Title Song : Mercury Mele Medaiyidu
Title Movie : Majunu
Singer : Devan Ekambaram & P. Unni Krishnan
Lyrics : Padma Shri & Padma Bhushan Kavingar Vairamuthu Ramasamy
Music Director : Harris Jayaraj
Starring : Top Star Prashanth , Rinke Khanna
Raghuvaran , Sonu Sood , Vivek & Rati Agnihotri
Directed by : Ravichandran
Produced by : Murali Manohar
Written & Dialogues By : Balakumaran
Story by : Ravichandran
Cinematography : Priyan
Edited by : B. Lenin & V. T. Vijayan
Production Company : Cee (I) TV Entertainment(p)ltd
Release date : 14 December 2001
Story : Romantic Thriller Film
Achievements : The film was released on 14 December 2001 and performed well at the box office.


The film's score and soundtrack were composed by Harris Jayaraj, whilst Priyan handled the cinematography. The film was distributed by London-based Tamil Television channel – Cee I TV. The film was released on 14 December 2001 and performed well at the box office.The movie was dubbed into Telugu with the same name.Murali Manohar signed on actor Prashanth to appear in the fourth successive production for his studio, following the successes of their previous collaborations Jeans, Kaadhal Kavithai (1998) and Jodi (1999). Director Ravichandran, who had delivered a commercially successful film with Prashanth through Kannedhirey Thondrinal (1998), was chosen to direct Manohar's next production. Hindi actress Rinke Khanna was then signed on to make her Tamil film debut in October 2000 and joined the team after her mother Dimple Kapadia was impressed with the script.Actress Rati Agnihotri also signed on to play Rinke Khanna's mother in the film, making her first appearance in a Tamil film for twenty years. Models Nethra Raghuraman and Anupama Verma also made special appearances in the film.

The team shot scenes in North India, while Prashanth was injured during the making of the film, delaying it temporarily.The art director Yogamahi designed a lavish set in a studio for a song shooting costing Rs.10 lakh, with a Rajasthani ambiance created with 200 people working on it.The film had completed filming scenes by July 2001 and dubbing work began, preparing for a September release, although it was later postponed.

The film opened in December 2001 to mixed reviews from critics, with Malathi Rangarajan of The Hindu noting "Majunu is a love story in a terrorist ambiance. The ambiance is undoubtedly different but surely the treatment could have been more gripping."Another critic wrote "The storyline is just stupid and should have never been. But Ravichandran makes a better director than a story-writer, and the movie is at least watchable." Another reviewer noted "The listless romance and the amateurish attempts at portraying terrorism here just prove that the same issues that were merged so effortlessly and effectively in Manirathnam's classic, Roja (1992), can also be combined to create a film that resides on the other end of the 'watchable' scale."The film performed well commercially, releasing soon after a big-budget financial failure in Star for Prashanth.

The music was composed by Harris Jayaraj, which was the first film he had signed to work on, though Minnale ended up releasing earlier. The audio cassette of the film was launched in a function held at Taj Coromandel Chennai, where Miss Universe 2000 pageant winner Lara Dutta was the event's chief guest.All lyrics were written by Vairamuthu and Thamarai, while the songs received positive reviews from film critics.

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