Unakkum Enakkum
| Unakkum Enakkum | |
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| File:Something Something... Unakkum Enakkum (movie poster).jpg Theatrical poster | |
| Directed by | M. Raja |
| Story by | Veeru Potla |
| Produced by | T. Rama Rao, M. Raja |
| Starring | Jayam Ravi Trisha Prabhu Richa Pallod |
| Cinematography | A. Venkatesh |
| Edited by | S.Surajkavee |
| Music by | Devi Sri Prasad |
Production companies | Sri Lakshmi Productions Jayam Company |
Release date | 28 July 2006 |
Running time | 175 min. |
| Country | India |
| Language | Tamil |
| Budget | 120 million |
| Box office | 200 million |
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Unakkum Enakkum (English: For you and for me) is a 2006 Tamil-language romantic comedy film directed by M. Raja. A remake of Telugu film Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana (2005), it stars Jayam Ravi and Trisha Krishnan in the lead roles and an ensemble cast, including Richa Pallod, veterans Prabhu, Bhagyaraj, Geetha and comedians Santhanam and Ganja Karuppu in supporting roles. The score and soundtrack was composed by Devi Sri Prasad, who also scored the music in the original version of the film, whilst cinematography was handled by A. Venkatesh and editing by S. Suraj Kavee.
Plot
Muthupandi (Prabhu) takes care of his only sister Kavitha (Trisha), following their mother’s early death when they were young. Muthupandi lives in a village and brings up his sister with lot of care and affection. In the meantime, Muthupandi has an aversion towards arrogant, rich people in the society, as his father, who was rich, abandoned his mother, following which she died.
Santhosh (Jayam Ravi) is the only of son of a London based business tycoon Krishnan (Bhagyaraj) and Janaki (Geetha). He comes to Chennai along with Janaki to attend his cousin Lalitha’s (Richa Pallod) wedding. Lalitha is Kavitha's best friend, and she too comes to Chennai a few days before the wedding. Santhosh, a fun-loving person, develops an attraction immediately after seeing Kavitha. But Kavitha does not reciprocate, and she maintains distance with Santhosh.
Slowly, Santhosh and Kavitha become good friends, and love blossoms between them. Shalini (Tejashree) is the daughter of Santhosh’s family friend JP (Manivannan), and she too loves Santhosh. Janaki gets furious knowing about Santhosh and Kavitha’s love affair, as she thinks Kavitha is poor and from low societal status. On the day of Lalitha’s wedding when Santhosh is away, Janaki and JP speak ill of Kavitha and ask her leave the place before Santhosh returns.
When Kavitha is about to leave the place, suddenly Muthupandi arrives and is shocked to see her condition. He gets angry, scolds everyone there for hurting his sister, and he also takes Kavitha with him back to the village. Santhosh is shocked knowing about the events and he leaves to the village immediately with the hope of convincing Kavitha. But Muthupandi does not like Santhosh seeing Janaki’s attitude and thinks that he too will ill treat Kavitha.
Santhosh apologizes to Muthupandi for the misunderstandings and requests to get Kavitha married to him. Now Muthupandi comes with a challenge. He allots 1 acre of agricultural land to Santhosh and asks him to do farming there. Muthupandi challenges Santhosh to cultivate more than him using the land allotted. Santhosh accepts the challenge, although he does not know farming.
Santhosh tries hard to do farming, and somehow he manages to learn cultivation. JP and Shalini do not want him to win the challenge, and they rope Mayan (Kalabhavan Mani) to distract Santhosh. Also, there is Sivaji (Dhandapani), a local rich man in the village. His son wants to marry Kavitha at any cost. Cultivation is completed and rice grains are bundled in both Santhosh and Muthupandi’s farms.
One day, Sivaji and his son set fire to Muthupandi’s home with plans of killing Santhosh. But Santhosh gets alerted and escapes. Also, he saves Kavitha’s horse doll which she considers to be precious (as it was made by Muthupandi when they were young). On the day before the counting, Mayan takes a few bundles from Santhosh and places it along with Muthupandi’s so that Santhosh will lose the challenge.
On the other hand, Muthupandi understands Santhosh’s true love towards Kavitha and believes that he is the right match for his sister. At night, Muthupandi visits Santhosh’s land and places a few additional rice grain bundles so that Santhosh can easily win. Santhosh wins the challenge as he has cultivated more compared to Muthupandi, following which he agrees for their wedding.
