Panchathanthiram
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| Tamil | பஞ்சதந்திரம் |
| Directed by | K. S. Ravikumar |
| Produced by | P. L. Thenappan |
| Written by | Crazy Mohan (Dialogue) |
| Screenplay by | K. S. Ravikumar |
| Story by | Kamal Haasan |
| Based on |
Very Bad Things by Peter Berg |
| Starring |
Kamal Haasan Simran Jayaram Ramya Krishnan Ramesh Aravind Sriman Yugi Sethu |
| Narrated by | Simran |
| Music by | Deva |
| Cinematography | Arthur A. Wilson |
| Edited by | Thanigachalam |
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Production
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| Distributed by | Raaj Kamal Films International |
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Release date
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28 June 2002 |
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Running time
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148 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Tamil |
Panchathantiram (English: Five Ruses) is a 2002 Indian Tamil-language comedy film directed by K. S. Ravikumar written with Kamal Haasan and Crazy Mohan. The film features Haasan, Simran and Ramya Krishnan leading an ensemble cast that includes Jayaram, Ramesh Aravind, Sriman, Yugi Sethu, Urvashi, Aishwarya and Nagesh.
The film opened to positive reviews from critics, and became a commercial success at the box office.
Ramachandramurthy alias Ram. C. M. or Ram is a Canada-based pilot and a womaniser. In the course of an aircraft hijacking, he meets Mythili. Ram and Mythili stop the hijacking and save the passengers. Soon after, they fall in love and get married. Ram's four closest friends, Ayyapan Nair, Vendantham Iyer, Ganesh Hegde and Hanumant Reddy attend the wedding.
After marriage, Ram quits his playboy character and remains faithful to Mythili. One day, when Ram prevents Hegde's ex-girlfriend, Nirmala, from committing suicide, Mythili misinterprets the situation. She presumes that he is having an affair with her and leaves him to be with her parents. Further misunderstanding occurs when he sets out to meet Mythili, drunk, in the middle of the night and enters the wrong house.
To take his mind off Mythili for a while, Ram's four friends drive him down to Bangalore and rent a room to hire call girl Maragathavalli alias Maggie. Ram, who is still not able to forget Mythili and does not wish to betray her, gets into a fight with Maggie. To salvage the situation, Iyer hurries back to Maggie's room, only to find Maggie dead. Panicking, Nair, Iyer, Hegde and Reddy decide to discreetly dispose of the body in spite of Ram's pleas to call the police. They manage to roll the body in a blanket, dispose it in a dry river and drive back to Chennai to return to their normal lives.
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