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Thulluvadho Ilamai (English: Exuberance of Youth) is a 2002 Indian Tamil film, directed by Kasthuri Raja, written by his son Selvaraghavan and introducing his second son Dhanush as an actor, who enacted the lead role character. Besides Dhanush, the film had also introduced other newcomers Abhinay, Sherin, Ramesh, Shilpa and Gangeshwari and features prominent film personalities as Vijayakumar, Ramesh Khanna, 'Pyramid' Nadarajan as well. While the soundtrack was composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja, Viji Manuel had composed the film score. The film released on 10 May 2002 and proved to be highly successful at the box office.
The film depicts the story of six high-school classmates, three boys and three girls, coming from different strata of society, who have each their own problems in their respective families and escape from their homes, deciding to live together on their own with the help of an older friend of theirs.

Contents

  • 1 Plot
  • 2 Cast
  • 3 Soundtrack
  • 4 Remake
  • 5 References

Plot

Mahesh (Dhanush) is the son of a poor fisherman (Thalaivasal Vijay), who grows up seeing his parents always having sex or fighting. Pooja (Sherin) is the daughter of an orthodox and very strict businessman (Pyramid Natarajan), who is always suspicious about her. Vishnu's (Abhinay) father neglects his mother and instead has his maid servant as his paramour. Anitha's (Shilpa) parents live abroad, concentrating merely on their work and business, having not time for their daughter and neglecting her. Harish (Ramesh) is regularly beaten up and mistreated by his sadistic father. These five people and another girl, Divya, (Gangeshwari) are high-school students and best friends. When they find out that one of them, Anitha, is addicted to drugs, they decide to run away from their homes along with Mani (Ramesh Khanna), a pavement bookseller and an older friend of theirs, in order to rehabilitate her, but also as a result of their discontent and feeling of alienation from their respective families.
However, the runaways have to face and deal with many problems and break down several barriers, realizing that they are not yet ready and matured enough to cope with life in the outside world and recognizing the importance of education. They finally return to their school, where the school principal (Vijayakumar) lectures the parents of the students, blaming them for the students' escape attempt and misbehaviour.

Cast

  • Dhanush as Mahesh
  • Sherin as Pooja
  • Abhinay as Vishnu
  • Ramesh as Harish
  • Shilpa as Anitha
  • Gangeshwari as Divya
  • Ramesh Khanna as Mani
  • Vijayakumar as school principal
  • Thalaivasal Vijay as Mahesh's father
  • Pyramid Natarajan as Pooja's father

Soundtrack

Thulluvadho Ilamai
Soundtrack album by Yuvan Shankar Raja
Released
1 March 2002 (India)
Recorded 2002
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Length 36:48 (First release)
43:24 (Second release)
Label Sa Re Ga Ma
Producer Yuvan Shankar Raja
Yuvan Shankar Raja chronology
Dheena
(2000)		 Thulluvadho Ilamai
(2001)		 Manadhai Thirudivittai
(2001)
The soundtrack was composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja, marking the first collaboration of the Yuvan Shankar Raja-Selvaraghavan duo, which would later go on to become one of the most successful and acclaimed combos in Tamil cinema, while Viji Manuel composed the film score. The soundtrack initially featured 7 songs overall, later a second CD was released which included 3 additional short tracks. The song "Theenda Theenda", based on the Carnatic rāga Reetigowla, had two versions, a female solo and a duet version. The lyrics were written by Pa. Vijay except for the song "Kann Munney", which has lyrics written by Selvaraghavan.
The album, receiving positive reviews, described as youthful and refreshing, is considered a breakthrough album for composer Yuvan Shankar Raja, turning him into a leading composer in the Tamil film industry. Thanks to this album, he grew up in popularity, particularly among the younger generation, who could identify themselves with the songs.
Track Song Singer(s) Duration Lyricist Notes
1 "Idhu Kaadhala" Yuvan Shankar Raja 4:32 Pa. Vijay
2 "Theenda Theenda (Duet)" Unnikrishnan, Bombay Jayashree 5:21 Pa. Vijay
3 "Kann Munney" Yuvan Shankar Raja, Timmy 6:01 Selvaraghavan
4 "Vayadhu Vaa Vaa" Srinivas, Harini 4:28 Pa. Vijay
5 "Neruppu Koothadikudhu" Venkat Prabhu, Chithra Sivaraman 5:10 Pa. Vijay
6 "Theenda Theenda (Solo)" Bombay Jayashree 5:19 Pa. Vijay
7 "Kaatrukku Kaatrukku" Harish Raghavendra, Harini, Febi Mani, Sunder Rajan 5:57 Pa. Vijay
Second release
No. Title Singer(s) Length
8. "Theepiditha Kangal"   Boney 2:19
9. "Vaanam Oru"   Yuvan Shankar Raja, Boney, Lavanya 2:46
10. "Theme Music"   Instrumental 1:31

Remake

This film was later remade for Telugu audience, in 2003, as "Juniors" starring Allari Naresh and Sherin reprising her role.
Kaadhal Kondein (also spelled as Kadhal Konden ; English: I fell in love) is a 2003 Indian Tamil psychological thriller film written and directed by Selvaraghavan, starring his brother Dhanush and newcomer Sonia Agarwal in lead roles, whilst newcomers Sudeep, Nagesh and Daniel Balaji play supporting roles. The film, which has music scored by noted musician Yuvan Shankar Raja and cinematography handled by Arvind Krishna, released on 4 July 2003, winning critical acclaim and becoming a commercial success upon release, and is considered as the breakthrough film of Dhanush that catapulted him into the main foray of lead actors in the Tamil film industry. The film was later remade in Telugu in 2004, as Nenu with Allari Naresh and Veda replacing Dhanush and Sonia Agarwal, respectively. It has also been remade in Kannada in 2009, as Ravana with Yogeesh Hunsoor and Sanchita Padukone in the lead, and in Bengali in 2010, as Amanush starring Soham Chakraborty and Srabanti Malakar.
The story explores the mind of a youth who is mentally and physically abused in his childhood. The lack of a mother's love haunts the protagonist throughout the film as the girl of his infatuation is killed. Becoming a psychopath, he desperately tries to woo his newly found lady love and his efforts culminate in a superb nail-biting cliffhanger.

