imported>WikiPedant: Reverted edits by 106.203.213.209 (talk) to last version by Yamla

2021-08-17T06:46:40Z

Reverted edits by 106.203.213.209 (talk) to last version by Yamla

New page

{{short description|2002 film by Kasthuri Raja}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2015}}
{{Use Indian English|date=October 2015}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Thulluvadho Ilamai
| image = Thulluvadho Ilamai.jpg
| caption = Poster
| director = [[Kasthuri Raja]]
| screenplay = [[Selvaraghavan]]
| story = Kasthuri Raja
| starring = [[Dhanush]] [[Sherin]] [[Abhinay]] Ramesh Shilpa Gangeshwari [[Ramesh Khanna]]
| producer = M. Ramakrishnan
| music = '''Score:''' Viji Manuel '''Songs:''' [[Yuvan Shankar Raja]]
| editing = [[Suresh Urs]]
| released = {{Film date|df=y|2002|05|10}}
| cinematography = Ashok Raaj [[Arvind Krishna (cinematographer)]]
| studio = Karthik Cine Visions
|distributor = [[Ramana Madhesh|Movie Magic Films]]
| runtime = 144 minutes
| language = Tamil
| country = India
}}

'''''Thulluvadho Ilamai''''' ({{trans|Exuberance of Youth}}) is a 2002 Indian [[Tamil language|Tamil]]-language [[coming of age film|coming of age]] [[drama film]] written and directed by [[Selvaraghavan]], but [[Kasthuri Raja]] is credited for business reasons and the film marks the acting debut of [[Dhanush]], who plays the lead role. The film also features other newcomers [[Abhinay]], [[Sherin]], Ramesh, Shilpa and Gangeshwari in major roles, and features prominent film personalities [[Vijayakumar (Tamil actor)|Vijayakumar]], [[Ramesh Khanna]], [[Pyramid Natarajan]], playing supporting roles.

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.

While the soundtrack was composed by [[Yuvan Shankar Raja]], Viji Manuel composed the film score. The film was released on 10 May 2002.<ref name="TI">{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/movies/2002/jul/23thull.htm |title=Movies: The Rediff Review: Thulluvatho Ilamai |publisher=Rediff|date=2002-07-23 |access-date=2012-07-12}}</ref>

==Plot==
Mahesh ([[Dhanush]]) is the son of a poor fisherman ([[Thalaivasal Vijay]]). He 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 no time for their daughter and always neglecting her. Harish (Ramesh) is regularly beaten up and mistreated by his sadistic father. These five people and another girl named Divya (Gangeshwari) are high school students and best friends. When they find out that 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, their attempts are a waste. They struggle to survive in the outside world. Being young and immature, their daily life becomes hell for them. They reside in a hotel and get caught by the police who mistake them to be doing illicit activities. Rescued by Mani, they roam the streets and seek shelter in abandoned places. They try to make money for themselves after the cash they brought with them is taken by the inspector. Contacting their parents make their situation worse. All of them realize that their parents do not care about them at all and wouldn't even bother to worry if they are dead. Feeling disappointed they continue on their journey. Pooja and Mahesh, at a stage, get intimate much to Divya's shock. When she questions Harish and scolds Divya, neither of them speak a word. Vishnu soon realizes that the remaining money that he had went missing, and Anitha too is nowhere to be found. Suspecting her to have been going behind drugs, they start looking for her. Late at night, Vishnu, Mani and Mahesh go look for Anitha while Pooja and Divya stay with Harish.

The friends spot Anitha being brought by a man to be sell her as a prostitute and Harish fight them, only to get stabbed. Realizing that they have no other way to survive 'safely' in this world, they decide to return home. They finally return to their school, where the principal ([[Vijayakumar (Tamil actor)|Vijayakumar]]) lectures the students' parents, blaming them for the students' escape attempt and misbehavior. Hearing the principal's words and her father scolding her, Pooja consumes an unnamed acid from her school lab. Upon hearing this, Mahesh jumps from the second floor. Both are rushed to the hospital where fortunately, they survive. Ignoring the parents, the rest of their class and batch mates get into the ICU to meet them. Happy that they are safe, they start laughing and mocking each other. The principal tells the parents that they are not worried about what happened and are happy. Feeling ashamed, the parents leave the children alone.

