Pudhiya Mannargal

Pudhiya Mannargal (transl. New rulers) is a 1994 Indian Tamil-language political thriller film directed by Vikraman with music by A. R. Rahman. The film stars Vikram and Mohini. It did not perform well commercially.

Pudhiya Mannargal
Poster
Directed by	Vikraman
Written by	Vikraman
Produced by	J. Krishti
Starring	Vikram Mohini
Cinematography	S. Saravanan
Edited by	M. Ganesan
Music by	A. R. Rahman
Production company	Paradise Pictures
Release date	2 December 1994 (1994-12-02)
Running time	137 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Plot

A group of wayward youth live life aimlessly until they are forced to enter politics to help save the condition of the state they live in and for the betterment of the people around them.

Cast

• Vikram as Satyamoorthy
• Mohini as Vidhya
• Babu Ganesh as Pandian
• Nalinikanth as Chitti Babu
• Vivek as Araitchi Ariandndham
• Prithiveeraj
• Sriman
• Dhamu as Satyamoorthy's friend
• 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)

Production

During the making of Pudhiya Mannargal, Vikram was approached by Mani Ratnam to star in Bombay (1995). However, Vikram had grown his hair long and had a beard for Pudhiya Mannargal, and could not change his appearance to accept Ratnam's offer.^[1]

Soundtrack

All songs were composed by A. R. Rahman. The movie's background score was done by Rajamani as Rahman had to travel to the US for 2 months during re-recording time. ^[2] The song "Nee Kattum Selai" attained popularity.^[3]

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Singers	Length
1.	"Eduda Antha Sooriya"	Palani Bharathi	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Minmini	05:00
2.	"Vaanil Yeni"	Palani Bharathi	Mano	04:27
3.	"Nee Kattum Selai"	Palani Bharathi	Sujatha Mohan, T. L. Maharajan	05:26
4.	"Onnu Rendu Moonuda" (not in the film)	Kalidasan	Mano, K. S. Chithra	04:57
5.	"Vaadi Saathukodi"	Palani Bharathi	Kalyani Menon, Sujatha Mohan	04:45
Total length:				24:37

Reception

K. Vijiyan of New Straits Times wrote "Nothing much in this movie but a controversial idea".^[4] The film did not perform well commercially, with Sudhish Kamath noting, "The problem with it: the same old cliches of commercial cinema — the film was ridden with stereotypes, predictable incidents triggered by unidimensional screen villains".^[5]