Uliyin Osai

The story is set in 1005 AD. and his son are benevolent rulers of the . As a mark of respect to the gods, they want to build a temple in . They appoint the master sculptor Iniyan, a handsome young man who is also a good dancer, to do the sculpture work for the big temple. However, Iniyan finds the palace ‘ ‘ Muthunagai not up to the mark and is unable to find the right girl to pose as the model for his sculpture work. Meanwhile, he meets a village girl Chamundi, who is said to be the granddaughter of a shepherd woman Azhagi, who is not only beautiful but has an hourglass-like figure and dances like a dream. Iniyan slowly falls in love with his ‘model’, and when he expresses his love for her, she spurns it as she is the Queen herself. An absolutely shattered sculptor in a moment of remorse does something which is shocking and is the real twist in the tale. The soundtrack was composed by . Pavithra Srinivasan of wrote “[..] the biggest flaw is the script itself, which based on a tiny story, has been stretched to two-and-a-half hours”. wrote “On the whole, Uliyin Osai is not a film with great merits but is certainly something different from the regular fare that we get. For those who care for something different on the screen this movie is worth a watch. Kalaignar’s dialogues in classical Tamil are a rarity these days and connoisseurs of the language will enjoy it”. The film won three : (Karunanidhi), (Kovai Sarala) and ( ).