Pudhiya Mannargal

Pudhiya Mannargal (English: New rulers) is a 1994 Tamil film directed by Vikraman and music by A. R. Rahman. The film features Vikram and Mohini in the lead roles.,

The movie's score and soundtrack are composed by A.R. Rahman. The film did mark Vikram as an actor to look out for, but he tasted mega success only in Sethu that released a few years later.

Cast

Vikram as Satyamoorthy
Mohini as Vidhya
Zeenat
Babu Ganesh as Pandian
Nalinikanth as Chitti Babu
Vivek as Araitchi Ariandndham
Prithiveeraj
Sriman
Dhamu
Soundarya Kumar
Udhayan (Sakthi Kumar)
Mahesh
S. S. Chandran as S. S.
Vinu Chakravarthy as Tamilmagan
Delhi Ganesh as Vidhya's Father
Y. Vijaya as House owner
Kamala Kamesh 
P. R. Varalakshmi
Neelu
Sampath Kumar
Pasi Narayanan
Karuppu Subbiah
Typist Gopu
LIC Narasimhan
Manager Cheena
Perumal
Tirupur Ramasamy
Singamuthu as S.S's P.A
Peter Hein as Henchman (uncredited)

Soundtrack

All songs composed by A. R. Rahman and lyrics by Pazhani Bharati and Kalidasan. The song "Nee Kattum Selai" attained popularity.

Reception
The Hindu called it "a relevant film by Vikraman" but "The problem with it: the same old cliches of commercial cinema — the film was ridden with stereotypes, predictable incidents triggered by unidimensional screen villains." New Strait Times wrote "Nothing much in this movie but a controversial idea".
The movie did not perform well in box office. After this, director Vikraman again moved back to his usual style of movie making targeting family audience which gave him blockbusters.

References

External links

Category:1994 films
Category:Indian films
Category:1990s Tamil-language films
Category:Films scored by A. R. Rahman
Category:Indian action thriller films
Category:Indian political thriller films
Category:Films directed by Vikraman
Category:Films set in universities and colleges