Siraichalai Tamil Movie Songs

Siraichalai Tamil Movie Songs composed by Ilaiyaraja

Siraichalai Tamil Movie Songs
Directed by Priyadarshan
Produced by Mohanlal, R. Mohan (co-producer)
Screenplay by T. Damodaran, Priyadarshan
Story by Priyadarshan
Starring: Mohanlal, Prabhu Ganesan, Tabu
Music by Ilaiyaraaja
Production Company: Pranavam Arts Shogun Films Ltd.
Release Date : 12 April 1996

Siraichalai Tamil Movie Story: In 1965, GS Sethu of Indian armgoe to Rose Island, Kaalapani to find the whereabouts of his aunt Pravathi’s (Tabu) husband, Govardhan Menon (Mohanlal) who has been sent to jail in the year 1915 during the British Raj. Govardhan, a doctor as well as an Indian nationalist, is wrongly accused of bombing a train carrying 55 people including British officials. On his marriage day with Parvarhi, he is deported to a cellular jail at Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Kaalapani shows the sufferings of hundreds of Indian prisoners in the cellular jail, including leading participants of the freedom movement. The extremely inhumane conditions faced by the prisoners in the jail are accurately depicted.

Alex Draper plays the sadistic jailor David Berry, who is of Irish descent, while John Kolvenbach plays the kind-hearted English doctor, Len Hutton.

Annu Kapoor plays the role of Veer Savarkar who is incarcerated and tries his best to keep the spirit of the prisoners going despite unbelievable torture. Tabu plays Mohanlal’s lover who keeps waiting for him to come back. Due to the efforts of a British doctor, Len Hutton, the government decides to investigate the matter of the torture meted out to the prisoners. 14 people are ordered to be released. One of them is Mukundan (Prabhu Ganesan). David Berry and the jail warden, Mirza Khan (Amrish Puri), hatch a plan and shoot down 13 prisoners while they are escaping. Mukundan refuses to escape. He is forcibly taken on the pretext of meeting the Chief Commissioner and is shot and killed. Seeing the dead body of his friend, Govardhan is angered to the greatest extent and throws down jailor Berry from one of the towers and then kills Mirza Khan by strangling him. Govardhan is hanged to death.

For realistic feel, Mohan Lal goes to an extent of licking Amreesh Puri’s Shoes in this film.