Thenali

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Thenali
Directed by	K.S. Ravikumar
Produced by	Sivaraj, Venkatraj
Written by	Crazy Mohan
Starring	Kamal Haasan, Jyothika, Devayani, Meena, Jayaram, Ramesh Khanna Ravikumar Abdul Hameed Charlie
Music by	A.R. Rahman
Release date(s)	July 30, 2001
Language	Tamil
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Thenali is a Tamil film which released on November 7, 2000 and was directed by K.S. Ravikumar. This film is a remake of the Hollywood movie What About Bob?, and has Kamal Haasan and Jyothika playing the lead roles. It turned out to be a box-office winner. It won the Filmfare Best Movie Award South in the year of its release. The film also included a couple of stars in guest roles which were Meena and the famous previous Sri Lankan radio broadcaster and master of ceremony for many Tamil functions across the world, B.H. Abdul Hameed.

[edit] Story

Kamal Hassan is Thenali - a man who fears anything and everything due to earlier life in Sri Lanka. Delhi Ganesh and his assistant, who are doctors treating Thenali, are jealous of a relatively junior doctor Jayram getting all media attention. They sent Thenali to Jayram because the former will drive people round the bend foists Thenali on Dr.Kailash, who is on a vacation along with his wife Jalaja(Devayani) and two children. The expected happens. Thenali falls in love with Janaki (Jyothika) , sister of Jayaram. The whole film is about how Jayram goes mad with the antics of the patient and gets a paralytic attack and is confined to a wheel chair unable to stop the marriage of his sister with Kamal Hassan. Thenali gets well with the shock treatment given by his ex-patient. Meena, Abdul Hameed, and director Ravikumar make an appearance to give this shock treatment).One cant stop laughing watching Kamal Haasan along with Jayaram comics.

[edit] Trivia

• Mohanlal was originally planned to don the role, eventually done by Jayaram.
• Jayaram and Kamal Hassan share a great sense of comic timing. Jayaram is part of Kamal Hassan's 2007 venture Dasaavataram.
• The song "ayyodaa,.." was very popular.
• This came after "Hey Ram", which was a no-show at the box-office and huge disappointment for Kamal Hassan. Inspired by the success of Thenali, Kamal Hassan followed it up, another Laugh-riot "Pambal K Sambadham".
• K S Ravikumar is set to be the Director for Kamal's upcoming Dasaavataram [10 incarnations].

[edit] Cast

Actor	Role
Kamal Hassan	Tenali Soman
Devayani	Jalaja
Jyothika	Janaki
Jayaram	Dr. Kailash
Delhi Ganesh	Dr.Panchabhootham
Charlie	Jay-Z aka the Jigga Man aka HOV aka Jigga Man

v • d • e Films directed by K. S. Ravikumar

Aagraham (1992) • Puriyaadha Pudhir (1994) • Muthu (1995) • Avvai Shanmugi (1996) • Naatamae (1996) • Sneham Kosam (1997) • Mr. Romeo (1997) • Natpukkaaga (1998) • Kondattam (1998) • Suyamvaram (1999) • Padayappa (1999) • Minsaara Kanna (1999) • Paatali (2000) • Thenali (2000) • Samudhiram (2001) • Panchathanthiram (2002) • Villain (2002) • Paarai (2003) • Aethiree (2004) • Saravana (2006) • Varalaru (2006) • Dasavatharam (2007)

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