Budget Padmanabhan

Budget Padmanabhan (2000)

பட்ஜெட் பத்மநாபன்

Padmanabhan has earned the nickname Budget as he is a miser. However, he struggles to save his father's house from money lenders as his wife is a spendthrift and never lets him save enough.

Date of release
2000-09-08
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (4)
Runtime
2h 33m
Genres
Family, Comedy
Director
T. P. Gajendran

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Ooty

Budget Padmanabhan is a 2000 Indian Tamil-language comedy film directed by T. P. Gajendran. The film stars Prabhu and Ramya Krishnan. It won first place in the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Family Film.

Production

T. P. Gajendran claimed that success of Thirupathi Ezhumalai Venkatesa prompted him to return to films. Gajendran initially wanted this story to be adapted into tele film, since no producer was willing to accept, it was K. R. G who agreed to produce the film.

The film saw teaming of Prabhu, Ramya Krishnan and Mumtaj for first. The story was written by Arunchalam and the dialogues by Prasanna Kumar. Shooting was planned to be completed in a single schedule at locations in Chennai and Ooty. Since the story has the lead character staying in a colony, a huge set of the colony was erected at the Arunachalam Studio, complete with shops, lanes and houses.

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