Viralukketha Veekkam

Viralukketha Veekkam
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Directed by	V. Sekhar
Produced by	S. S. Durairaju K. Parthiban
Written by	V. Sekhar
Starring	Livingston Vadivelu Vivek Kushboo Kovai Sarala Kanaka Nassar Urvashi
Music by	Deva
Cinematography	G. Rajendran P. S. Selvam
Edited by	A. P. Manivannan
Production company	Thiruvalluvar Kalaikoodam
Release date	16 July 1999 (1999-07-16)
Running time	155 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Viralukketha Veekkam is a 1999 Tamil comedy film directed by V. Sekhar. The film features Livingston, Vadivelu, Vivek, Kushboo, Kovai Sarala and Kanaka in lead roles. The film, produced by S. S. Durairaju and K. Parthiban, had musical score by Deva and was released on 16 July 1999 to mixed reviews and became successful at box-office.

Sivashankar (Livingston), Kabali (Vadivelu) and Ramanathan (Vivek) are close friends and all three are employed as mechanic in an automobile company. They are married to Suguna (Kushboo), Ranjitham (Kovai Sarala) and Malini aka Malu (Kanaka). Sivashankar, Kabali and Ramanathan prefer to lead a sophisticated lifestyle despite belonging to a middle class family. They borrow money from many people including peon in their factory.

Suguna, Ranjitham and Malu do not like the way their husbands borrow money to spend more. They try to run a budgeted life but their husbands do not listen to them and the families usually end up with lack of funds to meet their basic needs. This brings in frequent quarrels between the couples and the males usually dominate and try to keep their wives under their control.

There comes a new tenant Gayatri (Urvashi) along with her husband (Nasser) to stay nearby. Suguna, Ranjitham and Malu are impressed seeing Gayatri’s mode of running the family as both of them work and also Nasser is helpful to Gayatri assisting her in household works. This makes Suguna, Ranjitham and Malu decide to go for work so that they can earn more money which will be helpful to improve the financial condition of their families.

But their husbands are against this decision and they don’t prefer women working as they want their wives to be only dependent over them. One day, quarrel erupts in the factory where Sivashankar, Kabali and Ramanathan works following which all three gets dismissed. Kabali comes up with an idea of meeting his old friend Karupppiah (Thiyagu) who is a rich businessman in Bangalore, so that he could offer some help.

All three reach Bangalore and meet Karuppiah. They receive a warm welcome and Karuppiah agrees to make them as working partners in his firm. Suddenly police comes and arrests Karuppiah for smuggling drugs. This shocks Sivashankar, Kabali and Ramanathan as they just realize that Karuppiah is into smuggling drugs and all three flee from the place. Meantime, Suguna, Ranjitham and Malu finds out that their husbands have lose their jobs and the women decide to go for jobs to maintain the family. Gayatri recommends for job to her boss (Jaiganesh) in a textile company and all three women get employed. However their husbands do not like this but they don’t have a choice as they are unemployed.