''Idhu Kadhal Varum Paruvam'' ( ''It's an age of love'') is a 2006 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film directed by

Kasthuri Raja Kasthuri Raja is an Indian film director. He is the father of director Selvaraghavan and actor Dhanush. He worked as an assistant director with Director K.S.G. Most of the films he directed were either village based or infatuation of youngsters ...

. The film stars several newcomers including Harish and Lakshmi Priya alongside

Kiran Rathod Kiran Rathod (born 11 January 1981) is an Indian actress. She has acted in Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada films. Early life Rathod was born on 11 January 1981 in Jaipur. She is a cousin of actress Raveena Tandon. Rathod graduated ...

. ''Idhu Kaadhal Varum Paruvam'' targeted at the youth, is a bubbly film chronicling the coming of age of a teenager who is a school student.

Plot

Surya, the school-going 15 -year old boy finds himself attracted to his classmate Raji. Later he gets infatuated with a model Manasi (

). Finally, his lust grows for a call girl Swarna (Lakshmi Priya). As Swarna's husband is a pimp, she also shows some interest towards Surya. Surya and Swarna elope. But towards the end Swarna turns to preach. She advises Surya to be a good role model student and also to return to his parents.

Cast

Arish Kumar Arish Kumar is an Indian actor who has appeared in Tamil language films. He made his breakthrough as an actor with a leading role in Rasu Madhuravan's ''Goripalayam'' (2010) and has often appeared in films with several lead actors. Career Th ...

as Surya *Lakshmi Priya as Swarna *

as Manasi *

Baba Bhaskar Baba Bhaskar is an Indian dance choreographer, director and actor who works mainly in Tamil language, Tamil and Telugu language, Telugu language films in addition to some Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada films. Career He was born and brought up i ...

as Ajees *

Karunas Karunas (born 21 February 1970 as Karunanidhi Sethu) is an Indian actor, politician and comedian in the Tamil film industry. Appearing mostly in supporting roles, he has also played lead roles in films including '' Dindigul Sarathy'' (2008) a ...

*Preethi Puttani

Production

The songs are shot in different places, including Rameswaram, Kumbakkarai, Visakhapatnam, Kodaikkanal, Manjalaru Anai and Theni.

Soundtrack

Kasthuri Raja made his debut as music composer with this film and also written lyrics for all songs. *"Yugam Yugamai" — Aishwarya Kishore *"Sollamal Mudivatha" — Prasanna *"15 Vayasu" — Nitish Gopalan, Lavanya *"Paada Paduthum" — Jayadev, Padmalatha *"Kanja Adikalada" — Jayadev *"Kadhal Kadhal" — Nitish Gopalan,

Anuradha Sriram Anuradha Sriram (born 9 July 1970) is an Indian carnatic and playback singer and child actress who hails from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. She has sung more than 700 songs in Tamil, Telugu, Sinhala, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali and Hindi f ...

Reception

A critic from ''Chennai Online'' wrote that "The message if any, is wasted again, as his target-audience (?) would be nowhere in the theatre (A certificate). Fortunately!" A critic from ''BizHat'' wrote that "''Alas Ithu Kathal Varum Paruvam'' isn’t sinfully enticing enough".https://web.archive.org/web/20141011034607/http://movies.bizhat.com/review_ithu_kathal_varum_paruvam.php

References

External links

* {{Kasthuri Raja 2006 films 2000s Tamil-language films Indian coming-of-age films Films directed by Kasthuri Raja 2000s coming-of-age films