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===Casting===
===Casting===
In July 2008, actress [[Nayantara]] was signed for the female lead role in ''Paiyaa'' for a record salary of 1 [[crore]] rupees. However, as the director decided to reduce her salary due to [[economic recession]] and a series of flops for her, she resisted, leaving the project in December 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/article/43919.html|title=Lingusamy opens up on Nayantara episode|publisher=indiaglitz.com|accessdate=2010-01-29}}</ref> Subsequently [[Trisha Krishnan]] was reported to have bagged the role,<ref>{{Cite web|author=Moviebuzz|year=2008|title=Nayanthara will not be a part of Paiyya|url=http://sify.com/movies/tamil/fullstory.php?id=14812052|publisher=[[Sify]].com|accessdate=2008-12-04}}</ref> before it was confirmed, that she was ultimately replaced by [[Tamanna Bhatia]], who was signed for 80 lakhs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/article/43522.html|title='Paiya' is ready to take off with Tamanna|publisher=indiaglitz.com|accessdate=2010-01-29}}</ref> Later on in late December 2008, [[Milind Soman]], who had last appeared in ''[[Pachaikili Muthucharam]]'' in Tamil, was signed up for the main antagonist's role, a Mumbai-based don,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/article/43887.html|title=Milind Soman in 'Paiya'|publisher=indiaglitz.com|accessdate=2010-03-20}}</ref> while there are 18 villains overall as per reports.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://entertainment.oneindia.in/tamil/exclusive/2009/karthi-baddies-paiya-061009.html|title=Karthi tackles 18 baddies hand-to-hand|publisher=[[Oneindia]]|accessdate=2010-01-29}}</ref>
In July 2008, actress [[Nayantara]] was signed for the female lead role in ''Paiyaa'' for a record salary of 1 [[crore]] rupees. However, as the director decided to reduce her salary due to [[economic recession]] , she resisted, leaving the project in December 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/article/43919.html|title=Lingusamy opens up on Nayantara episode|publisher=indiaglitz.com|accessdate=2010-01-29}}</ref> Subsequently [[Trisha Krishnan]] was reported to have bagged the role,<ref>{{Cite web|author=Moviebuzz|year=2008|title=Nayanthara will not be a part of Paiyya|url=http://sify.com/movies/tamil/fullstory.php?id=14812052|publisher=[[Sify]].com|accessdate=2008-12-04}}</ref> before it was confirmed, that she was ultimately replaced by [[Tamanna Bhatia]], who was signed for 80 lakhs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/article/43522.html|title='Paiya' is ready to take off with Tamanna|publisher=indiaglitz.com|accessdate=2010-01-29}}</ref> Later on in late December 2008, [[Milind Soman]], who had last appeared in ''[[Pachaikili Muthucharam]]'' in Tamil, was signed up for the main antagonist's role, a Mumbai-based don,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/article/43887.html|title=Milind Soman in 'Paiya'|publisher=indiaglitz.com|accessdate=2010-03-20}}</ref> while there are 18 villains overall as per reports.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://entertainment.oneindia.in/tamil/exclusive/2009/karthi-baddies-paiya-061009.html|title=Karthi tackles 18 baddies hand-to-hand|publisher=[[Oneindia]]|accessdate=2010-01-29}}</ref>


===Filming===
===Filming===

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Paiyaa
Release poster
Directed byN. Linguswamy
Written by
Produced byN. Subash Chandra Bose
Starring
CinematographyMadhi
Edited byAnthony Gonsalves
Music byYuvan Shankar Raja
Production
company
Distributed by
Release date
  • April 2, 2010 (2010-04-02)
Running time
148 minutes
CountryTemplate:Film India
LanguageTamil
Budget₹12 crores
($2.4 million)[2]
Box office₹33.5 crores
($7 million)[2] (Net distributor share)

Paiyaa (Template:Lang-ta ; Template:Lang-en) is a 2010 Indian Tamil romantic action film written and directed by N. Linguswamy.[3] It stars Karthik Sivakumar and Tamannaah Bhatia in the lead roles, with Milind Soman, Sonia Deepti and Jegan essaying supporting roles.[4] The film revolves around a journey of a young couple: a jobless carefree guy, is asked by a young IT employee, incidentally the girl he is in love with, to escort her from Bangalore to Mumbai. The incident that happen and the obstacles they have to face and how they bond together during the journey, forms the crux.

