Oru Naal Oru Kanavu

<p>The story revolves around Maya, a college student, who always wants to triumph in all her endeavours. She comes across a middle-class youth, Cheenu, a happy-go-lucky-youngster, who strives to work hard to get his sisters married well. A few encounters result in wordy duels between them leading to Maya challenging Cheenu that she will make him fall in love with her. Her further course of action to achieve her challenge leaves Cheenu frustrated and he decides to take revenge on her by pretending to fall in love with her. Maya, who starts to spend more time with Cheenu discovers his kindness and eventually develops an honest love towards him. She even helps him in setting his own business house. Slowly Cheenu too realises Maya’s nobleness and generosity and falls in love with her. Trouble comes in the form of her brothers who threaten Cheenu of dire consequences. Cheenu resolves to earn more and become rich and then hold the hands of Maya. But Maya has other plans. Whether or not the couple marries forms the rest of the story. The film was initially shot by with and . Part of the film was shot in Ireland. Selvaraghavan later left the film and replaced him while replaced Dhanush. The filming was held at Ernakulam, Pollachi and Chennai. The soundtrack was composed by . The song “Kaatril Varum” is based on raga. The song “Khajuraho” is based on raga. wrote “‘Oru Naal’ may not have reached the standard of Fazil’s earlier films like ‘Poove Poochoodava’, ‘Poovizhivasaliley’ or ‘Kadhalukku Mariyathai’. The twists and surprises are milder here, and the narration a bit slow paced. But it’s a film the family wouldn’t mind watching together without any sense of embarrassment”. wrote, “Fazil, who has always been known for his plausible, well-etched storyline and screenplay, slips towards the end. Whatever happened to the ace maker of `Kannukkul Nilavu’ and `Kadhalukku Mariyadhai,’ in the second half?”. Lajjavathi of wrote director brought the one-and-a-half-line story to the shooting spot by hand, pulled a bit here and there like bubble gum, and patiently delivered in two and half hours. GU of wrote, “One doesn’t expect a film like Oru Nal Oru Kanavu from Fazil. It is a silly love story and the treatment is shoddy. He has tried out a new combination, Srikanth and Sonia Agarwal, but from scene one it is clear they are a mismatch”.</p>