Kannupada Poguthaiya is a 1999 Tamil

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 film

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 starring Vijayakanth, Simran

Simran Bagga

Rishibala Naval , better known by her Industry name Simran, is an Indian actress who has predominantly appeared in Tamil and Telugu films. She debuted in Bollywood and acted in several Hindi films, before starring in her first Tamil film V.I.P and her first Telugu film Abbai Gari Pelli in 1997...

, Karan

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, Sivakumar

Sivakumar

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, Lakshmi

Lakshmi (actress)

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, Charle

Charle

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, Radha Ravi

Radha Ravi

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, Anandaraj

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, Jaiganesh, Ponnambalam, Satyapriya, Radhika Chowdry and directed

Film director

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 by Barathi Ganesh. The score

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 and soundtrack

Soundtrack

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 was composed by S. A. Rajkumar. It was produced by Super Good Films.

Cast

• Vijayakanth as Vetrivel
• Simran Bagga
  Simran Bagga
  Rishibala Naval , better known by her Industry name Simran, is an Indian actress who has predominantly appeared in Tamil and Telugu films. She debuted in Bollywood and acted in several Hindi films, before starring in her first Tamil film V.I.P and her first Telugu film Abbai Gari Pelli in 1997...
  
   as Gowri
• Karan
  Karan (actor)
  Karan is an Indian actor. He started his career as child actor under the name Master Raghu for more than 20 films in Malayalam. Ina and Kuyiline Thedi were huge hits. After turning 20, he acted in Tamil films where he made his debut in Nammavar starring opposite Kamal Hassan...
  
   as Subramani
• Sivakumar
  Sivakumar
  Sivakumar is a Tamil cinema actor who has portrayed a wide range of character roles onscreen. Sivakumar was introduced in the Tamil movie Kaakum karangal which was produced by AVM Productions....
  
  
• Lakshmi
  Lakshmi (actress)
  Lakshmi Narayan is an Indian National Film Award winning actress who predominantly works in Tamil cinema. Lakshmi has acted in more than 300 films in all south Indian languages apart from few in Bollywood. She has won a Filmfare Best Actress Award and eight Filmfare Awards South.-Early...
  
  

Plot

Vetrivel (Vijayakanth) is a respected young man who solves all the problems of his people. He is very fond of his brother Subramani (Karan). Vetrivel loves Gowri (Simran), who has finished her studies in the city and has returned to the village to live with her father (Jaiganesh), a teacher.

Subramani who comes to the village, is involved in an accident and Gowri saves his life. Instantly attracted to her, he tells his brother that he wants to marry her. Sacrificing his love, Vetrivel makes Gowri accept his wish and marry his brother Subramani. But Subramani tells his wife that they must live separately till his brother Vetrivel gets married.

Vetrivel's adversaries tell Subramani that his wife and Vetrivel were lovers. Subramani jumps to the conclusion that his brother cheated him.

Meanwhile Radha Ravi and Anandraj, father and brother of Lakshmi respectively, whose thirst for vengeance against the father of Vetrivel, Vasudevarayar, remains unquenched, try to kill everybody in the house. How Vetrivel comes to the rescue of the family members and also changes the heart of Radha Ravi and Anandraj forms the climax.

Review

Vijayakanth handles the dual role with maturity. Particularly, the scene where he is accused by his younger brother of cheating. Sivakumar and Lakshmi, who appear in brief roles have acquitted themselves well. While Radha Ravi and Anandraj have lent able support.

Simran exudes warmth and freshness. Karan has acted with ease. JaiGanesh, Ponnambalam, Sathyapriya and Radhika Chowdry are also in the cast.

The cinematography of Victor S. Kumar is pleasing and the dialogues written by Erode Sounder are precise and crisp. The film is produced by R. B. Chowdry. Director Bharathi Ganesh who also takes the credit for the story and screenplay, has done a nice film with a rural background.

Soundtrack

There are 5 songs in Kannupada Poguthaiya are composed by S. A. Rajkumar.

• "Kannoramai Kadhai Pesu"
• "Manasa Madichi"
• "Anandham Anandham"
• "Mookuthi Muthazhagu"
• "Yezhundhaal Malai"