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starring Karthik,

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and

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. The film was remade in

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as '' Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam'' (2002) by the same director. It was the Tamil debut film of Devayani.

Plot

Gopal is in love with Bhuvana ever since they were children. As adults, they get married. There are two things Gopal disapproves of, after their marriage: Bhuvana's unemployed younger brother Prasad who lives with them, and Mano, Bhuvana's childhood friend. Mano is quite handsome and a very famous singer and Bhuvana who is very fond of him, talks to him quite often on the phone. The hardworking Gopal, who loves his wife dearly, wants complete attention from her, when he feels Bhuvana gives undue attention to her friend Mano, he grows gradually very suspicious and believes that Bhuvana and Mano are secretly seeing each other, resulting in throwing Bhuvana out of the house after his jealousy completely overwhelms him. Bhuvana who equally loves her husband and never fully understood the turmoil he was going through, receives a note of divorce from him and is devastated. Prasad and Mano try to talk to Gopal, but Bhuvana forbids it. Finally, Mano arranges a meeting with Gopal, but the situation fails. Mano is taken aback upon finding that his platonic relationship with his best friend Bhuvana has caused Gopal with such misconstruings. They argue and Gopal finally leaves. Mano talks to Bhuvana, she thinks it is entirely her fault: If she had understood that Gopal disapproved of her close relationship to Mano, she would have never seen Mano again. Mano leaves her and promises to never see her again. He talks to his blind girlfriend Amlu ( Rohini) about what happened and Amlu finally talks reason into Gopal. Gopal arrives the moment Bhuvana is giving birth, Gopal therefore realises his misapprehensions and the purity of Bhuvana's heart and they make up.

Cast

* Karthik as Mano *

as Gopal *

as Bhuvana *

as Prasad * M. N. Nambiar as Chandrashekar Gopal and Ramya Grandfather *

as Ramya * Rohini as Amlu *

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as Lakshmi, Buvana's and Prasad's mother * Praveen Gajendran as Young Gopal * Vichithra as Monica

Production

''Thotta Chinungi'' is the first Tamil film for Devayani. It is also the debut for Priyan (then known as Nagendran) as the lead cinematographer.

Soundtrack

Soundtrack was composed by debutants Philip Jerry. * "Maname Thotta Chinungi" – Hariharan *"Maname Thotta Chinungi" (female) – Chithra * "Ramya Ramya" – Mano * "Rajni Vara Bhavani" – SPB * "Coke Pepsi" – Suresh Peters * "Illanthendral Veesum" – Mano * "Nammoda thalaivar ennalum" – SPB

Reception

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'' said the film "proved easy to watch despite running two hours and 45 minutes".

Remake

Adhiyaman chose to direct his first Hindi film and began remaking ''Thotta Chinungi'' in Hindi as ''Aap Mere Hai Sanam'' in early 1998. The film languished in

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and was eventually released in 2002 as '' Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam''.

References

External links

* {{K. S. Adhiyaman 1990s Tamil-language films 1995 films 1995 romantic drama films Films directed by K. S. Adhiyaman Indian romantic drama films Tamil films remade in other languages