Contents

  • 1 Plot
  • 2 Cast
  • 3 Soundtrack
  • 4 Awards
  • 5 Box office
  • 6 External links
  • 7 References

Plot

Vinod (Dhanush), who has grown up under the care of a church father (Nagesh), is an introvert but a genius. He is forcibly sent to college by the father but is a complete misfit in class. Though shunned by the rest of his class, Divya (Sonia Agarwal) becomes his friend and he gradually warms up to her too. His feelings soon turn into love but he realizes that Divya considers him as only a friend. But he is unwilling to let her go. Meanwhile Vinod learns that Divya is in love with another classmate, Aadhi (Sudeep).
Divya's father is enraged on learning about her love. He shuts her up and prevents her from contacting anyone. But Vinod comes and meets her on the pretext of getting some old clothes for himself to wear. Pitied by Vinod, her father allows him. But Vinod uses the chance and escapes with Divya. He convinces her that she will meet Aadhi at Ooty.
Vinod has set up a secret place in Ooty for executing his plan of wooing Divya. He makes her stay with him, while convincing her by talking about the never-impending Aadhi's arrival. On one such day, he reveals his miserable past, when he was made to work for paid labour after being orphaned at an early age. He revolts against the oppression one day against the illegal child labour in vogue at his place. Promptly he is beaten black and blue for his profanity. Moreover he also loses his girlfriend to rapists in that place, who also kill her. Somehow he manages to escape from them and seeks refuge in the place of a church father.
Divya is really touched by his past. Incidentally the police and Aadhi arrive at the place. While Vinod was away to get some food, they try to make Divya understand that Vinod was a psychopath. Yet Divya scoffs at their claims, citing his gentlemanly behaviour over the days she was put up alone with him. Vinod, learning that the police have arrived at the scene, begins to indulge in mass violence. He opens fire, killing a police constable. Forcing them out of their hideout, he manages to evade the police Inspector and Aadhi and successfully brings Divya back to their original place of stay.
Divya soon identifies the tiger out of the cow's skin. Vinod pleads with her, telling her that all he wanted in his life was her presence with him. But Divya called him a friend and stated her inability to accept him as her partner for life.
Meanwhile Aadhi regains consciousness and comes back to attack Vinod and rescue his girlfriend. A violent fight follows, where Vinod defies his puny self and treats Aadhi with disdain. The fight culminates with Vinod, Aadhi and Divya teetering at the edge of a slippery cliff.
While Divya clutches a tree bark tightly, Vinod and Aadhi slip out and barely manage to hold either of her hands. Divya is forced to a situation where she needs to choose between her boyfriend and friend. Aadhi's pleas notwithstanding, Divya doesn't have the heart to kill Vinod. The epic of a cliffhanger finally ends with Vinod smiling wryly at Divya and letting go of her hands himself. He falls to his death into the abyss.

Cast

  • Dhanush as Vinod
  • Sonia Agarwal as Divya
  • Sudeep as Aadhi
  • Nagesh as Father Rozario
  • Daniel Balaji as Police Inspector
  • Sreekanth as Divya's father
  • Gowthami
  • Rambo Rajkumar

Soundtrack

Kaadhal Kondein
Soundtrack album by Yuvan Shankar Raja
Released 20 March 2003
Recorded 2002 / 2003
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Length 34:34
30:18 (OST release)
Label Five Star
Producer Yuvan Shankar Raja
Yuvan Shankar Raja chronology
Winner
(2003)		 Kaadhal Kondein
(2003)		 Aadanthe Ado Type
(2003)
For Kaadhal Kondein, director Selvaraghavan and music composer Yuvan Shankar Raja came together again after their earlier successful collaboration in Thulluvadho Ilamai (2001), for which Selvaraghavan worked as a writer. The soundtrack of Kaadhal Kondein released on 20 March 2003, featuring seven tracks with lyrics written by Pazhani Bharathi and Na. Muthukumar. The music, especially the film score, received universal critical acclaim, establishing composer Yuvan Shankar Raja as one of the "most sought after music directors" in the Tamil film industry.
More than one year after the release of the film, an "original soundtrack" was released, that followed the Hollywood-style. It was said to be the first time, that an original soundtrack was released for a film in India as the soundtracks released in India do not contain any film score pieces but full songs that feature in the film itself. The OST of Kaadhal Kondein contains 20 tracks overall, which includes the seven earlier released tracks, four "montage" bit songs, that featured in the film, but not in the soundtrack, and nine pieces from the actual film score, which were titled as "Theme Music".
Track Song Singer(s) Duration Lyricist Notes
1 "Devathaiyai Kandaen" Harish Raghavendra 5:11 Na. Muthukumar
2 "Manasu Rendum" Shankar Mahadevan 6:41 Pazhani Bharathi
3 "Nenjodu" Unnikrishnan, Sujatha 6:25 Na. Muthukumar
4 "Kadhal Mattum Purivathillai" Vijay Yesudas 6:07 Pazhani Bharathi
5 "Thottu Thottu" Harish Raghavendra 5:16 Na. Muthukumar
6 "18 Vayathil" Yuvan Shankar Raja 4:49 Na. Muthukumar
7 "Kaadhal Kondein" (Theme Music) Instrumental 1:07

All music composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja.
Original Soundtrack release
No. Title Artist(s) Length
8. "Thathi Thathi"   Yuvan Shankar Raja 2:48
9. "Natpinilae"   Harish Raghavendra 1:19
10. "Unnai Thozhi"   Ranjith 2:05
11. "Kai Padamalae"   Yuvan Shankar Raja 2:16
12. "Theme Music 1"   Instrumental 2:42
13. "Theme Music 2"   Instrumental 2:12
14. "Theme Music 3"   Instrumental 0:58
15. "Theme Music 4"   Instrumental 2:05
16. "Theme Music 5"   Instrumental 2:24
17. "Theme Music 6"   Instrumental 1:46
18. "Theme Music 7"   Instrumental 2:29
19. "Theme Music 8"   Instrumental 4:31
20. "Theme Music 9"   Instrumental 2:43
Total length:
 30:18

Awards

  • 2004: Filmfare Best Female Debut (South) - Sonia Agarwal
Nominations
  • 2004: Filmfare Best Director Award - Shanmugam

Box office

  • The film grossed INR10 crore (US$1.7 million) at the box office.[citation needed]
  • The story also opened up a new avenue of films with similar storylines like Chellamae and Kudaikkul Mazhai.

Thiruda Thirudi is a 2003 Tamil film directed by debutant Subramaniam Siva. The film stars Dhanush and Chaya Singh. This film was a low-budget production and the soundtrack was composed by Dhina. This comedic love story is set in the clashing enemies starring Manikka Vinayagam, Ginja and Illavarasu among others. The soundtrack was a great hit and the song, "Manmadha Raasa.." charted at the top position for 15 weeks running. The movie went on to become a huge Blockbuster hit amidst of low expectations and promotions. It was later remade in Telugu as Donga Dongadi with Manoj Manchu and Sadha as the protagonists, and Manikka Vinayagam would reprise his role as the male protagonist's father. It was remade in Kannada as Sakha Sakhi, in which Chaya Singh is the Lead.

