Panchatanthiram

Panchatanthiram
Promotional poster
Directed byK. S. Ravikumar
Written byStory:
Kamal Haasan
Screenplay:
K. S. Ravikumar
Kamal Haasan
Dialogues:
Crazy Mohan
Produced byP. L. Thenappan
StarringKamal Haasan
Simran
Jayaram
Ramya Krishnan
Ramesh Aravind
Sriman
Yugi Sethu
CinematographyArthur A. Wilson
Edited byThanigachalam
Music byDeva
Production
company
Sri Rajlakshmi Film (P) Ltd
Distributed byRaaj Kamal Films International[1]
Release date
  • 28 June 2002 (2002-06-28)[2]
Running time
148 minutes[2]
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Panchatanthiram (transl. Five Ruses) is a 2002 Indian Tamil-language black comedy film co-written and directed by K. S. Ravikumar. The story is written by Kamal Haasan with the dialogues by Crazy Mohan. The film stars Kamal Haasan, Jayaram, Ramesh Aravind, Sriman, Yugi Sethu, Simran and Ramya Krishnan, with Urvashi, Aishwarya, Sanghavi, Vidhya Venkatesh, Devayani and Nagesh in supporting roles. It loosely adapts from the 1998 film Very Bad Things with new elements added to it.[3]

Panchatanthiram released on 28 June 2002 and became a commercial success. Jayaram won Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor – Tamil at the 50th South Filmfare Awards.[4]

  1. ^ Panchathanthiram (motion picture) (in Tamil). Sri Rajlakshmi Film (P) Ltd. 2002. From 00:19 to 00:29.
  2. ^ a b "Panchathanthiram". British Board of Film Classification. Archived from the original on 15 June 2022. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  3. ^ C R, Balajee (1 February 2016). "Let's take a look at Kollywood's several attempts in remaking foreign films". Deccan Chronicle. Archived from the original on 2 February 2022. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  4. ^ "Manikchand Filmfare Awards: Sizzling at 50". BSNL. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 19 October 2009.

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