Aethirree

Aethirree
Directed by K. S. Ravikumar
Produced by G. V. Prasad
Written by K. S. Ravikumar
Kamalesh Kumar
Starring Madhavan
Sadha
Rahman
Kanika
Vivek
Music by Yuvan Shankar Raja
Cinematography Ashok Rajan
Edited by K. Thanigachalam
Production
company
Damini Enterprises
Distributed by Mars Entertainmaent Group
Release dates
  • 23 April 2004 (2004-04-23)
Country India
Language Tamil

Aethirree (English: Enemy) is a 2004 Indian Tamil action comedy film directed by K. S. Ravikumar. The film starred Madhavan, Sadha, Vivek, Kanika, Rahman and Delhi Ganesh in pivotal roles, and had a musical score composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja. It was released in April 2004 to a positive reviews from critics.[1]

Plot

Natarajan (Delhi Ganesh) is a Brahmin house-owner near the Parthasarathy Temple looking for a right tenant for the upper portion of his house. He is very protective of his college going beautiful daughter Gayathri (Kanika). Since he often fears that the prospective tenant might romance with his daughter he filters all the people who come asking for the house. He rents out the house to five bachelor students who pretend to be good.They start showing their character soon by taking away roofs and watching her. On the advice of ‘Auto’ (Vivek), Natarajan brings Subramani (Madhavan) who charades himself as ‘Bottle Mani’, a dreaded thug to vacate the students. Incidentally Mani, who stays with his Jailor uncle (R. Sundarrajan), was thrown out of his house as he refuses to marry his daughter. Taking advantage of the situation, Mani befriends the five boys and starts staying with them.

Priya (Sadha) is the daughter of a wealthy gangster (FEFSI Vijayan) and she is engaged to an affluent sadist ACP (Rahman). On the day of marriage Priya comes to know that her fiancé is already married and had murdered his first wife in a sadistic manner but her father forces her to marry him to cover up his illegal activities. She consumes poison just before the wedding time but was mistakenly kidnapped by Mani and Auto. Now Priya becomes one more addition in the upstairs portion while the five try to rape her he saves her. The rest of the story is how they fall for each other and how Mani saves her from the clutches of her dad and her fiancé and marries her at the end.

Cast

Production

In late 2003, Damini Enterprises brought director K. S. Ravikumar and actor R. Madhavan together for a project titled Aethiree. Sadha and Vivek were added to the cast, while Yuvan Shankar Raja was announced as the film's music composer. Nikita Thukral initially began portraying the role of the second female lead actress in the film, but was replaced by Kanika midst production.[2] Actor Rahman made a comeback to Tamil films and appeared as an antagonist for the first time through the venture.[3] The film was launched on 28 November 2003 at Prasad Studios with several actors and directors from the Tamil film industry attending the event.[4][5] A song was shot at AVM Studios and Prasad studios with three sets built by art director G. K. Some crucial scenes were shot at Triplicane, Chennai while a fight scene was shot in studios with a set resembling a market.[6]

Release

The film opened in April 2004 to positive reviews from film critics. A reviewer from Sify.com stated that the film was an "entertainer" and "on the whole Ravikumar has churned out a hilarious film for the entire family", adding "he has successfully mixed comedy and action as the film moves at a fast pace".[7] A critic from BizHat.com also praised the film and stated it can be "watched by the entire family".[8] The film, however averagely performed at the box office.[9]

The film was later dubbed into Telugu and released as Bottle Mani, before it was remade in Telugu as State Rowdy, which stars Shivaji, Mallika Kapoor and Madhu Shalini, replacing Madhavan, Sadha and Kanika, respectively, and released in 2007.

Soundtrack

Aethirree
Soundtrack album by Yuvan Shankar Raja
Released April 2004
Recorded 2003 / 2004
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Label Vega Music
Hit Music
Bayshore
Producer Yuvan Shankar Raja
Yuvan Shankar Raja chronology
Ullam
(2004)		 Aethiree
(2004)		 Perazhagan
(2004)

The music was scored by Yuvan Shankar Raja. The soundtrack was released in the first week of April 2004, featuring 7 tracks with lyrics written by 'Kavignar' Kaalidhasan, Pa. Vijay, Na. Muthukumar, Kabilan, Viktordoss and Premji Amaran and Swathi.

Track Song Singer(s) Duration Lyricist Notes
1 "Podu Nanba Sakkai Podu" Karthik 4:00 Na. Muthukumar
2 "Thamizhnaatu Pennai" Tippu, Shalini Singh 4:03 Kabilan
3 "Saithane Saithane" Shankar Mahadevan, Srilekha Parthasarathy 4:55 Pa. Vijay
4 "Bottle Mani" Premji Amaran 2:09 Premji Amaran & Swathi
5 "Mudhal Mudhalaga" Hariharan 5:14 Victordoss
6 "Ichu Thaariyaa" Shankar Mahadevan, Srivarthini 4:41 Pa. Vijay
7 "Kadhal Vandhu" Ranjith, Sujatha 3:40 'Kavignar' Kaalidasan

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