Nerrukku Ner

<p>The story starts off with Raghu, a -issuing officer, and his wife Shanthi, who live in , . Raghu, being a cheater with remorse, tells Shanthi that he cheated on her with a coworker when he was in . She immediately leaves for her mother’s house. Raghu, being a transformed gentleman, tries to stop her by apologising, but in vain. Raghu’s brother Vijay, being a good and supportive brother, and Shanthi’s brother Suriya, being a non-emotive but supporting brother, meet in a cinema theatre. Vijay blames Shanthi to be the cause of the problem, and Suriya blames Raghu for the same. They keep on fighting at every chance. Meanwhile, both Vijay and Suriya find their own lovers in Akhila and Asha respectively and fall in love. One day, Raghu finds a bundle of cash on his table and meets Muthukumaraswamy, the person who kept the money there. Raghu finds out that Muthukumaraswamy is a businessman who is wanted by the police for the crime of forex fraud. Muthukumaraswamy wants to leave the country to escape from the police, and he needs a fake passport to flee the country; otherwise, the police will catch him. Since his passport is confiscated by the police, he tells Raghu to get one for him, but Raghu, being a sincere officer, disagrees and calls the police instead. Muthukumaraswamy gets angry and promises to take revenge on Raghu. Meanwhile, Raghu and Shanthi apply for a divorce according to the . Child custody of their daughter Sona, who was in Shanthi’s sister’s house when the break-up occurred, is given to the mother by the court. One day, Suriya takes Sona to a festival fair and somehow loses her. In the confusion that follows, Sona falls from a and is taken to the hospital by Vijay. She is brought to Raghu’s house once she recovers. Soon, Vijay discovers that Sona has lost her hearing in the accident. Some days later, Suriya finds that Sona is missing. Suriya finds Vijay, and the two get into a huge fight. Then, Raghu tells everyone that Sona is in his sister’s house. Since Sona’s custody is given to the mother, this action of Raghu’s is wrong in the eyes of the law. Shanthi and Suriya, accompanied by a lawyer, come to Raghu’s house to get Sona back. At that time, Raghu suffers a serious attack while in the bathroom, and everyone saves him. After recovering, Raghu tells everyone that Sona is not in his sister’s house but has been kidnapped by Muthukumaraswamy, who is out on bail. In a turn of events, Raghu issues a fake passport to Muthukumaraswamy, but Raghu does not want him to escape from the police. The two heroes join hands to make sure that this does not happen. Sona is with Muthukumaraswamy’s wife, Maya and brother-in-law, Kachiram in a van. Vijay and Suriya both search for Sona, then find out that she is in a van. Sona, after seeing both Vijay and Suriya on a bike, throws her family photo from the van. Meanwhile, the van reaches the safe place, and Kachiram calls Muthukumaraswamy to share the news of their arrival. They both decide to insert a bomb in Sona’s hearing device. Maya then decides to save the child. Her brother Kachiram fights her and puts her in the van and activates the bomb which will explode in 10 mins. Then, Vijay and Suriya catch the van, and a fight between Kachiram and Vijay ensues. Meanwhile, Suriya takes Sona home along with her hearing device which still has the bomb. In the middle of the fight, Kachiram drives away in a car. Maya shouts to Vijay to save Sona by telling him about the bomb. At the airport, Kanthaswamy, the Chennai Deputy Commissioner of Police, arrests Muthukumaraswamy. As Suriya reaches home, Vijay follows them. Once Vijay reaches home, he throws away Sona’s hearing device before the bomb goes off. The film ends Vijay and Suriya becoming best friends again after a long time and reconciling with their lady loves, and Raghu and Shanthi also embrace each other with Sona. Initially, chose his lead hero from , and to play the lead roles, though Ajith withdrew from the film 18 days after production began as a result of issues with director Vasanth on not revealing the story to the actor as it involves dual hero subject. The film was briefly reported to be titled (Can I Come into your Heart?) and also featured in the cast. was touted as a potential replacement to Ajith, though Vasanth then opted to replace Ajith with a debutant as he was able to commit under short notice. Vasanth then approached , the eldest son of actor , to make his acting debut in the film. Vasanth had earlier unsuccessfully tried to persuade Suriya to star in , in 1995 but the actor’s father insisted that Suriya was finally ready to act. Suriya said he was initially uninterested in an acting career, and accepted the role to pay off his mother’s loan of (equivalent to 130,000 or US$1,500 in 2023). During the test shoot for the film, cinematographer revealed that the team were worried how Suriya was going to stand opposite Vijay and that they made him wear two inch heels and made him put some shoulder pads. He added that for the first four days during the shoot in , Suriya appeared to be uncomfortable in front of the camera and used to tell the team that he did not want to do the film. The film was the first Tamil project signed by who was signed by Vasanth after he was impressed with her looks in , though and released earlier. Vasanth signed on after seeing and being impressed with her picture at a jewellery shop and was unaware that she had already made her debut in the film . The director revealed he had great difficulty in filming the song “Engengae”, as crowds in Kolkata refused to co-operate with the technical team. The filming mainly took place in and around and , with some minority portions being shot in . The song “Aval Varuvala” was shot at SDAT Tennis Stadium at Chennai. The soundtrack was composed by , with lyrics by . The song “Akila Akila” is based on ‘s ” “, “Thudikindra Kadhal” was inspired by ” ” by , and “Aval Varuvala” uses a minor refrain from Marley’s ” “. The song “Manam Virumbuthey” is set to the Nalinakanthi. The song “Engenge” is set to raga. was released on 6 September 1997. R. P. R. of bemoaned that the “nalla director” (good director) Vasanth gave a by having villain, bike chase, fights, sada songs, cheesy comedy and regular climax. The film went on to win two for 1997 with the child artiste, Jennifer, securing the award for her performance. also won the award for her rendition of “Manam Virumbuthae” in the album aged 18. The film won two Dinakaran Cinema Awards: Best New-Face Actor (Suriya) and Best Child Artist (Jennifer).</p>