Generous Lord) is a 2020 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film written and directed by Krishna Marimuthu in his directorial debut.
The film was initially reported for a Tamil remake in early 2012, with a project starring Siddharth in the lead role eventually fails to materialise despite its announcements.
Eight years later in May 2019, Screen Scene Media Entertainment acquired the remake rights with Harish Kalyan being hired for the film and the project started the following month.
The cinematography was handled by Selvakumar S. K. and edited by Kripakaran, the film features a soundtrack album composed by Anirudh Ravichander, Sean Roldan, Vivek-Mervin, Inno Genga, Madley Blues, Bharath Shankar, Kaber Vasuki and Oorka.
With theatres being shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, affecting its collections, the film was made available for streaming via Amazon Prime Video, less than a month after its release.
Prabhu, a happy-go-lucky young man with an outstanding flair for playing football, aspires to gain his dream job under the sports quota in order to support his mother Vaanathi and his grandmother, both of whom run a beauty spa.
One day, while making a delivery at a mall on the behest of his mother, Prabhu meets Nidhi Mandhana, an employee and divorcee, and is instantly smitten by her.
Later, after witnessing his football coach lamenting about his inability to have a child with his late wife, Prabhu has a change of heart and approaches Kannadasan.
However, upon discovering that Kannadasan had repeatedly sabotaged his numerous attempts at gaining employment in order to remain in business, Prabhu leaves him and decides to marry Nidhi.
Guilty, Kannadasan makes up for Prabhu by securing him his dream job and settling the rift between his family and Nidhi's, resulting in them getting happily married.
[4][5] Later YNOT Studios also interested in the film's production, collaborating with the actor for the second time after Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi,[6] and was reported to be made as a bilingual in Tamil and Telugu.
[23] The second single "Unnaal Penne" composed and sung by Inno Genga, with lyrics written by Vignesh Shivan, was released on 17 February 2020.
[24] The third single track "Rasa Mavan" sung by stand-up comedian Alexander Babu and Harish Venkat, with the former making his singing debut,[25] was released on 28 February 2020.
[33] Thinkal Menon of The Times of India gave 3 stars out of 5 and wrote, "A better background score and more effort on the emotional scenes would have made the movie a perfect remake.
"[34] Pradeep Kumar of The Hindu wrote "Harish Kalyan's film takes aim, but misses its objective of sensitising the Tamil audience to the concept of sperm donation, by quite some distance.
"[36] Sreedhar Pillai, for Firstpost, gave 3 out of 5 stating "Dharala Prabhu is an engaging, breezy entertainer which has the perfect blend of comedy and emotions, along with solid performances from its lead actors.
"[39] Sify gave 3.5 out of 5 and wrote: "The film takes a light-hearted, optimistic look at infertility and artificial insemination that entertains and enlightens the audiences".
"[41] Indiaglitz gave the film a rating of 3.25 out of 5 stating "Go for this breezy entertainer that mixes strong humane messages coated with fun.