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Mundhinam Paartheney

2010 Tamil film directed by Magizh Thirumeni

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ6935800 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mundhinam Paartheney (transl. Saw you the day before) is a 2010 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film written and directed by debutant director Magizh Thirumeni, starring Sanjay, Ekta Khosla, Lizna, Pooja B. and Sai Prashanth in the lead roles. The film, produced by Manickam Narayanan's Seventh Channel Communications, was released on 19 March 2010.

Plot

The story unfolds in London, where Sanjay, narrates about his 'kind' of girl, and talks about love. Cut to flashback, the hero meets Pooja. He repeatedly tries to impress her. But he learns that she plans to marry a NRI youth. Then comes Aarthi, a dance tutor. She is a girl with traditional ideas but a modern outlook. Unfortunately, the hero's attempts to settle down with her gets jinxed. Then enters Anu, Sanjay's colleague.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Mundhinam Paartheney” as 2010 Tamil film directed by Magizh Thirumeni. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Mundhinam, Paartheney and Tamil.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2010-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Mundhinam, Paartheney and Tamil providing the first useful test.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6935800. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mundhinam Paartheney” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.