Contents

  • 1 Plot
  • 2 Cast and crew
  • 3 Sound Track
  • 4 External links

Plot

Vasu belongs to a lower-middle-class family and is irresponsible and untrustworthy. Viji is from a Telugu Traditional family and is an ambitious and career-oriented girl.
Vasu and Viji meet up and one day, Vasu follows her on her two wheeler. She is so bugged by him that she fails to notice a vehicle ahead. Though he cautions her, she ends up having an accident. Dhanush admits her in hospital, but Viji holds him responsible for her accident. Both of them are at loggerheads and bicker constantly.
Vasu leaves for Chennai in order to prove himself to his Dad who is constantly criticising his irresponsibility. Meanwhile, Viji gets a job at Chennai and moves into the same apartment complex as Dhanush. The rest of the story follows Vasu's progress and deals with relationship between Vasu and Viji and whether or not their attitude for each other changed. Viji falls in love with Vasu but for a reason he acts to hate her is because she made him and his whole family separated.So, in the middle something happens and they both end up loving each other and Vasu got back together with his family.

Cast and crew

Cast

  • Dhanush as Vasu
  • Chaya Singh as Viji
  • Karunas as Rockfort Chandru
  • Manikka Vinayagam as Vasu's father
  • Krishna as Vasu's brother
  • Illavarasu
  • Megha Nair
  • Sri Vidhya as Chandru's Sister

Crew

  • Producer : S.K.Krishnakanth
  • Director: Subramaniam Siva
  • Story/ Dialogue / Screenplay: Pa. Vijay
  • Cinematography: Ramesh G
  • Music: Dhina

Sound Track

No. Song Name Singers Lyrics
1 "Ayurveda Azhagi" Manicka Vinayagam, Srilekha Parthasarathy Na. Muthukumar
2 "Azhaga Irukanga" Timmy, Devan, Master Kiran Tha. Kannan
3 "Manmadha Raasa" Shankar Mahadevan, Malathy Lakshman Yugabharadhi
4 "Mutham Mutham" Anuradha Sriram Pa. Vijay
5 "Unna Paartha" Karthik, Pop Shalini
6 "Vandar Kuzhazhi" Udit Narayan, Radhika, Mimicry Senthil Kalaikumar

Polladhavan (Tamil: பொல்லாதவன்; English: Ruthless Man) is a Tamil film written and directed by Vetrimaran. It stars Dhanush and Divya Spandana in the main leads and it was released on 8 November 2007. The musical score is by G. V. Prakash Kumar, while Yogi B and Dhina composed each one song. Velraj is the director of cinematography and Rambo Rajkumar was the stunt choreographer. This movie later remade into Kannada as Punda and another remake in Telugu as Kurradu starring Varun Sandesh in the year 2009 and its also going to be remakee in Sinhala as Pravegeya starring Sri Lankan famous model Hemal Ranasinghe and Miss Sri Lanka Jacqueline Fernandez who is also a famous Bollywood actress in lead. Vetrimaran stated that the film was inspired by some real-life experiences of his friend Andrew who lost his bike in North Madras. When questioned about its relevance to Bicycle Thieves, he stated "People have asked me if Polladhavan was inspired from Bicycle Thieves. I have told everyone not to compare the two films as it is a disgrace to Bicycle Thieves if it is compared with Polladhavan." It had nothing to do with the 1980 film of the same name which starred Dhanush's father-in-law Rajinikanth.This film was a major success in the box office.It was emerged as 'Blockbuster' in his career.

Contents

  • 1 Plot
  • 2 Cast
  • 3 Production
  • 4 Reviews
  • 5 Box office
  • 6 Awards
  • 7 Soundtrack
  • 8 See also
  • 9 References

Plot

Prabhu (Dhanush) is a happy-go-lucky middle-class family guy who spends time playing carrom in the streets with his friends Santhanam, Karunas. His father (Murali) and he keep falling into minor misunderstandings, and he indulges in a hopeless romance with a strange girl (Divya Spandana) who he meets at a bus stop. When he is caught in the act of stealing a pittance from his father for booze with his friends, Prabhu questions his father’s responsibility towards his upbringing. His angry father gives Prabhu some of his savings and tells him to do something with his life. Prabhu purchases a Bajaj Pulsar bike instead and finds a job. The bike eventually saves his life from a freak incident and gets lost, subjecting him to interminable anguish as he searches for his bike. When his family members asks him about his bike, he tells them that he has given it for dealer service.
Prabhu comes into conflict with the underworld, courtesy a brutal murder planned by Out, the right hand of an underworld smuggling don, Selvam (Kishore). Prabhu finds out that his bike was stolen by a petty bike thief who turns out to be in connection with Selvam's younger brother Ravi (Daniel Balaji). Prabhu traces down the culprit as Senthurayan and hands him over to the local police station. A formal complaint is lodged on Senthurayan on the same night. Later that night Prabhu confesses to his family that his bike was stolen. The next morning Ravi visits Prabhu's residence and threatens him to withdraw the complaint against Senthurayan. When Prabhu refuses, a fight breaks between Prabhu and Ravi, where Ravi is joined by few of his accomplices, Prabhu manages to fight them all and leaves Ravi beaten and embarrassed among the public. Selvam returns home in bail after a murder charge. When he finds out what happened to Ravi, he gets furious and sends his henchmen to kill Prabhu without knowing the reason for his brother's embarrassment. Meanwhile Prabhu, along with his friend and auto driver Kumar (Karunas), meets Selvam at his own residence. Ravi is not home at that time. Prabhu tells the truth to Selvam but refuses to believe that his brother Ravi and his men stole his bike. After hearing from his close ally Out (Pavan), Selvam believes Prabhu, apologizing for what happened and promises Prabhu that he will do whatever he can to get his bike back. But it was too late for Prabhu's father Murali who receives the attack from Ravi's men. He was admitted in a hospital and Prabhu breaks down after knowing that his father may never walk again after his right leg is paralysed by the attack. Selvam, Ravi and their men visit Prabhu to condole and apologize for what happened this time. Prabhu turns down the apology and again an immediate fight was about to break between Prabhu and Ravi before Selvam separates them both. Although he wants to stay away, Prabhu invariably gets dragged into rubbing shoulders with the criminals who now target his family to seek revenge.
Prabhu's bike was caught by Anti-Narcotics wing police and they nab Prabhu suspecting him of Drug-smuggling in his bike. They release him after Prabhu tells them that his bike was stolen and shows them his FIR copy. But he doesn't tell them about Ravi or Selvam. Now Prabhu learns that his bike was stolen by Selvam's men to escspe from a murder scene but it was Ravi who smuggled drugs in his bike's petrol tank. Prabhu loses his job as an employee in his workplace since his bike was a source of transportation, and as he was kept at police custody for one night. Prabhu also gets despair from Hema's father for being involved unwllingly with Selvam's men. Ravi makes one more attempt at Prabhu's life but he was snubbed again by Prabhu. Selvam becomes unhappy about this and warns him to quit smuggling if he ever gets in Prabhu's business anymore. Ravi accuses Selvam of being a non-caring brother and Out intervenes and warns Ravi to mind his language. then surprisingly Selvam himself comes in support of his brother to lash out at Out. Out separates briefly from Selvam after this conflict. The next day Selvam and Ravi gets attacked by unknown gangsters when they were travelling in their car outside the city. Selvam asks his brother to stay inside the car and handles the killers on his own. He gets brutally injured though only to find out that he's been stabbed on back by his own Brother Ravi. The attack was arranged by Ravi himself to kill Selvam. Ravi delivers the killer blow before telling that Selvam is too complacent of Prabhu and he's going to kill him after killing Selvam. Selvam dies. Ravi creates a scene among Selvam's family, henchmen and Out that he's not aware of who launched the assault on Selvam. Out gets furious and vows to kill every enemy of his mentor Selvam including Prabhu.
Prabhu gets his bike back and was relieved for a brief time before coming to know what is going on and Ravi is after him and his family. He first goes to save Hema. After securing her, he goes to save his family. He thinks the only way to stop this is to confront Ravi himself. he takes down all the men sent by Ravi who comes in his way. Meanwhile Prabhu's family were chased down in Kumar's auto-rickshaw by Ravi's men. Prabhu finds Ravi hiding in an Ice-factory and engages him in a fight. Prabhu gets Ravi under the knife, threatening him to ask his men to leave Prabhu's family. Ravi does so. When Prabhu is about to leave, Ravi provokes him to continue the fight until death. Prabhu manages to dodge Ravi's swing of his knife and gets a steel rod to fatally knock down Ravi. Out arrives at the scene. Surprisingly he tells Ravi that he discovered Ravi's conspiracy of killing Selvam before Ravi dies. Prabhu leaves the scene in his much beloved Pulsar bike.

