Parattai Engira Azhagu Sundaram
Parattai Engira Azhagu Sundaram is a 2007 Tamillanguage drama film directed by Suresh Krishna. It stars Dhanush in the lead role along with Meera Jasmine and Archana. The film is a remake of the successful 2005 Kannada film Jogi directed by Prem and features music scored by Gurukiran. This film is also remade in telugu as Yogi .The film revolves around a woman who comes to the city from her village in search of her presumably lost son. Released onApril 2007, the film couldnt repeat the success of its original version and was declared a Box office bomb.
Azhagu is now known as Parattai, in Chennai and is taken under the wings of Bhai Nassar a tea shop owner. Parattai is forced to take the aruvaal as gang wars erupts and single handedly he wipes out Deva, Kesavan and Suri Aditya, Kathal Dandapani, Aryan all dreaded criminals in the city. On parallel lines he never sees his mother and finally accompanies her dead body to the crematorium thinking that it is an orphans corpse. He dances with others, offers flowers and finally after her body is charred, he realizes that it was his dear mother.Rajinikanth who had watched the preview show of Kannada film Jogi, expressed his interest to remake the film in Tamil with his soninlaw, actor Dhanush, Director Keyaar bought the remake rights of this film. Choreographer Raju Sundaram was initially selected to direct the film but later he was replaced by Suresh Krissna. The film was launched in 2006 and the function was attended by director Shankar, Vijay, Asin, Rajathi Ammal, wife of Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, Rama Narayanan, Director Association chief S A Chandrasekhar and the honchos of Theatres Owners Association among others took part in the celebrations. Archana, who was part of the films directed by Balu Mahendra agreed to play the mother of Dhanush. Tamil version was titled as Parattai with prefix Azhagu Sundaram being his character name in the film. Incidentally, Parattai was the famous character played by Rajini in 1977 film16 Vayathinile. Yuvan Shankar Raja who was initially agreed to compose the music later backed out owing to commitments. He was later replaced by Gurukiran who composed the original film and marked his debut in Tamil films. ........
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