Friends (2001 film)

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Friends

Directed by	Siddique
Written by	Kolvi
Starring	Surya, Vijay, Ramesh Khanna, Devayani, Abhinyashree Vadivelu
Music by	Ilaiyaraaja
Release date(s)	2001
Language	Tamil

Friends is a Tamil movie starring Surya, Vijay, Ramesh Khanna, Devayani, Abhinyashree, Vijayalakshmi and Vadivelu and music composed by Ilaiyaraaja. The film is directed by Siddique.

1 Plot
2 Cast and crew
3 Box office
4 Trivia

[edit] Plot

The threesome who lend reason to the title are Aravindan(Vijay), Chandru(Surya) and Krishnamurthy(Ramesh Khanna). They value friendship over everything else, even family, and for this reason, Chandru resists the advances of Aravindan's sister Amutha(Vijayalakshmi). When the trio take up a painter's job at a mansion, Aravindan falls in love with Padmini(Devayani), who lives there and Padmini's jealous cousin(Abinayasri) makes him believe that his overtures are reciprocated. When the truth is revealed and Padmini rejects him outright, Chandru stands up for his friend and speaks ill of her. This makes her swear to separate the friends.

After the marriage,Aravindan realises the hand of abhinaya behind all the mishaps and Padmini too realises Chandru is innocent.Then the marriage of Chandru and Amutha is arranged.This is not liked by Amutha's cousin who leads to a break in friendship between the heroes.The subsequent scenes maintain the tempo leading to a usual climax.

[edit] Cast and crew

Cast : Vijay, Surya, Ramesh Khanna, Devayani
Director : Siddique
Editing : Suresh Urs
Producer : Kalaippuli S. Thanu
Music : Ilayaraja

[edit] Box office

This film was again a mega blockbuster for vijay making it 4 hits in a row for the actor. It ran for 175 days.

[edit] Trivia

Ajith was originally slated to play the role of Suriya, but it was vijay’s college mate Suriya (Suriya studied in the same college as vijay did) who played the role of Vijay’s best friend in this movie.

This is Surya and Vijay's second film together.