Punnagai Mannan

Punnagai Mannan
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Directed by	K. Balachander
Produced by	Rajam Balachander Pushpa Kandaswamy
Written by	K. Balachander
Starring	Kamal Haasan Revathi Rekha Srividya
Music by	Ilaiyaraaja
Cinematography	Ragunatha Reddy
Edited by	Ganesh-Kumar
Production company	Kavithalayaa Productions
Distributed by	Kavithalayaa Productions
Release date	1 November 1986
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Punnagai Mannan (English: King of Smiles) is a 1986 Indian Tamil-language romantic-drama film directed by K. Balachander. Starring Kamal Haasan and Revathi in the lead roles, the film is Haasan's 25th film with Balachander. Coincidentally, it is music director Ilaiyaraaja's last film with lyricist Vairamuthu. The film was dubbed into Telugu as Dance Master. The film was later dubbed into Hindi as Cha Cha Charlee in 1996.

Sethu (Kamal Haasan) and Ranjani (Rekha) arrive at a cliff where they plan to commit suicide due to the pressure put up by Ranjani's parents against their marriage. Sethu who is the son of an ordinary drunkard cook (Delhi Ganesh) and is also a dancer is not accepted as groom for Ranjani by her parents. The parents threaten Ranjani that either they would kill Sethu or commit suicide. While jumping from the cliff, Sethu accidentally gets trapped in a tree and escapes but Ranjani dies. Despite the attempts made by Ranjani's father to jail Sethu by framing a fault case that Sethu killed Ranjani, no strong evidence was there to prove it. Sethu is jailed for the offence of attempted suicide for one year.

After a year, Sethu is released. Padmini (Srividya) who owns a dance school provides him a job of dance master as he is the former student. Sethu visits regularly the cliff as a remembrance of his love. On his way he sees a girl who attempts suicide for her failure in examination and he stops her. He again meets the girl in a gallery. The girl introduces herself to him as Malini (Revathi) but he ignores her. Malini again meets Sethu at a tourist spot where she clicks photos without his knowledge, but Sethu finds out and destroys her camera. Malini chases him to his dance school as his student. Sethu repeatedly insults her but Malini develops a love for him.