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The urumi ( Malayalam: ഉറുമി urumi; Tamil: உறுமி, "urumi" or also known as சுருள் பட்டாக்கத்தி surul pattakahthi, lit. curling blade; Sinhalese: එතුණු කඩුව ethunu kaduwa;) is a sword with a flexible whip-like blade from India. Originating in Kerala southern state of India. It is considered one of the most difficult weapons to master due to the risk of injuring oneself. It is treated as a steel whip, and therefore requires prior knowledge of that weapon. For this reason, the urumi is always taught last in Kalaripayattu, the South Indian martial art from the state of Kerala.
Urumi can refer to:
- Urumi, a long Indian whip-like sword
- Urumi (drum), a double-headed hour-glass shaped drum used in South India
- Urumi (film), a 2011 Malayalam film
- Urumi language, an extinct Tupian language of Brazil
- Urumi Kanzaki, a character from Great Teacher Onizuka
The urumi (; also known as urumee) is a double-headed hourglass-shaped drum from the state of Tamil Nadu, South India. Two skin heads are attached to a single hollow, often intricately carved wooden shell. The preferred wood is jackwood, although other wood may be used. Both left and right heads are usually made from cow hide that is stretched around a thin metal ring (sometimes lizard skin is used for the right head). The outer circumference of each head is perforated with approximately seven to eight holes. The two heads are held in tension by a continuous rope that is woven around the drum in a V-shape pattern. Additional small coils of string or metal are tied around each pair of ropes near the left head. These coils can be slide horizontally along the length of the drum, increasing or decreasing the tension between the heads as necessary. For example, during the monsoon season the drum heads will slacken so much that the instrument becomes unplayable. Using these coils drummers can easily rectify such problems.
Urumi is a 2011 epic Indian historical drama film directed, filmed and co-produced by Santosh Sivan and written by Shankar Ramakrishnan. It stars Prithviraj Sukumaran, Prabhu Deva, Genelia D'Souza, Amol Gupte, Jagathy Sreekumar, Nithya Menon, and Alexx O'Nell in lead roles and features Tabu, Arya and Vidya Balan in extended cameos. The soundtrack includes songs composed by Deepak Dev.
The film is set in the early 16th century, when Portuguese sailors dominated the Indian ocean. The story follows Chirakkal Kelu (Prithviraj), seeking to avenge the death of his father at the hands of the sailors, and his cohorts Vavvali of Nagapattinam (Prabhu Deva), princess Ayesha of Arackel (Genelia D'Souza) and princess Bala of Chirakkal (Nithya Menon). The plot incorporates the intrigues of the Chirakkal Royal House, where Kelu serves as Commander-in-Chief, and the assassination of prince Bhanu Vikraman (Ankur Khanna). The plot also incorporates such actual historical figures as Estêvão da Gama (Alexx O'Nell), Vasco da Gama (Alexx O'Nell & Robin Pratt) and Chenichery Kurup.
The film was made on a budget of more than 20 Crores, making it the second-most expensive Malayalam film of its time, The film also marked the debut of Prithviraj Sukumaran as producer. Urumi was released in Tamil as Urumi: Padhinaintham Nootrandu Uraivaal, written by Sasi Kumaran, and subsequently dubbed in Telugu with the same title, Urumi.
The film was a commercial success at the box-office.It also won the Best film and Best Director in Imagine India Film Festival in Barcelona. It was also the Opening Film of the Panorama section in Goa film festival, and won the Asia Vision awards for Best film and Best Director in Dubai.It won two Kerala State Film Awards, for Best Background Music ( Deepak Dev) and for Best Sound Recordist ( M. R. Rajakrishnan).
The film was also dubbed and released in Hindi as Ek Yodha Shoorveer on 11 March 2016.