Thanga Meenkal
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| Directed by | Ram |
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Gautham Menon Reshma Ghatala Venkat Somasundaram |
| Written by | Ram |
| Story by | Ram Shri Sankara Gomathy Ram |
| Starring | Ram Sadhana Shelly Kishore |
| Music by | Yuvan Shankar Raja |
| Cinematography | Arbhindu Saaraa |
| Edited by | A. Sreekar Prasad |
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| Distributed by | JSK Film Corporation |
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125 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Tamil |
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| Soundtrack album to Thanga Meenkal by Yuvan Shankar Raja | ||||
| Released | 30 April 2013 | |||
| Recorded | 2011 | |||
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
| Length | 16:01 | |||
| Language | Tamil | |||
| Label | Sony Music India | |||
| Producer | Yuvan Shankar Raja | |||
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Thanga Meenkal (English: Gold Fish) is a 2013 Indian Tamil coming-of-age drama film co written and directed by Ram and story written by Ram and his daughter Shri Sankara Gomathy Ram, directing his second film after Kattradhu Thamizh. Ram, besides, played the lead role as well alongside newcomers Sadhana and Shelly Kishore. A joint production of Gautham Menon's Photon Kathaas and R. S. Infotainment, the film features score and soundtrack composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja. The film's shooting commenced in mid-January 2011 and was completed by late 2011.Thanga Meenkal released on 30 August 2013.
The film opened to positive reviews from critics, but was declared as an average grosser by box office analysts. It won three prizes at the 61st National Film Awards including Best Tamil film award. It was the only Tamil film to be screened at Indian Panorama in International Film Festival of India, IFFI, Goa, 2013.
A poor laborer Kalyani (Ram) is devoted to his young daughter Chellamma (Baby Sadhana), but the child has problems at school with her studies, classmates and teachers. Kalyani wants his daughter to be happy, no matter what. Kalyani is a man who toils pretty hard to meet both ends, thereby trying not to live in his father's shade, but is forced to. His daughter Chellama is a sweet, angelic girl who fares below average in the class, but is all chirpy and gleeful when she is with her father. Without a proper job and an income the tension that prevails in the house forces him to take up a job far away from the reach of his lovely daughter. 'Thanga Meengal' is a coming-of-age story of an unfit father struggling to make ends meet, told through the eyes of his eight-year-old daughter. The film offers a critique of primary education in Tamil Nadu and makes poignant observations through social commentary.
After his debut directorial Kattradhu Thamizh, Ram was expected to commence his second project, which was tentatively titled Saddam Hussain and was to feature Dhanush and Bhavana in the lead roles. However, the commercial failure of Kattradhu Thamizh hindered him from starting his next directorial immediately after, with no producer willing to fund the project. Furthermore, comedian Karunas, who played a pivotal role in that film and had bought the distribution rights of the film, lost around ₹ 75 lakhs and demanded compensation for the loss. Ram took a break before starting work on his next project. He had penned a story titled Thanga Meengal and, as claimed by reports in August 2009, had eventually found a producer to fund this film under the banner of Touch Stone. Comedian Karunas, school mate of Ram, who played a lead role in the director's first film, too, was roped in to play the lead role in this film. The film's shoot was supposed to begin in late 2009, but got delayed and didn't take off until mid-2010. Media reports claimed that the producer got into a financial crisis and decided to drop the film, which prompted Karunas to take up the film and produce it himself. However, the film was subsequently taken over by director-producer Gautham Menon, whose Photon Kathaas Productions along with R. S. Infotainment would produce the film. Gautham asked Ram to enact the protagonist's role, which he agreed to after shooting rehearsal scenes with Suba Pandian and cinematographer P. G. Muthiah and being "thoroughly convinced".
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