Jeans (film)

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Jeans

Directed by	S. Shankar
Produced by	Ashok Amritraj and Walter Soloman
Written by	S. Shankar
Starring	Prashanth Aishwarya Rai Nassar S.N. Lakshmi Senthil S. Ve. Sekar Raju Sundaram Raadhika
Music by	A. R. Rahman
Release date(s)	April 15, 1998
Language	Tamil
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Jeans is a 1998 Tamil movie starring Aishwarya Rai and Prashanth and music composed by A. R. Rahman. The film is directed by S. Shankar. It won the Filmfare Best Movie Award South in the year of its release.

1 Plot
2 Cast and crew
3 Trivia
4 External links

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The story of Jeans is about two twins. The first half of the film in set in America. The second half moves down to Tamil Nadu.

Jeans' basic plot line is that of a disapproving father in the path of love. Nachiappan (Nassar) is estranged from his twin brother. He himself has two twin sons (Prashanth). The naive, NRI father wants his offspring to marry only twin girls due to the circumstances which caused him to separate from his own brother. Through a series of completely implausible events, one of the twin sons falls in love with Madhumita (Aishwarya), who has come to the USA for her grandma's (Lakshmi) brain tumour operation. When Nachiappan declares that he would marry his sons to twin girls only, Krishnaveni fibs that Madhumita also has a pair of twins. When Nachiappan and his sons travel to India to meet the other girl, Madhumita begins to pose as Vaishnavi, the second twin.

[edit] Cast and crew

Cast : Prashanth, Aishwarya Rai, Lakshmi, Nassar, Raju Sundaram, S.V.Sekhar, Senthil, Raadhika, Geetha
Director : S. Shankar
Producer : Ashok Amritraj and Walter Soloman
Music : A. R. Rahman

[edit] Trivia

The total runtime of Visual FX in this movie was more than Jurassic Park (1993) and was featured in Guinness Book of World Records for some time.
Raju Sundaram who plays the role of Aishwarya Rai's brother, is also the dance choreographer of the movie.
Originally the song "Anbe Anbe" was recorded with less percussion than what it has now. A R Rahman, who composed the song, gave it to director Shankar for picturisation. After seeing the visuals of the song, Rahman decided to add more sound effects to the song to make it rich.
The director wanted to name the movie 'Genes'. However he changed the name to "Jeans' as he felt the masses to whom the movie was marketed to wouldn't comprehend the title!