Padai Veetu Amman is a 2002 Tamil

Tamil language

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 religious

Hindu devotional movements

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 film directed by Pugazhmani and starring Meena, Ramki, Devayani (actress), Senthil and others.

Plot

Meena plays the dual role of Goddess Padai Veettu Amman, and the neighbouring deity Muthu Maariamman, cutting a pretty picture in all her finery. Devayani plays Chamundi, a devotee, and the film opens with her being killed brutally on the eve of her marriage by the henchmen of the local bigwig. The latter's daughter was in love with the intended bridegroom Shankar and the fond father had wanted to remove the only hurdle in the way. The bigwig, in order to get his hands on a hidden treasure, had also taken the help of an evil tantrik. The presiding deity Muthu Maariamman is helpless, bound as she was by a vow she had made to Chamundi. That she wouldn't step out of her abode till Chamundi herself asked her to. It is time for the neighbouring deity Padai Veetu Amman to come to the rescue of the distressed village.

Cast

Meena

Devayani (actress)

Senthil

Ramki,

Rawali

Nizhalgal Ravi

Nizhalgal Ravi

Nizhalgal Ravi is an Indian actor who has performed in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu films. He started his career in 1980 with the film Nizhalgal.-Career:...

Vinu Chakravarty

Pahalwan Ranganathan

Baby Akshaya

K.R. Vatsala.

Trivia

• Meena plays the Goddess role very well with all the experience of having played similar roles in her earlier films.

• Devayani plays the humble devotee with all the experience of having played similar roles in her earlier films.

• Ramki looks trimmer having shed some excess weight.

• The special effects and graphics are commendable, but there is no novelty in the scripting or in the treatment.