Thirumalai

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Thirumalai
Image:Thirumalai.jpg
Directed by	Ramana
Written by	Ramana
Starring	Vijay, Jyothika, Vivek, Raghuvaran, Kausalya
Music by	Vidyasagar
Release date(s)	October 24, 2003
Running time	169 min.
Language	Tamil
Budget	Rs. 10 crores ($ 2.2 million)

Thirumalai is a Tamil film which released on Oct 24, 2003 and was directed by Ramana. This film has Vijay in the main lead. Jyothika plays his love and Kiran Rathod plays a guest role. This film was a huge success and ran for more than 125 days. Vijay's string of fast paced entertainers started with this one and was followed by Ghilli, Madhurey, Thirupaachi and Sivakasi. It was remade in Telugu as Gowri.

1 Plot
2 Crew
3 Music
4 Development

[edit] Plot

Thirumalai(Vijay), a mechanic, falls in love with Sweta(Jyothika) and after some persistent wooing, she reciprocates his feelings. Sweta's father(Ashwin), the owner of a television channel, seeks the help of Arasu(Manoj.K.Jayan), a dada, to break up the romance. This film had a kind of difference of the climax in the end

[edit] Crew

Written and Directed by: Ramana
Produced by: Pushpa Kandaswamy
Music: Vidyasagar
Director of Photography: R.Rathnavel
Editor: Suresh Urs
Art Direction: K.Kathir

[edit] Music

Song	Singers	Picturization
Thaamthakka Dheemthakka	Tippu, Karthik	Vijay, Lawrence Raghavendra
Vaadiyamma Jakkamma	Udit Narayanan	Vijay, Kiran Rathod
Neeyaa Pesyadhu	Shankar Mahadevan	Vijay, Jyothika
Azhagooril Poothvale	S. P. Balasubramaniam, Sujatha Mohan	Vijay, Jyothika
Dhimsu Katta	Tippu, Srilekha Parthasarathi	Vijay, Jyothika

[edit] Development

Originally, Namratha Shirodkar was selected as the heroine. They even started shooting. However, Ramana liked Jyothika better for this role.

Vijay has changed his get up in this role to be like a rowdy/mechanic and to give a younger look. This is his 2nd Movie Vijay has acted with Jyothika. This is Vijay's 2nd movie acting with Kousalya. However, Kouslaya is a side actress in this.