Panchatanthiram (2002) on Netflix
Ram, a pilot, marries Mythili after the two stop an aircraft hijacking. When she misreads his help to Nirmala as an affair, his four friends hire a call girl, Maggie.
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Plot summary
Ramachandramurthy, an Indian pilot based in Canada, chases women until an aircraft hijacking brings him together with a passenger, Mythili. The two stop the hijacking and save the passengers, then fall in love and marry, and his four closest friends, Ayyappan Nair, Vedhantham Iyer, Ganesh Hegde and Hanumanth Reddy, attend the reception. After the wedding he stays faithful to her. Then he pulls Nirmala, Hegde's former girlfriend, away from a suicide attempt, and Mythili reads the scene as an affair and leaves for her parents. To take his mind off her, the friends drive him to Bengaluru on his birthday and rent a room to engage a call girl, Maragathavalli, known as Maggie.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Panchatanthiram (2002)
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- While making Panchatanthiram in April 2002, Kamal Haasan was stopped from boarding a Los Angeles-bound flight in Toronto because security objected to his Islamic-sounding surname.
- Before Yugi Sethu was finalised as Vedhantham Iyengar, retired cricketer Krishnamachari Srikkanth and theatre actor Maadhu Balaji were considered to play the role.
- The song "Vai Raja Vai" takes its lyrics from the Hindi song "Aana Meri Jaan" from Shehnai (1947), while the nu metal song "Manmatha Leelai" was influenced by Linkin Park's "Points of Authority".
