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Azhagiya Theeye
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Wikipedia article
'Azhagiya Theeye' is a 2004 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film written and directed by Radha Mohan that stars Prasanna and Navya Nair. The film was produced by Prakash Raj, who also played a significant character in the film, while Ramesh Vinayagam composed the music. It released to generally positive reviews. The film's name is inspired by the song of the same name from 'Minnale' (2001). The film was remade into Telugu in 2006 as 'Happy'.
Plot
The story revolves around Chandran (Prasanna) is approached by a girl Nandhini (Navya Nair) to break her proposed marriage with a software engineer Aravind (Prakash Raj) from USA. She is forced by her father who is a thug (Pyramid Natarajan) to marry this guy. Later Chandran hatches a plan by which he meets Aravind at a restaurant and tells him that Nandhini is madly in love with him. And the big twist is that Aravind does not walk away and instead stays back to see that the love birds get united which upsets Chandrans plans and his life. He is forced to marry Nandhini at a registrar office and she is thrown out of her house. Aravind arranges a flat for them and leaves for US. How the couple starts liking each other after a series of incidents forms the rest of the love story.
Cast
* Prasanna as Chandran
* Navya Nair as Nandhini
* Prakash Raj as Aravind Singh
* Elango Kumaravel as Gopi (Chithappa)
* Jayavarma as Moorthy
* Bala as Bala
* M. S. Bhaskar as Annachi
* Devadarshini as Sandhya
* Pyramid Natarajan as Nandhini's father
* Periyar Dasan
* Abbas (special appearance - '"Dil Mera Loot Liya"')
* Rambha (special appearance - '"Dil Mera Loot Liya"')
Production
Radha Mohan began work on his first film was 'Smile Please' in 1996, starring Prakash Raj in the lead role, but financial restraints meant that the film was later shelved. Prakash Raj chose to produce a film with Radha Mohan and announced the project in July 2003 under the title of 'Koothupattarai', which developed alongside Prakash Raj's other production 'Naam' (2003). Navya Nair signed on to appear in the film during September 2003, which by then had been briefly titled 'Ellame Drama Thaan'.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack for this film was composed by Ramesh Vinayakam.
References
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