M. Kumaran Son of Mahalakshmi

<p>For Kumaran, life revolves only about his mother Mahalakshmi, who got separated from her husband Easwar. Easwar goes on to pursue his passion in and becomes a world-renowned trainer based in Malaysia. Mahalakshmi stays in and devotes her life to bringing up her son. Kumaran is also passionate about kickboxing and shares a special relationship with his mother. In between, he falls in love with Mythili, a Malayali girl, but his life is shattered after his mother’s death. On her deathbed, she tells him to meet Easwar, and Kumaran goes to Malaysia to meet him. Kumaran gets a job at his father’s kickboxing academy but finds him with another wife, Shalini, and a daughter Swapna. Kumaran feels betrayed and angry, and this causes plenty of friction between him and his father. Eeshwar trains a boxer named Anand, who he is sure will win the championship. Easwar considers Anand his protege and, on many occasions, demonstrates his preference for him over Kumaran. However, Anand soon makes Swapna pregnant and dumps her. Kumaran find this out when he follows Swapna and Shalini to a pet store, where they are purchasing mosquito repellent to ingest and die. They tries to commit suicide, but Kumaran saves them. He then turns traitor to Easwar and joins another team when they offer him a better contract. The rest of the story is about how Easwar trains Kumaran against Anand and wins the kickboxing competition, while Kumaran helps his half-sister with her love. Kumaran wins the kickboxing championship. The film ends with Kumaran seeing a final apparition of his mother looking at him proudly and waving goodbye. After the success of (2003), Raja decided to remake the successful Telugu film (2003). The film was originally titled . Raja made a few modifications to the film including adding a child episode to the film’s introduction after his father suggested it. Unlike which featured both the mother and father characters living in India, featured the father’s character living in Malaysia. made her acting comeback with this film portraying Ravi’s mother as Raja felt that he wanted to portray her as a modern mother as opposed to the usual portrayal of mothers, and she was the right choice for the role. This film marked ‘s first noticeable role and he was seen during Ravi Mohan’s introduction sequence. He was paid ₹71 rupees for his role. The songs and background score was done by . The song “Ayyo Ayyo” the Malaysian song “Hati Kama”, composed by Pak Ngah. The song “Chennai Senthamizh” is based on “Chennai Chandrama” from the original, which in turn is based on “Mahaganapathim” by , and is set in the raga Nattai. The original composers of both of these songs were not given credit. wrote that “casting is a main draw”, praising the inclusion of Nadhiya. wrote “MKSM begins on a fresh note but peters off in the latter half into a mushy sentimental drama that is so predictable with no reason or logic”. G. Ulaganathan of felt Ravi looked “quite uncomfortable in the presence of actors like Prakash Raj” and that Vivek “tends to do an action replay of some of his earlier films” and Malaysia “could have been better used” but appreciated Nadhiya’s acting. Rediff.com also listed the film amongst the “best Tamil films of 2004”, stating that the film was “a big success”. The film went on to become a commercial success and a major leap in Jayam Ravi’s career. The film collected share of 54 in 40 days in Chennai.</p>