Piriyadha Varam Vendum (English: Want a boon for not getting separated) is a 2001 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film written and directed by Kamal. It is the Tamil remake of his 1999 Malayalam film Niram. The movie stars Prashanth and Shalini in the lead roles, while an ensemble cast featuring Manivannan and Janagaraj among others play supporting roles. Featuring music by S. A. Rajkumar, the film opened to positive reviews in February 2001.^[1][2] It was dubbed into Telugu as Chakkani Chukka.^[3]

Plot[edit]

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Sanjay (Prashanth) and Nithi (Shalini) are best friends right from their childhood days. They are neighbours, have grown up together, attend the same college, and spend every minute of their waking hours together. Both have admirers in college with Sneha (Jomol) wooing Sanjay and Praveen (Krishna) revealing his love for Nithi. Nithi's week-long trip to Bangalore, along with some prodding by his housemaid, makes Sanjay realize how much he misses Nithi and that he is in love with her. But respect for their friendship and her makes him hide his feelings. Meanwhile, Nithi accepts Praveen's proposal and things quickly move towards their marriage. But when things come together, Nithi realizes that she cannot stay without Sanjay, and at that time he reveals that he too loves her too.

Cast[edit]

• Prashanth as Sanjay
• Shalini as Nithi
• Jomol as Sneha
• Krishna as Praveen
• Manivannan as Dhanasekaran
• Nizhalgal Ravi as Vishwanathan
• Ambika as Nithi's mother
• Ashwini as Pushpa
• Manorama as Azhagi
• Kovai Sarala as Kannatha
• Dhamu as Sanjay's friend
• Janagaraj as Kannatha's neighbour
• Charle as Sanjay's friend
• Vaiyapuri as Sanjay's friend
• Balaji as Sanjay's friend
• Mink Brar in an item number

Production[edit]

Following the success of the 1999 Malayalam film Niram starring Kunchacko Boban and Shalini, the film's director Kamal chose to make his debut in Tamil films by remaking the film. Initially titled Kadhal Neethana, he signed up Prashanth to play the lead role while Shalini retained the leading female role after agreeing to work on it on stage at the success function of Niram.^[4]Sneha and newcomer Krishna were signed up to play the second leads for the film, while it was reported that Kushboo would also play a pivotal role.^[5] Sneha was later replaced by Jomol, who had played the role in the original version of the film and Kushboo did not feature. Delays in production due to the producer's financial problems meant that the dates of the lead pair went awry and they were unable to combine to finish the shoot quickly. Prashanth chose to prioritise making his other film Appu as he had to sport a beard and thus Shalini was left waiting, although she had stated that she would not act again after her impending marriage.^[6] Shalini subsequently married actor Ajith Kumar and the actor was unwilling to let his wife rejoin the team stating that they had misused her dates. The team considered releasing the film in October 2000 using Shalini's scenes from the Malayalam version, while using graphics to edit out Kunchacko Boban and place in Prashanth, before Shalini readily agreed to feature.^[7][8] It subsequently became her final film before retirement.^[9]

Retitled as Piriyadha Varam Vendum, the film continued shoot in late 2000 with sequences including a song being filmed in Kochi with Mink Brar making a guest appearance. Owing to the earlier date problems, the team had shot the song 'Vasco Da Gama' with guest dancer Raghava Lawrence but Prashanth was not pleased about the sudden change of cast in the song and requested to re-shoot it at his own cost.^[10] The song was financed by Murali Manohar while Prashanth's father Thiagarajan supervised the production of the song, which was guest directed by R. Madhesh and shot by Priyan, who had all volunteered.^[11]

Release[edit]

The film's production delays had constantly led to the release being postponed from dates ranging from September 2000 til February 2001 and it consequently had an average commercial performance at the box office.^[12][13][14] The film, however, won positive reviews upon release with a critic noting 'this is an entertaining and enjoyable film, probably the best film of 2001 so far' at the time of release in February 2001.^[15] Another critic noted 'It is a fairly well-told, engaging story of best friends becoming lovers, though one realises this much before the other.'^[16]

It was later dubbed and released in Telugu as Chakkani Chukka, despite the film already having been remade in 2000 as Nuvve Kavali by K. Vijaya Bhaskar.

Soundtrack[edit]

The film score and the soundtrack were composed by film composerS. A. Rajkumar. The soundtrack, released in 2 January 2001, features 5 tracks .

References[edit]

1. ^'The Hindu : Film Review: Piriyadha Varam Vaendum'. Thehindu.com. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
2. ^'rediff.com Movies: Pongalfest: 2001 releases'. Rediff.com. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
3. ^'Chakkani Chukka Telugu Full Movie - Prashanth, Shalini'. YouTube. 6 February 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
4. ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 13 April 2014. Retrieved 12 April 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
5. ^'Piriyadha Varam Vendum'. 3 March 2001. Archived from the original on 3 March 2001. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
6. ^'rediff.com, Movies: Gossip from the southern film industry'. Rediff.com. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
7. ^'rediff.com, Movies: Showbuzz! Domino effect hits Tamil industry'. Rediff.com. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
8. ^'rediff.com, Movies: Screening for release this Diwali: Tamil films'. Rediff.com. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
9. ^'rediff.com, Movies: 'I enjoyed everything about acting!': Shalini'. Rediff.com. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
10. ^'Playing truant?'. 2 March 2001. Archived from the original on 2 March 2001. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
11. ^'The Hindu : Riddled with problems'. Thehindu.com. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
12. ^'Welcome To Sify.com'. Sify.com. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
13. ^'Welcome To Sify.com'. Sify.com. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
14. ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
15. ^'Piriyaadha Varam Vendum - Tamil Movie Review'. Thiraipadam.com. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
16. ^'Piriyaadha Varam Vendum - Tamil Movie Review'. Thiraipadam.com. Retrieved 3 April 2019.

