Minsara Kanavu

Minsara Kanavu
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Directed by	Rajiv Menon
Produced by	M. Saravanan M. Balasubramanian M. S. Guhan
Written by	Dialogue: Rajiv Menon V. C. Guhanathan G. B. Vijay
Screenplay by	Rajiv Menon V. C. Guhanathan
Story by	Rajiv Menon
Starring	Prabhu Deva Arvind Swamy Kajol
Music by	A. R. Rahman
Cinematography	Venu Ravi K. Chandran
Edited by	Suresh Urs
Production company	AVM Productions
Distributed by	AVM Productions
Release date	14 January 1997 (1997-01-14)
Running time	153 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

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.