Cast

  • Dhanush as Prabhu
  • Daniel Balaji as Ravi
  • Kishore as Selvam
  • Divya Spandana as 'ramya
  • Murali as Prabhu's Father
  • Bhanupriya as Prabhu's Mother
  • Santhanam as Sathish
  • Karunas as Kumar
  • Akhila as Prabhu's sister
  • Chetan
  • Daniel Balaji
  • Pawan as Out

Production

Vetrimaaran who earlier worked as an assistant to Balu Mahendra, prepared a script for Dhanush, who has the lead hero of the films he worked in, and Dhanush immediately accepted the offer after hearing the story. The film titled Desiya Nedunchalai 47 was initially launched with Yuvan Shankar Raja as the music director and Ekambaram as the cinematographer. After he found trouble finding producers with A. M. Rathnam and Salem Chandrasekhar leaving the project after initial interest, Dhanush's sister Dr. Vimala Geetha agreed to produce the film, but she also dropped the film. Dhanush's father Kasthuri Raja finally agreed to produce the film and Kirat Bhattal was signed as heroine, while Harris Jayaraj was selected as music director. However, after two days of shoot the film was shelved and Dhanush opted to pursue other films after the surprise success of his Thiruvilayadal Arambam. The film's collapse saw Vetrimaaran approach producer Kadiresan and narrated to him the stories he had prepared but the producer did not like Desiya Nedunchaalai 47, but agreed to work on another project titled Polladhavan.
Vetrimaaran has since described that he had "ample time" for he production works of Polladhavan as "Dhanush had confidence in him". Production designer Durai helped him rope in G. V. Prakash Kumar to score the film's music, while Dhanush also recommended cinematographer Velraj to Vetrimaaran after the pair had worked together in Parattai Engira Azhagu Sundaram Vetrimaaran chose Kannada language actor Kishore to make his Tamil film debut after his assistant gave him rave reviews of the actor's performance in the unfinished Prashanth-starrer Petrol. The team held test shoots with both Kajal Aggarwal and Poonam Bajwa for the film and released the stills to the media, but Vetrimaaran was still unsatisfied and finished two schedules before finalising on Divya Spandana. The director revealed that there was initially an issue with the actress after she got offended by his words and did not come for the shoot for three days, before Durai intervened. The film's story was inspired partly by the lost bike of his friend Andrew and the variety of experiences he had tracking down his vehicle. Vetrimaaran revealed that when he wrote the script, he made many changes to suit the visual medium and for Dhanush on his physical attributes while playing an action hero.

Reviews

The critic from Sify.com stating that "Vetri has made his mentor proud, and his style of narration and takings are very similar to the ace director [Balu Mahendra]", labelling that the film had shades of Vittorio De Sica's 1948 Italian film, Bicycle Thieves. The reviewer from The Hindu stated that "at no point does Polladhavan sag and that writer-director Vetrimaran has slogged through his screenplay and the result shows." Nowrunning wrote:"'Polladavan' is a typical Dhanush flick, which is not even distantly related to Rajinikanth's "Polladavan." The script is obviously tailor-made for Dhanush but it is no different from gangster movies, which make audiences feel jaded".

Box office

  • The film grossed INR340 million (US$5.7 million) at the box office allover.

Awards

  • The movie received four Vijay Awards, including one for Best Director. The film is slated to be remade in Kannada as Punda and another remake in Telugu 'Kurradu' starring Varun Sandesh hasn't repeated the success of the original version.

Soundtrack

Polladhavan
Soundtrack album by G. V. Prakash Kumar
Released June 2007
Genre Film soundtrack
Label Five Star Audio
Producer G. V. Prakash
G. V. Prakash Kumar chronology
Kireedam
(2007)		 Polladhavan
(2007)		 Evano Oruvan
(2007)
The soundtrack consisted of five song, three of them composed by G. V. Prakash Kumar, while rapper Yogi B and Dhina composed each one track. The song Engeyum Eppodhum is a remix of the same-titled song from the 1979 film Ninaithale Inikkum. The song Minnalgall Koothadum is a copy of Smack That, the first single from Akon's second album Konvicted.[citation needed]
Title Singers Composer
"Alibaba Thangam" Suchitra G. V. Prakash Kumar
"Neeye Sol" Benny Dayal, Sunitha Sarathy G. V. Prakash Kumar
"Engeyum Eppothum" S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Yogi B, Sunitha Sarathy Yogi B
"Minnalgall Koothadum" Karthik, Bombay Jayashri G. V. Prakash Kumar
"Padichu Pathen" Shankar Mahadevan Dhina

See also

  • Vetrimaaran

Yaaradi Nee Mohini (English: Who are you, beautiful woman) is a 2008 Tamill drama film directed by Mithran Jawahar. The film, remake of the 2007 Telugu hit film Aadavari Matalaku Ardhale Verule, directed by Selvaraghavan that starred Venkatesh and Trisha Krishnan, stars Dhanush, Selvaraghavan's brother, and Nayantara in lead roles, whilst Karthik Kumar, Raghuvaran, K. Vishwanath, Karunas and Saranya Mohan play supporting roles. The music for the film was scored by Yuvan Shankar Raja. The title of the film is derived from a song from the 1958 Sivaji Ganesan-Padmini starrer Uthama Puthiran. It was Raghuvaran's last film before his death on 19 March 2008. Yaaradi Nee Mohini was remade in Bengali as 100% Love starring Jeet and Koel Mallick in lead roles directed by Ravi Kinnagi .
Yaaradi Nee Mohini was released on 4 April 2008, becoming highly successful at the box office, emerging as one of the highest grossing Tamil films of the year. The film also received seven nominations at the 56th Filmfare Awards South.

