Iyarkai

Iyarkai
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Directed by	S.P.Jananathan
Produced by	V. R. Kumar A.E.Gunasekaran G. Natarajan
Written by	S. P. Jananathan (Story & Dialogue)
Screenplay by	N. Kalyanakrishnan
Starring	Arun Vijay Shaam Seema Biswas Kutti Radhika Senthil Pasupathy Karunas Chinni Jayanth
Music by	Vidyasagar
Cinematography	N.K.Ekambaram
Edited by	N. Ganesh Kumar editing supervisor: V. T. Vijayan
Production company	Prisam Films
Distributed by	Prisam Films
Release date	21 November 2003 (2003-11-21)
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Iyarkai ( pronunciation ) (English translation: Nature) is a 2003 Tamil romance film written and directed by S. P. Jananathan and produced by V. R. Kumar, A. E. Gunasekaran, and G. Natarajan for Prisam Films. The film has Arun Vijay, Shaam, Kutti Radhika, Pasupathy, and Chinni Jayanth in the lead roles, while Karunas, Senthil, and Seema Biswas appear in supporting roles. This film was a low-budget production, and the soundtrack was composed by Vidyasagar. This love story is set against the backdrop of a lost ship in Rameshwaram. It enjoyed relative success in the Kollywood box office. The soundtrack was a great hit but most importantly, the film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil for 2003, competing with Virumaandi and Pithamagan as that year's submissions. This movie is loosely based on Vennira Iravugal, Tamil translation of Dostoyevsky's White Nights.^[1]

Plot

Iyarkai is a familiar love triangle that plays out in unfamiliar surroundings. It revolves around a girl and the two men who love her. By placing the happenings in a port town of Rameswaram, S. P. Jananathan manages to give the proceedings a fresh feeling.

Mukundan (Arun Vijay) is an Indian ship captain who lives in Rameshwaram. Marudhu (Shaam), an orphaned ship mechanic and sailor, also lives in Rameswaram and decides to give up his sailing life and settle down there. He develops a liking for Nancy (Kutti Radhika), who sells fruits and other items to sailors on ships that have arrived at the port, but she still holds a candle for the captain of a ship that docked there three years ago. Though Nancy had proposed to him three years ago, he declined stating that 17 was a very young age to marry. Now to everyone's surprise, the captain is revealed to be Mukundan, who had realized Nancy's true love for him. Hence he had promised her that he would return in a year, but three years later, Nancy has still not given up hope. Marudhu helps Nancy search for Mukundan using his knowledge of ships and naval technology, but when he reveals that even he loves Nancy, she distances herself from him. However, they reconcile and become friends. All hope is lost to find Mukundan as they see the captain junior, now as the first officer of another ship. The captain junior reveals that the captain's ship was destroyed in a blast.

Soon, Marudhu's ship is scheduled to leave to Africa on Christmas night. Marudhu can decide to join or leave by then. All of them pressurize Nancy to leave her ideas about Mukundan and marry Marudhu. After a very long thought, she agrees by the night of Christmas Eve, and arrangements are made for the wedding next day, but Mukundan returns, surprises Nancy and Marudhu, and finds him kissing her hand in the crowd. He decides that he is the best for her.

She is in a dilemma whether to choose Mukundan or Marudhu, and finally selects the former, leaving mixed feelings of joy and sorrow. Marudhu leaves India in his ship, seeking more journeys and promising never to return to his home of Tamil Nadu.

Cast & Crew

Soundtrack

The Music was composed by Vidyasagar.The songs become chartbuster especially "Kadhal Vandhaal" song was much popular and the background music got huge responses.^[2]

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