Guruvamma

Guruvamma
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Directed byThamarai Sendhoorpandi
Produced byErnavoor A. Narayanan
A.S. Kandhan
StarringLivingston
Devayani
CinematographyRaja Rajan
Edited byM.P. Ravichandran
Music bySagithya
Release date
  • 19 July 2002 (2002-07-19)
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Guruvamma is a 2002 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by Thamarai Sendhoorapandi. The film stars Livingston and Devayani, with Manivannan, Senthil, Vadivukkarasi and Pasi Sathya in supporting roles. It was released on 19 July 2002,[1] and won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Film Portraying Woman in Good Light.

Cast


Production

Livingston and Devayani worked with each other four times in quick succession in the early 2000s, after appearances together in Parthasarathy's Unakkum Enakkum Kalyanam, Benjamin's Senthalam Poove and S. P. Rajkumar's En Purushan Kuzhandhai Maadhiri (2001) though the former two did not release despite having audio launches.[2][3][4] Scriptwriter Yosi was also a part of the project.[5] It became one of Devayani's first films that she had dubbed for in her original voice.[6] The film was directed by Thamarai Senthoorapandi who also portrayed Devayani's father.[7]

Soundtrack

Lyrics were written by Arivumathi and composed by Sahitya.

Critical reception

Malini Mannath of Chennai Online wrote, "It was meant to depict the life of pavement dwellers, and of the trials and tribulations of one woman in particular. But the way it has turned out, it is like this group of artistes are sitting by the wayside in isolation, pretending to be pavement dwellers, putting on an accent and speaking the lingo. All very put-on and laughable".[8] The film won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Film Portraying Woman in Good Light for 2002.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Kuruvamma (2002)". Screen 4 Screen. Archived from the original on 17 November 2023. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
  2. ^ "A-Z Continues..." Indolink. Archived from the original on 3 October 1999. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  3. ^ ""Unakkum Enakkum Kalyaanam"". Dinakaran. 6 April 1998. Archived from the original on 5 October 2003. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  4. ^ "And the Pongal windfall..." Rediff.com. 16 January 1999. Archived from the original on 8 February 2018. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  5. ^ "J K Ritheesh clears the air". IndiaGlitz.com. 27 January 2010. Archived from the original on 2 June 2019. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  6. ^ Pillai, Sreedhar (9 October 2002). "Accolades all her way..." The Hindu. Archived from the original on 13 March 2003. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  7. ^ "Kuruvamma". Chennai Online. 22 July 2002. Archived from the original on 23 December 2004. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
  8. ^ Mannath, Malini (29 July 2002). "Kuruvamma". Chennai Online. Archived from the original on 19 August 2003. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  9. ^ "Six film artistes win awards". The Hindu. 30 September 2004. Archived from the original on 3 June 2023. Retrieved 17 November 2023.