Jallikattu Kaalai

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{{short description|1994 film by Manivasagam}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Jallikattu Kaalai
| image = Jallikattu Kaalai.jpg
| caption = Poster
| director = [[Manivasagam]]
| producer = K. Balu
| writer = Manivasagam<br/>K. C. Thangam <small>(dialogues)</small>
| starring = {{ubl|[[Prabhu (actor)|Prabhu]]|[[Kanaka (actress)|Kanaka]]}}
| music = [[Deva (music director)|Deva]]
| cinematography = [[R. Raghunatha Reddy]]
| editing = L. Kesavan
| studio = K. B. Films
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|df=y|1994|11|02}}
| country = India
| runtime = 161 mins
| language = Tamil
}}

'''''Jallikattu Kaalai''''' ({{trans|The [[Jallikattu]] Bull}}) is a [[Tamil films of 1994|1994]] Indian [[Tamil language|Tamil]]-language film, directed by [[Manivasagam]], starring [[Prabhu (actor)|Prabhu]] and [[Kanaka (actress)|Kanaka]]. The film, produced by K. Balu, has musical score by [[Deva (music director)|Deva]] and was a [[Diwali]] release.

==Plot==
Gopalakrishnan works in a mill owned by Sundara Gounder. Radha, Sundara Gounder's daughter, returns to the village after her studies and falls in love with Gopalakrishnan. Loose Gounder is a vicious landlord who has raped many women.

When Sundara Gounder knows about his daughter's love, Sundara Gounder arranges her marriage in a hurry, to a fraud. Before the marriage, her fiancé makes a deal with Loose Gounder: Loose Gounder can spend one night with Radha and can do whatever he wants. Gopalakrishnan then stops the marriage and the fraud is arrested by the police. Sundara Gounder apologises to Gopalakrishnan and Radha marries her lover Gopalakrishnan.

Loose Gounder, who cannot digest that his plan failed, kills one of Gopalakrishnan's calves and the [[consummation|first night]] is therefore cancelled. One night, Radha sees her husband Gopalakrishnan having a conversation with the flower seller Poovatha. When Radha asks her to explain what happened, Poovatha lies to her that she had [[sexual intercourse]] with her husband Gopalakrishnan prior to their marriage.

At their first night, Gopalakrishnan clarifies that Poovatha had lied, but Radha does not believe him and Gopalakrishnan challenges her to prove her wrong right away. Poovatha was actually forced to lie because Loose Gounder raped her in the past and he had promised Poovatha to marry her. Thereafter, Loose Gounder kills Poovatha in her house and at that time, Gopalakrishnan comes to her house. Radha, who secretly followed him after the quarrel, believes that Gopalakrishnan killed Poovatha.

Gopalakrishnan eventually finds the culprit, but in the meantime, Loose Gounder kidnaps him and his wife. The film ends with Loose Gounder being killed by Gopalakrishnan's cow, the mother of the killed calf.

==Cast==
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*[[Prabhu (actor)|Prabhu]] as Gopalakrishnan
*[[Kanaka (actress)|Kanaka]] as Radha
*[[Anandaraj]] as a Loose [[Gounder (title)|Gounder]]
*[[Shenbaga]]m as Poovatha
*[[Goundamani]] as Aarusamy, (Gopalakrishnan's uncle)
*[[Senthil]] as Punnakku
*[[Manorama (Tamil actress)|Manorama]] as Subbulakshmi, Gopalakrishnan's mother
*[[Malaysia Vasudevan]] as Sundara Gounder, Radha's father
*Suryakanth
*Prasanna Kumar as Astrologer
*Shoban
*[[Sangeetha (Telugu actress)|Sangeetha]] as Vijayalakshmi (Radha's mother)
*[[Ragasudha]]
*[[Shakeela]] as Pushpavanam
*[[Karuppu Subbiah]]
*[[Pasi Narayanan]]
*Thiruppur Ramasamy
*Chitraguptan
{{colend}}

==Soundtrack==
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| recorded = 1994
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The film score and the soundtrack were composed by [[Deva (music director)|Deva]]. The soundtrack, released in 1994, has five tracks, with lyrics written by Kalidasan.
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"
! Track !! Song !! Singer(s) !! Duration
|-
|1 || "Aanakili" || [[Mano (singer)|Mano]], [[Swarnalatha]] || 6:14
|-
|2 || "Nadaya Ithu Nadaya" || [[S. P. Balasubrahmanyam]] || 5:13
|-
|3 || "Nimmathi Enna Vilai" || S. P. Balasubrahmanyam || 5:08
|-
|4 || "Sirumalli Poove" || Mano, [[K. S. Chithra]] || 5:04
|-
|5 || "Thookanakuruvi" || S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, K. S. Chithra || 4:57
|}

== Critical reception ==
K. Vijiyan of the ''[[New Straits Times]]'' described it as "tedious" and wrote that "it did not live up to expectations".<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Bm8WAAAAIBAJ&sjid=aRMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4053%2C3367111 |title=Another tedious boy-meets-girl tale |last=Vijiyan |first=K |date=19 November 1994 |work=[[New Straits Times]] |page=27}}</ref> ''[[The Indian Express]]'' wrote, "Its the oft-repeated story [..] The situations are routine and scenes clichéd."<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19941104&printsec=frontpage&hl=en |title=Run-of-the-(oil)-mill |date=4 November 1994 |work=[[The Indian Express]] |page=6}}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:1994 films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Tamil-language films]]
[[Category:Films scored by Deva (composer)]]
[[Category:1990s Tamil-language films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Manivasagam]]

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