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directed by P. Vasu and produced by Ramkumar Ganesan. With a few deviations, it is a remake of the Malayalam film, Manichitrathazhu. The soundtrack and background score for the film, which later became successful enough to be released as a separate album, was written by Vidyasagar. The film was distributed by Sivaji Productions.

The film starred Rajinikanth in the lead role, making Chandramukhi his "come back" film after the controversy regarding his previous film Baba. Prabhu Ganesan, Jyothika Saravanan and Nayantara were also given lead roles. Vadivelu, Nassar, K. R. Vijaya, Vijayakumar, Vinaya Prasad, Sonu Sood, Vineeth and Malavika were given supporting roles. It was released on April 14, 2005, coinciding with Tamil New Year, to become the largest opening in Tamil cinema at the time.

As of June 25, 2007, it became the longest ever running South Indian film, and still holds this record, completing 800 days at Theaters in Chennai, passing the record of the 1944 devotional film, Haridas


Directed by P. Vasu
Produced by Ramkumar Ganesan
Prabhu Ganesan
Written by P. Vasu (screenplay)
Fazil (screenplay)
Madhu Muttam (story)
Starring Rajinikanth
Prabhu Ganesan
Jyothika
Nayantara
Vadivelu
Vineeth
Nassar
Music by Vidyasagar
Cinematography Shekhar Joseph
Distributed by Sivaji Productions
Release date(s) April 14, 2005
Running time 166 minutes
Country India
Language Tamil
Budget $4 million


Remakes
The original Malayalam film Manichithrathazhu was consecutively remade in several other languages and still found success in the respective regional cinemas. Chandramukhi is the second remake of Manichithrathazhu after the Kannada version, Aaptamitra, which was also directed by P. Vasu. Rajmohol (2005) in Bengali and Bhool Bhulaiyaa (2008) in Hindi followed later on. Below is a character map of the lead characters in the story of Manichithrathazhu and its remakes.


Controversy
Though the movie was a remake, the story was not credited to original writer Madhu Muttam, instead the story was credited to the director P. Vasu himself.

Also, Music director Gurukiran was not credited for the song "Raa Raa" which he had composed for the Kannada version Apthamitra

Similarly themed films
Chandramukhi talks about Split Personality Disorder, also known as Multiple Personality Disorder or Dissociative Identity Disorder. However, this was not the only film in Tamil to deal with MPD. Other stories that have MPD in their plots include:

Anniyan
Marmadesam
Kadhal Kirukkan
Shock
Other films that portrayed characters with psychiatric/neurological problems include

Ghajini