| Naan Mahaan Alla | |
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 Production poster | |
| Directed by | Suseenthiran |
| Produced by | K. E. Gnanavelraja S. R. Prakash Babu S. R. Prabhu |
| Written by | Susindran Bhaskar Sakthi |
| Starring | Karthi Kajal Aggarwal Jayaprakash Soori |
| Music by | Yuvan Shankar Raja |
| Cinematography | R. Madhi |
| Editing by | Kasi Viswanathan |
| Studio | Studio Green |
| Distributed by | Cloud Nine Movies |
| Release date(s) | August 20, 2010 |
| Country | India |
| Language | Tamil |
Production
[edit]Development
After his first feature film Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu, released in February 2009, became a success, receiving much critical acclaim as well, director Suseenthiran started to work on the script for his next film. He was ready with the script by August 2009, revealing details about the project. While his previous film was based on sporting incidents in a rural background, this film was said to be a "total city subject", shot entirely in Chennai. An action family entertainer, the film would deal about problems in city life, according to Susindran. On 19 August 2009, it was then announced, that the film was titled Naan Mahaan Alla and would be produced by K. E. Gnanavelraja under the banner of Studio Green, who earlier had produced Surya's Sillunu Oru Kadhal and the award-winningParuthiveeran by Ameer Sultan, which incidentally also starred Karthi in the lead role.
Casting
While Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu, Suseenthiran's first feature film, starred mostly newcomers, he chose Karthi for the lead role in the film as he felt, that Karthi has an "innocence in his face" that was needed for this role and that he could "convey charm, innocence and being jolly at the same time".For the lead female role, Kajal Aggarwal, who had appeared in Tamil films as Pazhani, Saroja and Modhi Vilayadu, was roped in, who Suseenthiran had chosen, after having seen her performances in the Telugu films Chandamama and Magadheera and felt, that her "cute expressions" were what he needed for that character. While Karthi's character is a middle class bank employee, Aggarwal would play an employee in a mobile phone company.
Filming
The shooting commenced on 4 September 2009 and will be held in various Indian cities as Chennai, Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam. In mid-September, the shooting was reportedly being carried along the East Coast Road (ECR) near Chennai and later in the environs of the highways near Poonamallee in Chennai.
Soundtrack
| Naan Mahaan Alla | ||||
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| Soundtrack by Yuvan Shankar Raja | ||||
| Released | 16 July 2010 | |||
| Recorded | 2009-10 | |||
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
| Length | 24:21 | |||
| Label | Think Music | |||
| Producer | Yuvan Shankar Raja | |||
| Yuvan Shankar Raja chronology | ||||
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The soundtrack of Naan Mahaan Alla is composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja, making this his third collaboration with Karthi, after scoring highly successful results with Paruthiveeran (2007) and Paiyaa (2010),[7] and his first with director Suseenthiran, who worked with V. Selvaganeshfor his previous film. The soundtrack album, which was released on 16 July, 2010 at Sathyam Cinemas, Chennai,[8] features 5 songs overall, with lyrics penned by Na. Muthukumar and Yuga Bharathy. The song "Va Va Nilava Pudichi" is repeated at the end of the album, with singerRahul Nambiar being credited for both songs. Nambiar, however, stated on his Facebook site, that two versions were recorded featuring his and Haricharan's voice, respectively, but that both songs in the album were rendered by Haricharan only and his own version wasn't included at all.
| Tracklist | |||||||||
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| No. | Title | Lyrics | Singer(s) | Length | |||||
| 1. | "Va Va Nilava Pudichi" (Singer credited as Rahul Nambiar) | Na. Muthukumar | Haricharan | 04:47 | |||||
| 2. | "Iragai Pole" | Yugabharathy | Yuvan Shankar Raja, Tanvi Shah | 05:19 | |||||
| 3. | "Oru Maalai Neram" | Na. Muthukumar | Javed Ali, Shilpa Rao | 04:46 | |||||
| 4. | "Theivam Illai" | Yugabharathy | Madhu Balakrishnan | 04:41 | |||||
| 5. | "Va Va Nilava Pudichi II" (Singer credited as Rahul Nambiar) | Na. Muthukumar | Haricharan | 04:47 | |||||
Total length:
| 24:21 | ||||||||
