Thulluvadho Ilamai

Thulluvadho Ilamai English Exuberance of Youth is a 2002 coming of age film, co written and directed by Kasthuri Raja, written by his son Selvaraghavan and introducing his second son Dhanush as an actor, who enacted the lead role character. Besides Dhanush, the film had also introduced other newcomers Abhinay, Sherin, Ramesh, Shilpa and Gangeshwari and features prominent film personalities as Vijayakumar, Ramesh Khanna, Pyramid Nadarajan as well. While the soundtrack was composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja, Viji Manuel had composed the film score. The film released onMay 2002 and proved to be highly successful at the box office.

Mahesh Dhanush is the son of a poor fisherman Thalaivasal Vijay, who grows up seeing his parents always having sex or fighting. Pooja Sherin is the daughter of an orthodox and very strict businessman Pyramid Natarajan, who is always suspicious about her. Vishnus Abhinay father neglects his mother and instead has his maid servant as his paramour. Anithas Shilpa parents live abroad, concentrating merely on their work and business, having not time for their daughter and neglecting her. Harish Ramesh is regularly beaten up and mistreated by his sadistic father. These five people and another girl, Divya, Gangeshwari are highschool students and best friends. When they find out that one of them, Anitha, is addicted to drugs, they decide to run away from their homes along with Mani Ramesh Khanna, a pavement bookseller and an older friend of theirs, in order to rehabilitate her, but also as a result of their discontent and feeling of alienation from their respective families.However, the runaways have to face and deal with many problems and break down several barriers, realizing that they are not yet ready and matured enough to cope with life in the outside world and recognizing the importance of education. They finally return to their school, where the school principal Vijayakumar lectures the parents of the students, blaming them for the students escape attempt and misbehaviour. ........

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