Periya Thambi

1997 film by Chitra Lakshmanan

Prabhu
Nagma

CinematographyIlavarasuEdited byN. ChandranMusic byDeva

Production
company

Gayathri Films

Release date

14 January 1997 (1997-01-14)

Running time

150 minutesCountryIndiaLanguageTamil

Periya Thambi (transl. Big brother) is a 1997 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed and co-produced by Chitra Lakshmanan. The film stars Prabhu and Nagma. It was released on 14 January 1997.^[1]

Plot

Siva (Prabhu) lives with his father Soundarapandian (Thalaivasal Vijay), a police officer, and his little sister Geetha in the city. Geetha gets engaged and Siva notes that his father will not invite his family to the wedding. Hence, Siva finds out the village of his family and decides to go there. At his father's village, Siva is insulted by his uncle Sankarapandian (Vijayakumar), while his aunt Kamachi (Vadivukkarasi) welcomes him. Soon, Kamachi's daughter Selvi (Nagma) and Siva fall in love with each other. How Siva reconciles his uncle and marries Selvi forms the rest of the story.

Cast

Prabhu as Siva
Nagma as Selvi
Goundamani as Azhagu Sundaram
Vijayakumar as Sankarapandian
Chandrasekhar as Muthu
Thalaivasal Vijay as Sundarapandian, Siva's father
Uday Prakash as Thangarasu
Ponvannan as Rathnam
Vadivukkarasi as Kamachi, Selvi's mother
Sangeeta as Sivagami
R. V. Aswini as Meena, Sankarapandian's daughter
Suvarna Mathew as Kannamma
Chitra Lakshmanan
K. K. Soundar as Muthu's father
Kullamani
Periya Karuppu Thevar
Jaya Mani
Mahanadi Dinesh

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Deva, with lyrics written by Vairamuthu.^[2]

Song	Singer(s)	Duration
"Aavaram Poovu"	Krishnaraj	5:22
"Left Right"	Swarnalatha	4:13
"Poovukku Oru Kalyanam"	Malaysia Vasudevan, Mano, Swarnalatha	5:17
"Taj Mahale"	Hariharan, Anuradha Sriram	5:12
"Vellikizhamai"	Swarnalatha	5:09

Reception

R. P. R. of Kalki praised the first half as natural but criticised the second half as cliched and routine.^[3]

References

^ "periya thambi ( 1997 )". Cinesouth. Archived from the original on 29 October 2006. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
^ "Periya Thambi". Spotify. Archived from the original on 3 January 2020. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
^ ஆர். பி. ஆர். (16 February 1997). "பெரிய தம்பி". Kalki (in Tamil). p. 2. Archived from the original on 31 May 2023. Retrieved 30 November 2022 – via Internet Archive.