| Sangili Bungili Kadhava Thorae | |
|---|---|
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| Directed by | Ike |
| Written by | Ike |
| Produced by | Atlee |
| Starring | Jiiva Sri Divya Radha Ravi Soori Radhika Thambi Ramaiah |
| Cinematography | Sathyan Sooryan |
| Edited by | T. S. Suresh |
| Music by | Vishal Chandrasekhar |
Production companies | A for Apple Production Fox Star Studios |
| Distributed by | Fox Star Studios |
Release date |
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Running time | 141 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Tamil |
Sangili Bungili Kadhava Thorae (transl. Sangili Bungili, open the door) is a 2017 IndianTamil-languagehorror comedy film written and directed by Ike, and produced byFox Star Studios andAtlee under his production house 'A for Apple Productions'. The film starsJiiva,Sri Divya, andSoori whileRadha Ravi,Radhika Sarathkumar, andThambi Ramaiah play supporting roles. Featuring music composed byVishal Chandrasekhar. The film began production during March 2016 and was released on 19 May 2017.
Vasu is a house broker who sells houses by using tricks with his friend Sooranam. Vasu and his mother Parvathy are living in her brother's house for rent. Vasu and his parents had lived in houses for rent throughout their lives. After Vasu's father's death, he took a vow of buying a bungalow on the outskirts.
After some years, Vasu buys the bungalow and enters the house with his whole family. He later finds that there was a family that had lived there earlier. Jambulingam lived there with his wife, mother, and daughters. He refused to move out of the house, so Vasu decides to live there until he finds the owner who cheated him. Vasu and Jambulingam's daughter Shwetha fall in love with each other. Vasu and Sooranam try some ghost tricks to chase Jambulingam's family out of the house.
On learning of Vasu and Shwetha, Vasu's aunt is angered because she believed that her daughter Sandhya and Vasu will marry. She goes on a tirade about Vasu's actions to Parvathy. Parvathy tells Vasu to apologize to his aunt. He refuses, and his family moves out of the house. While Vasu and Sooranam threaten Jambulingam's deaf and dumb mother with a ghost, she sees a real ghost and is admitted in the hospital. Jambulingam blames Vasu for threatening his mother with ghosts and shows a video taken in the phone unknowingly. Shwetha also fights with Vasu, and the family moves out of the house.
Vasu brings E. B. Rajeshwari to learn about the ghost. Sangili Aandavar lived in the house and was killed by his family members for the house. She tells that if the two families live happily in the house, Aandavar will go out of the house. They live in the house happily, but Jambulingam does not like to stay there. He brings his family out and locks Vasu's family inside, but when he turns, he realises that he is inside the house and all others are outside. Aandavar takes Jambulingam, but the whole family tries to rescue Jambulingam by showing strength and unity. On seeing this, Aandavar leaves the house, and Vasu lives in the house with his mother, Shwetha, and the whole family.
In December 2015,Jiiva announced that he would work on a new film to be directed by newcomer Ike, an erstwhile assistant ofKamal Haasan. Raja Rani ProductionsAtlee would work on the film as the producer alongsideFox Star Studios, whileSridivya would play the lead female role. Jiiva revealed that he shared a good comfort level with both Ike and Atlee, who he had worked with during the making ofNanban (2012). He further stated that the film would be reminiscent of the horror comedy films earlier made by directorPriyadarshan.[2][3]
The film began production during March 2016 with the first schedule held inPazhani. The title of the film,Sangili Bungili Kadhava Thorae (name of a song fromKanchana) was also unveiled during the first schedule. ActorsJai andAkshara Gowda appeared in cameo roles as a NRI couple in the film, and shot for the film during the first week of the shoot.[4]
The soundtrack was composed byVishal Chandrasekhar,[5] while the film's audio rights are secured bySony Music.[6]
| No. | Title | Singers | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Ek Gau Mein" | Silambarasan,M. M. Manasi | 4:19 |
| 2. | "Kattaduraikku" | Gangai Amaran | 3:51 |
| 3. | "Hai, En Kai Mela" | Anirudh Ravichander,Shakthisree Gopalan | 3:40 |
| 4. | "Govinda Govinda" | G. V. Prakash Kumar | 3:38 |
| 5. | "Sangili Bungili Kadhava Thorae" | Arunraja Kamaraj,Premgi Amaren | 2:50 |
| Total length: | 18:18 | ||
M Suganth fromThe Times of India rated the film three out of five stars and wrote that "It is predictable fare, yes, and there isn’t much inventiveness both in terms of narrative and filmmaking, but there is a quiet confidence in how Ike narrates this tale and keeps us entertained".[7] Srinivasa Ramanujam fromThe Hindu wrote that "There are more laughs than horror inSBKT. Director Ike seems to have taken a lot of effort in making this a ‘family story’, rather than concentrate on the ghost angle".[8]Sowmya Rajendran fromThe News Minute wrote that "With its unoriginal humour and barely there fear factor,Sangili Bungili Kadhava Thorae is far from being a full bodied horror comedy. It's a ghost of the genre and a very pale one at that".[9]
