Muthal Mariyathai

Muthal Mariyathai is easily one of Bharathiraja's best films. It portrays a relationship of a middle aged married man with an young girl. A tricky proposition, but delicately handled.

The film tends to drag at places, but is a must watch. The music by Ilayaraja is the soul of the movie. As for the rerecording, one needs to watch this film to know what a genius Ilayaraja is.

Coming to the performances, Sivaji & Radha are terrific. In fact, radha has matched sivaji which cannot be said of any other actress,save savithri. Seems she acted only for 11 days for this film.

She missed out on the national award to suhasini (Sindhu Bhairavi), maybe because her voice was dubbed.

As for Sivaji, this is one of those very very few films where he does not overact. Seems the director told him before the shoot "Sir, please come & stand before the camera, that is enough".

Bharathiraja has kept a very tight leash on sivaji, something which his earlier directors, save bheemsingh (to some extent) did/could not do.

It is a pity that sivaji, in his later stages did not do similar movies & instead chose to do run of the mill stuff.

The one actress in this film, who did not get credit was Vadivukarasi. As the paan chewing venomous wife of sivaji, she is fantastic. Janakaraj too has done a good job.

There is a nice cameo by sathyaraj nearing the climax which is the turning point of the film. Debutants deepan & rajani are adequate.

One of the best tamil films of all times.

I first saw this movie when I was 7 or 8 years old. But had a chance to see this movie couple of times later in DD during Sunday Regional movies. This is one of the rare Indian films which makes you to watch again and again. Though I was not a big fan of Shivaji since I belonged to a different generation :) but the way he acted in this movie and how he had handled the delicate role made me take notice of his wonderful acting skills. And could understand why he is know as the King of Acting. The story & scenes were simple as it was village love story but with a different dimension. This is one of the best movies of the noted director Bharthyiraja. Finally this is one of the classic films of Tamil Film Industry and could probably say the director of Chenikum should have watched this movie 100 times before making his masterpiece.

If you are the one after great movies, this one is one of the best from Tamil.

I was in class 7 when this got released. Though I have watched it couple of times, watching this again today, I can only say that it is a magic from the trio Bharatiraja, Ilayaraja & Vairamuthu.

The story, acting by Shivaji & Radha is beyond words. Shivaji did not get many such roles to show his acting versatility. His acting in the deathbed when Radha is within the hut is one example. Radha had proved that she is equally talented.

If this a similar story is from Hollywood, it would have possibly got few awards. Pity that the reach on Indian/Tamil movies is very limited..

This, in my opinion, is definitely of of the classics of Indian Cinema. I had watched this movie couple of decades back, and I still remember how I was blown away by the content and presentation of the movie. The performances by Sivaji Ganeshan and Radha were terrific, and Radha was so close to winning the national award for this (which in that year went to Suhasini for her performance in Swati I think). Bharatiraaja, in his inimitable style extracted terrific performances from everyone to present the human emotions so well.

As I reminisce, I express my appreciation to the artists specially Radha and Bharatiraaja, who brought this movie to the world.

Ravi

I was born in 94.... I watched mudhal mariyadhai 2 times..... First time i thought this movie is average without music... Really I tell second time I loved this movie..... The main content is director BR portrayed well.... janagaraj show the poto of Radha and the legend actor to everyone in the village ...it passes from one hand to another in a single shot .. probably all villagers know their relationship.. but Sathya Raj and vadivukkarasi relationship doesn't known to villagers... What I am taken in this movie is virginity and dignity is much more important to female than male..... BR Portrayed well really that legendery actor protected the dignity of his family (what he promised to his uncle and i think it is the main content of this film ).... Actor even did not wore slippers after his uncle fall down to his leg..BR🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏👌👌👌👌👌😃😃