Uyirullavarai Usha

Uyirullavarai Usha is a 1983 Indian Tamil-language romantic action film written, directed and scored by T. Rajendar. The film stars Rajendar, Saritha, Ganga and Nalini. It is the debut for Rajendar and Nalini in leading roles. The film was released on 4 March 1983. It was remade in Kannada as Premigala Saval (1984) and in Hindi as Aag Aur Shola (1986), and dubbed in Telugu as Prema Sagaram.

Production
The lead role was originally offered to Rajinikanth, who could not accept, resulting in T. Rajendar debuting as lead actor. The film also marked the acting debut of Nalini as lead actress.

Soundtrack
The music was composed by T. Rajendar who also wrote the lyrics. For the dubbed Telugu version Prema Sagaram, all lyrics were written by Rajasri. The song "Indralogathu" was later sampled by Flying Lotus for "GNG BNG" from the album Los Angeles (2008).


 * Tamil


 * Telugu version

Release and reception
Uyirullavarai Usha was released on 4 March 1983. Rajendar struggled to find a distributor for the film, with the trade blaming him of "going back to the M.G.R. era". Despite these criticisms, the film became successful at the box-office. Ananda Vikatan said the film's plus points were its songs and score. Thiraignani of Kalki criticised the film for having a Oru Thalai Ragam hangover.