Poochudava

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Poochoodavaa
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Directed by Udayasankar
Written byUdayasankar
Produced byK. Jayaraman
Starring Abbas
Simran
Edited by B. Lenin
V. T. Vijayan
Music by Sirpi
Release date
  • 12 December 1997 (1997-12-12)
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Poochudava is a 1997 Indian Tamil-language romance film directed by Udayasankar and produced by K. Jayaraman. The film stars Abbas and Simran. Manivannan, Nagesh, Kalpana, Jai Ganesh, Chinni Jayanth, PC Ramakrishnan and Kavitha play supporting roles. It was released on 12 December 1997. [1] The film was dubbed in Telugu as Pelli Kala Vachinde Bala. [2]

Contents

Plot

Abbas (as Kannan) play the role of a rebellious college student in this movie. While, Simran (as Nandhini) acts as his love lady. The first half of the movie is about how Abbas and Simran have their pet fights and then the second half of the movie is about how they both join hands together to fight against her parents' opposition.

Cast

Production

The film went through development hell and took a long time to complete. The original producers, MG Pictures, later transferred it to Jayalakshmi Movie Makers owing to financial problems. It was the first film to cast Abbas and Simran together, though VIP (1997), launched much later with both of them, was released earlier. [3] Abbas and Simran simultaneously also worked on another Telugu project titled Priya O Priya during the making of Poochudava. [4]

Soundtrack

The film soundtrack features score and 5 songs composed by Sirpi. [5]

SongSingersLyrics
"Computer Graphic" Mano Palani Bharathi
"Kaadhal Kaadhal Kaadhal" S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, K. S. Chithra
"Nee Illai" Hariharan
"Sillu Sillu"Krishna Chander, Febi Mani, Mano, K. S. Chithra
"Vaaliba Vayasukku"Hariharan

Reception

Regarding the Telugu dubbed version, a critic from Andhra Today wrote, "With hardly any novelty in the story, it is an out and out director's movie, wherein he has used all his talents to earn the aplomb of the audience". [2]

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