Five Star Tamil Movie

Feature Film | 2002
Critics:
Oct 1, 2002 By K. T. Thomas


The story focuses the friendship of five youth, (three guys and two girls) thick buddies in an engineering college. They are determined to keep their friendship alive throughout their lives and share a dream of joining the same concern when they go to work. During a vacation, one of the friends, Ilango, goes home to his village. There he is forced to get married to his rustic cousin, Eashwari, by his tough disciplinarian father. Once back in college, though he hides the fact about his marriage, the marriage becomes public when relatives of Eashwari come to visit Elango.


While their dream to work together becomes true, Ilango alone gets a transfer to Bombay. The friends forces Elango to visit his wife before leaving for Bombay and put him on a train. But Elango manages to get off the train and from there loses touch with his friends and family in the village.


The friends part and six years later, two of the five come back to join the two girls in Chennai. On the train in the journey back, Prabhu, one of the friends, and Ilango's wife Eashwari meet each other. Prabhu falls in love with Eashwari without realizing who she is. Eventually he finds the truth about Eashwari, who is waiting with hopes of her husband to return. Eashwari joins the gang of friends along with Prabhu, who vows to find Elango and unite him with Eashwari. The gang's shocking discovery forms the rest of the story.


The cast of the film includes Prasanna, an engineering student, Karthik, the son of a Tirupur businessman, Krishna, an earlier assistant to director Rajiv Menon, Kanika, an engineering student from BITS Pilani and a former Ms.Chennai, Sandhya, a model and also a former Ms.Chennai, and Mangaikarasi, a dancer based in Sweden. Both Prasanna and Karthik were chosen after the producers, jointly with Vijay TV, organized a talent hunt. The singer Anuradha Sriram makes her debut as the music director along with her husband Sriram who is a classical singer and a violinist himself in this film. They have jointly scored the music for this film under the name of Parasuram-Radha.


K. T. Thomas

   

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