All these are told in a flashback where Mahesh, now in the military, comes back to his school and recalls the memories. He had not disturbed Pooja after that and has no idea where his friends are now. Assuring himself that they would have been well off as he is now, he gets interrupted by the principal. But the principal does not recognize Mahesh and walks off. Mahesh tells himself that the principal does not remember him as he would have seen many students in all these years.

==Cast==
{{colbegin}}
*[[Dhanush]] as Mahesh
*[[Sherin]] as Pooja
*[[Abhinay]] as Vishnu
*Ramesh as Harish
*Shilpa as Anitha
*Gangeshwari as Divya
*[[Ramesh Khanna]] as Mani
*[[Vijayakumar (Tamil actor)|Vijayakumar]] as School Principal
*[[Thalaivasal Vijay]] as Mahesh's father
*[[Pyramid Natarajan]] as Pooja's father
*[[Ishari K. Ganesh]] as Police Inspector
*[[Nizhalgal Ravi]] as Vishnu's father
*Ashok Raja in a special appearance in the song "Kaatrukku Kaatrukku"
*Dhanusha Murugasan as Kavitha
{{colend}}

==Production==
Selvaraghavan, son of director Kasthuri Raja had written the script and also directed the film. When his family faced financial pressures in the early 2000s with his father was out of work, and subsequently they decided to put their remaining earnings into the film. The film was launched during September 2000.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20041103100623/http://www.dinakaran.com/cinema/english/cinenews/01-09-00/anadam.htm</ref> Featuring his brother [[Dhanush]] in his first role, alongside [[Sherin]] and [[Abhinay]], the film told the coming-of-age story of six high school students and featured a hit soundtrack by [[Yuvan Shankar Raja]].<ref name = 7g/>

Post-filming, the producers found it difficult to find a distributor. Director [[R. Madhesh]] later purchased and released the film.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20031213090856/http://www.cinesouth.com/masala/06072002/news01.shtml</ref>

==Soundtrack==
{{Infobox album
| name = Thulluvadho Ilamai
| type = soundtrack
| artist = [[Yuvan Shankar Raja]]
| cover =
| alt =
| released = <div style="white-space: nowrap;">21 March 2002</div>
| recorded = 2002
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[Film soundtrack|Feature film soundtrack]]
| length = 36:48 (First release) 43:24 (Second release)
| label = Star Music [[Saregama|Sa Re Ga Ma]] Cee (I) TV Audio
| producer = [[Yuvan Shankar Raja]]
| prev_title = [[Dheena]]
| prev_year = 2000
| next_title = [[Manadhai Thirudivittai]]
| next_year = 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 combos in Tamil cinema.<ref>http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tamil/movies/news/GV-Prakash-replaces-Yuvan-Shankar-Raja/articleshow/7851329.cms</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20151104102808/http://www.sify.com/movies/selva-splits-with-yuvan-news-tamil-kkftLQhiejasi.html sify.com]</ref><ref>http://www.behindwoods.com/features/Slideshows/Slideshows1/director-musicdirector/page7.html</ref><ref>http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movie-news-1/mar-10-01/selvaraghavan-yuvan-shankar-raja-01-03-10.html</ref> Viji Manuel composed the film score on Yuvan Shankar Raja's request who had to leave for London on an urgent work.<ref>http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/music/back-with-a-bang/article6379597.ece</ref> 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,<ref>{{cite web|author=Charulatha Mani |url=http://www.thehindu.com/arts/music/article2659559.ece |title=Arts / Music : Riveting Ritigowla |work=The Hindu |date=2011-11-25 |access-date=2012-07-12}}</ref> had two versions, a female solo and a duet version. The lyrics were written by [[Pa. Vijay]] except one song, was written by Selvaraghavan.

