Unnai Kodu Ennai Tharuven

Unnai Kodu Ennai Tharuven (English: Give Me Yourself, And I'll Give You Myself) is a 2000 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film produced by R. B. Choudary and directed by Kavee Kalidas. It features Ajith Kumar and Simran in the lead roles with Parthiban in a guest appearance.

Unnai Kodu Ennai Tharuven
Directed by	Kavee Kalidas
Produced by	R. B. Choudary
Written by	Kavee Kalidas
Starring	Ajith Kumar Simran Nassar Parthiban Raghava Lawrence Manivannan Charle Chinni Jayanth Dhamu Ramesh Khanna Kitty
Music by	S. A. Rajkumar
Cinematography	Akilan
Edited by	V. Jaishankar
Production company	Super Good Films
Release date	19 May 2000
Running time	158 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Plot

Surya (Ajith) has been brought up in the army training barracks in Wellington (Ooty), ever since his mother (Sukanya) handed him over as a baby to the camp brigadier (Nasser). She tells the officer the reason for her action but the audience is not allowed to hear it at this point. Surya grows up to be a patriotic youth and the best soldier in his class. He is about to complete his training in 3 months and leave to the border. He falls in love with Indu (Simran), the daughter of a senior army officer, who is visiting Wellington Camp. Indu's parents accept her choice of husband and the family leaves to kashmir. Soon after, Indu's father dies in a bomb blast while her mother loses her life on seeing her husband's body. Not wishing to lose her husband too in war, Indu asks Surya to choose between her and the army. Surya then asks the brigadier to advise him, and the brigadier tells the story of his parents. His father Bomb Sekhar (R. Parthipen) was a very violent terrorist, who was sentenced to 3 years prison and death. His mother was a nun, who visited prisoners and chanted Bible verses to them. Slowly, Surya's father's nature begins to change and nearing his death, he is completely reformed. Sensing that there is no way for him to repent for his mistakes by serving the nation, he confides to the nun that if he had a child he would have made him serve the nation. That night the nun thinks about her conversation with Sehkar and subsequently resigns her position with the church that night. The following day the nun convinces Sekhar that she will bear his child as a way to fulfil his dying wish and they consummate inside the prison secretly. She leaves him and the next day he is hanged. Once Surya is born, she hands him to authorities at the military camp and commits suicide as well. So Surya says, his birth was to serve the nation as a soldier, and if she wants to marry him, she must wait for the next 12 years till his service is over. Indu agrees, and Surya moves with his barrack to the border.

Cast

Ajith Kumar as Surya Simran as Indu Nassar as Camp Brigadier Raghava Lawrence as Ganapathi Manivannan as Subramaniyam singh Charle as Surya's friend Chinni Jayanth as James, surya's friend Dhamu as Mustafa, surya's friend Ramesh Khanna as Kannayiram Kitty as Indu's father Pandu as Selvam Fathima Babu as Indu's mother Babilona as Prostitute

Guest Appearances Parthiban as Bomb Sekar, Surya's father Suganya as Surya's mother Raghava Lawrence in the film "Sollu Thalaiva"

Production

Noted army general Major Ravi played a significant role in assisting the team during scenes featuring Ajith in the Indian army.[1]

Release

The film opened to mixed reviews with a reviewer from The Hindu citing that "potholes in the screenplay prove irksome" and that "the thin thread of patriotism woven throughout the film, hardly makes an impact.".[2]

Soundtrack

Unnai Kodu Ennai Tharuven
Soundtrack album by S. A. Rajkumar
Released	2000
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Length	27:39
Label	Star Music Sa Re Ga Ma

The film's score and soundtrack was composed by S. A. Rajkumar.

Track-list

No.	Title	Lyrics	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Ithayathai Kanavillai"	Ilayakamban	Hariharan	4:48
2.	"Idduppu Selaikkulla"	P. Vijay	Shankar Mahadevan, Anuradha Sriram	5:04
3.	"Unnai Kodu Ennai Tharuven"	P. Vijay	Unnikrishnan, K. S. Chithra	4:24
4.	"Sollu Thalaivaa"	Nandalala	Rajesh Krishnan	5:02
5.	"Pethava Kanniru"	Mayil	Unni Menon	2:37
6.	"Sateliteil Yeri"	P. Vijay	Unnikrishnan	4:44

References

1. "Friday Review Chennai : Straight from a soldier's heart". The Hindu. 4 August 2006. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
2. "Film Review: Unnai Kodu Ennai Tharuvaen". The Hindu. 2 June 2000. Retrieved 25 August 2012.

External links

• Unnai Kodu Ennai Tharuven on IMDb