Thoranai

Thoranai[tamil]/pista[telugu]
File:Thoranai-Poster-02.jpg Release poster
Directed by	Sabha Ayyappan
Produced by	Vikram Krishna
Written by	Sabha Ayyappan
Starring	Vishal Shriya Saran Prakash Raj Santhanam Kishore
Music by	Mani Sharma
Cinematography	Priyan
Edited by	V. T. Vijayan
Production company	G. K. Films Corporation
Distributed by	G. K. Films Corporation
Release dates	29 May 2009 (2009-05-29)
Running time	148 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil/telugu

Thoranai (English: Posture)[in tamizh/tamil]/pista(English:hero{in mass language of telugu})[telugu] is a 2009 Indian Tamil-telugubilingual action-comedy film written and directed by Sabha Ayyappan and produced by Vikram Krishna under the banner G. K. Films Corporation and starring Vishal and Shriya in the lead roles and Prakash Raj in another pivotal role. Directed by Iyappan, and produced by Vishal's home company, GK Films, the film released on 29 May 2009 to good reviews. A Telugu version, titled Pistha, was filmed and released simultaneously while a dubbed Hindi version titled Vishal Ki Kurbani was released later.

Plot

Guru (Kishore) and Thamizharasu (Prakashraj) are dreaded gangsters in Chennai. They are against pitted each other and fight to establish their supremacy in city. They indulge in gang war painting Chennai red. Enters Murugan (Vishal). A native of Madurai, he comes to Chennai with a mission. He leaves his village promising his mother (Geetha) that he would return only with his brother, who had run away from the house about two decades ago.

Murugan gets the help of his friend Veluchamy (Santhanam). He comes across the gangsters and a sequence of events results in him incurring both their wrath. In a bloody duel with Guru, he comes to know that he is his brother, whom he has been searching for long. Now he is entrusted with the task of protecting him from Thamizharasu. How he accomplishes his task forms the crux.

Cast

Tamil version

• Vishal as Murugan
• Shriya as Indhu
• Santhanam as Vellaichamy
• Prakash Raj as Tamizharasan, the main villain
• Kishore as Guru/Ganesan
• Pandiarajan as Walter Vetrivel
• Sayaji Shinde as Minister Sivanaandi, friend of Tamizharasan
• Lal as Chennai Police Commissioner, positive character
• Livingston as Murugan's father
• Geetha as Murugan's mother
• M. S. Baskar as
• Paravai Muniyamma as Pachamma Patti
• Aarthi as Indhu's friend
• Mayilsamy as Watchman
• Manobala as Officer Ganesan(cameo)
• Sriman as Ganesan
• Suruli Manohar as constable
• Kullamani
• Meenakshi in an item number
• T. P. Gajendran as Apartment Secretary

Telugu version

• Vishal as Muralikrishna
• Shriya as Indhu
• Kishore as Rambabu
• Prakash Raj as Suryaprakash
• Ali as Chittibabu
• Dharmavarapu Subrahmanyam
• Krishna Bhagavan
• Srinivasa Reddy
• Sayaji Shinde
• Tanikella Bharani
• Geetha
• M. S. Narayana
• Telangana Shakuntala

Soundtrack

Thoranai: The Official Motion Picture Soundtrack
Soundtrack album
Released	19 April 2009 (2009-04-19)
Genre	Film soundtrack
Label	Think Music

No.	Song	Singers	Length (m:ss)	Lyrics
1	"Vedi Vedi Saravedi"	Ranjith, Naveen	4:26	Viveka
2	"Vaa Chellam"	Udit Narayan	5:07	Pa. Vijay
3	"Pattucha"	Vijay Yesudas, Janani	3:58	Kabilan
4	"Peliccan Paravaigal"	Ranjith, Rahul, Rita, Jai	4:07	Vaali
5	"Manjasela Mandakini"	Tippu, Saindhavi	4:20	Pa. Vijay

in telugu version with same playback singers and same duration 01 – Pidi Pidi 02 – Naa Maharani 03 – Pattuko Pattuko 04 – Oka Pelican 05 – Naa Maharani 06 – Mandakini

Critical reception

Behindwoods wrote:"Thoranai does entertain, but a tighter script and better execution could have yielded far better results". Sify wrote:"The problems with Thoranai are sundry. First and foremost, it’s got a dead script. Nothing, simply nothing happens in the first half of the film". Rediff wrote:"Thoranai's only merit is that it's marginally better than Sathyam".