I somehow feel ‘Thiruda Thiruda’ is one of the best movies of PC Sriram. Amazing!!! Yesterday, I got to watch this movie once again! Three songs in the movie, I never get bored of watching are
1. Chandralekha (Heard that the choreographer for the song also had a large say in the lightings)
2. Veera Paandi koattayile
In this song, there is a stanza where heera sings
‘Indha maalai mayakkam en manadhil nadukkam Nenjil vaarthai thudikkum’
Adhula oru blue lens vachi veLaayadi irupaar paarunga. And exactly at that point of time, mijik la ‘tok tok’ appadinu namma ARR deivam kalakki iruppaar. Sathyam! Sathyam! (Abirami abirami solli bore adichchu poachu :P)
3. Thee Thee
Oru pazhaya kovil kuLam, padikkattu and 2 people in black color dress. Avlo dhaan. But picturisation irukke. Wow!!
No wonder ARR reserves his best for ManiRatnam movies.
Yaaravadhu Mani Sir kitta sollungapaa. Avar padam paathu romba naaL aachu. Pudhu padam work start panna sollungapaa. PC Sriram cameraman aa poda sollungapaa! Prabhu deva choreography panna sollungapaa (Only choreography)
on 24 Aug 2005 at 4:50 pm # vatsan
mani padam the last 1 was bad, so rest edukattam, illati hell produce another disgusting movie!
PC is working on a movie titled ‘kanda naal mudhal’ directed by priya v (few women directors) and produced by prakash raj, expect a good movie on the likes of aazagahiya theeya
(inda madri periya comment podati ull want explanations adu nala dhan periya comment)
on 24 Aug 2005 at 4:52 pm # F e r r a r i
Vatsan,
IMO Ayutha Ezhuthu is a much much much better movie than the crap thats been coming out these days
Neraya perukku adhu puriyalai, and they termed it as a bad movie 
I read about that PC movie in rediff today!
on 24 Aug 2005 at 5:18 pm # B a l a j i
Agree with Ferrari. AE was not at all a bad movie by any stretch of imagination. Only that Sidharth’s bit came in the last and made me restless to see what happened to wounded Surya.
Coming to Thiruda Thiruda, it was a very good entertainer from Mani. Dunno why it bombed at the box office. And my fav song in that is “Rasathi en usiru ennudhillai”.
on 24 Aug 2005 at 5:47 pm # Neha
Ferrari,
u forgot “ARR a mijik poda sollungappa”
on 24 Aug 2005 at 5:49 pm # F e r r a r i
Balaji,
Thats also a nice song. Shahul Hameed
Neha,
Adhu oru obvious thing ma. ARR mijik illama Mani sir padam aa? Chance ey illai!
on 24 Aug 2005 at 6:12 pm # msp
Felt ditto last evening ! Two points to add:
1) Recall the fight in the open barn after the bus chases Shanmugasundaram’s henchman to retrieve Heera. The top half of the frame was tending to darkness and red. The horizon looked a very unrealistic orange. I’m not much for technical details and I have no idea how that was done but oru painting paarakara effect !
2) Everyone went nuts over Chayya Chayya choreography on trains. But hey the TT climax fight was another level.The fag end reminded me of the Agni Natchatram climax though.
on 24 Aug 2005 at 7:54 pm # Prabhu S
I think Mani is working on ‘Thambi’ with Madhavan..not sure.
on 24 Aug 2005 at 7:57 pm # GP
Those three songs are truly great.. andha blue lens light Heera-mele oru angle-le vizhundhu marupadiyum dark-avum.. appuram innoru angle-le irundhu vizhum.. Super..
on 24 Aug 2005 at 8:09 pm # Jacky
I think he’s no more innovative in writing scripts. The slide started from Dilse and it’s only a downhill journey! AP was an exception, even the critically acclaimed Kannathil had its shades of redundant terrorism. IMO, it was brilliant in parts. Though his skill in portraying sensitivity is intact, besides he keeps abreast with latest technologies but nothing can save a movie like a sound script.
So what next, an afghan girl loving an Iraq boy in the backdrop of American Terrorism?
I hope he makes a good period film – the Box office pressure to score will be less or he should work with Stars. I’m dying to see a Mani-Kamal-ARR combo.
on 24 Aug 2005 at 11:50 pm # shekhar
I liked the BGM.apdi oru BGM podarathu talaivar ARR-aala thaan mudiyum.
on 25 Aug 2005 at 6:09 am # vettees
I liked more of Rahman’s early compositions.Thiruda Thiruda,Gentleman,Roja,Muthalvan,Bombay,Muthu are my favourites.Matha padathula enni enni sollalam pola iruku.The above mentioned albums all songs were good.BGM ennoda vote Ilayarajavuku than.
on 25 Aug 2005 at 7:18 am # visithra
I love all the songs in the movie and it was a hit here! Just as AE was and Heyram.
I love both the movies - thats the only movie to my opinion Prasanth acts well in!
Thee still rocks today!
on 25 Aug 2005 at 10:07 am # Vijay
I second msp.Thiruda Thiruda had one of the all-time great action sequences in the climax…absolutely brilliant! I would go out on a limb and say that it could easily match up with any Hollywood action set piece
on 25 Aug 2005 at 10:39 am # Srini
well said vetees…isaina adhu isaignani
than…rahmanodadhu saththam…aana indha
media hype koduthu andha saththatha vikka
vekkaraanga…ellam thalai ezhuthu…
on 25 Aug 2005 at 10:53 am # Maverick
TT la yeppavum oru orange tint irukkum. that was PC’s theme for the look of the movie. Just like the Smoke effect for Idhayathai Thirudaathey and Iruttu effect for Agni Natchathiram brings in the moods of those movies.
on 25 Aug 2005 at 11:02 am # Nandu
Hmm…I havent seen the movie but heard and seen the songs…There’s no doubt on the gud work of ARR & PC Sriram …Hats of to them…
on 25 Aug 2005 at 4:53 pm # shyam
Thiruda Thiruda is one of the few Tamil movies I’ve seen that figure in my favourites - songs included.
Another one is Agni Nakshatiram. Good fun, those movies.
on 26 Aug 2005 at 5:10 am # capriciously_me
isn’t mani’s next movie without songs? or atleast he was telling in his interviews that he wanted to make a movie without songs…therla…
on 27 Aug 2005 at 12:17 pm # vee-jay
Agreed for the other songs.
Thee Thee: Adhe set-la lyrics illama adhe composition verum instrumental ku andha dance better-a irundhirukkumo???
on 27 Aug 2005 at 1:40 pm # Maverick
Vee-jay
You mean just with the jadhis? Or adhuvum illamayaa?
The way jadhis come up in that song and the soft female vocals formed a nice contrast…illai?
on 29 Aug 2005 at 2:37 am # vee-jay
Maverick,
I should have been clear!! No comment on picturisation.
i thought ‘thee thee’ would have been better with only instrumentals and jadhis.
on 22 Sep 2005 at 11:32 am # swami
saw thiruda thiruda again ..got to admit it has all flavour of mani’s style …
its much much better than any masala movie such as dhoom,main hoon na etc etc ..
mani has proved that he can even me a fun go masal movie and look it different ….
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on 01 Jun 2006 at 11:58 pm # Mohan
Whatever happened to Shahul Hameed, the guy who sang ‘Rasath en usiru’ in Thiruda Thiruda and ‘Usilampatti’ in Gentleman?
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on 14 Feb 2008 at 11:05 pm # Indu
Allah Rakka Rahman is a great blessing of ALLAH.Dhileep sir U rock always……And we love UR music infintely…………………………………………….