Iyarkai

Iyarkai
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Directed by	S.P.Jananathan
Produced by	V. R. Kumar A.E.Gunasekaran G. Natarajan
Written by	S. P. Jananathan (Story & Dialogue)
Screenplay by	N. Kalyanakrishnan
Starring	Shaam Arun Vijay Seema Biswas Kutti Radhika Senthil Pasupathy Karunas Chinni Jayanth
Music by	Vidyasagar
Cinematography	N.K.Ekambaram
Edited by	N. Ganesh Kumar editing supervisor: V. T. Vijayan
Production company	Prisam Films
Distributed by	Prisam Films
Release date	21 November 2003 (2003-11-21)
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Iyarkai(English translation: "Nature") is a 2003 Tamil romantic drama film co-written and directed by S. P. Jananathan and produced by V. R. Kumar, A. E. Gunasekaran, and G. Natarajan for Prisam Films. The film stars Shaam, Arun Vijay, Kutti Radhika, and Seema Biswas. This film was a low-budget production and the soundtrack was composed by Vidyasagar. This love story is set against the backdrop of a lost ship on an island. It enjoyed relative success in the Kollywood box office. The soundtrack was a great hit but most importantly, the film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil for 2003, competing with Virumaandi and Pithamagan as that year's submissions. This movie is loosely based on "Vennira Iravugal", Tamil translation of Dostoyevsky's "White Nights".

Iyarkai is a familiar love triangle that plays out in unfamiliar surroundings. It revolves around a girl and the two men who love her but by placing the happenings in a port town of Rameswaram, the director manages to give the proceedings a fresh feeling.

Marudhu (Shaam), an orphaned ship mechanic and sailor, lands in Rameswaram and decides to give up his sailing life and settle down there. He develops a liking for Nancy (Kutty Radhika), who sells fruits and other items to sailors on ships that have arrived at the port, but she still holds a candle for the captain of a ship that docked there three years ago. Though Nancy had proposed to him three years ago, he declined stating that 17 was a very young age to marry. Mukundan (Arun Vijay), the captain, had promised her that he would return in a year, but three years later, Nancy has still not given up hope. Marudhu helps Nancy search for Mukundan using his knowledge of ships and naval technology, but when he reveals that even he loves Nancy, she distances himself from him. However, they reconcile and become friends. All hope is lost to find Mukundan, as they see the captain junior, now as the first officer of another ship. The captain junior reveals that the captain's ship was destroyed in a blast.