External links[edit]

• Piriyadha Varam Vendum on IMDb

Niram (English: Colour) is a 1999 Indian Malayalamromantic comedyfilm directed by Kamal, starring Kunchacko Boban and Shalini in the lead roles. The film is about a special friendship between a boy and girl, Aby (Kunchacko Boban) and Sona (Shalini). The film's music was composed by Vidyasagar.

Niram was a huge commercial success, and brought back in a genre of college campus based films in Malayalam cinema. The film was remade in Telugu as Nuvve Kavali starring Tarun and Richa Pallod, in Tamil as Piriyadha Varam Vendum starring Prashanth and Shalini, in Kannada as Ninagagi with Vijay Raghavendra and Radhika Kumaraswamy, and in Hindi as Tujhe Meri Kasam starring Ritesh Deshmukh and Genelia D'Souza.

Plot[edit]

Aby (Kunchacko Boban) and Sona (Shalini) are neighbors and family friends. They were born on the same day and were together since then. They share a special friendship and romance is nowhere in their plan. They are pair of pranksters, fun-loving and always up to some tricks. Their families find their friendship special, and their friends call them Siamese twins (having never seen them away from each other).

The story takes a turn when Sona goes to Bangalore to participate in a youth festival. Aby misses her so much that he realizes that what he feels for her is more than friendship. He is all set to confess his love when he realizes that he doesn't know how she feels about him, and he feels he should not take undue advantage of the freedom their parents have given them. When Sona returns, she tells Aby about Prakash Mathew (Boban Alummodan), who proposed to her when they were in Bangalore. Sona, who is confused about her feelings for Prakash, confides in Aby, who encourages her to confess her feelings to Prakash. Sona and Prakash become a couple but this brings unexpected strain into Aby's and Sona's friendship. Prakash's reactions to Aby's closeness to Sona makes Aby realize things will never be the same again. Aby, realizing that Sona is hurt by Prakash's actions towards him, starts showing interest towards Varsha (Jomol), who has always been in love with Aby. Aby starts avoiding Sona and starts spending more time with Varsha. This infuriates Sona.

Meanwhile, Prakash and Sona's marriage is fixed. Varsha asks Aby to meet her father, but he does not turn up for the meeting, giving excuses. Varsha later tells him that she realizes that he loves Sona and as long as that is the case, he would never reciprocate her feelings and it is best to tell Sona the truth.

Arrangements start for Sona's marriage to Prakash. After a dinner where the families of Aby, Sona and Prakash discuss marriage, Sona realizes that she will be moving to the US, away from her parents and Aby . She gets emotional and asks him why he never loved her, then everything would have been perfect! Aby gets overwhelmed by emotions and hugs her. He apologizes and leaves immediately. Sona is shocked at the extent of his feelings. She goes to his house and finds a card in which he has written SUK-RI-YA (which in the movie means 'I love you') near her name. Sona is hurt and gets angry at Aby for having hidden so many things from her. She finally tells him that she loves him too. Aby tries to pacify her and make her understand that it would be inappropriate to tell their parents at this stage.

Sona gets engaged to Prakash and Aby decides to leave before the wedding. Their parents are baffled at his sudden decision to leave and try to dissuade him. Aby is adamant and Sona goes to leave him to the railway station. Their parents find out that they are in love and come in search of them, to find the pair sitting on the stairs of the station, Aby not having left. Their parents happily suggest that the duo to get married because they also have wished for them to forever stay together.

Cast[edit]

• Kunchacko Boban as Aby
• Shalini as Sona
• Jomol as Varsha
• Boban Alummoodan as Prakash Mathew
• Lalu Alex as Dr. Sunny
• Devan as Jacob Job
• Ambika as Aby's mother
• Bindu Panicker as Maya (Sona's mother)
• Babu Swamy as Colonel Uncle (Shukriya's uncle)
• Kovai Sarala as Rukku (Aby's maid)
• KPAC Lalitha as Prakash Mathew's grandmother
• Prem Prakash as Mathukutty
• Ponnamma Babu as Prakash's mother
• Rizabawa as Jinan
• Divya Unni (guest role as herself)
• Jijoy Rajagopal as Bhavesh

Soundtrack[edit]

All music is composed by Vidyasagar.

Remakes[edit]

Owing to its success, the film was remade in Telugu as Nuvve Kavali (2000),^[2] in Tamil as Piriyadha Varam Vendum (2001),^[3] in Kannada as Ninagagi (2002),^[4] and in Hindi as Tujhe Meri Kasam (2003).^[5]

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Box office[edit]

The movie was a huge commercial success^[6] and made a theatrical run of more than 150 days due to positive reviews. The film was the third biggest hit of the year, behind Friends and Pathram. It became immensely popular among the youth and turned the lead pair into overnight superstars. The film collected around ₹8 crore at the box office.^[1]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^ab'Porn again'. India Today. 26 June 2000.
2. ^http://www.rediff.com/movies/2003/may/05south.htm
3. ^https://www.rediff.com/movies/2000/jun/30spice.htm
4. ^https://www.rediff.com/entertai/2002/mar/14kann.htm
5. ^https://www.ibtimes.co.in/tujhe-meri-kasam-12-years-since-riteish-deshmukh-genelia-dsouza-began-acting-619173
6. ^''I've compromised on all my films''. Rediff.com. 15 November 2006.

External links[edit]

• Niram on IMDb