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film directed by V. S. Bharath Hanna. The film stars

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and

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alongside an ensemble cast including Y. Gee. Mahendra,

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, K. R. Vatsala,

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, and

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. It was released on 30 March 2007. The film is a remake of the 1998 Kannada film '' A''.

Plot

Bharath (

) is a perfectionist film director. Being a short-tempered person, he deals with people with arrogance and disrespectfulness. Chandini (

), a debut-making actress, falls in love with Bharath. When Chandini openly declares her love for Bharath in front of everyone, he gets angry and slaps her. Since that incident, Chandini gets away from him and latches on to a financier. Bharath cannot forget her and takes to drinking. What transpires later forms the crux of the story.

Cast

Production

After the commercially successful film ''

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'' (2004), director Shivaraj (who has changed his name to Bharath Hanna) and

team up for the second time.

of '' Sundhara Travels'' fame was selected to play lead actress, while

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was signed on as music composer. The film was originally titled as ''Reel No. 16'' and was launched on 29 April 2006. The filming was held at Vishakapatnam in 37 days.

Soundtrack

The film score and the soundtrack were composed by

. The soundtrack, released on 12 January 2007, features 4 tracks with lyrics written by

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, Piraisoodan and Senthilkumar.

retained two songs from original version which are composed by

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. "Idhu One Day" retained as "Idhu One Day" and "Sum Sumne" retained as "En Anbea".

Reception

The film received mostly negative reviews. Settu Shankar of ''OneIndia'' described the film as a needless confusion. While KLT of ''hindu.com'' criticized the outmoded plot and treatment. ''Chennai Online'' wrote "The film is a remake of the Kannada hit 'A'. It had helped establish popular star Upendra as a director-hero with his own unique, zany and a bizarre style of scripting, characterisation and narrative style. Which doesn't work to advantage in the Tamil version. Rehashed, it loses out in its essence and comes across as a series of disjointed scenes put together in a jerky, haphazard way. matters".

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 6447858 2007 films Films scored by Deva (composer) 2000s Tamil-language films 2000s Indian films Tamil remakes of Kannada films Films about filmmaking 2007 psychological thriller films Tamil-language Indian films