Dowry Kalyanam

Dowry Kalyanam
Dowry Kalyanam
	File:Dowry Kalyanam.jpg Title card
Directed by	Visu
Written by	Visu
Based on	Dowry Kalyana Vaibhogame; by Visu
Produced by	S. Suseela
Starring	Visu; Vijayakanth; Srividya; M. N. Nambiar; Viji; S. Ve. Shekher
Music by	M. S. Viswanathan
Production; company	Charuchithra Films
Release date	31 May 1983;
Running time	138 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Dowry Kalyanam (transl. Dowry Marriage) is a 1983 Indian Tamil-language black comedy film, directed by Visu and produced by S. Suseela. The film stars Visu, Vijayakanth, Srividya, S. Ve. Shekher and Viji.^[1] It is based on Visu's play Dowry Kalyana Vaibhogame.^[2] The film was released on 31 May 1983.^[3]

Plot

Ganeshan and Ethiraj are best friends and colleagues. Ethiraj is a widower and an alcoholic while Ganeshan is married and has a sister and a brother. Ganeshan does not earn enough and borrows from Ethiraj and Rowthar, a Muslim man who runs a grocery shop, frequently.

A misunderstanding arises when Ethiraj's mother proposes marriage between Ganeshan's sister and Ethiraj leading to a rift in their friendship. He challenges that he would get his sister married in a pompous manner.

However, the groom's family is behind dowry. The mother of the groom runs the family tyrannically. How Ganeshan struggles to make ends meet with many subplots makes it an interesting movie to watch.

In the end, with help from many people, he gets his sister married only for his own sister to ask him about the remainder of the dowry.

Cast

Visu as Ganesan
Vijayakanth as Ethiraj
Srividya as Uma
S. Ve. Shekher as Manggupathi
Viji as Gowri
Kishmu as Acharapakkam Raja Kalavai
Pushpalatha as Arcot Rushyendramani
M. N. Nambiar as Rowthar
Manorama as Seetha Latchmi
Venniradai Moorthy as Karar Kandhasamy
V. K. Ramasamy as Jalandar Subbudu (Ganesan's uncle)
V. Gopalakrishnan as Kuselan (Ganesan's maternal uncle)
Delhi Ganesh as Kuselan
Gundu Kalyanam as Kalyanam
M. R. Rajamani as Neelaganda Sastrigal
S. R. Janaki as Ganesan's grandmother

Soundtrack

The music was composed by M. S. Viswanathan, with lyrics by Vaali.^[4]

No.	Title	Singer(s)
1.	"Sreeraman Sreedevi"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Vani Jairam
2.	"Enthan Kannana Kannatti"	P. Jayachandran, S. P. Sailaja
3.	"Andavane Kanthirandu"	M. S. Viswanathan

Censorship controversies

Visu mentioned that the censor board wanted 87 cuts for the film as they were not impressed with the portrayal of the character Rowther (M. N. Nambiar) speaking in Hindi mixed with Tamil because Rowthers speak pure Tamil. Visu had to come up with the scene where he explains about his portrayal.^[5]

References

^ "டௌரி கல்யாணம்". Kalki (in Tamil). 24 July 1983. p. 42. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
^ Bhatt, Karthik (12 April 2016). "Pattinapravesam : From Stage to Celluloid". The Cinema Resource Centre. Archived from the original on 26 January 2018. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
^ "டௌரி கல்யாணம் / Dowry Kalyanam (1983)". Screen4Screen (in English and Tamil). Archived from the original on 8 June 2021. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
^ "Dowry Kalyanam Tamil Film EP Vinyl Record by M S Viswanathan". Mossymart. Archived from the original on 8 June 2021. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
^ "Director Visu Interview : Censor asked me to make 87 cuts for my film". IndiaGlitz. 5 July 2016. Archived from the original on 1 January 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2022.

External links

Dowry Kalyanam at IMDb

[1] "டௌரி கல்யாணம்". Kalki (in Tamil). 24 July 1983. p. 42. Retrieved 6 October 2022.

[2] Bhatt, Karthik (12 April 2016). "Pattinapravesam : From Stage to Celluloid". The Cinema Resource Centre. Archived from the original on 26 January 2018. Retrieved 16 March 2022.

[3] "டௌரி கல்யாணம் / Dowry Kalyanam (1983)". Screen4Screen (in English and Tamil). Archived from the original on 8 June 2021. Retrieved 27 November 2021.

[4] "Dowry Kalyanam Tamil Film EP Vinyl Record by M S Viswanathan". Mossymart. Archived from the original on 8 June 2021. Retrieved 27 November 2021.

[5] "Director Visu Interview : Censor asked me to make 87 cuts for my film". IndiaGlitz. 5 July 2016. Archived from the original on 1 January 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2022.

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