Contents

  • 1 Plot
  • 2 Cast
  • 3 Character map of remakes
  • 4 Soundtrack
  • 5 Box Office
  • 6 References
  • 7 External links

Plot

Vasu (Dhanush) is from a middle-class family. He makes several bids to obtain employment but all goes in vain due to his poor language skills and inadequate educational qualifications. All his friends settle in life, but he continues to struggle in finding employment. Vasu has two faithful friends in Cheenu (Karthik Kumar), and Ganesh (Karunaas). His father (Raghuvaran), who is a teacher, is always critical of him for being an irresponsible person. This just added to his list of woes.
At this juncture, Vasu catches a glimpse of a woman named Keerthi (Nayanthara), and immediately falls in love with her. He learns that she works for a software solutions firm. Luckily for him, Vasu finally secures employment in the same firm. Keerthi eventually turns out to be a short-tempered young woman. On a business trip, Vasu accompanies her along with two other colleagues (Jeeva and Manobala), to Australia. Here he reveals his feelings of love to her. She immediately turns him down, saying that she comes from an orthodox family, and her marriage has already been arranged with her uncle's son.
A depressed Vasu returns to India thereafter. Unable to see his son in depression, his father decides to meet Keerti. She abuses him for recommending his son's love, and accidentally slaps both Vasu and his father. Later that night, Vasu's father dies of a heart attack. In order to help change Vasu's mood, Cheenu manages to persuade him to come along to his family house in the country. Coincidentally, on the train journey, Keerthi is revealed to be the fiancee of Cheenu. However, their grandfather's (K. Viswanath) thoughts of getting them married earlier are put aside because Cheenu and Keerthi leave the house to have their own identity. This causes heartburn to their grandfather.
With the passing of a few days, the parents of Keerthi and Cheenu decide to get them married to appease their grandfather. After several turns of events, Keerthi realizes that she is in love with Vasu instead. When Vasu asks her to forget him, during a midnight meeting, because he believes that it would create problems in their happy family, Cheenu himself overhears their conversation. During the wedding, Cheenu tries to force Vasu and Keerthi to confess their relationship to everyone who is present. But when they hesitate to do so, Cheenu stops the marriage himself, by lying to his elders that he has a secret wife in Chennai. When Cheenu comes under fire from his relatives, Vasu tells them the truth, and is driven out of the house. He is joined only by the grandma of the house, who agrees to accompany him as she reminds Vasu of his late father.
In time, the rest of Cheenu and Keerthi's family comes to stay with Vasu for a few days. But Cheenu's grandfather refuses to enter the house, telling Vasu he is still angry with him, and needs time to change himself somehow. The movie ends when Vasu and Keerthi became a happy couple and live together happily.[2]

Cast

  • Dhanush as Vasu
  • Nayanthara as Keerthi (Komalavalli)
  • Raghuvaran as Vasu's Father
  • Karthik Kumar as Cheenu
  • K. Vishwanath as Keerthi's Grandfather
  • Karunas as Ganesh
  • Saranya Mohan as Pooja (Anandhavalli)
  • Sukumari as Grandmother
  • Manobala as Balu

Character map of remakes

Aadavari Matalaku Ardhale Verule
Telugu (2007)		 Yaaradi Nee Mohini
Tamil (2008)		 Anthu Inthu Preethi Banthu
Kannada (2008)
Ganesh
(Venkatesh)		 Vasu
(Dhanush)		 Shivu
(Aditya Babu)
Keerthi
(Trisha Krishnan)		 Keerthi
(Nayantara)		 Preethi
(Divya Spandana)
Vasu
(Srikanth)		 Cheenu
(Karthik Kumar)		 Harish
(Harish Raj)
Ganesh's father
(Kota Srinivasa Rao)		 Vasu's father
(Raghuvaran)		 Shivu's father
(Srinivasa Murthy)
Keerthi's grandfather
(K. Viswanath)		 Keerthi's grandfather
(K. Viswanath)		 Preethi's father
(Loknath)
Seenu
(Sunil)		 Ganesh
(Karunas)
Pooja
(Swathi)		 Pooja
(Saranya Mohan)
Ganesh's colleague
(Jeeva)		 Vasu's colleague
(Manobala)
Item Number (I)
(Meghna Naidu)		 Item Number (I)
(Rachana Maurya)
Item Number (II)
(Mumaith Khan)		 Item Number (I)
(Ragasya)

Soundtrack

Yaaradi Nee Mohini
Soundtrack album by Yuvan Shankar Raja
Released 9 February 2008
Recorded 2007
Genre Film soundtrack
Label Think Music
Producer Yuvan Shankar Raja
Yuvan Shankar Raja chronology
Vaazhthugal
(2008)		 Yaaradi Nee Mohini
(2008)		 Anthu Inthu Preethi Banthu
(2008)
The music of Yaaradi Nee Mohini was scored by Yuvan Shankar Raja, who had composed the music for the original film as well. The first release of the soundtrack, released on 9 February 2008, contained 5 tracks, which were all retained from the original version with the song "Manasa Manninchamma" missing initially. As later a remixed song ("Paalakattu Pakkathile"; remixed by D. Imman, though initially Yuvan Shankar Raja was reported to be the composer ) was recorded and included in the film, the producers decided to bring out a second release. This release, however, features 16 tracks overall, including the earlier released 5 songs, two more versions of the song "Engeyo Paartha" (sung by Udit Narayan and Naveen, respectively), two more remixes of the song "Paalakattu Pakkathile" (remixed by Dharan), the Tamil version of "Manasa Manninchamma", "Penne Ennai Kodu", the song "The Person Is The Looser" , which runs during the opening credits apart from 4 "film score tracks". The lyrics were provided by Na. Muthukumar.
No. Song Singers Length (m:ss)
1 "Engeyo Paartha" Udit Narayan 5:27
2 "Oh! Baby Oh! Baby" Haricharan, Naveen, Andrea Jeremiah, Bhargavi 5:44
3 "Oru Naalaikkul" Karthik, Rita 5:45
4 "Vennmegam" Hariharan 4:40
5 "Nenjai Kasakki" Udit Narayan, Suchitra 5:11

Box Office

Yaaradi Nee Mohini had taken the best ever opening for a Selvaraghan film. The film was a success and sold 5 million tickets worldwide grossing INR240 million (US$4.0 million) at the box office.

