Thiruda Thiruda

Thiruda Thiruda
Directed by	Mani Ratnam
Produced by	Mani Ratnam
Written by	Mani Ratnam, Ram Gopal Varma Sujatha
Starring	Prashanth Anand Heera Rajgopal Anu Agarwal Salim Ghouse S. P. Balasubrahmanyam Malaysia Vasudevan
Music by	A. R. Rahman
Cinematography	P. C. Sriram
Distributed by	Aalayam
Release date(s)	November 10, 1993
Running time	140 mins
Language	Tamil
Budget	$1 million

Thiruda Thiruda (Tamil: திருடா திருடா) (Thief Thief) (1993) is a Tamil film comedy, action directed by the acclaimed film maker Mani Ratnam, and scripted by Ram Gopal Varma, yet another iconic Indian film maker. The film's score and soundtrack are composed by A. R. Rahman.

Plot

Fresh printed bank notes to the value of incredible 1000 crores are stolen in India from a train by the henchmen of a tough gangster Vikram (Salim Ghouse) living in London. Portly CBI Inspector Laxminarayan (S.P. Balasubrahmanyam) is assigned to track down 1000 Crore Rupees worth of stolen currency from the Nasik Government Security Press in 10 days before the big presentation for the Prime Minister's birthday. The code card only being able to open the container with the money comes into the possession of beautiful Chandralekha (Anu Agarwal). On the way to Vikram she comes across the two thieves Kadir (Anand) and Azhagu (Prashanth) who are on the run from the police having in a village belle Rasathi (Heera Rajgopal) whom they kept from committing suicide and who then ran away from her ruthless uncle. After some attempts of cheating each other Chandralekha is making friends with the thieves. When she discovers that Vikram is after her for the money, she informs the three others about the real value of the code card. Who gets to keep the money for good, forms the rest of the story.

Cast

• Kadir ... Anand
• Azhagu ... Prasanth
• Rajathi ... Heera
• Chandralekha ... Anu Agarwal
• Laxminarayanan ... S P Balasubrahmanyam
• TT Vikram ... Salim Ghouse

Box office

• The film bombed at the box office, being a failure in Mani Ratnam's career.
• This film is reputed to be one of the first Indian movies to have used cinematographic devices such as Akela Cranes. P.C. Sriram provided the cinematography for this film.
• Dialogues for the film were written by famous writer Sujatha.
• Ram Gopal Varma gave this story to Mani Ratnam and in turn Mani Ratnam gave the story for Ghayam, yet another blockbuster, for Ram Gopal Varma to direct.
• This film was dubbed and released in Telugu as Donga Donga and in Hindi as Chor Chor.

Soundtrack

Thiruda Thiruda: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Soundtrack by A. R. Rahman
Released	1993
Recorded	Panchathan Record Inn
Genre	Soundtrack
Label	Bayshore Audio
Producer	A. R. Rahman
A. R. Rahman chronology
Gentleman (1993) Thiruda Thiruda (1993) Vandicholai Chinraasu (1994)

The soundtrack features 7 songs composed by A. R. Rahman, with lyrics by Vairamuthu.

Track listing:

1. "Kannum Kannum" – Mano
2. "Konjam Nilavu" – Anupama Deshpande, Suresh Peters
3. "Veerapandi Kotayile" – Mano, Unni Menon, K. S. Chithra
4. "Thee Thee" – Carolene, Noel James
5. "Rasathi" – Shahul Hameed
6. "Putham Pudhu Boomi " – K. S. Chithra, Mano
7. "Thiruda Thiruda Theme" – G. V. Prakash

The soundtrack went skyrocketing upon release, and brought A.R. Rahman to the spotlight.

External links

• Thiruda Thiruda at the Internet Movie Database