The album, receiving highly 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.behindwoods.com/features/visitors-1/yuvan-shankar-raja-26-09-09.html |title=The experience called Yuvan Shankar Raja |publisher=Behindwoods |access-date=2012-07-12}}</ref>
{{Track listing
| title1 = Idhu Kaadhala
| title10 =
| note6 = Solo
| note2 = Duet
| extra7 = [[Harish Raghavendra]], [[Harini (singer)|Harini]], Febi Mani, Sunder Rajan
| extra6 = Bombay Jayashree
| extra5 = [[Venkat Prabhu]], [[Chitra Iyer|Chitra Sivaraman]]
| extra4 = [[Srinivas]], [[Harini (singer)|Harini]]
| extra3 = Yuvan Shankar Raja, Timmy
| extra2 = [[P. Unnikrishnan]], [[Bombay Jayashree]]
| all_writing =
| extra1 = [[Yuvan Shankar Raja]]
| extra_column = Singer(s)
| all_lyrics = [[Pa. Vijay]], except the track "Kann Munney" which was written by [[Selvaraghavan]]
| total_length =
| length10 =
| length9 =
| length1 = 4:32
| title5 = Neruppu Koothadikudhu
| title2 = Theenda Theenda
| length2 = 5:21
| title3 = Kann Munney
| length3 = 6:01
| title4 = Vayadhu Vaa Vaa
| length4 = 4:28
| length5 = 5:10
| title9 =
| title6 = Theenda Theenda
| length6 = 5:19
| title7 = Kaatrukku Kaatrukku
| length7 = 5:57
| title8 =
| length8 =
| headline = First release
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = Second release
| extra_column = Singer(s)
| total_length =
| title8 = Theepiditha Kangal
| extra8 = [[Bonnie Chakraborty]]
| length8 = 2:19
| title9 = Vaanam Oru
| extra9 = Yuvan Shankar Raja, Bonnie Chakraborty, Lavanya
| length9 = 2:46
| title10 = Theme Music
| extra10 = [[Instrumental]]
| length10 = 1:31
}}

==Release==
After taking a small opening, the film began to get teen audiences to cinema halls for its adolescent themes. It subsequently went on to become a [[sleeper hit]].<ref name = TI/> Post-release, Selvaraghavan stated that he had also directed the film but was forced to credit his more established film-maker father [[Kasthuri Raja]] as the director, in order to help the project find a distributor.<ref name="7g">{{Cite web |date=October 15, 2004 |title='7-G Rainbow Colony is my story' |url=https://www.rediff.com/movies/2004/oct/15selv.htm |access-date=8 June 2021 |website=Rediff.com}}</ref>

The success of the film prompted Kasthuri Raja to launch a film title ''Theenda Theenda'', inspired by the song from the film.<ref>{{Cite web |title=02-03-03 |url=http://www.dinakaran.com/cinema/english/cinenews/2003/mar/02-03-03.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041025125947/http://www.dinakaran.com/cinema/english/cinenews/2003/mar/02-03-03.htm |archive-date=25 October 2004 |website=Dinakaran}}</ref>

==Remake==
This film was later remade for [[Telugu people|Telugu]] audience, in 2003, as ''[[Juniors (film)|Juniors]]'' starring [[Allari Naresh]] and [[Sherin]] reprising her role.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Kasthuri Raja}}

[[Category:2002 films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Tamil-language films]]
[[Category:Indian teen drama films]]
[[Category:Indian coming-of-age drama films]]
[[Category:2000s teen drama films]]
[[Category:Films scored by Yuvan Shankar Raja]]
[[Category:Tamil films remade in other languages]]
[[Category:2000s Tamil-language films]]
[[Category:2000s coming-of-age drama films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Kasthuri Raja]]
[[Category:2002 drama films]]

Thulluvadho Ilamai - Revision history

imported>WikiPedant: Reverted edits by 106.203.213.209 (talk) to last version by Yamla