Udhaya is a Tamil

Tamil language

Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...

 film which released on 28 March 2004 and was directed by Azhagam Perumal. This film has Vijay in the main lead. Simran played his love interest. The music for this film is by Academy Award winner music maestro A. R. Rahman

A. R. Rahman

Allah Rakha Rahman is an Indian composer, singer-songwriter, record producer, musician, and philanthropist. Described as the world's most prominent and prolific film composer by Time, his works are notable for integrating eastern classical music with electronic music sounds, world music genres and...

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Story

Udhayakumar (Vijay) and Vasanthi (Simran) 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.

Cast

• Vijay as Udhayakumaran
• Simran as Vasanthi
• Nassar
  Nassar
  Nassar is a Tamil actor, producer, writer, director, lyricist, and singer. He has appeared in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi and English films. He is often cited as part of India's specialist character actors, along with the likes of Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri and Nana Patekar...
  
   as
• Vivek
  Vivek (actor)
  Vivekananthan is an Indian film actor and comedian. He has won four Filmfare Best Comedian Awards for his performances in Run, Saamy, Perazhagan and Sivaji, respectively. In April 2009, Vivek received the Padma Shri award by the Government of India for his contribution to the arts. He was...
  
   as Bashir
• Rajesh
  Rajesh (actor)
  Rajesh is an Indian actor who has performed in Tamil, Malayalam films. He born in 1949 in a village called Anaikadu, in Thanjavur district near Pattukotai. He started his career as a teacher in Chennai. He worked as a secondary grade teacher for 7 years and entered into cinema. He acted in...
  
   as Muthusamypillai, Udhayakumaran's father
• Pyramid V. Natarajan as a newspaper editor
• Thalaivasal Vijay
  Thalaivasal Vijay
  Thalaivasal Vijay is a Tamil film actor. He is noted for his character roles, especially in R. Sukumaran's 2010 Malayalam film Yugapurushan as Narayana Guru...
  
   as
• Bala Singh as Ramji
• Gowtham as David John
• Krishna Sekhar
  Krishna Sekhar
  Krishna Kulasekaran is an Indian film actor. He is the brother of noted film director, Vishnuvardhan.-Filmography:-References:...
  
   as Venkat Raman

Music

The soundtrack for the film was composed by A.R. Rahman. The soundtrack received positive reviews, particularly the songs Udhaya Udhaya and Pookum Malarai. One of the songs had lyrics written by famous Tamil director, composer and lyricist Gangai Amaran

Gangai Amaran

Gangai Amaran is a Music director, Lyricist, Script writer, Actor and Film director in Tamil films. He is the younger brother of noted music director Ilayaraaja and father of actors Venkat Prabhu and Premji Amaren.-As script writer:...

. This film also marked the second song sung by famous bollywood singer Sukhwinder Singh

Sukhwinder Singh

Sukhwinder Singh, Born as Sukhi Singh Lubana is an Indian singer best known for working as Bollywood playback artist. Singh is famous for singing "Chaiyya Chaiyya" for which he won the Best Male Playback Award at the 1999 Filmfare Awards. The song, from Mani Ratnam's 1998 film Dil Se, was composed...

 in Tamil, after the song Lucky Lucky in the movie Ratchagan.

Song	Singer(s)	Lyrics
Pookum Malarai	Hariharan Hariharan (singer) Hariharan , born 3 April 1955) is an Indian playback singer in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Bhojpuri and Telugu movies, an established ghazal singer, and one of the pioneers of Indian fusion music. His melody is strongly appreciated by the film fraternity...	Pazhani Bharathi
Udhaya Udhaya	Hariharan Hariharan (singer) Hariharan , born 3 April 1955) is an Indian playback singer in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Bhojpuri and Telugu movies, an established ghazal singer, and one of the pioneers of Indian fusion music. His melody is strongly appreciated by the film fraternity... , Sadhana Sargam Sadhana Sargam Sadhana Sargam is an acclaimed Indian playback singer. She is a recipient of the prestigious National Film Award and Filmfare Awards.Sargam has sung in many Indian languages for films, television serials and music albums. She is well known for her 90s Hindi songs and recent South Indian songs. She...	Arivumathi
Thiruvallikeni Rani	Sukhwinder Singh Sukhwinder Singh Sukhwinder Singh, Born as Sukhi Singh Lubana is an Indian singer best known for working as Bollywood playback artist. Singh is famous for singing "Chaiyya Chaiyya" for which he won the Best Male Playback Award at the 1999 Filmfare Awards. The song, from Mani Ratnam's 1998 film Dil Se, was composed... , Karthik Karthik (singer) Karthik is an Indian playback singer.Karthik started his professional singing career as a backing vocalist and has since been a playback singer in Tamil cinema while also single in other Indian languages for various composers...	Gangai Amaran Gangai Amaran Gangai Amaran is a Music director, Lyricist, Script writer, Actor and Film director in Tamil films. He is the younger brother of noted music director Ilayaraaja and father of actors Venkat Prabhu and Premji Amaren.-As script writer:...
Enna Enna	Shankar Mahadevan Shankar Mahadevan Shankar Mahadevan is an Indian music composer and singer. He is a part of the Shankar Ehsaan Loy trio team that composes for Indian films and a playback singer.-Early life:... , Gopika Poornima	Ilayakamban
Anjanam	S.P.Balasubramanyam, S. Janaki S. Janaki S. Janaki is an Indian female playback singer. Renowned for her voice modulation abilities, she has sung in many Indian languages, most frequently in Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi. Throughout a career spanning more than five decades, she has won four National Film Awards and 35...	Pazhani Bharathi

Crew

• Director: Azhagam Perumal
  Azhagam Perumal
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• Assistant Director: Ashok Annamalai
• Assistant Director: Rojamani Gnanasekar
• Producer: Pyramid Entertainment Limited
  Pyramid Saimira
  Pyramid Saimira, an Indian multinational entertainment company, operating in 6 countries is one of the World’s fastest growing entertainment group...
  
  
• Editor: Raja Mohamed
• Production Supervisor: J.Mohan
• Executive Producer: K.K.Ravi, S.Krishnamurthy
• Dialogue Writer: Sujatha
• Music: A.R.Rahman
• Background Music: Pravin Mani
  Pravin Mani
  Pravin Mani is a musician who has been credited as singer and as music composer in Tamil and Telugu films in India. He has been a long term associate with noted music director, A. R. Rahman, with recent collaborations in Enthiran...
  
  
• Cinematography: Priyan
• Choreography: Raju Sundaram
  Raju Sundaram
  Raju Sundaram is a Kollywood cine artiste who acts, directs, and choreographs for films. He is an eldest son of dance master Mugur Sundar, and elder brother to Prabhu Deva and Nagendra Prasad.-Birth:...
  
  , Dinesh, Rajasekar
• Stunt Coordinator: Vikram Dharma
• Art Director: M.Prabakaran

Box office

• This project was conceptualised in 1999, commenced in 2001 (was to be released in 2002) but due to financial problems it was delayed and released in 2004.
• This was Pyramid banner's last film and after a gap of 2 years the banner changed into Pyramid Saimira
  Pyramid Saimira
  Pyramid Saimira, an Indian multinational entertainment company, operating in 6 countries is one of the World’s fastest growing entertainment group...
  
  
• The film did not do well at Box Office.