''Thottal Thodarum'' is a 2015 Tamil-language romantic thriller film written and directed by noted critic and writer Cable Sankar. The film features

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and

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in the lead roles, while

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plays a supporting role. It was released on 23 January 2015 and received mainly negative reviews from the critics. The film was a below average grosser at the box office.

Cast

as Shiva *

as Madhu *

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as Gowtham * "Soodhu Kavvum" Sivakumar

Soundtrack

Music by P. C. Shivan. (Song - Singers - Lyricist) *"Bossu Bossu" -

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- Karky & Cable Sankar *"Bossu Bossu" (Karaoke) - P.C.Shivan *"Kiss Of The Dragon" - P.C.Shivan *"Kiss Of The Fate" - P.C.Shivan *"Penne Penne" - Karthik,

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- Na Muthukumar *"Penne Penne" (Karaoke) - P.C.Shivan *"Poo Pola Poo Pola" - Ganesh Venkatraman,

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- Na Muthukumar *"Yaaruda Machan" - Sathya Prakash, Vandana Srinivasan -

Critical response

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called it a "promising effort by a debutant and worth a watch".

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wrote, "Cable Sankar's plot is ambitious and it is unique compared to some of the recent commercial films but falls flat...The problem here is that Cable Sankar has done his paper work with perfection but he missed a lot of things in screen transition".

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gave 2 out of 5 and wrote, "the film fails to make good on its promise, despite the interesting set-up, mainly because of a tired, overlong romantic track with too many songs and dull conversations that just sap the energy out of it. Some of the scenes have a serial-like quality, there is an unsuccessful attempt at humour and the film takes a lot of time to get to the plot".

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* 2010s romantic thriller films 2015 films 2010s Tamil-language films Indian romantic thriller films 2015 directorial debut films {{2010s-thriller-film-stub