Pathinaaru
Pathinaaru Tamil English Sixteen is a 2011 Tamil romantic drama film written and directed by Sabapathy Dekshinamurthy, who earlier directed films like V.I.P 1997, Punnagai Poove 2003 and A Aa E Ee 2009. It stars Shiva and Madhu Shalini in lead along with musician Darbuka Siva and television artist Abhishek in pivotal roles. The films background score and soundtrack was composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja. After being launched in October 2008 under the title 16, the film was shot for over one year, getting finished in early 2010 only. One year after its completion, Kalaipuli S. Thanu bought the distribution rights and released the film onJanuary 2011 under his V. Creations banner. However, this movie was unsuccessful at the BoxOffice. Despite that the movie did not fare well at the box office, it was remade as Jolly Boy in Kannada language.
The book depicts a reallife story about two village teenagers Gopi Kishore and Ilavarasi Vinitha, and their romance as they step into adolescence. Facing opposition from her affluent family, the gutsy Ilavarasi takes some bold unconventional steps, which backfires on her.The story of unrequited love and betrayal leaves Indu in a dilemma and she prepares to go with her familys desires. But Siva is not ready to give up Indu and sets out to do his own investigation to get to the bottom of what ultimately happened to Gopi and Ilavarasi. ........
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