Kasethan Kadavulada

If there is one movie that captures Tamil humor at its untranslatable best, it is this.. Thengai is a tea-shop owner hired to pose as a godman to get at Manorama, a childless heiress' money by her no-good nephews, played by Srikanth and Muthuraman. The plot is itself designed for situation comedy. Add Venniradai Murthy, Suruli Rajan to the mix and you have all the corny humour you can ask for! The comedy is however driven almost entirely by the dialogues, which take a disguised pot-shot at mumbo-jumbo spouted by the orthodoxy and are well in keeping with the atheist mood of those times. This is the one movie that puts Thengai up there, along with Groucho Marx, in my pantheon of great comedians.