Sinna Mapplai

Thangavel is a coolie in a bus stand and a bachelor too. One day, he goes to look for a bride for himself at someone's house. There he gets insulted as if he has been working in a bus stand for small wages. That night, he comes gets upset and notices the marriage broker Ambalavanan, whom he had helped before from the morons the other day, who was also sitting there. Then he starts sharing the incident and how it had happened and how he was neglected at a bride's place. While he was explaining the issue, later he knows that Ambalavanan was also insulted somewhere else by the Periya pannai Aalavandhan [Radha Ravi] for bringing up the lowest status groom for his Elder daughter and her name is Janaki [Sukanya]. He felt the groom is not equal to the periya pannai's highest status. After that incident of being insulted, he is sitting with an upset face at a bus stand and also planning to make a strong lesson for the Periya pannai, particularly about his arrogance should be controlled by someone. As a Consequence, Broker joins Thangavel to make a plan of pretending like a rich man who returns back from Singapore and looking for a bride, while he enters her village, accidentally noticed Janaki is also driving with Bullock Cart vehicle. So, he bets with her about who would win in the drive between his car and her cart. Finally, his car broke down while she went forward, with her easily winning. Since that moment, he starts falling in love with her and plans to marry Janaki by pulling a con, plus wants to break her father's arrogance as per the Ambalavanan plans, and his money-minded thoughts too. As the days go by, a day comes up when Periya Pannai came to the bus stand to pick up the other bus to visit his daughter in her house, suddenly his son in law is caught up by his eyesights felt like he was deceived by someone who works as a coolie (Porter) in a bus stand takes others luggage for the low wages, later, he ashamed in himself for being cheated and couldn't digest too. As soon as Thangavel was noticed by father in law, he gets alerted with striking out to make a sudden plan in tricky ways, that is, his father-in-law should have believed the person he met is his younger brother. Both his son-in-law and his brother are in no communication at all. After everything was explained, Everybody has trusted his words at the end of the conversation, and the rest of the story is told about How Thangavel maintain the lies efficiently and overcomes these issue with ambalavanan support, it has been screenplay in comical ways until the end of the movie part.

• Prabhu as Thangavel[2]
• Sukanya as Janaki[2]
• Radha Ravi as Aalavandhan / Periya Pannai[3]
• Anand as Vinod[3]
• Sivaranjani as Mythili[3]
• Visu as Ambalavanan[2]
• Vinu Chakravarthy as Vinod's father
• Vennira Aadai Moorthy as an actor
• Mannangatti Subramaniam as kanakkupilli
• Kavithalayaa Krishnan

The soundtrack was composed by Ilaiyaraaja, with lyrics by Vaali, Gangai Amaran and Piraisoodan.[4][5] The song "Vennilavu Kothipathanu" is set in Madhyamavati raga,[6] and "Kadhorum Lolakku" is set in Natabhairavi.[7]

Sinna Mapplai was released on 14 January 1993.[8] The Indian Express wrote, "[Sinna Mapplai] is a hilarious, racy comedy of the Wodehousian sort with engaging situations well directed by Santhana Bharathi".[3] Kalki's critic advised not to ask about the story, logic and other unnecessary things, but to put aside the old films that suddenly come to their mind. The critic added that Prabhu, Visu, Radha Ravi and others would make the audience laugh for two hours.[9] At the 14th Cinema Express Awards, Crazy Mohan won the Best Dialogue Writer award.[10]

The film was remade in Telugu as Chinna Alludu (1993), in Kannada as Coolie Raja (1999),[11] and twice in Hindi with the title Coolie No. 1: in 1995 and in 2020.[12] and in Bengali Bangladesh as Coolie (1997).

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