Love Today (1997 film)

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Love Today
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Directed by Balasekaran
Written byBalasekaran
Produced by R. B. Choudary
Starring Vijay
Suvalakshmi
Manthra
CinematographyVijay Gopal
Edited byV. Jaishanker
Music byShiva
Production
company
Release date
  • 9 May 1997 (1997-05-09)
Running time
150 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil
Budget₹30 lakh
Box office₹3.80 crore [1]

Love Today is a 1997 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film written and directed by Balasekaran in his directorial debut. Produced by R. B. Choudary, the film stars Vijay and Suvalakshmi in the lead roles while Manthra, Raghuvaran, Karan and Sriman play supporting roles. The music was composed by Shiva with cinematography by Vijay Gopal and editing by V. Jaishanker. The film received positive reviews from critics and was very successful at the box office, running for over 175 days. It was remade in Telugu as Suswagatham , in Kannada as Majnu and in Hindi as Kya Yehi Pyaar Hai .

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Plot

Ganesh is a college graduate who lives with his father Chandrasekhar, a doctor. Chandrasekhar is easygoing and pampers Ganesh with whatever he wants. Sandhya is the daughter of a very strict police inspector Vasudevan, who is always suspicious that she would have a love affair. Sandhya makes up her mind that she would never fall in love, and her ambition is to get a gold medal in her college degree. One day, Ganesh spots Sandhya and falls in love with her at first sight. Even though Sandhya catches a good glimpse of him, she tells her friend Fathima that she likes no one. Ganesh goes to the bus stop everyday to see Sandhya. He tries to get advice from his friends Ravi and Peter to convince Sandhya to marry him. Their advice goes in vain as she does not care about him. She confronts Ganesh one day and tells him not to waste his time on her.

Ganesh gets hold of Sandhya's friend Preethi, and she tries to talk to Sandhya, but she is unmovable. Vasudevan becomes suspicious of Ganesh and Sandhya and uses physical force on Ganesh. He also verbally abuses Sandhya, though she tries to explain her innocence. Sandhya is forced to leave town because of this. Ganesh finds her whereabouts and leaves his father to go out of town and find her. As he is trying to find her, Chandrasekhar has an accident and passes away. Ganesh's friends desperately try to find his whereabouts but cannot trace him. Peter ends up performing Chandrasekhar's last rites. Ganesh returns and gets heartbroken that he could not even perform his father's cremation.

At this point, Sandhya reveals her feelings for Ganesh, telling him that she loves him and wants to spend the rest of her life with him. However, Ganesh rejects her feelings and tells her he lost everything because of falling in love and could not even do his father's last rites; therefore, it is not worth it. Nevertheless, the following day, Sandhya is seen standing at the bus stop, waiting for Ganesh to come. Meanwhile, Ganesh takes the recommendation that his father had written for him before his death and goes for his first interview.

Cast

Production

The filming began in November 1996, after Vijay finished the shootings for his previous masala films such as Selva (1996) and Kaalamellam Kaathiruppen (1997), and lasted until April 1997. Although the story takes place in Chennai, the movie was predominantly shot only in Vishakhapatnam yet some minor portions were shot in Chennai too. In an interview during the release, Vijay mentioned that he signed the film to give the audience what they want — fights, fast songs and a message — mentioning he had similar success from Poove Unakkaga (1996). [2]

Soundtrack

The soundtrack is composed by newcomer Shiva, whose real name is Rakneesh Omar and who earlier composed an album. [3] [4] The song "Enna Azhagu" was reused by Shiva in the 2001 Telugu film Priyamaina Neeku as "Nelanadiga Puvvulanadiga", also produced by R. B. Choudary and directed by Balasekaran.[ citation needed ]

Track listing
No.TitleLyricsArtist(s)Length
1."Yen Pennendru" (duet) Vairamuthu Mohammed Aslam, Bombay Jayashri 05:22
2."Yen Pennendru" (solo)Vairamuthu P. Unni Krishnan 04:05
3."Enna Azhagu Ethanai Azhagu"Vairamuthu S. P. Balasubrahmanyam 04:57
4."Kuppayi Kuppayi"Selvan Yugendran 02:37
5."Aalai Ethikinu Ooru Suthum Pallavan"Vairamuthu Mano, Kalpana04:53
6."Salamiya"VaasanMano, Malgudi Subha 05:12
7."Monica Monica"'Pattukottai' Shanmuga Sundaram. Suresh Peters, Febi Mani04:41
Total length:30:27

Reception

Ananda Vikatan rated the film 42 out of 100. [5] The film became one of several successful films in the romantic genre which Vijay featured in throughout the late 1990s. [6] The success of the film prompted the director and actor to come together again immediately for a film titled Priyamudan; however, the title was later used by Vijay for a different project which released in 1998. [7]

Remakes

YearFilmLanguageRef.
1998 Suswagatham Telugu [8]
2002MajnuKannada [9]
2002 Kya Yehi Pyaar Hai Hindi [10]

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