Naam Iruvar Namakku Iruvar

<p>To steal an expensive diamond, a swindler pretends to be in love with a wealthy businessman’s daughter. Later, the swindler meets Pooja’s sister and gets attracted to her. During a stage of production, , and the entire crew including had landed in . had not boarded the plane with them as planned. The unit became nervous, not knowing what to do, as the shooting the time and spot that they had reserved in Sun City was getting wasted. After waiting for a long time, they went ahead and had Maheshwari put on Rambha’s costumes and picturized the song with her and Prabhudeva. Rambha, who arrived two days later, got wild and furious that Sundar and company would picture the song without her. She went back to Chennai almost three days before the unit and got ready to shoot for instead. Sundar and others who were angry and disappointed with Rambha’s behaviour filed complaints with film organizations. Meanwhile, more developments came about once Rambha left the film. It appeared that the director’s wife, had strongly thrown in a recommendation for to grab the role that Rambha had trashed, but entered the picture from somewhere, all of a sudden. The fact was that Meena gave up her role for Rambha and , while Rambha gave up her role for Meena. On a side note to the entire matter, Simran announced that she gave up her chances to star in both and , because she did not want to pack herself with call sheet troubles and not be able to act in that she had already committed to. The soundtrack album consists of 6 songs composed by and lyrics written by . The opening of the song “Hello Mr. Kadhala” adapts from ” ” by , while the remainder of the song is original. D. S. Ramanujam of appreciated the cast performances, particularly Prabhu Deva’s, and the cinematography. Ji of wrote the story has a lot of scope for comedy; although there is no dearth of laughing situations, instead of bursts of laughter in the theatre, why there are only mild laughter spread here and there which only Sundar can think. Army of comedians, wedding atmosphere, impersonation, chasing, hiding, all the usual techniques are used with the old style, so fans are reluctant to open their hearts. The film had a strong opening at the box office in January 1998.</p>