The film, produced by Linguswamy's younger brother N. Subash Chandra Bose under the banner of Thirupathi Brothers and distributed by Dhayanidhi Alagiri's Cloud Nine Movies, features a highly successful soundtrack and film score composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja, cinematography by Madhi and editing handled Anthony Gonsalves. After a lengthy pre-production phase, during which the film underwent major changes in its main cast and its technical crew, the shooting of the film commenced in December 2008 and was held at various locations throughout entire South India, most notably in Bangalore, Karnataka, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh and Mumbai, Maharashtra and across the highways between these cities.[5] The film released on 2 April 2010 to positive reviews and emerged a high commercial success.[6][7] A Telugu dubbing version of the film titled Awara released on 21 May in Andhra Pradesh to positive response, too.[8]

Plot

Shiva (Karthi) is a young, carefree and jobless man, staying at Bangalore. He has a loyal group of friends who are determined to make him a responsible guy and therefore desperately try to get him a job somehow. One day, while getting off the bus, he sees a young beautiful girl named Charulatha (Tamannaah) who is also looking for a job, and immediately falls for her. He later gets to spot her at few occasions, trying to follow her, and even misses the interview, his friends had arranged for him, during one such day.

One day, Shiva goes to the railway station as he is supposed to pick a friend and owner of the Mitsubishi Lancer, Shiva and his friends use. While waiting for the friend to arrive, Charulatha, apparently in a very tensed mood, and her uncle, mistaking Shiva to be a cab driver, ask him to drop them at Chennai. Excited to give his dream girl a ride, he accepts and escorts them. They stop at a filling station to refuel the car, when Charulatha suddenly requests Shiva to drive on, losing and leaving her uncle behind. Shiva does as she wishes and takes off without her uncle. She first asks Shiva to drop her at the airport and later at a railway station, but as she misses her flight and is also not able to go by train, she requests Shiva whether he would take her to Mumbai by car.

Shiva, immensely thrilled by this request, instantly agrees and escorts her to Mumbai. During the journey she finally reveals her story, after Shiva had asked several times to tell about her problems and the reason for the journey to Mumbai. It comes to light that Charulatha's mother, always supporting her daughter, died after a violent altercation with her father, who since tried to subject Charulatha and make her marry an unknown man he had chosen for her. Not willing to bow his father's wishes, she had escaped from home, but was later found by her father's business partner, Jayaraman, the supposed uncle of her. He was about to take her to the marriage registration arranged by her father, hence Charulatha was trying to escape and insisted on leaving him behind at the filling station. She heads to Mumbai as she wants to stay at her grandmother's home.

However, she is followed by a gang, led by a furious Telugu-speaking Amma, whom she and Shiva just about manage to escape. Shiva then decides to change the route in order to avoid the gang, but encounters another gang. He realizes that this gang, however, is not following Charulatha, but himself, as they are the henchmen of a Mumbai-based gangster Baali (Milind Soman). He recalls an incident that happened some years ago in Mumbai, when he stayed there at his friend Poochi's (Jegan) house. He had beaten one of Baali's men, who had attacked him, and later Baali himself, without knowing about him and his reputation in the city, and returned to Bangalore. Both the gangs are now following the couple to achieve their targets. Whether they both can escape both gangs and whether Shiva was able to express his love to Charulatha forms the crux.

In the end, Shiva manages to save Charulatha from the clutches of Baali and his friends express his feelings to Charulatha who happily accepts Shiva's love for she too had fallen for him during the journey. They both hug each other in a beautiful scene and the sweet movie ends with the song Thuli Thuli playing in the background.

Cast

Production

Development

In September 2007, while still working on the Vikram-starrer Bheema, Linguswamy had mentioned, that Karthi Sivakumar would be acting in his next film, which would be action-oriented and would be launched in January 2008.[9] In October 2007 then, sources reported, that Linguswamy is planning to make a bilingual film to be released in both Tamil and Telugu with both Chiranjeevi's son, Ram Charan Teja and Karthi in the lead roles.[10][11] Later again reports claimed, that Linguswamy's next project will feature Vishal as the protagonist after which Jayam Ravi was supposed to enact the lead character in his next film.[12][13]

