Kovai Brothers

2006 Indian film
  • 24 February 2006 (2006-02-24)
CountryIndiaLanguageTamil

Kovai Brothers is a 2006 Tamil-language comedy spoof film written, produced, and directed by Sakthi Chidambaram.[1] The film stars Sathyaraj, Sibiraj, Vadivelu, Namitha, Uma and Kovai Sarala. The music was composed by D. Imman. The film was dubbed in Telugu as Pokiri Brothers.

Plot

Kovai Brothers tells of Ganesh and Vasanth, who are friends who come to Chennai from their village in Coimbatore to take revenge on the killers of Ganesh's niece. The duo stays with Ekadasi and then works in a TV channel that exposes corruption in the society. Sanya also works as an anchor in the same channel. Ganesh and Vasanth both see Sanaya and fall for her. Ganesh and Vasanth take on the bad guys and corruption besides falling for the same girl. The rest of the film is on how they kill the rowdies and who wins Sanya's love.

Cast

  • Sathyaraj as Ganeshan
  • Sibiraj as Vasanth
  • Arun Pandian as Dr. M. Gnanasekharan
  • Uma as Rajeshwari, Ganeshan's Niece and Vasanth's Lover
  • Namitha as Sania
  • Vadivelu as Ekadasi
  • Kovai Sarala as Tenthara (Spoof of Nayanthara), Foursha (Spoof of Trisha (actress)) and Bisin (Spoof of Asin)
  • Mohan Nadarajan as Collector Arivukarasan
  • Shobha as Leelavathi, Ekadasi's wife
  • T. P. Gajendran as Dr.Lingesan
  • Thambi Ramaiah as Astrologer Kadambavel
  • Vennira Aadai Moorthy as Major Varadharajan, Ekadasi's Father-in-law
  • Delhi Ganesh as Kesavan
  • Sriman as Kathamuthu
  • Singamuthu
  • Halwa Vasu
  • D. Imman (cameo appearance in song "Ulagathula")

Critical reception

Sify wrote: "The film lacks logic or sense and rests purely on Satyaraj’s ‘lollu’ dialogues and his takes on Suriya’s Ghajini, S. J. Surya’s New, Simbu’s Manmathan and also pokes fun at stars joining politics".[2] Thiraipadam wrote:"Completely illogical, unfunny and boring".[3]

Soundtrack

Kovai Brothers
Soundtrack album by
D. Imman
Released2006
GenreFeature film soundtrack
LanguageTamil
D. Imman chronology
Madrasi
(2006)
Kovai Brothers
(2006)
Thalai Nagaram
(2006)

All lyrics are written by Na. Muthukumar; all music is composed by D. Imman

Track listing
No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Adada"Kalyani 
2."Gopamavane"Naveen, Manikka Vinayagam 
3."Neeyum Naanum"Karthik 
4."Sootta Kilapi"T. L. Maharajan, Srilekha Parthasarathy 
5."Theme"Karthik, Timmy, D. Imman, Ganapathy 
6."Ulagathula"D. Imman 

References

  1. ^ "Kovai Brothers". Chennai Online. Archived from the original on 15 October 2006. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  2. ^ "Movie Review : Kovai Brothers". Sify. Archived from the original on 25 January 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  3. ^ Movie review


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