Love Birds (1996 film)

Love Birds
Release poster
Directed by	P. Vasu
Produced by	V. Natarajan
Written by	P. Vasu
Starring	Prabhu Deva Nagma Sarath Babu Vadivelu Manorama
Music by	A. R. Rahman
Cinematography	M. C. Sekar
Edited by	P. Mohanraj
Production company	Pyramid Films
Distributed by	Pyramid Films
Release date	15 January 1996 (1996-01-15)
Running time	146 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Love Birds is a 1996 Tamil romantic film directed by P. Vasu. The film features Prabhu Deva and Nagma in the lead roles with Raja, Vadivelu and Sarath Babu playing other pivotal roles. The film's score and soundtrack composed by A. R. Rahman was highly successful. Love Birds opened in January 1996 and had an average performance commercially. The storyline of the movie is thematically similar to that of the 1986 Kannada movie Ratha Sapthami for which P. Vasu was co-screen play writer.

After accidentally meeting, Mridula (Nagma) and Arun (Prabhu Deva) fall in love. The young couple both come from affluent families, and so, to test whether they will be suited for a long term relationship, they both decide to live together. However, a few months into their relationship, Arun and Mridula get in an accident and he passes away. A devastated Mridula is unable to get over her loss, and before long starts seeing Arun in strange visions everywhere she goes. Her family eventually decide that relocating to another country might help Mridula move on, and so they send her to the UK. Once she arrives there, she meets Mano, a young man attracted to her. She knows that her parents expect her to fall for Mano. But as she can't move on, she runs away. She meets a person who looks exactly like Arun. She follows him and finds out where he lives and works. Whenever she tries to talk to him, he denies his relationship with her and says he doesn't know her. However, she later finds out that her father had Arun sent away as he had helped with Arun's sister's marriage and had threatened to let it all go downhill for her. Arun moves to UK in hopes that he can forget about Mridula but he can't and when he meets her, he realises this. When Mridula's father finds out Arun is still alive, he tries to kill him. However he realises his mistake and lets the lovebirds reunite.

Prabhu Deva was signed to work on the film after working in Shankar's 1994 blockbuster Kaadhalan, and his pair from that film, Nagma, was also roped in again. British Indian musician Apache Indian was also roped in to sing and dance for a music video in the film.