Makkal thilagam mgr part-10

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MGR's Re-Mastered AAYIRATHIL ORUVAN Silver Jubilee, A Rare Distinction!


In today’s era when even a Rs 200 crore movie, is unable to run for 25 days in cinema houses, late Tamil superstar MGR’s digitally re-mastered movie AAYIRATHIL ORUVAN has created a record run of Silver Jubilee (175 days) in couple of theatres in Chennai!

To celebrate the occasion, a grand music programme featuring popular orchestra Lakshman Sruthi playing MGR’s greatest hits was held at Kamarajar Arangam on Monday evening with stars like Sarath Kumar, P Vasu etc. attending the event.

G Chokkalingam of Divya Films, the firm that restored this film, said, “Today’s generation is not even aware of the term Silver Jubilee, which in the past was the benchmark of a hit movie. Hence the Silver Jubilee run of AAYIRATHIL ORUVAN is of more importance.”

Applauding the Silver Jubilee celebration event of the movie, he said, “The event was indeed a great tribute to legendary actor MGR.”

He informed, “ I am happier particularly because when the movie was first released in 1965 and run for over a year, we were unable to have functions to celebrate the milestone because of the anti-Hindi agitations that broke out then forcing the film producers to curtail celebrations. So I am happy that we are able to celebrate our Puratchithalaivar’s (MGR’s sobriquet) success so many years later.”




AAYIRATHIL ORUVAN, a swashbuckling action-adventure film about sea-pirates and independence achieved against a cruel tyrant was a super duper hit when released. It was digitally restored and re-release in January 2014. Apart from scope conversion from 35mm to digital scope, the film also had a completely re-recorded background music played out by an assistant of M. S. Viswananthan. The digital conversion was done by Prasad EFX, Chennai.