Avvai Shanmughi

Avvai Shanmugi is a 1996 Tamil comedy film, directed by K. S. Ravikumar and written by Crazy Mohan, which is an Indian adaptation of the American comedy film, Mrs. Doubtfire. The film features Kamal Haasan in the lead role with Meena, Gemini Ganesan, Nagesh, Heera, Manivannan and Nassar. The films score and soundtrack were composed by Deva, while the film was produced by Ravindran and Hari. Avvai Shanmughi won positive reviews and performed well at the box office.

Basha Nassar, Pandians Muslim friend who works in a hotel as a chef, advises him to steal his daughter from Janaki. Pandian goes about trying to do as his friend suggests. In doing so, he is discovered and now he cannot meet her at all. Then Pandian finds out that Vishwanathan Iyer has advertised for a woman to look after his granddaughter. Joseph Nagesh is a makeup man in films. In conversation with him, Pandian gets the idea of playing an old woman, so that he can be with his child and exwife without them knowing. Joseph agrees to this plan and the transformation is done from Pandian to Avvai Shanmugi a dignified, elderly Iyer woman who is hired to take care of the little girl.Rathna Heera Rajgopal is a girl who is in love with Pandian but is constantly rebuffed. Basha takes up the role of a mute Iyer cook and is admitted into Vishwanathan Iyer house on the recommendation of Avvai Shanmugi. However, Basha is caught later while doing his namaz, thereby shattering both liesthat he is mute and an Iyer. Hilarious circumstances follow and slowly Avvai Shanmugi manages to convince the household of her sincerity. So much so that Janakis widowed father begins to develop a liking for Avvai and in fact proposes to her too. Around the same time, Mudaliyar Manivannan, the houseowner of the place where Pandian lives, happens to bump into Avvai Shanmugi. This happens many times and Mudaliyar, too, begins to develop a liking for her. ........

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