Rangoon (2017 Tamil film)

Rangoon
Rangoon
Soundtrack album by RH Vikram and Vishal Chandrasekhar
Released	2017
Recorded	2017
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Length	19:05
Language	Tamil
Label	Sony Music
RH Vikram chronology
Vishal Chandrasekhar chronology

Rangoon
Rangoon
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Rajkumar Periasamy
Written by	Rajkumar Periasamy; Sai Prasad Pochampally
Produced by	A. R. Murugadoss; Fox Star Studios
Starring	Gautham Karthik; Sana Makbul
Cinematography	Anish Tharun Kumar
Edited by	Prasanna GK; Vijay Venkataramanan
Music by	Original songs:; Vikram RH; Vishal Chandrasekhar; Background score:; Vishal Chandrasekhar
Production; companies	Fox Star Studios; AR Murugadoss Productions
Distributed by	Fox Star Studios
Release date	8 June 2017;
Running time	126 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Rangoon is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language action crime film written and directed by Rajkumar Periasamy in his directoral debut and produced by A. R. Murugadoss. The film stars Gautham Karthik and Sana Makbul. It was the fifth joint venture of AR Murugadoss Productions and Fox Star Studios. The film turned out to be the first hit film for Gautham Karthik.

Plot

Venkat (Gautham Karthik) hails from the Burmese city of Rangoon, which has now been renamed Yangon by the regime. He lives as a Tamil Burma repatriation in a neighbourhood called Annai Sivagami Nagar also known as Burma Nagar in Ennore, Chennai. His family, in search of a better livelihood, has migrated from his birthplace to a neighbourhood of Chennai, where many other Tamil-Burma repatriates live.

Venkat grows up as an irresponsible youth and now is a college dropout who is looking for a job. Through his childhood friend Atho Kumar a.k.a. Kumaran (Lallu), he gets an employment under Gunaseelan a.k.a. Siya (Siddique), a respected businessman in the neighbourhood. His job is to attract passersby to the small secondhand gold shop. Venkat grows as a trustworthy aide to Siya, who is a secondhand gold dealer of Chennai's wholesale gold market, Sowcarpet. At one instance, Venkat saves the life of Siya from a murder attempt. This garners a promotion for Venkat. Venkat is promoted as the sole manager for Gunaseelan's import-export gold shop. The shop, only on the outlook, is an import-export shop, but underneath a back gate for the city's gold smuggling wing. Meanwhile, Venkat meets a club singer named Natasha (Sana Makbul) and falls in love with her. She speaks sense into Venkat and tries to pull him out of smuggling and illegal trading.

Venkat decides to do one last job. He, with his closest friends of life, Kumaran and Tiptop a.k.a. Sasi (Daniel Annie Pope), he indulges in gold smuggling to clear Siya's debts with the profits earned. In the same motive, he, along with his friends travels to Myanmar on a smuggling deal in an illegal route via a road crossing the borders, for Siya. Venkat's fancy-looking, street-smart goes awfully wrong as his money that he earned mysteriously goes missing in Yangon, Myanmar. This brings a disgrace to him and Siya amidst traders in the Chennai market. Venkat, in order to clear further debts, indulges in kidnap and ransom demanding. In a mishap, the three friends accidentally shoot the kidnapped kid. Things go awry. Furthermore, the plot unfolds the mystery, and the blatant truth is shown to Venkat. His learning from the experiences of a unique childhood, friendship, betrayal, and prison sentence makes him a learned man.

After four years, Venkat gets released from jail and starts his own small jewelry shop in the name of his father. Now, Venkat faces life with hope and faith, as a reformed man of his mid-20s.

