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[HonestRaj]

These are some movies that I can recollect

Madurey

choclet?

[HonestRaj]

does anyone have Udhaya stills scanned.. one i remember Vijay - Simran in black dress.. released in 1998/99

[uruzalari]

choclet?

Honest...Dat was directed by A. Venkatesh....Madesh was the producer for it

[ajaybaskar]

As Cedy pointed out, Udhaya shoot started after TMT. Pyramid Natarajan had booked ARR for a three film deal and Udhaya was one of them. Other two being Sangamam and Rhythm. The film started with a supreme crew. Ravi K Chandran, Sreekar Prasad and ARR. Due to the delay, the first two opted out and Priyan/Raja Mohammed came in. ARR composed the songs and the bgm was done by Pravin Mani. The delay was mainly because Natarajan went through a hard time after the BO failure of Rhythm and Sangamam. And meanwhile Vijay and Simran became busy with their other projects. Subsequently bringing in the artistes for shoot itself became a problem.

I got a chance to read the script and also hear Thiruvallikkeni Rani, Udhaya Udhaya and Enna enna before the audio was officially launched. The script was good and if they had gone as per their plans, Udhaya could've been a different film altogether. The dialogues of Dhananjeya Veera, the character played by Nasser, were so strong. I was even worried if the film would pass through the censors. But eventually the film faced even bigger problems and what I saw on the screen finally was very different from what I read.

[ajaybaskar]

One fine day, the producer managed some cash and wanted to complete the movie in a hurry. Around a month's shoot was still left. But Simran, who got married only a few months back, refused to work. Natarajan seeked the help of producers council and they managed to get 5 days call sheet of Simran. 30 days of shoot was truncated to 5 days, of which 4 days were spent in shooting 2 songs. Perfect example of going from bad to worse.

[mappi]

Ajaybaskar, could you pull out the script now by any chance ? *greedy look*
Anyway is it true that the climax was altered - from what you read and what you saw ?

[ajaybaskar]

Mappi,

Those days they directors had only the hard copies of the script. There were centres in Vadapalani, who type the hand written scripts and thn take copies of it to be circulated among the actors. I read one such copy and I couldn't read in full. Read few parts of Udhayakumaran-Vasanthi love track and the ones featuring Dhananjeya veeran. Believe me, those were different too..

If you want to know if the climax was altered, gimme few days time. Will confirm it with Azhagamperumal himself.

[ajaybaskar]

And for starters, Udhaya was supposed to be made even earlier (96-97) with a different cast and different title. 'Mudhal Mudhalaga' with Arvindswamy and Karishma Kapoor. Music by ARR and produced by AG Subramaniam. It was shelved.

I now wonder if the script is haunted.

[mappi]

That saves me a call to my friend in US of A ... just kidding.
yes, thanks and looking forward for the behind the scenes tit-bits. That will allow us to analyse profondly what really messes up a developement.

[CEDYBLUE]

And for starters, Udhaya was supposed to be made even earlier (96-97) with a different cast and different title. 'Mudhal Mudhalaga' with Arvindswamy and Karishma Kapoor. Music by ARR and produced by AG Subramaniam. It was shelved.

I now wonder if the script is haunted.

Ajay, more than anything else, one has to feel for Azhagam Perumal who will be forever seen as a great assistant to Dir. Maniratnam and not as a great director himself.