After having completed and released Bheema in January 2008, Linguswamy was set to begin his next venture very soon. In March 2008 then, again reports claimed, that his next project will be an entertainer with equal doses of love and action, which will have actor Karthi in the lead role.[14] Further more, it was reported, that Linguswamy was still working on the script of the film, which would feature the "main crew members" of Bheema, including music director Harris Jayaraj, cinematographer R. D. Rajasekhar and editor Anthony and which was yet to be titled.[14] However, Linguswamy announced the film with an entirely new crew, with Yuvan Shankar Raja and Madhi replacing Harris Jayaraj and R. D. Rajasekhar as the film's music composer and cinematographer respectively, whilst Priya Manikandan, wife of noted cinematographer Manikandan, was chosen as the chief costume designer.[15] Stills of the film were captured by Venket Ram

Lingusamy was said to have written two scripts, out of which he eventually chose the Paiyya script.[16] The film was initially titled Kuthirai, however was later renamed as Paiyaa,[17] which was actually only a tentative, working title.[18] Due to various reasons, the launch of the got delayed again and again, before shooting of the film finally started in December 2008. The film's music was released in November 2009 along with the trailer.[19] In late 2009, after finishing the filming of Paiyaa, Lingusamy disclosed his plans of remaking the film in Telugu and Hindi languages as well.[20] However, later on as Yuganikki Okkadu, the Telugu dubbed version of Karthi's second film Aayirathil Oruvan, became a great success in Andhra Pradesh,[21] the team instead decided to dub and release the film in Telugu in order to cash in on Karthi's new-found popularity in the state.[8][22] The audio of the Telugu version, titled Awara was released by March 2010, with the film releasing simultaneously with the Tamil version. In early March 2010, the film's distribution rights were eventually acquired by Dhayanidhi Alagiri's Cloud Nine Movies that earlier distributed Karthi's brother, Surya's Vaaranam Aayiram and produced the superhit parody film Thamizh Padam.[1]

Casting

In July 2008, actress Nayantara was signed for the female lead role in Paiyaa for a record salary of 1 crore rupees. However, as the director decided to reduce her salary due to economic recession , she resisted, leaving the project in December 2008.[23] Subsequently Trisha Krishnan was reported to have bagged the role,[24] before it was confirmed, that she was ultimately replaced by Tamanna Bhatia, who was signed for 80 lakhs.[25] Later on in late December 2008, Milind Soman, who had last appeared in Pachaikili Muthucharam in Tamil, was signed up for the main antagonist's role, a Mumbai-based don,[26] while there are 18 villains overall as per reports.[27]

Filming

After Karthi had completed his portion in his film Aayirathil Oruvan, the shoot for Paiyaa finally began on 24 December 2008 at a highway near Bangalore.[28] Shooting carried on in and around Bangalore in the following weeks. The film's main portions were extensively shot across some major highways, where the story plays, whilst the climax was filmed in Mumbai, where the journey would also end.[5] Moreover, filming took place in Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh as well.[5]

In early May 2009, filming took place near Chembarambakkam Lake in Chennai, where a street fight was being shot.[29] Later that month, a song ("Suthudhe Suthudhe Boomi"), choreographed by Sabeena Khan, was shot at Prasad Studios in Chennai, where a grand set had been erected by art director Rajeevan.[30] The song is said to feature computer graphics and visual effects. The shooting of the song was being held in the sets, while the background would change to "dense forests and lush mountain ranges" using the effects.[30] In June 2009, after nearly six months of shooting, more than sixty-five percent was said to be over, with a song and the climax sequences being the remaining parts to be filmed.[5] A twenty-five day schedule was planned to be held in Mumbai and Pune,[31] but the shooting got halted in July due to heavy rains there.[32] In October 2009, the final action scenes of the climax involving Karthi and Milind Soman were filmed in Mumbai and its suburbs in a ten day schedule,[33] following which a rain song ("Adada Mazhaida"), featuring Karthi and Tamannaah, was shot at the Athirappilly waterfalls in Kerala, where earlier scenes and songs from other films such as Punnagai Mannan and Iruvar were filmed.[34]

Release

The film was initially scheduled for a late 2009 release, but got delayed and later supposed to release on 14 January 2010 coninciding with the Tamil harvest festival Thai Pongal. However, Karthi's second film Aayirathil Oruvan, which was in production for nearly three years, was also planned to release on the same day. Since, according to the Tamil Film Producers Council, two films starring the same lead actor cannot be released on the same day, Aayirathil Oruvan was given priority, whilst Paiyaa could be released 30 days after Pongal. The release was postponed again for some reasons, before finally hitting the screens on 2 April 2010.

