Suriya’s blockbuster and acclaimed film Soorarai Pottru has clocked two years of its launch immediately. Two years in the past, when the pandemic was nonetheless excessive within the nation, Suriya took a courageous resolution and launched the movie on the OTT platform and the remainder is historical past. The movie went on to interrupt each report and have become the largest blockbuster hit of Indian cinema.
This film got here as a breath of recent air amid the pandemic and refreshed everybody with new power and enthusiasm. Soorarai Pottru gained the hearts of audiences for a lot of issues, be it for the desires of a younger man, matured love between Maara and Bommi, or desires of opening a low-cost airline and a bakery. In a roundabout way, the film related to each viewers by some means and left everybody to evangelise by no means to cease dreaming.
Nicely, immediately, on finishing two years of Soorarai Pottru’s launch, check out a number of attention-grabbing details and prestigious awards of the movie
Attention-grabbing details about Suriya’s Soorarai Pottru
- Suriya, who performed the position of Maara, underwent a significant bodily transformation for the movie. To look younger, he misplaced virtually 20 kgs and was on a strict weight loss program of solely eggs and cucumber for a lot of days. He had misplaced vital weight to briefly seem as a rebellious military recruit.
- Reviews acknowledged that the movie was conceptualised a decade in the past and that director Sudha Kongara went on to do some intensive analysis on it for over ten years. It was through the audio launch of Sudha Kongara’s Irudhi Suttru starring Madhavan and Ritika Singh that she met Suriya, who was one of many chief company of the occasion and narrated the one-liner. It’s mentioned that Suriya was immediately impressed and gave his nod for the movie.
- The movie was shot in over 60 totally different areas together with the Hakimpet Air Pressure station, making it the primary Tamil language movie to be shot contained in the premises.
- Soorarai Pottru turned the third highest-rated film on the earth after Shawshank and Godfather.
- The movie is predicated on a biopic of Gopinath Iyengar (founding father of Indian Airways Air Deccan). In actuality, Gopinath Iyengar is a theist, who believes in god. However within the movie, the lead character is portrayed as an atheist. Put up-release of the movie, in an interview, Iyengar expressed that though the movie impressed him, the details proven within the movie are distant from actuality.
Accolades and prestigious awards
Not simply that, Soorarai Pottru additionally bagged high honours on the awards, together with Greatest Movie, Greatest Actress, Greatest Screenplay, and Greatest Background Rating. This movie was an enormous gamble for Suriya on a number of counts. Suriya gained his first-ever Nationwide Movie Award for Greatest Actor at 68th Nationwide Movie Awards. The movie has already set a world report by changing into the third highest-rated film on IMDb. It grabbed third place with a ranking of 9.1 after The Shawshank Redemption (1994) and The Godfather (1972).
It was a proud second when the Tamil movie Soorarai Pottru was chosen for Oscars 2021 beneath a number of classes. It emerged as the one Indian movie amongst 366 movies eligible for Greatest Image within the Academy Awards. Sadly, on March 15, it was introduced that the movie missed out on getting a nomination and was formally out of the Oscars race. It additionally received chosen as one amongst ten Indian movies to be screened beneath the Greatest International Movie class on the 78th Golden Globe Awards.
