Aasai

Aasai
Directed by	Vasanth
Produced by	Mani Ratnam S. Sriram
Written by	Vasanth
Starring	Ajith Kumar Suvalakshmi Prakash Raj Rohini Poornam Viswanathan
Music by	Deva
Cinematography	Jeeva
Edited by	B. Lenin V. T. Vijayan
Production company	Aalayam Productions
Distributed by	Aalayam Productions
Release date	8 September 1995
Running time	145 minutess
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Aasai (English: Desire) is a 1995 Tamil thriller film written and directed by Vasanth and produced by Mani Ratnam The film featured Ajith Kumar and debutant Suvalakshmi in the lead, and Prakash Raj in a pivotal role. Jeeva was the cinematographer while Deva composed the music. Upon release, the film received positive reviews and went on to become a commercial success at the box office.

Saraswathi "Yamuna" (Suvalakshmi), one of the two daughters of an orthodox father, comes to Madras for finishing her studies. Major Madhavan (Prakashraj) is the husband of Yamuna's elder sister Ganga (Rohini), who infatuates about Yamuna after seeing a photo in a letter sent by Yamuna. Meanwhile, Yamuna meets Jeevanantham (Ajithkumar), in a city bus who gives his ticket to her as she had not taken her own. Later one day on the advice of his friends, Jeeva decides to express his love to Yamuna by writing 1 4 3(the number of letters in "I love you") in a letter and giving it to her. But he witnesses a group beating a boy who did the same thing. So he crumples the letter and it is found by Yamuna who realizes his love. One day when they were walking together Jeeva tries to remove the dirt from Yamuna's eyes and he kisses her. Yamuna is angry with him. Jeeva senses it and gets wet in the rain and gets a cold. Hearing this Yamuna meets him. Jeeva expresses that she is the only medicine to him and he needs her. Yamuna promises that she will marry him. On Yamuna's birthday, Jeeva jumps into her house and presents her a puppy. One day, fearing that Yamuna's father might not marry him to Yamuna, he decides to marry her in a register office on the advice of his friends. But Yamuna refuses and Jeeva leaves angrily.

Meanwhile Madhavan settles his father-in-law's debts and earns his trust. He also pays for connecting a landline to Yamuna's house and talks to her regularly. But his wife is unaware of this. One day Madhavan's wife finds it and starts to realize his true identity. Madhavan then expresses his love affair on Yamuna to his wife. This makes her so upset that she attempts to go and live with her father and Yamuna. Madhavan prisons her in home and one day he tells her that she can go to her father's house by flight and tricks her by putting a sleeping-pill in milk and makes her drink it. She falls unconscious. Madhavan then murders his wife by suffocating her to death with a polythene cover and tying it around her head by his shoe-lace, and lies to everyone that she died from heart attack. He then makes Yamuna and her father stay with him in Delhi to look after his baby, but he has other plans.