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1029:3 September
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955:Behindwoods
747:Machakaaran
694:An Ak Audio
687:Think Music
170:161 minutes
58:Produced by
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1492:2007 films
1486:Categories
1118:22 October
975:References
906:Haricharan
882:"Onnapola"
718:chronology
590:Soundtrack
582:Production
568:Halwa Vasu
556:Madhan Bob
544:Singamuthu
496:Raj Kapoor
466:Charan Raj
381:March 2023
351:newspapers
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227:-language
154:2007-11-08
119:Production
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697:AVM Muzik
538:Vaiyapuri
514:Aishwarya
508:Ilavarasu
442:Vasudevan
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570:as Arivu
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439:Vetrivel
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183:Language
108:Music by
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66:Starring
1469:Rathnam
1421:Venghai
1341:Thamizh
1210:13 June
1180:13 June
1150:13 June
924:Release
809:Sujatha
776:Lyrics
770:Singers
751:(2007)
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478:Lakshmi
365:scholar
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1456:(2018)
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1236:2 June
1226:"வேல்"
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372:JSTOR
358:books
225:Tamil
186:Tamil
178:India
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1292:IMDb
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