Madrasapattinam

Madharasapattinam
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Tamil	மதராசபட்டினம்
Directed by	A. L. Vijay
Produced by	Kalpathi S. Aghoram
Written by	A. L. Vijay
Starring	Arya Amy Jackson Nassar Alexx O'Nell
Music by	G. V. Prakash Kumar
Cinematography	Nirav Shah
Edited by	Anthony Gonsalvez
Production company	AGS Entertainment
Distributed by	Red Giant Movies (India) Ayngaran International (Worldwide)
Release date	9 July 2010 (2010-07-09)
Running time	165 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil English

Madharasapattinam (English: Madras Town) is a 2010 Indian Tamil period drama film, written and directed by A. L. Vijay. The film stars Arya and Amy Jackson, while Nassar, Cochin Hanifa and Alexx O'Nell play other prominent roles. The film released on 9 July 2010. It was later dubbed into Telugu and released in Andhra Pradesh as 1947: A Love Story.

An elderly English woman Amy Wilkinson (Carole Trangmar-Palmer), almost at her deathbed in London, wants to come down to Madras in search of a young man Ilam Parithi (Arya) whom she last saw on 15 August 1947 to return a thali (traditional wedding threads) of his mother, which he gave her as a sign of stating that she belongs to India and nobody can separate them. However, after a turn of events, she had married another man from her hometown and thus felt that the thali was no longer her property.

Amy Wilkinson arrives in Madras with her granddaughter Catherine (Lisa Lazarus), equipped only with a picture of Parithi that was taken sixty years ago. Wilkinson interrogates various people about Parithi's whereabouts. In the process, she recalls the events when she had first visited Chennai, and the chain of events that took place:

A young Amy (Amy Jackson), the daughter of the Madras Presidency Governor, visits Chennai (then called Madharasapattinam) along with her translator Nambi (Cochin Hanifa) and encounters Parithi, whom she calls "brave man". Parithi, a member of the dhobi (launderer) clan is also an experienced wrestler who trains under Ayyakanu (Nassar). He openly opposes the British officials who attempt to build a golf course in the dhobi clan's dwelling place. He challenges a cruel racist officer named Robert Ellis (Alexx O'Nell), who is also Amy's suitor, to a wrestling match to decide the fate of his clan's home. Parithi is successful, and Ellis vows revenge.