''Periya Veetu Pannakkaran'' () is a 1990 Indian

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romance film Romance films involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion (emotion), passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their ...

, directed and photographed by N. K. Viswanathan in his directorial debut. The film stars Karthik, Kanaka,

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and S. S. Chandran. It was released on 11 May 1990.

Plot

Chellameena is the daughter of a wealthy big family. In the same village, Sundarapandi is the grandson of a poor farmer there. He is a do-gooder and is always rubbing the villains (Kanaka's cousins) the wrong way. When they both decide to get married after a few teasings and duets, her family refuses and gets Sundarapandi beaten, and his father gets killed in the process. Nambiar who resides in the next village, adopts him. After hearing his story, he extends his proposal to Chellameena's family, who still refuses despite Sundarapandi now having millions in his name thanks to Nambiar. The village horse festival is announced. After much violence and fights, Sundarapandi and Chellameena get together, and he wins the competition.

Cast

Production

When N. K. Viswanathan was directing '' Inaindha Kaigal'', Sangili Murugan requested him to direct a film for him which became ''Periya Veettu Pannakkaran''. It was completed within a single schedule and became his directorial debut as it released before ''Inaindha Kaigal''.

Soundtrack

The music was composed by

Ilaiyaraaja Ilaiyaraaja (born R. Gnanathesikan) is an Indian musician, composer, arranger, conductor, orchestrator, multi-instrumentalist, lyricist and playback singer popular for his works in Indian cinema, predominately in Tamil cinema, Tamil in addition ...

. The song "Nikkattumaa Pogattuma" is set in the

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Vachaspati, and the songs "Muthu Muthu Medai" and "Malligaiye Malligaiye" are set in

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. The movie was dubbed into Telugu as Prema Sasanam

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* {{IMDb title 1990 directorial debut films 1990 films 1990s Indian films 1990s romance films 1990s Tamil-language films Films directed by N. K. Viswanathan Films scored by Ilaiyaraaja Indian romance films Tamil-language Indian films