Cheran Pandiyan

Cheran Pandiyan
Directed by	K. S. Ravikumar
Produced by	R. B. Choudary
Written by	K. S. Ravikumar Erode Soundar (dialogues)
Starring	Sarathkumar Sreeja Vijayakumar Nagesh Anand Babu Manjula Vijayakumar Chitra Goundamani Senthil K.S. Ravikumar
Music by	Soundaryan
Cinematography	Ashok Rajan
Edited by	K. Thanikachalam
Production company	Super Good Films
Distributed by	Super Good Films
Release dates	31 May 1991 (1991-05-31)
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Cheran Pandiyan (Tamil: சேரன் பாண்டியன்; is an Indian film written and directed by K. S. Ravikumar. The film proved to be successful at the box office completed 200 days.

Plot

Vijayakumar is the rich head of the village (Oor Gounder) with his wife Manjula and his beautiful daughter Srija. He is a person of who strictly adheres to the caste. Sarathkumar is also a rich landlord in the same village. Though the father of both Vijayakumar and Sarathkumar are one but Sarathkumar's mother was from a lower caste. So Vijayakumar always ignores and berates Sarathkumar. Their father, before dying divided his entire property equally between the 2 families. Yet Vijayakumar's family gets first respect within the circle. The house of their father was equally spilt into exact 2 halves. Anandbabu who is a relative of Sarathkumar comes to meet him in the village and falls in love with Srija. Vijayakumar comes to know about this and he makes arrangements for Srija's marriage with K.S.Ravikumar, son of Nagesh. At the end Vijayakumar becomes a good person with the advice of Manjula and a happy end of Anandbabu marrying Srija.

Remake

This film was remade in Telugu in 1992 as Balaramakrishnulu, with Shobhan Babu, Dr. Rajashekhar, Jagapathi Babu, Ramya Krishna in the lead roles. It was also remade in Hindi in 1999 as Sautela with Mithun Chakraborty.

Cast

• Sarathkumar as Chinna Gounder (Rajapaandi Gounder)
• Sreeja as Vennila
• Vijayakumar as Periya Gounder
• Nagesh as Maniyam
• Anand Babu as Chandran
• Manjula Vijayakumar as Paarvathi
• Goundamani as Mechanic Maanikkam (motor mechanic)
• Anuja as Manikkam's wife
• Senthil
• Chitra as Parimalam
• K.S. Ravikumar
• Kumarimuthu
• Cheran as Bus conductor

Location

The movie was shot around the Siruvani area such as Alandhurai, Semmedu, Iruttuppallam, Thombilipalayam, Mullangadu, Karamarathur, Narasipuram, Poondi, Sadivayal.

Soundtrack

Cheran Pandiyan
Soundtrack album
Released	1991
Length	40: 22
Label	Lahari Music

Songs

The music composed by Soundaryan while lyrics also written by himself.

No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Kangal Ondraga"	Mano, Chitra	5:19
2.	"Kadhal Kaditham"	S.A. Rajkumar, Swarnalatha	5:00
3.	"Samba Naathu"	Swarnalatha	4:47
4.	"Va Va Endhan"	S. P. Balasubrahmaniam	4:43
5.	"Kodiyum"	Malaysia Vasudevan, Sunandha	5:05
6.	"Chinna Thangam"	K. J. Yesudas	4:33
7.	"Ethirveetu"	Arunmozhi, Chitra	5:22
8.	"Ooru Vittu Ooru"	S. P. Sailaja	5:24