Friends (2001 film)

Infobox_Film
name = Friends


caption = Official DVD Cover
director = Siddique
writer = Siddique
starring = Vijay, Surya, Ramesh Khanna, Devayani, Abhinyashree Vadivelu
producer =
music = Ilaiyaraaja
distributor =
released = flagicon|India2001
runtime =
country = flagicon|India India
language = Tamil
budget =
imdb_id = 0308280

"Friends" is a 2001 Tamil movie starring Vijay, Surya Sivakumar, Ramesh Khanna, Devayani, Abhinyashree, Vijayalakshmi and Vadivelu. The music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja. The film is a remake of the Malayalam Blockbuster by the same name with actors Mukesh, Sreenivasan, and Jayaram.

Plot

The threesome who lend reason to the title are Aravindan(Vijay), Chandru(Surya) and Krishnamurthy(Ramesh Khanna). They value friendship over everything else, even family, and for this reason, Chandru resists the advances of Aravindan's sister Amutha(Vijayalakshmi). When the trio take up a painter's job at a mansion, Aravindan falls in love with Padmini(Devayani), who lives there and Padmini's jealous cousin(Abinayasri) makes him believe that his overtures are reciprocated. When the truth is revealed and Padmini rejects him outright, Chandru stands up for his friend and speaks ill of her. This makes her swear to separate the friends.

After the marriage,Aravindan realises the hand of abhinaya behind all the mishaps and Padmini too realises Chandru is innocent.Then the marriage of Chandru and Amutha is arranged.This is not liked by Amutha's cousin who leads to a break in friendship between the heroes.The subsequent scenes maintain the tempo leading to a usual climax.

Cast and crew

Cast

*Joseph Vijay as Aravind
*Surya (actor) as Chandru
*Ramesh Khanna as Krishnamoorthy
*Devayani as Padmini
*Abiyanashree as
*Vijayalakshmi as Amutha
*Vadivelu as Nesamani
*Charlie as Gopal

Crew

*Director:Siddique
*Producer:Appachan
*Music:Ilayaraja

Box office

This film was again a hit for Vijay making it 3 hits in a row for the actor. It ran for 175 days.

Trivia

Originally, both Suvalakshmi andSimran were selected before Devayani and Jyothika was selected before Vijaylakshmi. They even started shooting.

oundtrack

*Thendral Varum - Hariharan, Pavatharani

*Kuyilikku Koo Koo - S. P. Balasubramaniam, Hariharan, Shankar Mahadevan

*Rukku Rukku - Yuvan Shankar Raja, Vijay Yesudas, Sowmya

*Get lyrics for Manjal Poosum Manjal Poosum - Sujatha Mohan, Devan

*Penkaloda Potti - Hariharan, Sujatha Mohan

*Poonkatrae - Hariharan

*Vaanam Perusuthan - S. P. Balasubramaniam, Vijay Yesudas, Arun Mozhi

References

*imdb title|0308280|Friends
* [http://www.raaga.com/channels/tamil/movie/T0000308.html Soundtrack Ref I]