Cast

Gautham Karthik as Venkat
Sana Makbul as Natasha
Daniel Annie Pope as Tiptop a.k.a. Sasi
Lallu as Atho Kumar a.k.a. Kumaran
Siddique as Gunaseelan a.k.a. Siya
Anand as DRI officer Syed Nawazuddin
Shreekumar as Kesavan
Sripriya as Indirani, Venkat's mother
Upasana as Renu, Venkat's sister
Prashanth Nair as Nirmal Thomas
Supergood Subramani as Manohar
Pillayar Ruthru as Pillaiyar Manivannan
Sathyajith as Natasha's father
Sindhu Shyam Ganesh as Esther Thomas
Raneesh as Shanmugham
Aroul D. Shankar

Production

The project was first announced in August 2014, with AR Murugadoss revealing that he would produce Rangoon, directed by his associate director, Rajkumar Periasamy, who worked with him on Thuppakki (2012). It would feature Gautham Karthik and Sana Makbul in the lead roles. Initially, Anirudh Ravichander was rumoured to be the film's music composer as he was scoring Kaththi (2014) at that time. But then, the crew consisted mostly of newcomers. The songs were composed by RH Vikram, who had earlier assisted G. V. Prakash Kumar. Anish Tharun Kumar, an upcoming cinematographer, was fixed to man the camera. Vishal Chandrasekhar scored the background score of the film. He also scored two songs, which made to the film's album. The film went onto floors in 2015. This crime thriller was filmed in many real locations of Chennai and Myanmar. Though Rangoon has a broader setting like Myanmar, Chennai city's northern parts' live locations, Indo-Myanmar borders the production was completed on a low budget.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Release and reception

Baradwaj Rangan of Film Companion wrote "Rajkumar Periasamy gives us just a visual. He may not have made the most perfect film, but he leaves us with the thought that maybe he's a genuine filmmaker."^[5]

Soundtrack

The soundtrack consists of six songs; 4 tracks composed by composer RH Vikram and 2 tracks composed by Vishal Chandrasekhar.

No.	Title	Lyrics	Singers	Length
1.	"Yaathreega (The Journey Begins)"	Na. Muthukumar	Navin Iyer	4:08
2.	"Enai Marakirene (Natasha's Spirit)"	Gkb, Manoj Kumar	Kavita Thomas	2:53
3.	"Nee Illaa Aagayam (The Love Spark)"	Kabilan	Yazin Nizar	3:59
4.	"Ey Jajabor (The Trip of the Trio)"	Kraven Stratfile	Kraven Stratfile	2:38
5.	"Thottil Madiyil (Love's Lullaby)"	Vivek	Chinmayi	1:30
6.	"Foreign Returns (celebration in hood)"	Lallu	Anirudh Ravichander	3:57
Total length:				19:05

References

^ "The Gautham Karthik starrer Rangoon will introduce a new composer, Vikram RH". Archived from the original on 24 October 2020. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
^ "Anirudh – Gautham Karthik together". Behindwoods. Archived from the original on 22 October 2014. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
^ "'Rangoon' first look: A lungi-clad Gautham Karthik stares you down from the first poster of the Rajkumar Periasamy film". CNN IBN. Archived from the original on 20 November 2014. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
^ "Rangoon – a hard- hitting crime thriller". Deccan Chronicle. 22 May 2017. Archived from the original on 20 June 2018. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 13 April 2023. Retrieved 2 September 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

External links

Rangoon at IMDb

[1] "The Gautham Karthik starrer Rangoon will introduce a new composer, Vikram RH". Archived from the original on 24 October 2020. Retrieved 10 April 2015.

[behindwoods-2] "Anirudh – Gautham Karthik together". Behindwoods. Archived from the original on 22 October 2014. Retrieved 20 November 2014.

[in-3] "'Rangoon' first look: A lungi-clad Gautham Karthik stares you down from the first poster of the Rajkumar Periasamy film". CNN IBN. Archived from the original on 20 November 2014. Retrieved 20 November 2014.

[4] "Rangoon – a hard- hitting crime thriller". Deccan Chronicle. 22 May 2017. Archived from the original on 20 June 2018. Retrieved 21 May 2017.

[5] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 13 April 2023. Retrieved 2 September 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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v t e Works of AR Murugadoss
Directed	Dheena (2001) Ramanaa (2002) Ghajini (2005) Stalin (2006) Ghajini (2008) 7 Aum Arivu (2011) Thuppakki (2012) Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty (2014) Kaththi (2014) Akira (2016) Spyder (2017) Sarkar (2018) Darbar (2020) Sikander (2025) SKxARM (TBA)
Produced	Engaeyum Eppothum (2011) Vathikuchi (2013) Raja Rani (2013) 10 Endrathukulla (2015) Rangoon (2017)
Writer only	Maan Karate (2014) Raangi (2022)