| Azhagana Naatkal | |
| Director: | Sundar C. |
| Screenplay: | Sundar. C. |
| Story: | Priyadarshan Cheriyan Kalpakavadi (uncredited) |
| Producer: | S. T. Selvan |
| Starring: | Karthik Rambha Mumtaj |
| Cinematography: | Prasad Murella |
| Editing: | P. Sai Suresh |
| Music: | Deva |
| Studio: | Gowthami Arts |
| Runtime: | 145 minutes |
| Country: | India |
| Language: | Tamil |
Azhagana Naatkal is a 2001 Indian Tamil-language comedy film directed by Sundar C, is a remake of the Malayalam film Minnaram (1994) and is also loosely based on the Tamil film Penne Nee Vaazhga (1967). The film stars Karthik and Rambha and became the third collaboration of the pair with Sundar.C, after the successes of Ullathai Allitha (1996) and Unakkaga Ellam Unakkaga (1999). The film also featured Mumtaj, Goundamani and Senthil in pivotal roles and featured music composed by Deva. The film was released on 7 December 2001.
Indu and Chandru fall in love. Indu does the disappearing act and Chandru gets engaged to Rekha. Indu re-appears after three years with a little girl, who she claims is Chandru's daughter. Chandru vehemently denies it and finding Indu's presence an embarrassment tries to ferret out the truth. After many scenes of forced comedy, it is revealed that the girl is the illegitimate daughter of Chandru's much-married brother, who had seduced Indu's sister. After his brother's futile attempt to play the villain, Chandru latches on to Indu fast enough with no apology to Rekha. But it is not really Chandru's fault. For Rekha had done the disappearing act from the scene early enough without any explanation either.
Simran had originally signed on to play the lead role in the film, before she was replaced by Rambha.[1] This is a Tamil remake of 1994 Malayalam film Minnaram.[2] [3]
The music was composed by Deva.[4]
| Song | Singers | Lyrics | |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Adi Devathaiye" | Tippu, "Mahanadhi" Shobana | Pa. Vijay | |
| "Chik Chik Chinnakiliye" I | Sujatha, S. P. B. Charan | ||
| "Chik Chik Chinnakiliye" II | Hariharan, Shaisan | ||
| "Ishaa Ishaa" | Mano, Anuradha Sriram | ||
| "Kadhal Ok" | Shankar Mahadevan, Sujatha | Kalaikumar | |
| "Udugaya Udugaya" | Pa. Vijay |
Malini Mannath of Chennai Online wrote, "No serious thought seems to have gone into the scripting. The performances are lacklustre".[5] Visual Dasan of Kalki wrote Sundar C. reused plots and scenes from his own films and panned Goundamani's humour but called Delhi Ganesh's acting as the only relief.[6]