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'May Maadham' is a 1994 Indian Tamil-language romance film directed by Venus Balu. The film stars Vineeth and Sonali Kulkarni, and has music by A. R. Rahman. It is based on the 1953 American film 'Roman Holiday'. The film was released on 9 September 1994. It was remade in Hindi as 'Love You Hamesha' (2022).

Plot



Sandhya is the only daughter of big shot who always controls her life and schedules her activities. When she finds out he has planned to get her married with a US immigrant, she decides to run away from her family to Madras. Due to some unfortunate events, Sandhya loses her money because of a young photographer Eeshwar and now she is stuck with him until he repays her cash. As the story unfolds, her family finds her in Madras and love blossoms between the two.

Cast



* Vineeth as Eeshwar

* Sonali Kulkarni as Sandhya

* Manorama as Aandal

* Kaka Radhakrishnan as Sadha Sivam

* Janagaraj as Captain

* R. Sundarrajan as All in All Ayyasamy

* P. C. Ramakrishna as Rangarajan, Sandhya's father

* Rajeshkumar as Rajeshkumar

* Pandu as Police constable

* Anand Krishnamoorthi as Thirugnana Sambanthan (Calcutta)

* Oru Viral Krishna Rao as Colony resident

* Madhan Bob as Ramasamy

* S. N. Lakshmi as Sandhya's grandmother

* C. R. Saraswathi

* Sathyapriya as Female pimp

* Pasi Sathya as Poongodi

* A. V. Ramanan

* Marthandan as Mad man

* Vellai Subbaiah as Customer

* Jaya Prahasam as Gurusamy

* Mounika in a special appearance in song "Aadipaaru Mangatha"

* Silk Smitha in a special appearance in song "Palakattu Machanukku"

Production



The film marks Sonali Kulkarni's Tamil film debut. She was encouraged to audition for the film by Mani Ratnam. The song "Madrasa Suthi" was filmed in Marina Beach.

Soundtrack



The soundtrack was composed by A. R. Rahman with lyrics by Vairamuthu. Rahman reused the songs in 'May Maadham's Hindi remake 'Love You Hamesha' (2022), and the Telugu dub 'Hrudayaanjali'. The song "Margazhi Poove" is set in Hindolam raaga, while "Enmel Vizhundha Mazhaithuli" is set in Kapi. In a 2018 interview, Vairamuthu recalled that after he had written most of the lyrics for the song "Margazhi Poove", Rahman wanted him to write further lyrics for "a short tune that plays between the BGM". Vairamuthu felt it was impossible to fit words into the tune but Rahman remained adamant. Though irritated, Vairamuthu accepted the challenge and found the perfect lyrics: "Venba... Paadivarum Vandukku/ Senthaen... Thandhuvidum sempookkal/ Konjam... Paadavarum Pennukku/ Sandham... Thandhuvidum Mynahkkal".

Release and reception



'May Maadham' was released on 9 September 1994. Malini Mannath of 'The Indian Express' wrote on the same day, "Despite its flaws, 'May Maadham' is an engaging little film that is worth viewing". 'Indolink' wrote "Its A.R.Rehmaan who again comes to the rescue in this love story that loses direction to say the least. A simple story of love that doesnt have any unnecessary opposition (thank heavens) should have been more efficiently handled as there isnt much scope for melodrama here. So the director decided to adopt a tongue-in-cheek attitude, with Crazy Mohan's script coming in handy, but after the half way stage, it fails to grip you and you just wait there for it to end". Thulasi of 'Kalki' appreciated the film for Sreeram's cinematography, Rahman's music, Mohan's dialogues and the cast performances. The film was commercially unsuccessful, breaking GV Films' success streak that began in 1990. The film was subsequently dubbed in Telugu under the title 'Hrudayanjali' in 1998. It was remade in Hindi as 'Love You Hamesha', which was not released until 2022 on YouTube, despite being shot around 1999-2000.

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