Kalakkura Chandru

Kalakkura Chandru is a 2007 Indian Tamil-language comedy film directed by the duo Ravi-Raja. The movie stars Karthik, Radha Ravi and Pandiarajan, It was a remake of Malayalam film One Man Show (2001) but failed to repeat the success at the box office.

Kalakkura Chandru
VCD cover
Directed by	Ravi-Raja
Written by	Rafi-Mecartin
Produced by	B. Sampoornam
Starring	Karthik Radha Ravi Pandiarajan
Edited by	A. Joseph
Music by	Sunil Xavier
Production company	Sri Ashtalakshmi Films
Release date	3 January 2007 (2007-1-3)
Running time	148 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Cast

• Karthik as Chandru
• Radha Ravi as Ravi Verma
• Pandiarajan as Singampuli
• Bhuvana as Shweta
• Urvashi as Host
• Mohan Raman as Advocate
• Singamuthu as Muthu
• Balu Anand as Police inspector
• Bayilvan Ranganathan as Veera Verma
• Alex as Doctor

Production

Ravi and Raja who earlier directed low-budget devotional films like Subramaniaswamy and Aarumugaswamy announced in 2005 that their next directorial is titled as Adhirshtham. The film is a remake of Malayalam blockbuster One Man Show directed by Shafi and starred Jayaram.^[1] Karthik appeared in this film thus making his comeback, he claimed that he selected this film because he wanted his comeback to be different.^[2][3]

Soundtrack

Music was composed by Sunil Lyrics written by tamilamudhan ^[4]

• "Echampai"
• "Macham Konda"
• "Nagakannil"
• "Sollava Naan Sollava"

Release and reception

The film was released on 3 January 2007.^[5]

Malini Mannath of Chennai Online wrote "For fans of Karthik it will be a let down. For neither the actor nor the film works at any level".^[6] S. R. Ashok Kumar of The Hindu wrote "Anything well begun raises expectations. A film that starts with an interesting scene makes the viewers sit up for a fairly sumptuous fare. Thus when `Kalakkarae Chandru' opens with a scene a la the famous `Kaun Banega Crorepati' one's curiosity is aroused. But as the film progresses one realises with dismay that it is about the one and only gripping segment. It is again a case of the director unable to make use of a good theme".^[7]