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Tamil | மின்சார கனவு |
Directed by | Rajiv Menon |
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Screenplay by | Rajiv Menon V. C. Guhanathan |
Story by | Rajiv Menon |
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Music by | A. R. Rahman |
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Venu Ravi K. Chandran |
Edited by | Suresh Urs |
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Distributed by | AVM Productions |
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153 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Tamil |
Minsara Kanavu / Sapnay | ||||
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Soundtrack album by A. R. Rahman | ||||
Released | 1997 | |||
Recorded | Panchathan Record Inn | |||
Genre | Soundtrack | |||
Label | AVM Audio | |||
Producer | A. R. Rahman | |||
A. R. Rahman chronology | ||||
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Minsara Kanavu (Electrifying Dreams) is a 1997 Tamil musical romantic comedy film co written and directed by Rajiv Menon. The film features Arvind Swamy, Prabhu Deva and Kajol in the lead roles, with Girish Karnad, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, V. K. Ramasamy and Nassar in other pivotal roles. The soundtrack and background score for the film was composed by A. R. Rahman, while the cinematography was handled by Venu and Ravi K. Chandran. The film was shot in Lawrence School, Lovedale Ooty, St. Andrews Church and Apollo Hospitals in Chennai. The film garnered four National Film Awards, three Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and a Filmfare Award South.
Priya Amal Raj (Kajol) lost her mother at a very young age. She is friendly, outspoken, sensitive, yet precocious. Priya is brought up by her dad, Amal Raj (Girish Karnad) who is a clothing industrialist. Since her childhood, Priya is interested in singing, music and church.
Thomas Thanga Durai (Arvind Swamy), a polite, well mannered NRI business man, returns to India from America to look after his father's James Thanga Durai's (S. P. Balasubrahmanyam) business. Thanga Durai is a former associate in Amal Raj's business, and now establishes his own business empire in the same vicinity, opposite to Amal Raj's factory. He boasts of his sons achievements. However, Amal Raj dislikes Thanga Durai's ill mannered, clumsy and bizarre antics though Thomas and Priya have known each other in their childhood.