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Panchatanthiram

Panchatanthiram

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Panchatanthiram

2002

2h 33m

7.0(35 votes)

Comedy

Romance

Family

Overview

Ram's friends hire Maggie, a call girl, to help him get over his wife, who mistakenly believes him to be a philanderer. However, they get in trouble when Maggie ends up dead.

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Production Companies

Lionheart Production House

The people behind it

Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Kamal Haasan

Kamal Haasan

'Ram' Ramachandramurthy

Jayaram

Jayaram

Ayyappan Nair

Ramesh Aravind

Ramesh Aravind

Ganesh Hegde

Sriman

Sriman

Hanumanth Reddy

Yugi Sethu

Yugi Sethu

'Vedham' Vedhantham Iyer

Simran

Simran

Mythili Ramachandramurthy

Ramya Krishnan

Ramya Krishnan

'Maggie' Maragathavalli

Urvashi

Urvashi

Ammini Ayyappan Nair

Aishwarya Bhaskaran

Aishwarya Bhaskaran

Janaki Vedhantham Iyer

Sanghavi

Sanghavi

Chamundi Ganesh Hegde

Creative team

Directed by: K. S. Ravikumar
Written by: K. S. Ravikumar
Kamal Haasan
Produced by: P.L. Thenappan
Rajat Nayyar

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