18 Vayasu Puyale

18 Vayasu Puyale (English: 18 years Storm) is a 2007 Tamil romance film directed by M. Vijay. The film features newcomer Ajay Pradeep and Preethi Varma in lead roles, with Rajesh, Nalini, Fathima Babu, Venniradai Moorthy, Lollu Sabha Balaji and Pandu playing supporting roles. The film, produced by M. S. Tamilarasan and M. Illias, had musical score by Leo and was released on 14 September 2007.^[1][2][3][4]

Plot

The storyline revolves around Surya (Ajay Pradeep), a college drop-out and a good-for-nothing guy. Surya is from a middle-class family and lives with his father Ramakrishnan (Rajesh), his mother Seetha (Fathima Babu) and his little sister Divya (Thanalakshmi). His father Ramakrishnan advised him to be more responsible and to find a job as quickly as possible. Surya, certificate on hand, decides to look for a job. One day, at a pedestrian crossing, Surya falls in love at first sight with a girl (Preethi Varma).

Surya starts hanging out with his friends in his lover's college. Surya tries to impress Pooja (Preethi Varma) by acting like a hero and offering her gifts, but she refuses to accept his love. Pooja tells him that she doesn't believe in love marriage. So Surya with his parents arranged a meeting at the groom’s house where he made a proposal of marriage to Pooja. Pooja and her family agree to an arranged marriage. Surya and Pooja eventually get married.

All of this events turns out to be Surya's imagination. At the pedestrian crossing, Surya is immersed in his dreams and is hit by a car. So Gayathri (Preethi Varma) takes the seriously wounded Surya to the nearby hospital and he is saved by the doctors. Afterwards, Surya starts the quest to find his lover Gayathri. Gayathri lives with her aunt Vasantha (Nalini), a ruthless loan shark who wants all of her wealth, and her psychopath cousin Gaja (Babu) who wants to marry her. After the death of her parents, Gayathri found herself alone and became depressed, she needed the love of a person. So Gayathri runs away from her aunt's house. Thereafter, she tries to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff but Surya, who passed through, saves her. Surya then reveals that he is crazy about her and wants to marry her. First completely disoriented, Gayathri finally accepts his proposal. Mad with rage, Vasantha and Gaja are looking for Gayathri. What transpires next forms the rest of the story.

Cast

Production

The film director M. Vijay claimed that, "the screenplay of his movie was set in a novel and different fashion" and added, "This kind of screenplay may strike a note of similarity with Virumaandi where the first half and the second half of the film were two different interpretations of the same incidents". He stated that, "the film will have all the commercial elements like Dappan koothu, comedy, etc". Newcomer Leo had scored music for the film.^[1] The story of the film is about 18-year-olds who let their imagination run riot. The scenes which happened in Preethi's real life were reflected in this film. But the thing was that all these scenes were shot much earlier than her real life elopement episode.^[5][6]

Soundtrack

The film score and the soundtrack were composed by film composer Leo. The soundtrack, released on 23 April 2007, features 5 tracks with lyrics written by Snehan, Balaji and R. P. Ilayaraaja.^[3]

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