Aadukalam (English: Arena) is a 2011 Indian Tamil drama film written and directed by Vetrimaran. The film stars Dhanush, Taapsee Pannu, V. I. S. Jayapalan and Kishore. The film was released on 14 January 2011 to highly positive reviews. The film won six awards at the 58th National Film Awards, including the awards for Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actor.
It was also felicitated with 5 awards in 59th Filmfare Awards South which includes Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Music Director and Best Cinematography. Based on an online poll by The Times of India Vetri Maaran was chosen as the best director for Aadukalam.

Contents

  • 1 Plot
  • 2 Cast
  • 3 Production
  • 4 Soundtrack
  • 5 Boxoffice
  • 6 Accolades
  • 7 References
  • 8 External links

Plot

The film is set in the backdrop of Madurai, where rooster fights are common. Pettaikaaran (V. I. S. Jayapalan) and Rathnaswamy (Naren), a cop are tough competitors in these games and it is often Pettai who wins because nobody knows his way of maintaining the quality of the birds.
Karuppu (Dhanush) and Durai (Kishore) are also in Pettaikaran's team. Rathnasamy keeps insisting on having one last fight to win and satisfy his old mother’s wish but Pettaikaran declines to have any more fights with him because he feels Rathnasamy has lost faith in his roosters and will be using nefarious methods to win. Rathnasamy keeps insisting and tries to make him accept the challenge through cajoling, threatening, bribing and other vile acts.
Karuppu falls in love with an Anglo-Indian girl Irene (Taapsee) who dislikes him. He does not recognize this initially and keeps following her. One day the residents of Irene's colony confront him and ask Irene to tell who she is in love with – Karuppu (Dhanush) or Dinesh (Attakathi Dinesh), another guy in the locality. She points her finger at Karuppu and he goes into rapture. She explains later that she had to lie in order to avoid Dinesh who has been bothering her for a long time. Later, Irene too falls in love with Karuppu.
Meanwhile, one of Pettai's associates is killed in a hit and run accident. In a rage Pettai, suspecting Rathnasamy of the murder, agrees to the rooster fight and it is decided that the loser will get his head tonsured and give up rooster fights. In the crucial fight, Rathnasamy brings high breed roosters from Bangalore. Karuppu asks Pettai to let his rooster fight against Rathnasamy's but Pettai puts his rooster down and says he will choose the competing rooster himself. Karuppu surreptitiously enters the contest before Pettai can choose the rooster because he needs to repay Irene for the loan he took to prepare his rooster for the fight. Pettai doesn't believe in Karuppu and his rooster and announces that Karuppu will not represent Pettai. The 'underdog' however emerges victorious in three consecutive rounds even when the opponent has spiked his rooster to scald the other rooster.
While initially Pettai is happy that Kuruppu won, he is overcome with anger and jealousy by the end of the day. His ego is hurt by the fact that Karuppu earns both popularity and money. Karuppu is not aware of the changes in his mentor's mind. Pettaikaran is so jealous of Karuppu that at first he refuses to speak to anyone and then starts scheming. The money from the competition that Karuppu gives to Pettai for safe keeping, that he plans to use to start a business, suddenly goes missing. Pettai also starts spinning stories about his associates and makes everyone suspicious of each other. He incites Karuppu and Durai into pitting their roosters in a fight. Meanwhile Karuppu's mom dies of the shock of losing all the money. Pettaikaran meanwhile poisons all of Durai's roosters making him suspect Karuppu, who is arrested for this. Pettaikaran then lies to Irene that his wife was in an adulterous relationship with Karuppu. Irene's family also pressure her to move to Chennai which pushes her into attempting suicide. Pettakaran meanwhile calls Karuppu to a location near a temple and informs Durai about his whereabouts. When Irene gets better, she calls Karuppu and informs him that Pettai is badmouthing him. So Karuppu, who puts 2 and 2 together, goes to find Pettai to confront him. Pettai kills himself and Karuppu also finds that Pettai was the one who stole his money. Karuppu does not want to reveal the fact to the public that his mentor was the criminal who stole his money and schemed against him, so he flees with Irene to start a new life in another city.

Cast

  • Dhanush as Karuppu
  • Kishore as Durai
  • Taapsee Pannu as Irene Claude
  • V. I. S. Jayapalan as Periyasami/Pettaikaran
  • Meenal as Pettaikaran's wife
  • Nareyn as Rathnasamy
  • Periyakaruppu Thevar as Ayub
  • Murugadoss
  • Alva Vasu as the host of the tournament
  • Munnar Ramesh as Ramesh
  • Attakathi Dinesh as Dinesh

Production

Development

Following the success of their 2007 collaboration Polladhavan, the entire team including director Vetrimaaran and lead actor Dhanush were reported to come together for another venture. Shriya Saran was signed on for the project in February 2008 but eventually pulled out citing schedule clashes. In April 2008 it was reported that Dhanush's hectic schedules meant that Silambarasan was set to replace him, however Dhanush remained and continued with the film
Vetrimaran spent almost a year on completing the screenplay, script and dialogues for the film and held a bounded script for the venture, which is considered rare in Tamil films.
Subsequently in June 2009, Trisha Krishnan was forced to opt out of the role of Irene after the Madurai schedule overran into her allotted dates for her other films, Namo Venkatesa and Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa. Newcomer Taapsee Pannu was named as her replacement, with Vetrimaran claiming he wanted a fresh face in the role.

Filming

The first schedule started in Madurai on 24 February 2009 with scenes featuring Dhanush being shot.During early stages of production, Dhanush revealed he would play the role of a local cockfighter, Karuppu, and described the venture as his "dream project". The film was completed in August 2010 and post-production was delayed after the film encountered problems with graphic works, with the original company delaying proceedings.
The first look of the film was released in February 2009 with a series of promotional posters depicting the characters played by Dhanush, V. I. S. Jayapalan and Kishore. Director Samuthirakani, Andrea Jeremiah and Radha Ravi rendered their voices for Kishore, Taapsee and Jayapalan, respectively.

