kannan and Maha's wedding, Gautham walks alone in the street thinking about his love failure. Suddenly a car comes in front of him and it isLaila.She walks towards Gautham and proposes her love. A small flashback is shown where Laila and Gautham were college mates and Laila was in love with Gautham. But Gautham did not reciprocate and avoided her during college.

On the last day of the college, Laila told Gautham that she will keep following him always and will never forget him. As she said, she kept following Gautham, kept calling Gautham and sent him frequent gifts which Gautham misunderstood to be from Sandhya. Gautham realises Laila's true love and accepts it. The movie ends with both leaving together in the car.

Cast

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  • Suriyaas Gowtham
  • Trishaas Sandhya (Voice dubbed bySavitha Reddy)
  • Nandhaas Kannan
  • Neha Pendseas Mahalakshmi
  • Anju Mahendra as Selvam
  • Duraipandi as Sundaram
  • Vaidyanathan as Govindaraj
  • V. C. Venkatesh as Shankaran
  • Gopikumar as Shanmuganathan
  • Saravanan as Auto Pandi
  • Govindaraj as Palanisamy
  • Kamalesh as Aravind
  • Senthil as Sudhakar
  • Johnprakash as Raj
  • Master Tarun Kumar as Suresh
  • Viji as Savithri
  • Vijayalakshmi as Kamakshi
  • Lakshmi as Varalakshmi
  • Vaishnavias Lakshmi
  • Hemalatha as Shanthi
  • Swetha as Indu
  • Vidharthas drunkard (uncredited)
  • Ameeras peon in Mahalakshmi's father's office (uncredited)
  • Lailaas Laila, Gautham's secret lover (cameo; also dubbed by Savitha Reddy)
  • RJ Sanobar Sultana (cameo)

Production

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The film's title is based on a serial that was supposed to be directed byVikramwith Ameer working as the assistant director.[3]It also marks the first film for Trisha as lead actress.[4]Shooting took place in New Zealand, Italy, Mauritius, Egypt and other scenic locations in and around India.[5]Moreover, a huge set worth₹30 lakh(equivalent to₹1.1 crore or US$140,000 in 2023) was erected by art director Rajeevan atPondicherryfor a song.[5]"Valentine" song was shot at AVM Studios, the rest of the songs were shot at locations in Mysore andPuducherry.[6]

Soundtrack

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The soundtrack was composed byYuvan Shankar Rajaand released on 6 October 2002. Upon release, it was very much appreciated and became very successful. Yuvan Shankar Raja himself claimed the album to be "the best he ever created since he became music director" till then.[5]

Song Singer(s) Lyricist Length
"En Anbae En Anbae" Shankar Mahadevan Kamakodiyan 4:45
"Chinna Chinnathai" Hariharan,Yuvan Shankar Raja Pudhuvai Nambi 5:16
"Aadatha Aatamellam" Karthik Snehan 4:29
"Eh Nanbane Kopam" Hariharan, Shankar Mahadevan Snehan 4:13
"Arupadhu Aayidichu" Manikka Vinayagam,Malgudi Subha Vaali 3:50
"Ilamai Oorai Sutrum" Nidhesh Gopalan, Yuvan Shankar Raja Vaali 4:01
"Love All Day" Yuvan Shankar Raja Ameer 1:52
"Kannil Kanthamey" S. P. Balasubrahmanyam,Thara Ameer 4:50

Reception

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Malathi Rangarajan ofThe Hinduwrote that Ameer "has introduced an element of suspense in the story. The end shows that the director has tried to make things a little different. The comedy merges well with the main narration and the asides are examples of healthy humour".[7]Visual Dasan ofKalkicalled the film "above average".[8]

References

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  1. ^Kumar, G. Manjula (12 August 2003)."Make or break for Aryan".Idlebrain.com.Archived fromthe originalon 25 January 2013.Retrieved23 January2023.
  2. ^"Mounam Pesiyadhe Telugu version to release".The Times of India.15 March 2013.Archivedfrom the original on 26 July 2023.Retrieved1 September2020.
  3. ^Rangan, Baradwaj(1 December 2013)."Man of Steel – How suffering turned a college lad into a Tamil superstar".The Caravan.Archived fromthe originalon 1 February 2015.Retrieved1 February2015.
  4. ^"Trisha's first project was Lesa Lesa".The Times of India.2 November 2015. Archived fromthe originalon 27 April 2018.Retrieved23 January2023.
  5. ^abc"Mounam Pesiyadhe".Chennai Online.8 October 2002. Archived fromthe originalon 2 March 2003.Retrieved1 June2009.
  6. ^Mannath, Malini (21 November 2002)."Mounam Pesiyathe".Chennai Online.Archived fromthe originalon 15 February 2003.Retrieved26 June2012.
  7. ^Rangarajan, Malathi (27 December 2002)."Mounam Pesiyadhae".The Hindu.Archived fromthe originalon 25 January 2013.Retrieved22 April2022.
  8. ^தாசன், விஷுவல் (5 January 2003)."மௌனம் பேசியதே".Kalki(in Tamil). p. 96.Archivedfrom the original on 23 January 2023.Retrieved23 January2023– viaInternet Archive.
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