Jodi (film)

Jodi English Couple is a 1999 Tamil romantic musical film directed by Praveen Gandhi and produced by Murali Manohar. The film features Prashanth and Simran in the lead roles, with Vijayakumar, Nassar and Srividya playing other pivotal roles. The films soundtrack is composed by A.R. Rahman, while SabeshMurali compose the background score for the film. The film opened in September 1999 to positive reviews and became a commercially successful venture.

Rudramurthy Nassar is an employee in a register office who witnesses many marriages take place without the consent of couples parents. He is against such marriages and tried to prevent one such marriage by advising the girl who had come to marry her lover and sending her home which led to quarrel and attack by groom and his friends. Kannan understood that he is going to have a tough time with his love and his father who hates love marriages. Gayathri on other hand has a family with a father who is very depressed by one incident which happened in his life. Gayathris friend and her lover commit suicide due to pressure put up by the parents against their love. This upsets Gayathri and she is scared on how to get herself married to Kannan. Both Kannan and Gayathri plan to visit the family of the other, impress them, attract them and get permission for the marriage and set for their mission.Gayathri sets out to Kannans home as a daughter of troublesome neighbour of Kannan and Kannan sets to Gayathris home only to earn a name of vagabond from her family. Both Gayathri and Kannan try their level best to get into the home of others families and succeed to some extent. Gayathri manages to win the heart of Rudramurthy when she tried to stop his daughter who was about to ran away from her home with her lover and succeed in that. This makes Rudramurthy accept her as his daughterinlaw. On the other hand Kannan visits his home with much depression reason being failing to accompolish his mission. Kannan finds the reason for Gayathris father Vengudus condition as one incident. Vengudu is a musical critic and his criticism plays a vital role in ones musical career. Vengudu once made a bad criticism about a male vocalist in front of the audience and also in the next day newspaper which led the vocalist to commit suicide. The wife of vocalist shouts at him and curses him for bring her a fate. From then he stopped his critic job and living a guilty feeling life. Kannan attempts to sol

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