Kaadhale Nimmadhi

<p>Kavitha, who is part of a large family, is to be married to Chandramohan, a lawyer. Once as Kavita is playing with a little girl, Chandru is seen capturing photos of statues. Kavitha’s brother ( ), who wrongly assumes both of them to be in love with each other, starts hitting Chandru. The whole family suspects Kavitha of falling in love and refuses to believe her explanation. When Kavitha disappears from home, her family assumes Chandru abducted her and gets him arrested. Chandramohan fights on behalf of Chandru with Kavitha revealing the actual reason. Chandramohan advises Kavitha’s family to get her married to Chandru, to which they accept. After the success of (1996) and (1997), producer Sivasakthi Pandian announced he was set to make another love story , written and directed by Rajan, director of (1989) and (1991). Pandian gave him the stage name of Indhran. had initially been signed on to portray the lead role, but opted out post the success of (1998), and was replaced by . The débutante lead actress, , a fifteen-year-old at the time, was noticed by Pandian in his search for a new heroine for the film. Pandian also opened a contest in magazine to rename Sharma and give her a stage name to suit Tamil tastes and traditions. She was later christened as Kavitha by the producer before the film’s release. Soundtrack was composed by . His daughter, Sangita, sang her first film song “Indha Devathaikku” in the album. D. S. Ramanujam of wrote, “There is a new line of thinking in the core of the plot based on suspicion but the situations that go to build on that issue are inadequate. What started as an engrossing fare slowly peters out […] Director Indran who has written the story and screenplay runs out of ideas and meekly resorts to the comedy of Vivek and Manivannan”. Ji of wrote despite being suited for their respective characters, acting of Suriya and Kavitha should have been better while Murali’s character stays in mind and called lack of duets and lack of scope for actors not to influence the plot as notable points. The film was a box-office success. Soon after the release of the film, director Indhran teamed up with Murali for a film titled co-starring in a lead role. Despite progressing through production and changing the title to , the film did not have a theatrical release.</p>