''Yaaruda Mahesh'' () is a 2013 Tamil-language adult comedy film directed by R. Madhan Kumar, starring

Sundeep Kishan Sundeep Kishan (born 7 May 1987) is an Indian actor and producer who has worked in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi films. Early life and career Sundeep Kishan was born in a Telugu family in Madras (present-day Chennai). He is the nephew to the cine ...

and Dimple Chopade. The film was shot around

Chennai Chennai, also known as Madras (List of renamed places in India#Tamil Nadu, its official name until 1996), is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Tamil Nadu by population, largest city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost states and ...

and

Kerala Kerala ( , ) is a States and union territories of India, state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile ...

. It was produced by Red Studios and Colour Frames. Its soundtrack and background score were composed by Gopi Sunder, while Raana handled the cinematography. The film released on 26 April to below average reviews. It did average business at the box office.

Plot

The film opens with the protagonist Shiva going to college for an exam, where his pen runs out of ink. He receives a new one from the girl next to him, Sindhya. He immediately falls for her and starts following her. He attends an educational tour with Sindhya, Vasanth, and Priya (Vasanth's lover). Eventually, Sindhya too falls for Shiva. He then finds out that she got the top rank in the test and a scholarship to the US. Before she leaves, Sindhya invites Shiva to breakfast at her house while her family is out. At her house, Shiva strips her, and the two end up having sex. Sindhya then goes to the US. She comes back three months later, saying that she has some private information to tell him. When she gets back, she announces to Shiva that she is pregnant, thinking that no one else is in the house. However, Shiva's parents overhear this, and they scold the two for having sex. The film skips ahead a few years to show Shiva and Sindhya, husband and wife, having a child. Sindhya is working, while Shiva is an unemployed husband, looking after the child at home. Sindhya's brother Randy, a psychiatrist, tries to help by setting up a trick for Shiva to discover his interests. He sets up a plot in which Shiva overhears Sindhya talking to a person named Mahesh who is really Randy, making Shiva think that the child is not his, but someone else's. Sindhya and Randy want Shiva to overhear them talking. Shiva gets suspicious about who Mahesh is and starts getting data from the library, helped by Vasanth. The climax is in the people he meets and he finally figures who it is. He accuses Sindhya and tries to kill the child. His family and Randy then explain what happened. He then rewrites the test and passes. The movie ends with Shiva getting a job and Randy still on his case on whether he is back to normal.

Cast

as Shiva * Dimple Chopade as Sindhya *

Jagan Jagan is an Indian actor and comedian A comedian (feminine comedienne) or comic is a person who seeks to entertainment, entertain an audience by making them laughter, laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting foo ...

as Vasanth * Srinath as Randy *

Robo Shankar Robo Shankar is an Indian standup comedian who has appeared in character roles in Tamil films. He made his breakthrough with STAR Vijay's ''Kalakkapovathu Yaaru'', performing standup comedy. He is a now cast as regular on several shows on St ...

as Gopal * Venkat Sundar as Military * Sneha Ramesh as Priya * Livingston as Shiva's father *

Singamuthu Singamuthu (born 8 December 1958) is an Indian actor who has appeared in Tamil language Tamil (, , , also written as ''Tamizhil'' according to linguistic pronunciation) is a Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South ...

as Military's father * Uma as Shiva's mother *

Swaminathan Saamy (born 31 January 1959), known professionally as Swaminathan, is an Indian actor and comedian on working in the Tamil film and television industry. He appeared in prominent roles in Vijay TV's satiric series '' Lollu Sabha'' before becom ...

* Neelu Nasreen * Ajith Kumar * Archana Harish as Vasanth's wife *

Nellai Siva Sivanathan Shanmugavelan Ramamoorthy (16 January 1952 – 11 May 2021), better known by his stage name Nellai Siva, was an Indian comedian and actor, who predominantly worked in Tamil cinema. He worked mostly in comedy scenes. His first film wa ...

* KPY Ramar * Vadivel Balaji * Sana Oberoi (special appearance in the song "Odum Unakkithu")

Release

The satellite rights of the film were sold to Sun TV. The film was given an "A" certificate by the

Indian Censor Board The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) is a statutory film-certification body in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of the Government of India. It is tasked with "regulating the public exhibition of films under the provisio ...

. The film released in 72 screens on 26 April 2013 with another movie, '' Naan Rajavaga Pogiren''. ;Box office The film opened with 90 shows on its first weekend in the Chennai box office. It was removed after one week. The film's final gross was more than worldwide. The film was declared an average grosser. The film was a flop. ;Critical reception The film received below average reviews from critics. The ''Times of India'' wrote, "If double-meaning, adult jokes are your cup of tea, you will enjoy this movie." ''Indianexpress'' wrote, "With a wafer-thin plot, the debutant director weaves together a string of incidents. At times, it seems more like a theater of the absurd, with quirky characters and scenes added on just for its bizarre humor quotient, rather than for its relevance to the plot." Behindwoods wrote, "To sum it up, Yaaruda Mahesh is a unidirectional product that targets youth with liberal dose of adult humor but is not powerful enough to sustain the interests through the entire length of the film."

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was composed by

Gopi Sundar Gopi Sundar C. S. (born 30 May 1977) is an Indian music director, Programming (music), programmer, playback singer, songwriter, actor and performer who works in the Malayalam, Telugu language, Telugu and Tamil language, Tamil film industries. ...

. * "Yaaruda Andha Mahesh" —

, Anna Katherina * "Pudhu Paarvai" —

Haricharan Haricharan Seshadri, known mononymously as Haricharan (born 20 March 1987), is an Indian Carnatic vocalist, playback singer, and musician who predominantly works in Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Telugu and Kannada Kannada () is a Dravi ...

Priya Himesh Priya Hemesh (also credited as Priya Himesh) is an Indian playback singer. She sings predominantly in Kannada language, Kannada, Telugu language, Telugu, Tamil language, Tamil, Malayalam, and Odia language, Odia movies. She has sung more than 2 ...

* "Vayadhai Keduthu" — Anna Katherina, Suchith Suresan * "Odum Unakkithu" — Anna Katherina, Suchith Suresan * "Yemaathita" —

Mukesh Mohamed Mukesh Mohamed (earlier called Mukesh) is an Indian playback singer. As a singer, he sings melody, folk and gana songs. He has sung more than 500 film songs in various Indian languages. He has also recorded a number of devotional albums. He has ...

* "Uyire Uyiril" —

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, id=4418232
Official website
2013 films 2010s sex comedy films 2013 romantic comedy films 2010s Tamil-language films Indian romantic comedy films Indian sex comedy films Films scored by Gopi Sundar 2013 directorial debut films