Sengottai (film)

Sengottai (transl. Red Fort) is a 1996 Indian Tamil-language political action film directed by C. V. Sasikumar and produced by R. B. Choudary. The film stars Arjun Sarja, Meena and Rambha. It was released on 19 April 1996,[1] and bombed at the box-office.[2]

Sengottai
VCD cover
Directed byC. V. Sasikumar
Written byC. V. Sasikumar
Produced byR. B. Choudary
Starring
CinematographyV. Manikandan
Edited byB. Ramesh
Music byVidyasagar
Production
company
Release date
  • 19 April 1996 (1996-04-19)
Running time
150 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Plot

Thirumoorthy, a corrupt politician, aspires to become the prime minister and hires a terrorist to kill the current prime minister. In jail, Sekhar is engaged by a terrorist, and they escape from the jail. He reveals that he is a police officer, kills the terrorists and catches the leader. He is then praised for saving the prime minister by his superiors.

Neelakandan, an orthodox Brahmin, is Sekhar's father's best friend and Sekhar's father decides to marry his son to Neelakandan's daughter Meena. Franka, an Indo-French girl, also lives with them to learn about their culture. But Sekhar is in love with Yamuna. One day, Sekhar has the mission to find Franka, who is supposed to be lost. A killer misses to kill Sekhar at the time, instead he kills Yamuna.

Meena is jailed as she is considered to be killing Franka. Sekhar invites Thirumoorthy for Gandhi Jayanti to prison, where Meena attempts to kill him. The same killer who killed Yamuna tries to kill Meena, but Sekhar saves her. Sekhar enquires Meena, and she reveals the truth.

Franka's handbag is robbed with her passport inside it. Meena and Franka complain at the police station. Franka is called at the police station, but Thirumoorthy rapes and murders her. Thangamani, a police officer, promises to Meena to arrest the culprit, and he first prevented his partner Thirumoorthy. Thangamani arrested Meena, and the villagers humiliated her family, Meena's family have self-immolated.

Sekhar married Meena in the jail, and Meena is released on bail. Sekhar is unable to arrest Thirumoorthy because it would be a black mark for his country. Thangamani refuses to provide information to Sekhar, so he beats Thangamani. Thangamani reveals all about Thirumoorthy, however, a hitman kills Thangamani and kidnaps Sekhar. Thirumoorthy threatens Sekhar to kill his father and his wife if he doesn't kill the prime minister himself.

Despite, Sekhar is escorted by Thirumoorthy's henchmen in the plane, he manages to escape from the plane. He finds the place where his father and his wife are sequestrated, and saves them.

To save the prime minister, Sekhar finds the sniper and kills him. Thirumoorthy decides to kill the prime minister, but Sekhar saves him and kills Thirumoorthy.

Cast

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Vidyasagar, with lyrics written by Vaali, Vairamuthu, Muthulingam and Palani Bharathi.[3]

SongSinger(s)LyricsDuration
"Boomiyea Boomiyea"S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, S. JanakiVairamuthu5:19
"Paadu Paadu"K. S. Chithra, Anuradha SriramMuthulingam4:36
"Uchchi Muthal Patham"Hariharan, Mitali Banerjee BhawmikPalani Bharathi5:06
"Vennilave Velli Poove"Mano, K. S. ChithraVaali4:06
"Vinnum Mannum"Mano, Swarnalatha4:35

Reception

Tharamani of Kalki praised Yogamagi's art direction and Manikandan's cinematography and the performances of Meena and her friend. He also added the screenplay in first half is yawn inducing however despite picking up pace in second half its let down by illogical sequences.[4]

References
  1. "Senkottai ( 1996 )". Cinesouth. Archived from the original on 18 September 2011. Retrieved 9 April 2012.
  2. Sitaraman, Sandya (17 January 1997). "Tamil Movie News--Pudhu Edition 2". Google Groups. Archived from the original on 9 February 2023. Retrieved 9 February 2023. Even though it had all the right ingredients of a good masala, "Shengotai" bombed
  3. "Sengottai (1996)". Raaga.com. Archived from the original on 9 February 2023. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
  4. தரமணி (26 May 1996). "செங்கோட்டை". Kalki (in Tamil). Archived from the original on 9 February 2023. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
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