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GreatGoodWatch scoreSummary
Karthik and Shakthi marry against the wishes of their families and start their new life. However, they soon realize that marriage is not the bed of roses they had imagined it would be.
Good for
- Date night
- Family movie night
- Friends night
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 83GoodWatch 78
IMDb8.3
Box office
3.0×its budget
- Budget
- $2 M
- Worldwide
- $6 M
Worldwide it earned $4 M more than it cost.
Running time
2 h 36 min
Longer than 9 in 10 romances, +49 min on the typical 107
typical 107156Half of all romances run 97–122 min.
Reach
Streams in 2 countries, rent or buy in 11 more
Released
2000
April 14, 2000
26 years ago
Genres
RomanceDramaLanguage
Tamil
Original language
Also spoken
MalayalamMade in
- India
and 10 more16 people
- R. MadhavanKarthik Varadharajan
- ShaliniShakthi Selvaraj
- SwarnamalyaPoorni Selvaraj
- VivekSethu
- JayasudhaMrs. Selvaraj
- Pyramid NatarajanVaradharajan
- KKKarthik KumarPoorni's Fiance
- N. AzhagamperumalNayar
- RRaviprakashSelvaraj
- Arvind SwamyCollector
Khusbhu SundarCollector's Wife
Venu ArvindArumugam
KPAC LalithaKarthik's Mother
SukumariShakti's Aunty
Pondy RaviPolice Officer- KNKumar NatarajanKarthik's Brother
Directing · 3
- Mani Ratnam Director, Screenplay, Dialogue, Story
- N. Azhagamperumal Assistant Director
- Sivakumar Ananth Assistant Director
Writing · 3
- R. Selvaraj Story
- Vairamuthu Lyricist
- Pravin Mani Lyricist
Production · 1
- G. Srinivasan Producer
Camera · 1
- P. C. Sreeram Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Sreekar Prasad Editor
Sound · 16
- A.R. Rahman Original Music Composer, Playback Singer
- Shankar Mahadevan Playback Singer
- Asha Bhosle Playback Singer
- Mahalakshmi Iyer Playback Singer
- S. P. Charan Playback Singer
- Srinivas Playback Singer
Art · 1
- Raghavan Art Direction
Other crew · 2
- Farah Khan Choreographer
- Horse Babu Stunts Coordinator
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