The film stars Karthi in his feature film debut as the title character, with Priyamani as the female lead and Ponvannan, Saravanan, Ganja Karuppu, Sampath Raj, and Sujatha Sivakumar playing supporting roles. Hero of Paruthiyur) is a 2007 Indian Tamil-language period romantic drama film written and directed by Ameer. He lives with his doting uncle Chevvaazhai (Saravanan) who pampers and accompanies him in every. He often bullies Paruthiyur villagers for money, women and fun. His one ambition in life is to gain enough notoriety to be on TV news and to be thrown into Madras Jail. Paruthiveeran (Karthi) is a country brash, He is often arrested for petty crimes.
It also emerged a high commercial success, running successfully for more than one year in theatres. The film won prizes at major film award ceremonies in India, including two National Film Awards, six Filmfare Awards South and two Tamil Nadu State Film Awards, among others, whilst being screened at several international film festivals such as the Berlin International Film Festival and the Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema as well. Priyamani was awarded National Film Award for Best Actress for her performance as Muththazhagu in that year. After two years of making, the film was released on 23 February 2007 and received universal critical acclaim. She made her debut in movies with the 2002 release Telugu film Evare Atagaadu.Index Holdings, a mobile communications and media group, has launched a China office, Index China, through group company Index Asia Pacific, the company announced Thursday.Paruthiveeran was entirely shot in Madurai and its surroundings. The talented actress has won the world over with her outstanding contribution to Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam cinema.
When Paruthiveeran finally accepts Muththazhagu's love for him and decides to marry her, the feud between the two families comes in the way.Determined to marry Muththazhagu, he warns her against marrying anyone else by threatening to cut her into pieces. At times, Paruthiveeran is violent towards her, but she still loves him. In order to delay her marriage with anybody else, she fails in her tests at school on purpose to be in the same grade class as Paruthiveeran. She promised to marry him and be by his side forever and starts to love him against her parents' will as they do not approve of Parututhiveeran's inter-caste background. When they were children, Paruthiveeran saved Muththazhagu from drowning in a well.
Paruthiveeran, on her request, chops her corpse into pieces. She beseeches Paruthiveeran to cut her into pieces as she does not want anybody to find her in her present state. They brutally gang rape her and leave her to die.Later, Paruthiveeran returns and finds her dying. However, while hiding away in an abandoned building while Paruthiveeran is away making necessary arrangements, she comes across four of Paruthiveeran's acquaintances who mistake her for one of his prostitutes. Since Muththazhagu is not able to convince her parents otherwise, she runs away from home in order to elope with Paruthiveeran.
Saravanan as Chevvaazhai (Paruthiveeran's uncle) Ponvannan as Kazhuvathevan (Muththazhagu's father) Assuming him to be her kidnapper and killer, they beat him to death.
The number of newcomers who acted in the film, notably, outweighed the number of professional artists, with Priyamani, Ponvannan, Saravanan and Ganja Karuppu being the only four experienced actors. About 60 debutants, mostly real-time people from the region, appeared in the film. When director Ameer approached him to play the titular character in the film he accepted the offer because the film was " . so compelling". Although Karthi revealed he preferred directing to acting, he agreed to take up acting since his father convinced him to do so. Samuthirakani (Cameo appearance – uncredited)For the title character, Karthi, brother of Suriya, was chosen to portray the part. Sampath Raj as Marudhu (Paruthiveeran's father)
Music ParuthiveeranThe film's score as well as the soundtrack were scored by Yuvan Shankar Raja, teaming up with his friend Ameer following two successive successful collaborations in Mounam Pesiyadhe (2002) and Raam (2005). He later stated that he had incurred heavy financial loss as a producer of the film. The film's director Ameer taking over the production and later by Gnanavel Raja. The filming started in July 2005 and experienced financial difficulties, and was almost abandoned by mid–2006. A village carnival was created by art director Jacki for the film and shot for 10 days in Karumathur, Madurai. Filming Filming was held at various locations that, according to Ameer, were never before explored by Tamil cinema.
He composed a folk music-based score and used rural sounds with instruments as dholak, nadaswaram, thavil and urumee. Paruthiveeran was notably the first ever entirely village-based film Yuvan Shankar Raja had scored music for. All lyrics were written by Snehan. Moreover, a couple of traditional, village-based singers contributed to the album by lending their voice to a few songs. It features vocals from Yuvan Shankar Raja's father Ilaiyaraaja, director Ameer himself and professional playback singers Shreya Ghoshal, Manikka Vinayagam and Madhumitha. The album consists of six songs, including one instrumental track, featuring the nadaswaram only.
Krishnaraj, Manikka Vinayagam, Shreya Ghoshal, Yuvan Shankar RajaKala, Lakshmi, Pandi, Raja, Madurai S. The song "Oororam Puliyamaram" in particular was the Chartbuster number, also being chosen as the "Best Folk Song of the Year 2007" at the Isaiyaruvi Tamil Music Awards, whilst the entire album itself was named as "Isaiyaruvi Best Album of the Year 2007". Due to its successful run at the box office, the songs enjoyed popularity as well, particularly among the younger generation. Other critics hailed his music as "excellent", and as "unmistakably a milestone on his road to the pinnacle that his father Ilayaraja has reached". Baradwaj Rangan labelled it a "magnificently earthy score", while Malathi Rangarajan noted that the composer "proves he is a chip off the old block in rustic music too". Following the film's release however, critics unanimously made very positive remarks in regards to the film score.
A Behindwoods critic wrote that Paruthiveeran "lives up to all that it promised and more". The reviewer appreciated the cast and crew, describing Karthi's performance as "excellent", while citing that Saravanan "excels" and Priyamani had done "a fairly good job in her deglamourised role". Sriram Iyer of Rediff gave the film three out of five stars, lauding it as a "remarkable effort" and claiming that Ameer "successfully brings alive the feel of the pastures". Reception The film received overall positive critical response, particularly regarding the lead artists' performances.
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