"Thuli Thuli" is a song from the 2010 Tamil feature film ''

Paiyaa ''Paiyaa'' () is a 2010 Indian Tamil-language action-adventure film directed by N. Lingusamy and produced by N. Subash Chandra Bose under the banner Thirrupathi Brothers. The film stars Karthi and Tamannaah Bhatia in the lead roles, while M ...

'', composed by

Yuvan Shankar Raja Yuvan Shankar Raja (born 31 August 1979), is an Indian composer and playback singer. He mainly scores music for Tamil films along with few Telugu, Kannada, and Hindi films. Considered a versatile composer, he is particularly known for his use o ...

. The song, with lyrics by

Na. Muthukumar Nagarajan Muthukumar (12 July 1975 – 14 August 2016) was an Indian poet, lyricist, and author who predominantly worked in Tamil language film songs. He was known for his frequent collaborations with composers Yuvan Shankar Raja and G. V. Pra ...

and performed by

Haricharan Haricharan Seshadri, known mononymously as Haricharan (born 20 March 1987), is an Indian Carnatic vocalist, playback singer, and musician who predominantly works in Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Telugu and Kannada Kannada () is a Dravi ...

and

Tanvi Shah Tanvi Shah, (born 1 December 1985) is an Indian singer and songwriter from Tamil Nadu, India. She sings in Tamil, Hindi and Telugu. In addition, she sings in Spanish, Portuguese and other romance languages, as well as Arabic. Tanvi Shah is the ...

, was released as part of the soundtrack album of the film on 12 February 2010. Lyrically, the song tells the feelings of a young man who saw and fell in love with a young, attractive girl at first sight. The song, along with its entire soundtrack album, has received highly positive reviews from music critics, achieving commercial success, staying for over 8 months in the charts. The song has become the first Tamil song to be featured in an all India index of the Top 20 songs on radio for the month of April 2010, indicating this song was played on all Indian FM radio stations more often than any other song in the history of

Tamil film music Tamil cinema is the segment of Indian cinema dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Tamil language, the main spoken language in the state of Tamil Nadu. It is nicknamed Kollywood, a portmanteau of the names Kodambakkam, a Chenn ...

ever.

Inspiration and development

Composer

said, that the tune of this song came "immediately to his mind", when director

N. Linguswamy Nammalvar Lingusamy, (born 14 November 1967), is an Indian film director, film producer and screenwriter who works predominantly in Tamil cinema. He made his directorial debut with ''Aanandham'' (2001). He went on to direct ''Run'' (2002), ''S ...

was explaining the situation about the film's protagonist falling in love at first sight. He further more, revealed that he had developed this tune even some years earlier, when he saw a "beautiful girl", while driving in rain. However, he was too shy to express his feelings and instead developed a tune in his mind, which he and Linguswamy decided to reuse for this song.

Accolades

Other versions

The song was dubbed in Telugu as "Chiru Chiru" and reused in the Kannada remake '' Ajith'' (2014) as "Hani Hani". Despite the release of a Kannada remake, the song was dubbed in Kannada as "Hani Hani Maleyagi" when the film was dubbed as ''Preetiya Payana'' in 2020.

References

{{Reflist 2009 songs Indian songs Songs with music by Yuvan Shankar Raja Songs in Tamil Songs written for Tamil films