Manasukkul Mathappu


Manasukkul Mathappu is a 1988 Tamil-language Indian film directed by Robert-Rajasekar and produced by Thakkali Srinivasan. The film stars Prabhu, Saranya Ponvannan and Sarath Babu. It is a remake of the 1986 Malayalam film Thalavattam, which itself draws inspiration from the 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.

Plot

Shekar becomes mentally ill after his girlfriend Anita dies because of an electric short circuiting accident during a rock concert. He is admitted into an institution managed by Nagaraj.
With the help of a young doctor Geetha, who is Nagaraj's daughter, and an old friend Raja, Shekar slowly regains his memory and mental equilibrium. He and Geetha soon fall in love. But Nagaraj has already arranged Geetha's marriage with someone else, so he opposes the lovers.
When Nagaraj finds that Geetha and Shekar are adamant, he performs a surgery on Shekar that puts him into a state of coma. Raja feels that death would be preferable to vegetative life and kills Shekar. He confronts Nagaraj, confesses to the euthanasia and tries to kill him for ruining Shekar's life, but Geetha suddenly kills her father before Raja can. She is later admitted into the same institution as a patient.

Cast

Manasukkul Mathappu was remade from the Malayalam film Thalavattam which itself was loosely based on the English novel One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

Soundtrack

Soundtrack was composed by S. A. Rajkumar, while lyrics written by himself.
On 1 July 1988, The Indian Express wrote, "With some films you don't want to say much about the performances though they might be good or sort of as much as you want to write home about the bright idea the scenarist had of disposing of a heroine he wanted to kill by electrocuting her while she is playing the electric guitar or the masterstroke of the filmmaker in cutting from the shriek of the hero in the shock chamber to a happy times song-dance sequence till then obscured by the iron curtain of amnesia."