Thirumalai( திருமலை)2003

Thirumalai (Tamil: திருமலை) is a Tamil film which released on 24 October 2003 and was directed by Ramana. This film hasJoseph Vijay in the main lead, with Jyothika. Lawrence Raghavendra and Kiran Rathod make special appearances in the film. This film was remade into telugu as Gowri in the year 2004

Thirumalai
Directed by	Ramana
Produced by	Pushpa Kandaswamy
Written by	Ramana
Starring	Joseph Vijay Jyothika Vivek Raghuvaran Kausalya Karunas
Music by	Vidyasagar
Cinematography	R. Rathnavelu
Editing by	Suresh Urs
Distributed by	Kavithalayaa Productions
Release date(s)	24 October 2003
Running time	169 min.
Language	Tamil

Plot

Thirumalai (Vijay), a mechanic, falls in love with Sweta (Jyothika) and after some persistent wooing, she reciprocates his feelings. Sweta's father (Ashwin), the owner of a television channel, seeks the help of Arasu (Manoj K. Jayan), a bad guy, to break up the romance. This rest of the story is about how Thirumalai successfully join hands with Sweta. This movie was later remade in Telugu as Gowri in 2004.                                                                                     Cast

• Joseph Vijay as Thirumalai
• Jyothika as Swetha
• Vivek
• Raghuvaran as Artist
• kausalya as Raghuvaran's wife
• Manoj K. Jayan as Arasu

Crew

• Written and directed by: Ramana
• Produced by: Pushpa Kandaswamy
• Music: Vidyasagar
• Director of photography: R. Rathnavelv
• Editor: Suresh Urs
• Art direction: K.Kathir

Reception

This movie had a good opening and was declared a superhit for Vijay. The movie had a successful 125 days run in screens of Tamil Nadu. It was the second film of that year for Kavithalaya productions which ran for 100+ days after Saamy which had Vikram in the lead.

Music

Music is composed by Vidyasagar. "Thaamthakka Dheemthakka" choreography was praised by everyone.^{[citation needed]}

Song	Singers	Picturization
Thaamthakka Dheemthakka	Tippu, Karthik	Joseph Vijay, Lawrence Raghavendra
Vaadiyamma Jakkamma	Udit Narayan	Vijay, Kiran Rathod
Neeyaa Pesyadhu	Shankar Mahadevan	Vijay, Jyothika
Azhagooril Poothvale	S. P. Balasubramaniam, Sujatha Mohan	Vijay, Jyothika
Dhimsu Katta	Tippu, Srilekha Parthasarathy	Vijay, Jyothika