Manmadhan (film)

Manmadhan
Film poster
Directed by	A. J. Murugan
Produced by	S. K. Krishnakanth
Written by	Silambarasan Balakumaran (dialogues)
Screenplay by	Silambarasan
Story by	Silambarasan
Starring	Silambarasan Jyothika Goundamani Sindhu Tolani Mayuri Mandira Bedi Santhanam Atul Kulkarni Yana Gupta Brinda Parekh
Music by	Yuvan Shankar Raja
Cinematography	S.Murthy R. D. Rajasekhar
Edited by	Anthony
Production company	Indian Theatre Production
Release date	12 November 2004 (2004-11-12)
Running time	165 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Manmadhan (Tamil: மன்மதன்) is a 2004 Tamil crime thriller film directed by A.J. Murugan and Silambarasan who wrote the story, screenplay and co-dialog along with Balakumaran as well as playing the lead title role. The film has Jyothika enacting the lead female role, Goundamani, Sindhu Tolani, Atul Kulkarni and Santhanam playing supporting roles and guest appearances by Mandira Bedi as a psychologist, Brinda Parekh as playgirl and Yana Gupta as a club dancer. The film's score and soundtrack are composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja. Silambarasan and Jyothika won critical acclaim for their Performances and both were nominated for Best Actor and Best Actress Category at Filmfare Awards respectively. The film released on 12 November 2004 and was declared a Blockbuster at the box office. It was later dubbed in Telugu as Manmadha.

Madhankumar (Silambarasan) is a chartered accountant by profession. He also learns music as part time in a college. Mythili (Jyothika) also learns music from the same college. Mythili gets scared seeing Madhan because once she had a dream of getting raped by Madhan. Later on she realizes Madhan’s kind nature and the both become good friends.

But Madhan also has another side where he finds and kills morally incorrect girls in the city. He takes the dead bodies of those girls to drainage and burns them to ashes and stores it in a bottle with the name of the girl pasted over the bottle. Media attention turn towards the case of missing girls and Assistant Commissioner Deva (Atul Kulkarni) is in charge of finding the person behind the mystery.

One day, Mythili finds Madhan riding a bike with a girl at the pillion. On the next day, Mythili gets shocked to see the news that the girl whom she spotted with Madhan the previous day goes missing. Mythili thinks that Madhan is behind all the crime and informs police about Madhan and his whereabouts. Madhan gets arrested.

During investigation, Madhan reveals that it is his younger brother Madhan Raj (also Silambarasan) who is responsible for the all problems. The story moves to a flashback where Madhan Raj, an innocent guy comes from a village to join engineering. He falls in love with his classmate Vaishnavi (Sindhu Tolani). Vaishnavi also reciprocates her love for Madhan Raj seeing his good nature. But Madhan Raj’s friends inform him that Vaishnavi has an affair with her relative Seenu who also studies in the same class. When Madhan Raj asks about this to Vaishnavi, she gets angry thinking that Madhan Raj does not trust her.