Udhaya

Udhaya (2004)

உதயா

Udhayakumar and Vasanthi are collegemates and they fall in love. But soon he comes to know that she is engaged to be married. After he moves to Chennai and finds a job as a reporter at a magazine. He tries to fight for social change. In the process , he unknowingly gets to know a group of unsavoury characters who promise to help him in his goals. They frame him up. One day Udhaya is arrested for a crime involving a terrorist plot which he is not responsible. The movie is about how Vasanthi fights to prove his innocence and to get him out from behind bars.

Date of release
2004-03-28
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (6)
Runtime
2h 40m
Genres
Drama
Director
N. Azhagamperumal

Casting

Interesting facts

Udhaya is a 2004 Indian Tamil-language action film directed by Azhagam Perumal. The film stars Vijay in the titular character alongside Simran, while Vivek, Nassar and Rajesh play supporting roles. The soundtrack for the film was composed by A. R. Rahman and the background score was by his associate Pravin Mani as Rahman was unavailable due to scheduling issues. The editing was done by Raja Mohammad, and the cinematography by Priyan.

Production

Azhagam Perumal, an assistant to director Mani Ratnam in the 1990s, was supposed to make his directorial debut with the project. Simran was signed on to be a part of the film and the team began shoot as early as November 1998, with former Chief Election Commissioner of India, T. N. Seshan, also said to portray a key role. An item number was shot in 2000 with Vijay and Sophia Haque for the film. Producer Natarajan later replaced Seshan.

The film's delay led to Azhagam Perumal being labelled by the media as an "unlucky director", as his first film prior to this, which was supposed to be Mudhal Mudhalaaga starring Arvind Swamy and Karisma Kapoor had also failed to take off. He however signed on to direct the Madhavan-Jyothika starrer Dumm Dumm Dumm (2001), a film produced by Mani Ratnam, which became a commercial success.

Simran briefly announced her retirement from films after her marriage in December 2003 with Natarajan filing a case against the actress for failure to participate in shoot. As the film finally geared up for release in the summer of 2004, trade pundits were insistent that despite the presence of Vijay's other big budget film, Ghilli, time should be allotted to publicise Udhaya too. Eventually the two films released a month apart.

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