Mella Thirandhathu Kadhavu

Mella Thirandhadhu Kadhavu (transl. The door opened gently) is a 1986 Indian Tamil-language musical romance film, written and directed by R. Sundarrajan starring Mohan, Radha and Amala. This movie was a box office superhit.

Mella Thirandhathu Kadhavu
Directed byR. Sundarrajan
Produced byM. Saravanan
M. Balasubramaniam
Written byR. Sundarrajan
StarringMohan
Radha
Amala
Music byM. S. Viswanathan
Ilaiyaraaja
CinematographyRaja Rajan
Edited byR. Bhaskaran
Production
company
Release date
  • 12 September 1986 (1986-09-12)
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

The film's score and soundtrack were composed by M. S. Viswanathan and Ilaiyaraaja together. Entire background score and orchestration for all the songs was done by Ilaiyaraaja.

Plot

Tulasi is a village girl. One day, she gets a letter from her cousin Subramani. She gets excited as they were close friends in childhood, but Subramani leaves with his family to the city. Subramani visits the village for his college thesis about folk songs. Tulasi is in love with Subramani, but she is confused whether Subramani also loves her. Tulasi's father dies due to a heart attack. When Subramani's father arranges a marriage for Subramani with Tulasi, he refuses. Because of this, Tulasi's mother dies in frustration. Then, Tulasi comes to her uncle's house.

Later, a flashback comes in which Subramani is in love with Noorjahan, a student in his college. Since Noorjahan used to come to the college with a veil, Subramani has not seen her face. On a day when they plan to meet, Noorjahan she accidentally steps into quicksand and dies. Subramani feels dejected after seeing Noorjahan's death and decides to remain unmarried and that is the real reason for him to avoid marrying Tulasi.

Tulasi decides to end her life as Subramani shows no interest in marrying her and she goes to the same place where Noorjahan died. Tulasi steps into the same quicksand, but Subramani rushes and saves Tulasi, having understood Tulasi's true love towards him.

Cast

Production

Mella Thirandhathu Kadhavu was Mohan's first film with AVM Productions.[2] When AVM came to know that M. S. Viswanathan was facing difficulties, they decided to make this film to save him from penury.[1][3] Ilaiyaraaja also agreed to compose the music alongside Viswanathan.[4]

Music

All the songs except "Kuzhaloodhum Kananuku" were composed by M. S. Viswanathan and the orchestration was done by Ilaiyaraaja. The song "Vaa Vennila" is inspired from another Viswanathan composition "Vaan Meedhile" from the 1953 film Chandirani.[1] Ilaiyaraaja later re-used "Kuzhaloodum Kannanukku" in Hindi as "Baatein Hawa Hain Saare" for Cheeni Kum (2007).[5]

Track list[6]
No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."Vaa Vennila"VaaliS. P. Balasubrahmanyam, S. Janaki4:39
2."Thedum Kan Paarvai"VaaliS. P. Balasubrahmanyam, S. Janaki4:43
3."Dil Dil Dil Manadhil"VaaliS. P. Balasubrahmanyam, P. Susheela4:41
4."Kuzhaloodum Kannanukku"VaaliK. S. Chithra4:38
5."Ooru Sanam"VaaliS. Janaki4:38
6."Sakkara Kattikku"Gangai AmaranK. S. Chithra, S. P. Sailaja, B.S Sasirekha5:18
7."Vaa Vennila"VaaliS. Janaki2:08

Release

Mella Thirandhathu Kadhavu was released on 12 September 1985.[3] The film initially opened to average response but later picked up in coming weeks.[7] When the film got released in Cinepriya theatre in Madurai, a distributor released the film by reversing the two halves of the film which enjoyed positive reception. Later all over Tamil Nadu the film was filmed by changing the two halves of the film which shows Amala story in first half and Radha story in second half. The response prompted producers to apply re-censorship for the film.[8]

References
  1. Yamunan, Sruthisagar (20 August 2017). "Audio master: The combined genius of MS Viswanathan and Ilaiyaraaja in 'Mella Thiranthathu Kathavu'". Scroll.in. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  2. Saravanan 2013, p. 425.
  3. Saravanan 2013, p. 301.
  4. Saravanan 2013, p. 302.
  5. Rangan, Baradwaj (15 May 2007). "Music Review: Cheeni Kum". Baradwaj Rangan. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  6. "Mella Thirandhathu Kadhavu songs". Raaga.com. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
  7. Saravanan 2013, p. 303.
  8. Saravanan 2013, p. 304.

Bibliography
  • Saravanan, M. (2013) [2005]. AVM 60 Cinema (in Tamil). Rajarajan Pathippagam.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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