Sivaji and his son get angry seeing this, and they decide to kill Santhosh and marry Kavitha. JP and Mayan also get angry, and they plot to murder Muthupandi. They kidnap Kavitha and beat up Santhosh and Muthupandi. A fight erupts as Mayan and Sivaji’s son are killed by Santhosh, who saves Kavitha, while JP and Sivaji are violently defeated by Muthupandi. Knowing this, Shalini dies. When police arrives at the spot, Muthupandi takes the blame of murder and requests Santhosh to marry Kavitha and lead a happy life.
Muthupandi gets jailed for two years and gets released with the hope of seeing Kavitha and Santhosh leading a happy married life. But he is surprised seeing them in wedding attire in front of the jail when he comes out. Santhosh and Kavitha were waiting to conduct the marriage only after Muthupandi is released. Muthupandi feels proud of them. Janaki realizes her mistake and apologizes to Muthupandi. In the end, Santhosh and Kavitha are married. Muthupandi and Valli (Mallika) develop love for each other.
Cast
- Jayam Ravi as Santhosh
- Trisha Krishnan as Kavitha
- Prabhu as Muthupandi, Kavitha's brother
- Geetha as Santhosh's mother
- Bhagyaraj as Krishnan, Santhosh's father
- Richa Pallod as Lalitha 'Lalli', Kavitha's best friend and Santhosh's cousin
- Manivannan as Jayadhalapradhaban 'J.P.'
- Santhanam as Arivu, Santhosh and Lalitha's cousin
- Cochin Hanifa as Kolutha Panni, Lalitha's father and Santhosh's uncle
- Kalabhavan Mani as 'Mark' Mayan
- Tejashree as Shalini 'Shalu', J.P.'s daughter
- Dhandapani as Sivaji
- Mallika as Valli
- Kadhal Arun Kumar as Arun
- T. S. B. K. Moulee as Krishnayya (railway station master)
- Livingston as Ram
- Ganja Karuppu as Karuppiah
- Aravind Akash as Jai
- Walter Philips as Young Muthupandi
Production
After two successful remakes, Raja opted to remake successful Telugu film Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana (2005) with his brother Ravi in lead role alongside Trisha reprised her role from original. Prabhu was signed on to play Trisha's brother after unsuccessful negotiations with several other actors.[1][2] Mohan was offered the role of Jayam Ravi's father, but he declined the offer and the role went to K. Bhagyaraj.[3]
The film was initially titled Something Something Unakkum Enakkum, but removed the English prefixes to exploit the Tamil Nadu Government's rule of entertainment tax exemption for films with Tamil titles.[4][5][6]
Music
The film has six songs composed by Devi Sri Prasad who retained all the tunes from the original Telugu film.
- Aagayam – S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
- Kiliye Kiliye – Jassie Gift
- Kozhi Veda Kozhi – Naveen & Priya
- Pooparikka Neeyum – Shankar Mahadevan
- Something Something – Tippu
- Unn Paarvaiyil – Karthik & Sumangali
Release
The film opened to positive reviews in July 2006, with Behindwoods.com noting Raja "should be applauded for hand picking a cast that makes the movie worth watching", while remarking that "it has everything that can well set the box office collections soaring".[7] Likewise Sify added the film was "like a saccharine coated candy floss champion that is superbly packaged" and The Hindu stated "Raja has a way of making remakes successful".[8][9] The venture went on to become profitable, and scored the third straight success for the actor-director duo.[10]
Character map and remakes
Template:Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana character map
References
- ^ "Something..Something: Will it work?". Rediff.com. 31 December 2004. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
- ^ "Will it be a success story in Tamil? – CHEN". The Hindu. 14 April 2006. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
- ^ http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/article/21327.html
- ^ "No more tax exemptions?". Retrieved 27 September 2016.
- ^ "Now, The 'T' Certificate". Retrieved 27 September 2016.
- ^ "Only films with Tamil names get tax waiver, says TN govt". The Times of India. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
- ^ "Something Something Review – Finally Jeyam Ravi had got his another break and Trisha is all set to rule again!!". Behindwoods.com. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
- ^ "Review : Something Something Unakkum Enakkum". Sify.com. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
- ^ "From London with love – Unakkum Enakkum – CHEN". The Hindu. 28 July 2006. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
- ^ "Success begins at home – MADS". The Hindu. 8 September 2006. Retrieved 28 December 2015.