Sinna Mapplai

Sinna Mapplai (transl. Young son-in-law), also spelt Chinna Mappillai,[1] is a 1993 Indian Tamil-language comedy film directed and co-written by Santhana Bharathi. The film stars Prabhu and Sukanya, with Radha Ravi, Anand, Sivaranjani and Visu in supporting rles. It was released on 14 January 1993. This film ran over 175 days and declared as block buster. The film was remade in Telugu as Chinna Alludu (1993), in Kannada as Coolie Raja (1999) and twice in Hindi as Coolie No.1 (in 1995 and in 2020).

Sinna Mapplai
Theatrical release poster
Directed bySanthana Bharathi
Written byCrazy Mohan (dialogues)
Screenplay bySanthana Bharathi
Story byP. Kalaimani
Produced byT. Siva
StarringPrabhu
Sukanya
CinematographyRavishankar
Edited byG. Jayachandran
Music byIlaiyaraaja
Production
company
Amma Creations
Release date
  • 14 January 1993 (1993-01-14)
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Plot

Thangavel is a coolie in a bus stand and a bachelor too. One day, When he went to look a bride for him in someone's house, there he had been insulted as a small wage worker in a bus stand. On that day night, he comes feeling upset to notice the marriage broker who he had helped from the morons. There he started sharing about the bad experience he was neglected, with the marriage broker Ambalavanan whom he met before in issue. Before starting the conversation in between them, Ambalavanan was also insulted by Periya pannai about arranging the lowest grade groom for his Elder daughter whose name is Janaki. The groom is not equal to the periya pannai high status. After that incident of being insulted, he is sitting with sad looks in a bus stand, that time he thinks to make a strong lesson for the Periya pannai and particularly about his arrogance. For the Consequences, Broker joins with Thangavel to make a plan about pretending as a rich man who returned back from Singapore already and trying to marry Janaki by lots of lying to break the arrogance as well as his money-minded personality. The other day when Periya Pannai came to the bus stand and pick the bus to meet his daughter in her house, there he get shocked of seeing his son in law who works as a coolie takes other luggages, and caught up him in his eyes, later, he felt like he was deceived by his son in law and married his daughter. But Thangavel get alerted and makes a plan himself in brilliantly to let others to know about someone is his younger brother whom the periya pannai met in bus stand. By reeling this drama, Everybody trusted his words and rest of the story about How Thangavel is maintaining the lies and efficiently overcomes these issue until the end of the movie part.

Cast

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was composed by Ilaiyaraaja, with lyrics written 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]

S. No.SongsSingersLyrics
1"Vaanam Vazhthida"S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, S. JanakiVaali
2"Vennilavu Kothipathenna"Swarnalatha, ManoPiraisoodan
3"Kattu Kuyil Paatu"Vaali
4"Kadhorum Lolakku"Mano, S. Janaki
5"Kanmanikkul Chinna"S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Minmini
6"Ada Mama Nee"ManoGangai Amaran

Release and reception

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] At the 14th Cinema Express Awards, Crazy Mohan won the Best Dialogue Writer award.[9]

Remakes

The film was remade in Telugu as Chinna Alludu (1993), in Kannada as Coolie Raja (1999),[10] and twice in Hindi with the title Coolie No. 1: in 1995 and in 2020.[11]

References
  1. Chinna Mappillai = Sinna Mapplai. WorldCat. Ayngaran International. 2000. OCLC 857141852. Archived from the original on 13 August 2021. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
  2. Keramalu, Karthik (9 December 2020). "Prabhu, Venkatesh, Govinda, Shashi Kumar... Is Varun Dhawan Coolie No 1 or 5?". Film Companion. Archived from the original on 9 January 2021. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  3. MM (17 January 1993). "Wodehousian". The Indian Express. p. 7.
  4. "Chinna Mappillai / Raakaye Koyil". AVDigital. Archived from the original on 27 February 2021. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
  5. "Chinna Mapillai (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – EP". Apple Music. January 1993. Archived from the original on 28 December 2020. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
  6. Sundararaman 2007, p. 167.
  7. Sundararaman 2007, p. 134.
  8. Sundaram, Nandhu (27 June 2018). "From 'Gentleman' to 'Amaravathi' : Revisiting popular films which released 25 years ago". The News Minute. Archived from the original on 28 December 2020. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
  9. "Kizhakku Cheemayile adjudged best film". The Indian Express. Express News Service. 13 March 1994. p. 3.
  10. Chauhan, Gaurang (18 December 2020). "Not just the Varun Dhawan starrer, Govinda's Coolie No 1 was a remake too". Zoom. Archived from the original on 13 August 2021. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
  11. "Remake of Coolie No. 1 a new film: David Dhawan". Outlook. IANS. 3 July 2019. Archived from the original on 28 December 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2020.

Bibliography
  • Sundararaman (2007) [2005]. Raga Chintamani: A Guide to Carnatic Ragas Through Tamil Film Music (2nd ed.). Pichhamal Chintamani. OCLC 295034757.
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