Aethiree

Aethiree
Directed by	K. S. Ravikumar
Produced by	G. V. Prasad
Written by	K. S. Ravikumar Kamalesh Kumar
Starring	Madhavan Sadha Rahman Kanika Vivek R. Sundarrajan Vasu Vikram
Music by	Yuvan Shankar Raja
Cinematography	Ashok Rajan
Editing by	K. Thanigachalam
Studio	Damini Enterprises
Release date(s)	2004 (2004)
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Aethiree (English: Enemy) is a 2004 Indian Tamil comedy film, directed by popular director K. S. Ravikumar. The film, starring Madhavan, Sadha, Vivek, Kanika, Rahman and Delhi Ganesh in pivotal roles, has musical score by Yuvan Shankar Raja. It was released in May 2004 to positive critical response. The film was dubbed into Telugu and released as Bottle Mani, before it was remade in Telugu as State Rowdy, which stars Shivaji, Mallika Kapoor and Madhu Shalini, replacing Madhavan, Sadha and Kanika, respectively, and released in 2007.

Plot

Natarajan (Delhi Ganesh) is a Brahmin house-owner near the Parthasarathy Temple looking for a right tenant for the upper portion of his house. He is very protective of his college going beautiful daughter Gayathri (Kanika). Since he often fears that the prospective tenant might romance with his daughter he filters all the people who come asking for the house. He rents out the house to five bachelor students who pretend to be good and later become a big headache for the father and daughter. On the advice of ‘Auto’ (Vivek), Natarajan brings Subramani (Madhavan) who charades himself as ‘Bottle Mani’, a dreaded thug to vacate the students. Incidentally Mani, who stays with his Jailor uncle (R. Sundarrajan), was thrown out of his house as he refuses to marry his daughter. Taking advantage of the situation, Mani befriends the five boys and starts staying with them.

Priya (Sadha) is the daughter of a wealthy gangster (Fefsi Vijayan) and she is engaged to an affluent sadist ACP (Rahman). On the day of marriage Priya comes to know that her fiancée is already married and had murdered his first wife in a sadistic manner but her father forces her to marry him to cover up his illegal activities. She consumes poison just before the wedding time but was mistakenly kidnapped by Mani and Auto. Now Priya becomes one more addition in the upstairs portion. The rest of the story is how they fall for each other and how Mani saves her from the clutches of her dad and fiancee and marries her at the end.

Cast and crew

Cast

• Madhavan as Subramani / 'Bottle' Mani
• Sadha as Priya
• Rahman as Raghavan
• Kanika as Gayathri Natarajan
• Vivek as 'Auto' Sampath
• Delhi Ganesh as Nataraja Iyer
• 'FESFI' Vijayan
• R. Sundarrajan as Subramani's uncle
• Manobala as Seshagopalan
• Madhan Bob
• Vasu Vikram
• Karthik
• Ramesh
• Prakash Dakshinamurthy
• Karun
• Koti

Crew

• Screenplay, Direction: K. S. Ravikumar
• Production: G. V. Prasad
• Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja
• Cinematography: Ashok Rajan
• Editing: K. Thanigachalam
• Story, Dialogue: Kamalesh Kumar
• Art direction: G. K.
• Stunts: 'Kanal' Kannan
• Choreography: Raju Sundaram, Kalyan
• Co-Direction: S. Dayalan, H. R. Krishnamohan
• Stills: K. L. Ramani
• Costumes: V. Moorthy
• Lyrics: 'Kavignar' Kaalidhasan, Pa. Vijay, Na. Muthukumar, Kabilan, Victordoss, Premji Amaran-Swathi
• Executive Production: K. V. Subramaniam

Soundtrack

Aethiree
Soundtrack album by Yuvan Shankar Raja
Released	April 2004
Recorded	2003 / 2004
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Producer	Yuvan Shankar Raja
Yuvan Shankar Raja chronology
Ullam (2004) Aethiree (2004) Perazhagan (2004)

The music was scored by Yuvan Shankar Raja, teaming up with director K. S. Ravikumar for the first and only time so far. The soundtrack was released in the first week of April 2004, featuring 7 tracks with lyrics written by 'Kavignar' Kaalidhasan, Pa. Vijay, Na. Muthukumar, Kabilan, Viktordoss and Premji Amaran and Swathi.

Track	Song	Singer(s)	Duration	Lyricist	Notes
1	"Podu Nanba Sakkai Podu"	Karthik	4:00	Na. Muthukumar
2	"Thamizhnaatu Pennai"	Tippu, Shalini Singh	4:03	Kabilan
3	"Saithane Saithane"	Shankar Mahadevan, Srilekha Parthasarathy	4:55	Pa. Vijay
4	"Bottle Mani"	Premji Amaran	2:09	Premji Amaran & Swathi
5	"Mudhal Mudhalaga"	Hariharan	5:14	Victordoss
6	"Ichu Thaariyaa"	Shankar Mahadevan, Srivarthini	4:41	Pa. Vijay
7	"Kadhal Vandhu"	Ranjith, Sujatha	3:40	'Kavignar' Kaalidasan

Box office

• The film was a blockbuster hit at the box office.
• The film was remade in Telugu as State Rowdy starring Shivaji, Mallika Kapoor and Madhu Shalini in the roles acted by Madhavan, Sadha and Kanika respectively.

External links

• Aethiree at the Internet Movie Database