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''Kootathil Oruthan'' () is a 2017 Indian
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film written and directed by
T. J. Gnanavel T. J. Gnanavel is an Indian film director and screenwriter who works in the Tamil film industry. Early life and career Gnanavel graduated from Loyola College, Chennai. He holds a PhD in Tamil literature, and worked as a journalist before his ...
in his directoral debut. The film stars
Ashok Selvan Ashok Selvan (born 8 November 1989) is an Indian actor who works predominantly in Tamil cinema. He made his breakthrough playing one of the lead roles in '' Soodhu Kavvum'' (2013), before gaining critical acclaim for his performances in C. V. K ...
and
Priya Anand Priya Anand (born 17 September 1986) is an Indian actress and model who predominantly appears in Tamil language, Tamil films. She has also appeared in a few Telugu language, Telugu, Hindi, Kannada and Malayalam films. After pursuing higher s ...
. Featuring music composed by Nivas Prasanna, the film was produced by
Dream Warrior Pictures Dream Warrior Pictures is an Indian film production company A production company, production house or production studio is a studio that creates works in the fields of performing arts, new media art, film, television show, television, radio, ...
and Ramaniyam Talkies. It was released on 28 July 2017.


Plot

Aravind is an average student who receives not much attention from his parents, teachers, and friends. During his school days, he sees Janani and develops a liking for her. Janani secures state rank in 12th board exams and aspires to become a journalist and joins a Journalism College. Aravind also manages to secure an admission in the same journalism college. Sathyamurthy is a local don and a kindhearted person. Yogendran, an inspector, seeks vengeance over Sathya and wants to kill him. Aravind proposes to Janani in college, but she turns him down, saying that he needs to achieve something in life. Aravind feels disappointed and decides to end his life by drowning himself. He accidentally saves a child, who happens to be Sathya's son. Sathya thanks Aravind and promises to offer him any help if needed. Aravind reveals the truth to Sathya that his original intention was to kill himself. The video of Aravind saving Sathya's son goes viral in social media, and he receives recognition in college and from Janani. Slowly, Aravind and Janani become good friends. Also, Aravind scores well in an exam and secures a scholarship for a short trip to London School of Journalism. It is shown that Sathya is behind all these incidences. He found the video and made it viral and also threatened the college professor so that Aravind would secure his scholarship. Aravind is in a dilemma whether to disclose the truth to Janani. Meanwhile, Yogendran tries to kill Sathyamurthy but gets escaped. In the process, Janani meets with an accident. However, Sathya later gets killed by Yogendran in another attempt. Janani soon finds out the truth that Sathya was behind Aravind helping him secure a scholarship, and she leaves Aravind. Aravind finds out that the truth was revealed to Janani by his classmate Sanjay, who found it with the help of the professor. Aravind gets kicked out of the college. His father disowns him. Aravind decides to change his way of life. He starts an NGO supporting people in need of food, and manages it successfully. Janani's wedding is fixed with a man who happens to interview Aravind. Janani watches the video and understands Aravind's true nature. Finally, Aravind is united with Janani.


Cast


Production

T. J. Gnanavel T. J. Gnanavel is an Indian film director and screenwriter who works in the Tamil film industry. Early life and career Gnanavel graduated from Loyola College, Chennai. He holds a PhD in Tamil literature, and worked as a journalist before his ...
wrote the story after meeting
Thenkachi Ko. Swaminathan Thenkatchi Ko Ayya. Swaminathan (1946 – 16 September 2009) was a Tamil orator, television personality and author of various Tamil books. He had served as deputy director of All India Radio, Chennai. Early life Swaminathan was born in Thenka ...
, an orator. Initially Gnanavel wrote the script with
Nivin Pauly Nivin Pauly (born 11 October 1984) is an Indian actor and producer who works predominantly in Malayalam films. He is the recipient of two Kerala State Film Awards, three Filmfare Awards South, two Kerala Film Critics Association Awards, and ...
in mind for the role of protagonist; though he was interested in the script, due to non-availability of dates, the actor could not sign the project. When
Ashok Selvan Ashok Selvan (born 8 November 1989) is an Indian actor who works predominantly in Tamil cinema. He made his breakthrough playing one of the lead roles in '' Soodhu Kavvum'' (2013), before gaining critical acclaim for his performances in C. V. K ...
learned that the debut director Gnanavel was looking for protagonist through the music director Nivas K. Prasanna, he himself expressed his interest to the director and then Ashok Selvan and
Priya Anand Priya Anand (born 17 September 1986) is an Indian actress and model who predominantly appears in Tamil language, Tamil films. She has also appeared in a few Telugu language, Telugu, Hindi, Kannada and Malayalam films. After pursuing higher s ...
were signed in this project in early 2015 to play the lead roles in this college love story. Prior to this, Gnanavel had written dialogues for '' Payanam'' and '' Raktha Charithiram''. The film began production during May 2015, most of the scenes were filmed at VIT University in
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. Telugu actress Anisha Singh was signed for a role and this would be her debut in a Tamil film. Priya Anand said that unlike most films which focus on "frontbenchers" who are seen as "over-achievers" and "backbenchers" who are usually the rebels, this film revolves around "people in the middle, which I think represents most of our population".


Marketing

The team filmed a promotional song called "Maatrangal Ondre Thaan Maarathada", featuring appearances from many leading actors from Tamil cinema. The song portrays that hope and belief are very important and everyone in this world are a gift to themselves.


Soundtrack

The soundtrack was composed by Nivas K. Prasanna and it was released on 29 November 2016.


Release and reception

Earlier, the film was scheduled for theatrical release on 14 July 2017, but was postponed by the producers to 28 July 2017.
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wrote for ''
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'', "the director, who also wrote the film, keeps veering off into subplots that sound fine in theory but don't come together convincingly on screen. Had the events leading to this development been put in place much earlier, the film might have been more than just an easy watch." M Suganth of ''
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'' wrote, "In addition to being the story of an average guy and his success, ''Kootathil Oruthan'' tries to also be one about his romance. This results in the film losing some of its lightness and feel-goodness".


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* * {{S. R. Prabhu 2010s coming-of-age comedy-drama films 2010s Indian films 2010s Tamil-language films 2017 directorial debut films 2017 films 2017 romantic comedy-drama films Films directed by T. J. Gnanavel Films produced by S. R. Prabhu Films scored by Nivas K. Prasanna Indian coming-of-age comedy-drama films Indian romantic comedy-drama films Tamil-language Indian films