Kannedhirey Thondrinal

Kannedhirey Thondrinal
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Directed by	Ravichandran
Produced by	Sivasakthi Pandian
Written by	Ravichandran, Sujatha (dialogues)
Starring	Prashanth Simran Karan Vignesh Vivek Ramji Srividya Chinni Jayanth Vaiyapuri
Music by	Deva
Cinematography	Thangar Bachan
Edited by	B. Lenin V. T. Vijayan
Production company	Sivasakthi Movie Makers
Release date	11 September 1998
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Kannedhirey Thondrinal (English: She came before my eyes) is a 1998 Tamil film directed by Ravichandran. The film stars Prashanth and Simran in the lead roles. The film's score and soundtrack were composed by Deva. Owing to its success, the film was remade in Telugu as Manasulo Maata (1998), in Kannada as Snehaloka (1999), in Malayalam as Dhosth (2001) in Bengali as Sangee (2002), and also in Bangladesh as Tumi Koto Sundar (2006).

Vasanth (Prashanth), a rich guy meets a girl (Simran) in Coimbatore railway station while travelling to Chennai to join engineering and it is love at first sight for Vasanth. Shankar (Karan) also studies in same college where Vasanth joins and initially both Vasanth and Shankar develop clashes. Priya (Simran) is the sister of Shankar and without knowing that Vasanth meets Priya on a few more situations in Chennai and conveys his love towards her but Priya does not reciprocate and keeps distance with Vasanth.

One day, Vasanth saves Shankar’s life from a few thugs and this makes the two get close to each other. Shankar’s mother Srividya does not like any of Shankar’s friends visiting their home and once insults Vasanth when Shankar has invited Vasanth to his home. Later on Srividya gets to know about Vasanth’s good character and apologizes to him and also invites to their home. Now Vasanth comes to know that Priya is Shankar’s sister and feels bad that he is in love with his best friend’s sister.

But Vasanth’s friend Gopal (Chinni Jayanth) says that there is no harm in it as Vasanth started loving Priya even before he met Shankar. This makes Vasanth to continue his efforts to woo Priya. Priya after a point starts developing affection towards Vasanth realizing his true love for her and also gets attracted by his character. Meanwhile Shankar gets furious while encountering Vignesh on a few more occasions. One day, Shankar informs Vasanth about a problem that had occurred in Shankar’s family a few years back. Shankar has one more sister (Indhu) and she eloped with his then close friend Vignesh on the day of her marriage which made Shankar’s family to abandon her. This made Srividya to avoid bringing Shankar’s friends to their home as Shankar felt betrayed by his close friend.