Thotta

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FieldValue
imageThotta poster.jpg
captionPoster
directorSelva
writerSelva
Ramesh Selvan (dialogues)
producerMariappa Babu Baskar
starringJeevan
Priyamani
cinematographyU. K. Senthil Kumar
musicSrikanth Deva
studioOscar Movies
released
runtime150 minutes
countryIndia
languageTamil
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| image = Thotta poster.jpg | caption = Poster | director = Selva | writer = Selva Ramesh Selvan (dialogues) | producer = Mariappa Babu Baskar | starring = Jeevan Priyamani | cinematography = U. K. Senthil Kumar | music = Srikanth Deva | studio = Oscar Movies | released = | runtime = 150 minutes | country = India | language = Tamil

Thotta ( ) is a 2008 Indian Tamil-language gangster film directed by Selva and produced by Mariappa Babu Baskar of Oscar Movies. The film stars Jeevan and Priyamani alongside Mallika, Sampath Raj, Hema Chaudhary and Charan Raj in supporting roles. It began production in 2005 but was released only on 29 February 2008.

Plot

Shanmugham comes to Chennai with his mother in search of his father. When they get to the place, they see him living with another wife. He kills the wife and sends Shanmugham outside. Shanmugham comes out with his dead mother, and an auto driver helps him cremate the body, gives money to him, and asks him to go back to his own city.

Shanmugham wanted to become a great man but got caught with corrupt police officers and was used for their job. When he grows up, he becomes a big rowdy by the name of Thotta. The highly corrupt police officer DCP Muthuvel also uses him for a lot of encounters, for which he takes credit and gets promoted to commissioner. In one incident where he is asked to put acid on a girl Nalina's face, he finds that girl to be the auto driver's daughter. He loves Nalina and helps her family.

Nalina's aim is to become a police officer, and she tells this to Shanmugham. As he has commissioner influence, he promises to get her the job. For this, he kills a minister, who is a big rival of Chief Minister Manimaran (Livingston). When Nalina goes to Muthuvel for the job, the latter insists that she have sex with him. When Shanmugham finds out what happened, he and Muthuvel part ways.

Shanmugham's friend Giri (Vishnupriyan), who is also a rowdy, but gets him married to Gauri (Mallika). She wants to separate him from this rowdy group and get settled, for which she tries not to send him for their encounters. After much thought, Shanmugham lets them go separately, but Muthuvel kills Giri. CBI officer Prabhakar (Charan Raj) wants to get Shanmugham alive, whereas Muthuvel wants him killed, otherwise he would be in deep trouble as he was the one who made Shanmugham a rowdy. How Shanmugham overpowers this duo and whether Nalina becomes a police officer forms the climax of the story.

Cast

Production

The film began production in 2005. It was shelved midway and revived only in 2007. Despite the delay, Selva was confident the film would succeed, citing Jeevan and Priyamani's booming market in the interim years.

Soundtrack

The film has 5 songs and one instrumental composed by Srikanth Deva. Saraswathy Srinivas of Rediff.com rated the album 2 out of 5, saying, "Srikanth Deva's music in Thotta just breezes past you with no lingering quality".

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SongSingersLyrics
"Anbe Vaa"Tanvi Shah, Gopal SharmaPalani Bharathi
"Mugam Poo"Chinmayi, Naresh IyerPa. Vijay
"Saami Aaduda"Senthildass Velayutham, Surmukhi Raman, ArchithKabilan
"Theme Of Thotta"Instrumental
"Va Va Va Mappillai"Srikanth Deva, Janani Bharadwaj, ArchithPalani Bharathi
"Venum Venum"Jaidev, Sangeetha RajeshwaranPa. Vijay
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Critical reception

Nandhu Sundaram wrote for Rediff.com, "Selva's singular failure is in infusing any emotion in the movie. The screenplay is a maze of twists and turns, none of them believable". Sify wrote, "This Thotta () just does not fire and is a rehash of so many films, and has nothing new to offer and is predictable". Sudhish Kamath of The Hindu wrote, "Overall, Thotta is racy for most parts, sprinting through the motions we have seen a hundred times before and yet continue to see only because our heroes give us no choice. Only for the bored and the desperate". Kabilan of Kalki praised the acting, screenplay, dialogues, direction, climax, cinematography but criticised the music.

References

References

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  2. (10 March 2005). "Jeevan is back".
  3. (17 October 2007). "'Thotta' resumes".
  4. (24 August 2007). "Jeevan hikes his fee for completing 'Thotta'".
  5. (2 February 2008). "New quality and new color in 'Thotta': director Selva".
  6. "Thotta (2008)".
  7. Srinivas, Saraswathy. (5 February 2008). "Music review: Thotta".
  8. Sundaram, Nandhu. (29 February 2008). "Review: Avoid Thotta".
  9. "Thotta".
  10. Kamath, Sudhish. (7 March 2008). "A bullet through your brain".
  11. கபிலன். (23 March 2008). "தோட்டா!".

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