Kadhalum Kadandhu Pogum

Kadhalum Kadanthu Pogum
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Tamil	காதலும் கடந்து போகும்
Directed by	Nalan Kumarasamy
Produced by	C. V. Kumar K. E. Gnanavel Raja
Screenplay by	Nalan Kumarasamy
Based on	My Dear Desperado by Kim Kwang-sik
Starring	Vijay Sethupathi Madonna Sebastian
Music by	Santhosh Narayanan
Cinematography	Dinesh Krishnan
Edited by	Leo John Paul
Production company	Thirukumaran Entertainment
Distributed by	Studio Green Abi & Abi Pictures
Release date	11 March 2016 (2016-03-11)
Running time	136 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Kadhalum Kadandhu Pogum (English: Love too shall pass) is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Nalan Kumarasamy. Produced by C. V. Kumar under Thirukumaran Entertainment banner, the film stars Vijay Sethupathi and Madonna Sebastian in the lead roles. An official remake of the 2010 Korean film My Dear Desperado, the film was released on 11 March 2016 to positive reviews.

Kathiravan (Vijay Sethupathi) is a rowdy who works for a local area councillor (G. M. Sundar). His only aim in life is to own a bar of his own. He had just been released from prison after serving a five-year sentence for taking the blame for a crime he did not commit on the orders of the councillor. Kathir did the deed on the promise that his status within the councillor's gang will be elevated once he is released, but the promise was reneged. Meanwhile, a young Villupuram-based engineering graduate Yazhini Bakthirajan (Madonna Sebastian), leaves for Chennai against her parents' wishes to pursue a career in the IT sector. When the company she works for shuts down suddenly five months later, she faces financial hardship and is forced to move into a low-cost housing colony while searching for a new job. Her neighbour is Kathir. Though both of them dislike each other in the beginning, they gradually warm up to each other despite their different backgrounds and become a sort of support system for one another.

Facing pressure from her family over her career and wedding, Yazhini introduces Kathir to her parents as her boyfriend who is a successful manager in an IT firm. Her parents decide to fix their marriage but change their mind after seeing Kathir thrashing two men opposite a temple, realising that he is a rowdy. They bar Yazhini from returning to Chennai, even forbidding her to attend an important job interview. Meanwhile, Kathir starts a gang war by beating up the henchmen of a rival gangster Kumar (Samuthirakani). The councillor decides that Kathir should murder Kumar. After ensuring that Yazhini attends her interview, Kathir proceeds with the plan to murder Kumar. However, during the ensuing scuffle, Kathir ends up being stabbed with a rebar and is left to bleed to death.