It was initially reported that Madras Talkies had signed on composer Dhina to work on the film's soundtrack, but he was later replaced by Karthik Raja. Madhavan, who played the lead role in Mani Ratnam's previous project Alaipayuthey (2000), was signed on to play the lead role alongside actress Jyothika. While Mani Ratnam worked on writing the film's city portions, Azhagam Perumal wrote the portions set in the village. The basic plotline of the film was taken from the episode Love Story from Suhasini's 1991 miniseries Penn. Azhagam Perumal had earlier begun two projects, Mudhal Mudhalaaga in 1998 and Udhaya in 1998, but both films ran into production troubles, so his mentor Mani Ratnam was keen to launch him as a director. Mani Ratnam chose his assistant Azhagam Perumal to direct a film for his production studio, Madras Talkies in late 2000 and the pair worked on a screenplay together. Gowtham Sundararajan as Ganga's brother-in-law.Adhi appears as lawyer for Veluthambi's son-in-law, and saves him based on lack of evidence.įinally, Adhi’s father understands that Veluthambi was innocent and apologizes to him. However, he misunderstands that Adhi is in love with his own daughter and fears that his daughter might elope with Adhi someday. Sivaji finds that Adhi has not come as a junior and instead for some other reason. Adhi comes in place of his friend Jim ( Vivek) as a junior lawyer to assist Sivaji, thereby meeting Ganga everyday. Adhi, who also lives in Chennai, meets Ganga, and they both now plan to get the cancelled wedding re-arranged again by their families.
Ganga is sent to Chennai to pursue engineering and stays with her paternal uncle Sivaji ( Manivannan), who is a leading lawyer by profession. Ganga's brother-in-law, a government school PT teacher, is blamed for the incident and is arrested. The argument, which started in a funnier tone, gets serious slowly, and immediately, both of the families decide to get the wedding cancelled and in the tussle, Adhi's house servant is stabbed. Veluthambi retaliates to prove his genuineness. Adhi’s father accuses Veluthambi of cheating during the game, which was actually done by Adhi’s relative Dr Kathamuthu ( M. However, to their shock, on the day before the wedding, a small quarrel erupts between Veluthambi and Adhi’s father ( Delhi Kumar) while playing cards. Slowly, Adhi and Ganga start liking each other and decide to get married. Both of them decide to somehow stop the wedding by creating some problem before the wedding, but all their efforts go in vain as both the families get even closer following their plans. To his surprise, Ganga is also not interested in marriage as she wants to study in Chennai. Adhi is a fun-loving person who has just completed his law degree and prefers to enjoy his bachelor life and is not interested in marriage.Īdhi comes to the village and meets Ganga trying to convey his feelings. The reason for this alliance is that Adhi's rich dad was Veluthambi's former boss who helped him become a rich rice mill owner, and Velu wants to repay the moral debt. Madhavan), who also hails from the same village.
Although she wishes to pursue civil engineering, her father Veluthambi ( Murali) plans to get her married to young Lawyer Adhithya aka Adhi ( R.
Ganga ( Jyothika) lives in a small village in Thenkasi district and yet secures state second rank in XII board exams. The film opened on 13 April 2001 to positive reviews from critics and went on to become a hit at the box office. Just when they begin to think that their getting together may not be too bad an idea after all, a real fight stops the wedding how they reunite forms the crux of the plot. The two draw up a few plans to stop the wedding, but they fizzle out. The groom backs away because he is reluctant to give up his life of wine and women in the city while the bride is unwilling because she wants to pursue an Engineering degree. The story revolves around an unhappy groom and bride forced into a wedding. The film featured cinematography by Ramji, editing by Sreekar Prasad and music composed by Karthik Raja. It stars Madhavan and Jyothika, with Vivek, Manivannan and Murali portraying other pivotal roles. Wedding bells) is a 2001 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film co-written and directed by Azhagam Perumal and produced by director Mani Ratnam under his home studio, Madras Talkies.