Jilla || Ilayathalapathy & Mohanlal || Imman D

[CEDYBLUE]

That makes it 16.

[uruzalari]

+ Ninaithen Vandhai


There is a possiblity that they might have considered these movies....

Friends
Badri
Pokkiri

These were tamil debuts for the respective directors. They had made their directorial debut in other languages.

[ajaybaskar]

Valid point

[mappi]

Udhaya, is also in the list, right?

No, Udhaya is Azhagam Perumal 3rd Film (1. Dum Dum Dum ; 2. Joot)
But thanks a ton for mentioning this Movie. Vijay underplayed his role quite beautifully both as a villager as well as a city guy. Sometime back i expressed my wish to see Vijay playing a family-guy kind of role. The reference I took is from this movie, notably, Pookum Malarai song. Each moment in the song is joy and its here you relate yourself with Vijay. I am sure most of his current fans have not watched this movie, I request them to watch it. That will ease down their argument with BO sucess, and give them many ways to talk more good things about Vijay and his films. Lets talk about few other films like Thullatha manum Thullum, Love today in the Vijay thread, and give space here for Jilla discussions (you know i have quite a good track record of hijacking threads).

Looking forward for Jilla (but atleast this time the distributor must send posters to the cinema halls in France ... LoL)

[uruzalari]

No, Udhaya is Azhagam Perumal 3rd Film (1. Dum Dum Dum ; 2. Joot)
But thanks a ton for mentioning this Movie. Vijay underplayed his role quite beautifully both as a villager as well as a city guy. Sometime back i expressed my wish to see Vijay playing a family-guy kind of role. The reference I took is from this movie, notably, Pookum Malarai song. Each moment in the song is joy and its here you relate yourself with Vijay. I am sure most of his current fans have not watched this movie, I ask them to watch. That will ease down their argument with BO sucess, and give them many ways to talk more good things about Vijay and his films. Lets talk about few other films like Thullatha manum Thullum, Love today in the Vijay thread, and give space here for Jilla discussions.

Looking forward for Jilla (but atleast this time the distributor must send posters to the cinema halls in France ... LoL)

Udhaya was the first film that Azhagam Perumal started shooting...... The movie got stalled and his other two movies released ahead of this...... The Udhaya Udhaya song was shot the last I suppose ...You can very well see him in the Thirumalai/Ghilli look in this song.... Someone correct me if I am wrong

[mappi]

Yes, OK. But for the records its the Theatrical release thats taken into account. Anyway whatever it is, Udhaya is a good movie and its always welcomed to be in any list.

[uruzalari]

Yes, OK. But for the records its the Theatrical release thats taken into account. Anyway whatever it is, Udhaya is a good movie and its always welcomed to be in any list.

I haven't actually watched the movie as a whole ...and as you said guess most Vijay fans have not either .....Just curious ..... You mentioned about Vijay's acting..... But what about the movie as a whole?...was it good? ... It sunk without a trace ..... Was it because of poor marketing/ outdated look of the movie?

[mappi]

Repeat : I have quite a good track record of hijacking threads ... LoL

I will talk about it in detail in Vijay Thread. Just to put down your curiosity, there is no weak points to be jotted out, just that we are talking about 2004 where TFI was catching up with new narative style, and Azhagam Perumal tried to bring in realism in commercial format. Add in the communist contraversial Nazer-The Cobbler role, it faced few problems in censor. But the film was not completely rejected, just that the gap it took to get released did not sustain the interest of the people. The gap that I am talking about includes the vigorous carrier shapping of Vijay too. Talking about the movie, its quite fluid and you accept to walk around with Vijay's charm (add in Simran too) leading us to a bloody climax. Got to check with one of my friend who is a Thivira Vijay fan the fact on the climax being altered. Anyone here knows about it, please let me know.

[CEDYBLUE]

I haven't actually watched the movie as a whole ...and as you said guess most Vijay fans have not either .....Just curious ..... You mentioned about Vijay's acting..... But what about the movie as a whole?...was it good? ... It sunk without a trace ..... Was it because of poor marketing/ outdated look of the movie?

I remember waiting for Udhaya to release for a long time during the late 1990's/early 2000s.
The movie, i suppose began after TMT and was stalled early. Post, Badri, shooting resumed again and most of the portions were shot. However, the momentum was short and the movie was put in cold storage again.
As MB rightly says, Vijay was asked to shoot for the 2 pending songs (other 3 were half-shot anyway) after Thirumalai and during the making of Ghilli for which he obliged. Pyramid Natarajan released the movie at the worst possible time, a couple of weeks before Ghilli and believe me, there was quite a buzz among Vijay fans, despite the painfully long wait. One reason i guess was AR Rahman's music with Pookum Malargal and Thiurvallikeni Rani were chartbusters already.
A semi-baked Udhaya released and sunk without notice. But I loved the look of Vijay in that movie and off couse loved Pookum Malargal.
A couple of weeks later, Ghilli released and the rest, as they say, is history

[uruzalari]

Repeat : I have quite a good track record of hijacking threads ... LoL

I will talk about it in detail in Vijay Thread. Just to put down your curiosity, there is no weak points to be jotted out, just that we are talking about 2004 where TFI was catching up with new narative style, and Azhagam Perumal tried to bring in realism in commercial format. Add in the communist contraversial Nazer-The Cobbler role, it faced few problems in censor. But the film was not completely rejected, just that the gap it took to get released did not sustain the interest of the people. The gap that I am talking about includes the vigorous carrier shapping of Vijay too. Talking about the movie, its quite fluid and you accept to walk around with Vijay's charm (add in Simran too) leading us to a bloody climax. Got to check with one of my friend who is a Thivira Vijay fan the fact on the climax being altered. Anyone here knows about it, please let me know.

Thanks a lot for the synopsis


I will talk about it in detail in Vijay Thread.

Will wait for this