3 (2012 Indian film)

3
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Directed by	Aishwarya R. Dhanush
Produced by	Dr. K. Vimalageetha Dhanush Aishwarya R. Dhanush
Written by	Aishwarya R. Dhanush
Starring	Dhanush Shruti Haasan Prabhu Sivakarthikeyan
Music by	Anirudh Ravichander
Cinematography	Velraj
Edited by	Kola Bhaskar
Production company	R. K. Productions Pvt.Ltd
Distributed by	Wunderbar Films
Release date	30 March 2012 (2012-03-30)
Running time	148 minutes
Language	Tamil

3 is a 2012 Indian Tamil romantic-psychological thriller film written and directed by Aishwarya R. Dhanush in her directorial debut. It stars her husband Dhanush, who himself co-produced the film, alongside his wife. The soundtrack and film score were composed by debutante Anirudh Ravichander while the cinematography was handled by Velraj. The film gained high anticipation due to the viral marketing of the song "Why This Kolaveri Di". 3 opened to positive to mixed reviews.

The story opens with the death of Ram . His wife Janani realizes that her husband did not die naturally, as she finds his room stained with blood spatters. She recalls memories from when they first met and the story starts with a flashback when Ram and Janani were 12th grade students.

Ram is a rich happy-go-lucky boy. He sees Janani and has a crush on her straightaway. He begins to follow her around with his friends Senthil and Kumaran.

When Janani reciprocates his love, she is stopped by her family. When Janani's mother tells her that they are moving to America, Janani burns her passport so she can stay with Ram. She is then disowned by her family by her mother and she lands up at Ram's door. The two get married with Ram's father's help and lead a happy life.

The story then returns to reality with Janani finding a suicide letter in Ram's coat, and after reading it, she asks Senthil about his death. Senthil tells her the truth about Ram, that there were two sides to him. After Janani had told him she was leaving for America, the same night his best friend Kumaran had also planned to leave for Singapore. Ram couldn't take all this pain and he and Senthil were at the beach where Ram got drunk and saw Janani standing in the water and calling him near her. He hurried towards her only to find it was a vision and falls into the water. He is later dragged out by Senthil who scolds him for being crazy for Janani. Senthil had ignored this incident thinking it was the alcohol. But in the coming days, he noticed that Ram got angered very soon and reacted out of bounds. One night both of them went to Ram's house, stressed out from work. Ram started working on his laptop when Tom, the dog he had gifted Janani, started playing near his feet. He got irritated and kicked the dog away ruthlessly. Senthil sharply disapproved of this. After a while when Senthil went into the kitchen to get some water, he heard a squeal and came back running, only to find the dog lying dead. Ram had apparently kicked the dog so hard that it died. But that isn't what terrified him, but the fact that Ram was still working on his laptop as if nothing happened. When Senthil mentioned that Janani loved the dog like her own child, he came to his senses and panicked as to what if Janani found out. They buried the dog before Janani returned. When she came home and greeted Ram, he uncannily asked Janani where Tom was. They started searching for it and finally when Janani started crying, Ram felt very guilty and he also started crying yelling it was all his fault. That was when Senthil noticed that something was seriously amiss. He decided to consult a psychiatrist regarding Ram's condition and discovers that he is suffering from Bipolar Disorder.