''Anbudan'' ( ''With Love'') is a 2000

Tamil language Tamil (, , , also written as ''Tamizhil'' according to linguistic pronunciation) is a Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia. It is one of the longest-surviving classical languages in the world,. "Tamil is one of ...

romantic drama film Romance films involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion (emotion), passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their ...

written and directed by T. Indrakumar and starring

Arun Vijay Arun Vijay (born 19 November 1977), formerly known as Arun Kumar, is an Indian actor who works primarily in Tamil cinema. He also starred in a few films in Telugu, Kannada and Hindi. Born as Arun Kumar and being the only son of veteran actor ...

(known at the time as Arunkumar) and Rambha. It was released on 15 November 2000.

Plot

Sathya (

) is a very good artist and is known for his art. He paints pictures and sells them on the road where he meets a lot of trouble. That's where he gets to know of Thilottamal over the phone. He starts searching for her, but to no use. In between, Nimmi ( Rambha) comes as a model and falls in love with Arun, but he declines it for Thilottamal. He even thinks Meena is as mentally disturbed as Thilottamal, but she is not. Finally, Thilottamal writes a letter to Arun that she is going to die as she is so horrible to see and that she does not deserve his love. Arun runs all the way to the cremation ground to see her at least once, but by that time, they have cremated her. Arun goes to the beach and sits with tears in his eyes.

Cast

Production

The film was directed by T. Indrakumar who earlier directed '' Sandhippoma''. Meena agreed to do cameo appearance for this film out of gratitude for Vijayakumar's family who introduced her as child artist in '' Nenjangal''. A song sequence was shot at Vijaya Studios.

Soundtrack

Soundtrack was composed by debutant Jai.

Release and reception

Cheran attended the film's premiere show and appreciated Arun Vijay's performance. Visual Dasan of ''

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'' called the film as good start for director Indrakumar but panned Annadurai's editing due to dragged scenes. Malini Mannath of ''Chennai Online'' wrote, "Though the director has managed to maintain an element of surprise throughout, the script has many loose ends". ''Indiainfo'' wrote, "Large amounts have been spent on the picturisation of songs and the music by debutant Music Director Jai is okay but falters in rerecording. Camerawork by Srinivas is average". Malathi Rangarajan of ''

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'' wrote, "The title has a poetic touch and the story, an interestingly new angle. It is the screenplay that lacks crispness".

References

External links

* * {{Rotten Tomatoes 2000 films 2000 romantic drama films 2000s Indian films 2000s Tamil-language films Indian romantic drama films Tamil-language Indian films