Suriya’s blockbuster movie Soorarai Pottru clocks 2 years: Have a look at the fascinating info and accolades

Suriya’s blockbuster and acclaimed film Soorarai Pottru has clocked two years of its launch at present. Two years in the past, when the pandemic was nonetheless excessive within the nation, Suriya took a courageous choice and launched the movie on the OTT platform and the remaining 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 contemporary air amid the pandemic and refreshed everybody with new vitality and enthusiasm.
Soorarai Pottru gained the hearts of audiences for a lot of issues, be it for the goals of a younger man, matured love between Maara and Bommi, or goals of opening a low-cost airline and a bakery. Not directly, the film related to each viewers in some way and left everybody to evangelise by no means to cease dreaming.

Attention-grabbing info about Suriya’s Soorarai Pottru

• Suriya, who performed the position of Maara, underwent a serious bodily transformation for the movie. To look younger, he misplaced nearly 20 kg and was on a strict food plan of solely eggs and cucumber for a lot of days. He had misplaced vital weight to briefly seem as a rebellious military recruit.
• Reviews said that the movie was conceptualised a decade in the past and that director Sudha Kongara went on to do some in depth analysis on it for over ten years. It was throughout 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 completely different places together with the Hakimpet Air Drive station, making it the primary Tamil language movie to be shot contained in the premises.
• Soorarai Pottru grew to become the third highest-rated film on the planet after Shawshank and Godfather.
• The movie relies 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. Publish-release of the movie, in an interview, Iyengar expressed that though the movie impressed him, the info proven within the movie are far-off from actuality.

Accolades and prestigious awards

Not simply that, Soorarai Pottru additionally bagged prime 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 underneath 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 is now formally out of the Oscars race. It additionally acquired chosen as one amongst ten Indian movies to be screened underneath the Greatest Overseas Movie class on the 78th Golden Globe Awards.