Reception

The film got a solo release on 2 April 2010, Good Friday, with no opposition in Tamil Nadu. The film earned Rs. 70,99,863 in the opening weekend across Chennai, taking the biggest opening of the year and even topping Karthi's earlier release Aayirathil Oruvan. The film grossed Rs. 12 crores in the first three days and was declared a commercial success within a few days.[35][36][37] In the United Kingdom the film was distributed by B4U and was released across six screens, grossing £21,021 in the opening weekend, opening at the 23rd place.[38] Furthermore, in Malaysia, the film opened across 34 screens and had collected $349,368 after the second week.[39]Overall it grossed Rs 50 crores worldwide and collected a net distributor share of Rs 130 crores from Tamil version and Rs 13.5 crores from Telugu version.[2]It became a super hit film all over the world.

Reviews

Upon release, the film generally received positive reviews, with most critics labelling the film as a "summer entertainer" and lauding its technical aspects. A reviewer from Sify described the film as a "road movie laced with mass elements and extraordinary songs" adding that it is a "jolly good ride".[40] The "loveable lead pair" was praised for its "credible performance, which makes up for the plot holes". Furthermore, Sify cited that technically it was Linguswamy's "best work", with Mathi's "eye-catching camera work", Antony's "crisp editing", Rajeevan's "exotic set designs", whilst addressing praise to composer Yuvan Shankar Raja, whose "foot-tapping" songs "scorch just like the desert sun" and were all "rocking", whilst his background score was "perfect co-ordination with the narration". Bhama Devi Ravi of Times of India gave the film 3 out of 5, citing that "the story is not earth-shatteringly new, but what pulls you into the movie is the different spin that Lingusamy gives to the familiar story".[41] She also praised the lead pair's performance, particularly Karthi, who "comes up with an enjoyable performance", as well as its technical values, describing Madhi's camera work as "mind-blowing", Brinda Sarathy's dialogues as "thoroughly enjoyable" and Yuvan Shankar Raja's songs as "a real treat". India Glitz described the film as a "racy action adventure" and "undeniably an entertainer this summer", citing that Linguswamy has brought out "a classy entertainer" and Karthi and Tamannaah's performances are "absolutely great".[42] Regarding the technical crew, the reviewer cited that the camera work was "immaculate", whilst editor Anthony and stunt coordinator Kanal Kannan had done "an incredible and marvellous job". Yuvan Shankar Raja's music, in particular, was labeled as "the greatest strength of the movie" and his background score as "excellent".

Meanwhile, a Behindwoods reviewer gave the film 2.5 out of 5, labeling the film as "a stylish, light hearted family entertainer for the summer" and a "Pacy road show with a few humps on a straight run".[43] He too, like the other reviewers, cited that Karthi's "enjoyable performance", whilst describing Yuvan Shankar Raja as "the major backbone of Paiya". Moreover, he cited that Brinda Sarathy's dialogues "evoke laughter", the car chasing sequence is "absolutely brilliant", cinematographer Madhi "needs plaudits" and the "crisp editing" by Anthony is a "major plus point and deserves a special mention". In contrast Rediff's Pavithra Srinivasan cited that there was "Nothing entertaining about Paiyya" and the film was watchable "only for Karthi's screen presence, pretty Tamannaah and Yuvan's songs", despite giving 2.5 out of 5, too.[44] She criticized Linguswamy's script as Paiyya's "biggest minus", adding that the film "starts out so very promisingly", describing the first half as "racy, peppy and enthusiastic", "only to fizzle out with no appreciable sequences in the second half".Super romance story in a different way.

Soundtrack

Main article: Paiyaa (soundtrack)

Music for Paiyaa was scored by Yuvan Shankar Raja, joining Linguswamy once again after Sandakozhi (2005).[45] The audio launch function was held on 22 November 2009 at Sathyam Cinemas, which was attended by many prominent film personalities, with director S. Shankar releasing the soundtrack.[19][46] The album originally features 5 songs with vocals by singers like Karthik, Benny Dayal, Haricharan and composer Yuvan Shankar Raja himself. Three songs were reportedly composed and recorded in Singapore.[45] The lyrics were provided by Na. Muthukumar. The album received highly positive reviews and responses from critics and audiences alike and the songs were considered to have played an important role for the film's enormous success.[47]

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