Indru Mudhal

<p>Balamurali Krishna and Geethanjali, students at the navy cadet college, are constantly at each other’s throats. However, they soon realise that they are long lost childhood friends. The film marked the directorial debut of M. A. Murugesh, who had previously worked as an apprentice under . The shoot of the film was held at locations including the VGP Golden Beach resort in Chennai, as well as Kodaikanal and Gujarat, where they shot scenes depicting the . Further scenes were shot depicting a cycle race featuring 200 young people, while the climax was filmed on a large ship, the N. N. Cauveri. The soundtrack was composed by , with lyrics written by . Malini Mannath of wrote, “The debutant director takes the narration from the hill-station, to the earthquake-hit Bhuj, and back to the hill-station, to add some drama and generate interest in his sweet hearts-separeated-at-childhood story. All to no avail”. Visual Dasan of wrote that though the director is inspired from , he has succeeded in maintaining the same tempo from that film while praising the humour of Ravikumar and Ramesh Khanna, Deva’s music and Rengasamy’s cinematography but panned Nanditha’s character and concluded saying although the story is old, the film survives because the visuals are fresh.</p>