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Kadhalan / Humse Hai Muqabala is a 1994 romantic thriller film written and directed by S. Shankar and produced by K. T. Kunjumon. The film stars Prabhu Deva and Nagma, while Raghuvaran, Girish Karnad, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and Vadivelu play other pivotal roles. It focuses on a college student who falls in love with the state governor's daughter. The governor opposes this, and unknown to anyone, plans on toppling the state government.

Kadhalan was released on 17 September 1994. The film was a commercial success and won many recognitions and honours, including two South Filmfare Awards, and four National Film Awards. The film was dubbed and released in Telugu with the title Premikudu and in Hindi as Humse Hai Muqabala.

The background music score and soundtrack were composed by A. R. Rahman. The soundtrack features nine songs composed by Rahman, with lyrics written by Vaali, Vairamuthu and director Shankar who penned the "Pettai Rap" number. The Choreographers were Sundaram - Mugur Sundar and Raju Sundaram. The song Mukkabla became popular and was plagiarised freely by tunesmiths and nearly a dozen versions of the song were churned out, a feat that earned Mukkabla and Rahman a place in the Limca Book of Records. New styles were experimented with, as in the song "Pettai Rap", a Madras Bashai song which was written in a rap-like style, interspersing Tamil with English words. This song was penned by ace director S.Shankar. The synthesiser and the keyboard also feature while drawing from Tamil folk music. Playback singer P. Unnikrishnan made his singing debut with the song "Ennavale Ennavale" which was composed in Kedaram raga.

The dubbed Hindi version of the soundtrack, Humse Hai Muqabala, sold 2.5 million units in India. "Urvasi Urvasi" inspired the 2014 song "It's My Birthday" by American rapper will.i.am. It was remade in Hindi as a single, "Urvashi" in 2018, sung and composed by Yo Yo Honey Singh.

Directed by: S. Shankar
Produced by: K. T. Kunjumon
Written by: S. Shankar
Starring Prabhu Deva, Nagma
Music by: A. R. Rahman
Release date: 17 September 1994

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