Success (2003 film)

Success
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Directed by	Suresh Prasanna
Produced by	Isakki Sundar
Starring	Dushyanth Sonia Agarwal Nandana
Cinematography	Ravindhar
Music by	Deva
Production company	Issakki Creations
Release date	5 September 2003 (2003-09-05)
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Success is a 2003 Indian Tamil-language film written and directed by Suresh Prasanna. The film stars newcomer Dushyanth in the lead role, alongside Sonia Agarwal and Nandana.

Cast

• Dushyanth as Ganesh
• Sonia Agarwal as Swetha
• Nandana as Maha
• Roja as Radhika
• Karunas as Ganesh's Friend
• Urvashi as Kicha's Wife
• Y. Gee. Mahendra as Kicha and Maha's Father
• Riyaz Khan as Kicha
• Abhinay
• Mahanadi Shankar as local Rowdy
• Nanditha Jennifer as item number in Pothe Konjam Pothe

Production

Producer Issaki Sundar saw Dushyanth, the son of Ramkumar Ganesan and grandson of Sivaji Ganesan, at the Sivaji Productions office and offered him the opportunity to make his acting debut. He initially rejected the offer, but ultimately agreed after consulting with his uncle Prabhu and cousin Vikram Prabhu. ^[1] Dushyanth was also credited as Junior Sivaji during the production of the film. The film was named Success, after the first on screen dialogue of Sivaji from the film Parasakthi (1952). ^{[2] [3]}

Soundtrack

Music was composed by Deva.^{[ citation needed ]}

Song	Singers	Lyrics	Length
Hey Un Vayasena	Karthik, Mathangi	Viveka	05:01
Othu Konjam Othu	Udit Narayan	Vaali	05:16
Kodi Muppathu	Tippu, Kovai Kamala		05:09
Marathi Kutti	KK, Mahalakshmi Iyer	Snehan	04:32
Kanna Un	Anuradha Sriram, P. Unnikrishnan	Kabilan	05:27

Reception

The reviewer from Sify wrote, "Dushyanth, the new hero has no mannerisms or looks of his grandfather, late legendary Sivaji Ganesan. However this young man has tried his best to look convincing in his debut film that looks more like a mega serial". ^[4] Shobha Warrier of Rediff.com wrote "Director Suresh Prasanna is directionless and clueless from the beginning. It seems like the only direction he had is to make a Sivaji Ganesan film and make Dushyant another Sivaji". ^[5] Malini Mannath of Chennai Online felt that Dushyanth must "work on his expressions in the more intense scenes", Nandana was underutilised and Karunas was "plainly irritating" with his "loud monotone and supposedly comic antics". ^[6]

References

1. Warrier, Shobha (2 September 2003). "'They can call me Junior, not Sivaji'". Rediff.com . Archived from the original on 5 March 2014. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
2. "Miles to go before I 'succeed': Junior Sivaji". Sify . Archived from the original on 28 April 2004. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
3. "Enter junior Sivaji". The Hindu . 27 January 2003. Archived from the original on 4 November 2003. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
4. "Success". Sify . Archived from the original on 1 November 2003. Retrieved 15 February 2025.
5. Warrier, Shobha (4 September 2003). "You can't fool the audience!". Rediff.com . Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
6. Mannath, Malini (8 September 2003). "Success". Chennai Online. Archived from the original on 23 October 2004. Retrieved 12 January 2022.

External links

• Success at IMDb  
• Success at Rotten Tomatoes