Englishkaran

Englishkaran (Tamil: இங்கிலிஷ்காரன், meaning English Man) is a 2005 Tamil film. It casts Sathyaraj in the lead role. "English Karan" with the tagline "Tamizh Vazhga" is a film from the hit combo from Sathyaraj and Shakthi Chidambaram whose earlier ventures "Ennama Kannu" and "Maha Nadigan" were hits. Like other Sathyaraj films, Englishkaaran also has humour, glamour, lots of puns and is based on a strong theme paced with whimsy humour. The film opened to positive reviews and was commercially successful at the box office.

The film starts with Tamizharasu (Sathyaraj), a reformist entering a village with the intention to unite a couple and help a young girl Sandhya (Madhumitha), who aspires to be a singer. There, he faces the anger of Sandhya’s father (Kadhal Dhandapani), who is a strong believer of older ideologies, but Sandhya hates Tamizharasu and the reason for that is told in a flashback. The flashback starts with Maheshwari (Namitha), Tamizharasu's wife, aspiring to be a sports champion. Tamizharasu motivates and helps her. Due to some family problems, Maheswari commits suicide after making her husband promise to help her sister to become a popular singer. The rest of the film is how he fulfills the promise.

Soundtrack was composed by Deva and lyrics written by Pa. Vijay, Snehan and Sakthi Chidambaram.

The film received mainly positive reviews and was a commercial success grossing $1 million at the box office. Nowrunning commented that sparky script, great performances, directorial flare, and play's essential revelation made "Englishkaran" an admirable movie. The film got its humor from spoofing and parodying and offered wholesome entertainment value whatsoever. Indiaglitz commented that Sakthi Chidamabaram had tried to give a movie with a strong message with a convoluted mix of humour, romance and glamour.

Further to this the audience felt that Sathyaraj had done a commendable job in this film. The comedy scene where Vadivelu tries to scare Sathyaraj by pretending to be a ghost and Satyaraj counteracted in the same fashion with a Chandramukhi–like dance imitating Jothika created riproaring comedy and appealed to all fun-loving persons. Vadivelu’s comedy was hilarious. Madhumitha's looks in the movie was commemorated to be glamorous. Walter Devaram in a cameo role was passable. Namitha in a brief role had done a good job.