Soundtrack

Aadukalam

Front Cover
Soundtrack album by G. V. Prakash Kumar
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Label Sony Music
G. V. Prakash Kumar chronology
Va
(2010)		 Aadukalam
(2011)		 Deiva Thirumagal
(2011)
G. V. Prakash Kumar's soundtrack consists of seven tracks including two rap numbers performed by Malaysian Tamil rapper Yogi B. It was released by Sony Music and the audio was launched at a small function at Lady Aandal School auditorium in Chennai on 10 November 2010. The song Yathe Yathe topped the charts and remained in the No.1 position for nearly five weeks.
No. Title Lyrics Performer(s) Length
1. "Yathe Yathe"   Snehan G. V. Prakash Kumar 5:46
2. "Otha Sollaala"   Yegathasi Velmurugan 3:59
3. "Porkkalam" (Tamil Rap) Yugabharathi Alwa Vasu, Yogi B 4:21
4. "En Vennilave"   V. I. S. Jayapalan KK 6:39
5. "Ayyayo"   Snehan S. P. Balasubramanyam, S. P. B. Charan, Prashanthini 5:24
6. "Warriors" (English Rap) Yogi B Alwa Vasu, Yogi B 4:21
7. "A Love Blossoms"     Navin Iyer 1:28

Boxoffice

On the opening day, aadukalam netted around INR 55.7 million with a strong competitive along karthi's siruthai & vijay's Kaavalan.The film had a good opening weekend which reportedly collected INR 160 million. In Chennai city alone, the film netted INR 18.3 million (US$770,000) in its first week with an average theater occupancy of 80%. It collected INR 246 million in by its first week. The second week witnessed an occupancy of 70% in the city and netted around INR 84.1 million. It still stood in the number one position by the third week resulting in a total 3 weeks collection of INR 401.2 million.The film had a Theaterical run of more than 5 weeks taking its overall collection to INR500 million (US$8.4 million).it was declared as a "blockbuster" in dhanushs career by critics.

Accolades

The film won six awards at the 58th National Film Awards Besides, the film was also screened at several film festivals such as Toronto International Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival and Mumbai International Film Festival. The film also won 4 awards in Filmfare Awards South 2012 out of 6 nominations in Main Cinema Awards Category and 1 award for Best Cinematographer - South in Technical Awards Category.

National Film Awards
Category Nominee Outcome
Best Director Vetrimaaran Won
Best Screenplay Won
Best Actor Dhanush Won
Best Editing Kishore Te. Won
Best Choreography Dinesh Kumar Won
Special Jury V. I. S. Jayapalan Won
Filmfare Awards South 2012
Category Nominee Outcome
Best Film Kathiresan Won
Best Director Vetrimaaran Won
Best Actor Dhanush Won
Best Music Director G. V. Prakash Kumar Won
Best Cinematographer - South Velraj Won
Best Supporting Actor V.I.S.Jayapalan Nominated
Best Male Playback Singer G. V. Prakash Kumar Nominated
Vijay Awards
  • Best Music Director - G. V. Prakash Kumar
  • Best Playback Singer Male For Aiyayoo - S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
  • Best Crew Award
  • Best Director - Vetrimaaran
1st South Indian International Movie Awards
Category Nominee Outcome
Best Film Kathiresan Nominated
Best Director Vetrimaaran Won
Best Actor Dhanush Won
Best Female Debutant Taapsee Pannu Nominated
Best Music Director G. V. Prakash Kumar Won
Best Cinematographer Velraj Won
Best Actor in a Supporting Role V.I.S.Jayapalan Nominated
Vikatan Awards
  • Vikatan Award For Best Director - Vetrimaaran
  • Vikatan Award For Best Film - Aadukalam
  • Vikatan Award For Best Music Director - G. V. Prakash Kumar
  • Vikatan Award For Best Cinematography - Velraj
  • Vikatan Award For Best Editor - Kishore Te.
  • Vikatan Award For Best Story Writer - Vetrimaaran
Mirchi Music Awards South
  • Best Music Director - G. V. Prakash Kumar
  • Best Album of the year - G. V. Prakash Kumar
  • Mirchi Listeners Choice for Best album - G. V. Prakash Kumar

3 is a 2012 Indian Tamil romantic psychological thriller film directed by Aishwarya Dhanush who made her directorial debut with the film. It stars Dhanush, who himself co-produced the film, alongside Shruti Haasan. Soundtrack and film score were composed by debutante Anirudh Ravichander while the cinematography was handled by Velraj. The film gained high anticipation due to the viral marketing of the song "Why This Kolaveri Di". 3 released on 30 March 2012 to mixed reviews however ending up with major commercial success.

Contents

  • 1 Plot
  • 2 Cast
  • 3 Production
  • 4 Soundtrack
  • 5 Release
  • 6 Critical reception
  • 7 Awards
  • 8 See also
  • 9 References
  • 10 External links

Plot

The story opens with the death of Ram (Dhanush). His wife Janani (Shruti Haasan) realizes that her husband did not die naturally, as she finds his room stained with blood spatters. She recalls memories from when they first met and the story starts with a flashback when Ram and Janani were 12th grade students.
Ram is a rich happy-go-lucky guy. He sees Janani and has a crush on her straightaway. He begins to follow her around with his friends Senthil and Kumaran.
When Janani reciprocates his love, she is stopped by her poor family. When Janani's mother tells her that they are moving to America, Janani burns her passport so she can stay with Ram. She is then disowned by her family by her mother and she lands up at Ram's door. The two get married with Ram's father's help and lead a happy life.
The story then returns to reality with Janani finding a suicide letter in Ram's coat, and after reading it, she asks Senthil about his death. Senthil tells her the truth about Ram, that there were two sides to him. After Janani had told him she was leaving for America, the same night his best friend Kumaran had also planned to leave for Singapore. Ram couldn't take all this pain and went for a jag, which was when Senthil had realized that Ram was suffering from bipolar disorder.
If something positive happened, Ram would jump in joy, but if a tiny negative thing happened, he wouldn't be able to control his rage. Senthil explains that once when he told Ram about his disease, Ram smashed a glass bottle on his head. Ram escapes from the house and while walking on the road, suddenly hit his head on a vehicle. After that accident, Senthil couldn't see any other strange behavior from him. Ram agrees with Senthil to go see a doctor. But he rejects medications thinking that Janani would know about the situation.
He loves her very much, and he didn't want to see her in tears. As a request of Ram, Senthil stays at Ram and Janani's house for few weeks, in case the situation becomes dangerous and if Ram tried to hurt Janani. Once, Ram tried to kill Janani during her sleep but was luckily stopped by Senthil.
The story moves forward to one evening at a nightclub, where Ram gets into a fight with a guy who misbehaves with Janani. Ram takes Janani to their car and sends her home. After she leaves, the guy who misbehaved with Janani shows up with his friends and attacks Ram and Senthil. In the course of the fight, Ram hits his head against the hood of a car. His medical situation is worsened as a result. He begins to experience bouts of rage. Owing to this, Ram manages to defeat the attackers. Meanwhile Senthil injects Ram with a medicine the doctor had prescribed in case of an emergency, thus sedating him and dissipating his rage.
On another day, while Ram and Senthil are in the car, Ram suddenly bashes Senthil's head against the steering wheel, rendering him unconscious. Ram says his last words to his friend, "Sorry dude, you have done so much for me" and leaves the car in order to and go see Janani himself.
He remembers all the beautiful memories from their young age, and the ending takes onto the final scene of Ram's life, as he goes to Janani's bedroom and watches her sleeping. He tries to control his emotions and kiss her for the last time and suddenly he hallucinates seeing a young girl saying "Either kill her or you die". He immediately gets away from her bed and goes to his office and writes a suicide note.
He sees visions of many people in front of him crying and laughing. To avoid causing further harm to Janani, he picks up a knife, and kills himself, saying his final words "I love you, Janani".

