Alaipayuthey

Alaipayuthey English Waves are flowing is a 2000 Tamil romantic drama film directed by Mani Ratnam. Starring R. Madhavan and Shalini, the film explores the tensions of married life and the maturing of love. The score and soundtrack were composed by A. R. Rahman.

Karthik Varadarajan Madhavan is an independent and freespirited software engineering graduate establishing a software startup with his friends. At a friends wedding, he meets Shakti Selvaraj Shalini, a student of medicine at Madras Medical College. They continue to bump into each other on local trains that they both use on their daily commute, and fall in love. Karthik pursues Shakti aggressively and proposes marriage Shakthi, however, is reluctant. Karthik manages to convince Shakthi and requests his parents to formally ask Shaktis parents for her hand in marriage however, when the parents meet, they do not get along, and Shakti calls off the relationship altogether and leaves for an extended medical camp in Kerala.While apart, both Karthik and Shakti realize that they are desperately in love and decide to get married without the knowledge or consent of their parents. They continue living separate lives after marriage, meeting outside of their homes and hoping that their parents will see eye to eye at some point in the future and can be informed of the marriage. However, when Shaktis older sister Poorni Swarnamalya is on the verge of getting engaged, developments ensue resulting in Shaktis parents attempting to fix her marriage to the groom Raghus younger brother Shyam Karthik Kumar. Shakti confesses to her parents and Raghus family that she is already married Poornis engagement is called off and her parents throw her out of the house. Karthik too divulges the same to his parents and is also asked by his father to leave his house. ........

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