''Murai Mappillai'' () is a 1995 Indian

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-language film directed and co-written by

Sundar C Vinayagar Sundar Vel (born 21 January 1968), known professionally as Sundar C, is an Indian actor, filmmaker, and playback singer who predominantly works in Tamil cinema. He has directed over 30 films and received the Kalaimamani#2009, Kalaim ...

. The film stars newcomers

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(known at the time as Arunkumar) and Kirthika, with Rajashree,

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, K. Prabakaran,

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and

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, son of actor Vijayakumar into films. He was credited as Arunkumar. The first film Arunkumar signed was ''Love Story''. But as its music composer,

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, was very busy, producer K. Prabakaran signed him up for ''Murai Mappillai'' directed by

. During the making of the film, Sundar fell out with the makers, and the venture was finished by Anbalaya Prabhakaran.

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who went on to direct films like ''

Mynaa ''Mynaa'' is a 2010 Indian Tamil-language romantic thriller film directed and written by Prabhu Solomon. Jointly distributed by Udhayanidhi Stalin and Kalpathi S. Aghoram, it stars Vidharth, Amala Paul and Thambi Ramaiah. The soundtrack by D. ...

'' (2010) and '' Kumki'' (2012) completed the post-production works of the film.

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Swararaj, who debuted in Tamil cinema as composer with this film. The lyrics were written by Vaali and Bharati Puthran.

Reception

D. S. Ramanujam of ''

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'' wrote, "One more offspring of a star makes a pleasing debut in Anbaalaya Films', ''Murai Maapillai''. He is Arun Kumar, son of actor Vijaya Kumar. Producer-director K. Prabhakaran who introduced Prashanth a couple of years ago must have been quite pleased with his new discovery. The new hero is fairly tall and muscular and is not camera shy. He is good in fight scenes also and natural in the romance sequences. He has made good use of the exposure."

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* * {{Sundar C 1990s Indian films 1990s Tamil-language films 1995 films Films directed by Sundar C Tamil-language Indian films