Cast

  • Dhanush as Ram
  • Shruti Haasan as Janani
  • Prabhu as Ram's father
  • Sivakarthikeyan as Kumaran
  • Sunder Ramu as Senthil
  • Rohini as Janani's mother
  • Bhanupriya as Ram's mother
  • Gabriella Natalie Charlton as Janani's sister
  • Anuradha Krishnamurthy as Senthil's mother
  • Sunitha Gogoi as Janani's friend

Production

Aishwarya revealed that the script was written with Shruti Haasan in mind but the actress was unavailable to do the film initially. Subsequently, Aishwarya signed on Amala Paul, after being impressed by her work in Mynaa. This film’s press meet was held at the Star City Hotel on 5 August 2011 in Chennai with the director, the cinematographer and the lead pair, Dhanush and Amala Paul.
The film was originally meant to begin its first schedule in October 2011 but in a turn of events, Dhanush had free dates in August and September 2011. However Amala Paul was unavailable to start the film early and left the project, with Shruti Haasan joining the team after her Telugu film was delayed.

Soundtrack

3 (2012) Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by Anirudh Ravichander
Released 16 November 2011 (Single release)
28 December 2011 (Soundtrack release)
Recorded 2011
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Length 31:00
Language Tamil
Label Sony Music
The soundtrack and background score is composed by Anirudh Ravichander, cousin of Aishwarya. The single track "Why This Kolaveri Di", written and performed by Dhanush, was initially leaked on the internet. Having noticed its popularity, the makers launched the song as a single. The song became the most searched YouTube video in India, attracting more than 20 million views within 28 days, and was listed by YouTube under the "Recently Most Popular (Gold)" videos.
Aishwarya denied reports that suggested that another song from the album had leaked. The soundtrack was released by college students on 23 December 2011 at the St. George's School, Chennai. Although Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan were expected to attend the event, only Latha Rajinikanth was present.

Track list

All lyrics written by Dhanush, except where noted, all music composed by Anirudh Ravichander.
No. Title Singer(s) Length
1. "Idhazhin Oram – The Innocence of Love" (Aishwarya Dhanush) Ajeesh, Anirudh Ravichander 3:41
2. "Kannazhaga – The Kiss of Love"   Dhanush, Shruti Haasan 3:45
3. "Come on Girls – The Celebration of Love"   Anirudh Ravichander, Nadisha Thomas, Maalavika Manoj 2:45
4. "Nee Paartha Vizhigal – The Touch of Love"   Vijay Yesudas, Swetha Mohan 4:24
5. "A Life Full of Love – Theme Music"   Anirudh & The Chennai Strings Orchestra 1:55
6. "Why This Kolaveri Di"   Dhanush 4:15
7. "The Rhythm of Love – Theme Music"   Navin Iyer, Fajrul 1:14
8. "Po Nee Po – The Pain of Love"   Mohit Chauhan, Anirudh Ravichander 4:11
9. "Theme of 3"   Mandolin Seenu 1:29
10. "Po Nee Po Remix – The Scream of Love"   Sathya Prakash, Harish Swaminathan 3:42
Total length:
 29:21

Release

The satellite rights of the film were bagged by Sun TV for a whopping price. The film was given a "U" certificate by the Indian Censor Board. The film released on 30 March 2012, along with a dubbed Telugu version with English subtitles, while its dubbed Hindi version will be released later. The film released with 400 prints in Tamil.
Telugu movie producer and distributor Natti Kumar reportedly said that out of the Rs. 60 million (1.33 million USD approximately) he spent on distribution rights and publicity, he had been able to recover only Rs. 47.0 million (0.83 million USD approximately).

Critical reception

3 received mixed reviews. Vishnupriya Bhandaram of The Hindu wrote "Aishwarya R. Dhanush takes a twisted look at love and its meaning – when you put someone before your own existence – comes across as profound, underlining theme in the film. It fades out as a moving and tragic ode to romance, to the grand idea called 'love'". Moviebuzz of Sify called the film "poignant", quoting that "On the whole, 3 has its heart in the right place, though the second half seem scattered. Overlook these faults, and make it a point to watch 3" One India concluded that "3 is an engaging tale backed by wonderful performances of Dhanush and Shruti Hassan" and rated it 60 out of 100. Pavithra Srinivasan of Rediff rated the movie 3 out of 5, saying that "There are certain moments in 3 that defy logic at times, and sentiment rules the roost, but Aishwarya Dhanush has chosen to present a take on romance that is appealing in its freshness. The lead actors help as well. Her little thriller-twist aside, 3 is a movie that is an ode to romance, above all else." L Romal M Singh of DNA India gave the movie 3 stars out of 5, commenting that "We do not think anyone would want to watch the movie again, only because it demands too much from you emotionally. We however, plan to watch this movie once more and walk out during the interval, we’d advise the romantics to do the same."
In rated the film 3.5 out of 5, claiming that "3 is average and not worth watching in the theaters. Better wait for the DVD! It fails to meet the expectations and works only in parts, but Aishwarya had shown promise by taking a serious subject in her very first film". Behindwoods rated the film 3 stars out of 5, commenting that "3 has good performances, but is let down by slower narration". An IANS reviewer gave the movie a negative review, commenting that "Neither a joyous love story nor a serious movie, '3' actually stands in between." Rohit Ramachandran of NowRunning gave the movie a negative rating of 2.5 on a scale of 5, stating that "3 is a heartless comedy involving mentally imbalanced characters, only one of which is lucky to have been diagnosed. This is not a safe place for you to be."

Awards

2nd South Indian International Movie Awards
  • Best Lyricist - Dhanush for "Kannazhaga"
  • Best Male Playback Singer - Dhanush for "Why This Kolaveri Di"
  • Best Actor - Dhanush for "3"
  • Nominated—Best Actress
  • Nominated—Best Music Director
  • Nominated—Best Male Playback Singer - Mohit Chauhan for "Po Nee Po"
  • Nominated—Best Female Playback Singer - Shruti Haasan for "Kannazhaga"
  • Nominated—Best Female Playback Singer - Shweta Mohan for "Nee Partha Vizhigal"
  • Honoured—Best Debutant Producer
  • Nominated—Best Debutant Director
Asiavision Movie Award for Excellence in Tamil
  • Shruti Hassan
  • Best crew award - dhanush;Vijay Awards
Vijay awards
  • Best Actor - Dhanush
60th Filmfare Awards South
  • Best Actor - Dhanush
  • Best Male Playback Singer - Dhanush ("Why  This Kolaveri Di")
  • Best screenplay - Aishwarya r.dhanush

See also

  • Bipolar disorder
  • Mental illness in film
  • List of films featuring mental illness
Sources from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhanush

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