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DVD Cover
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Directed by | Bala |
Produced by | Ganesh Raghu Karthik Radhakrishnan Venky Narayanan Rajan Radhakrishnan |
Written by | Bala |
Starring |
Suriya Laila Rajkiran Saravanan |
Music by | Yuvan Shankar Raja |
Cinematography | R. Rathnavelu |
Edited by | Suresh Urs |
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Aparajeeth Films
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Release date
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14 November 2001 |
Running time
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180 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Tamil |
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Soundtrack album by Yuvan Shankar Raja | ||||
Released |
21 October 2001 (India)
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Recorded | 2001 at Kalasa Studio (Chennai) | |||
Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
Label | Five Star Audio Roja/Mass Audios |
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Producer | Ganesh Raghu | |||
Yuvan Shankar Raja chronology | ||||
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Nandha (Tamil: நந்தா) is a 2001 Indian Tamil action drama film written and directed by Bala, starring Suriya and Laila in the leading roles, while Rajkiran, Saravanan and Rajshree play other supporting roles. The film also marked the debut of comedian Karunas, whilst its music was scored by Yuvan Shankar Raja and cinematography handled by R. Rathnavelu. The film released on 14 November 2001 and received critical acclaim and was a commercial success.The film dubbed in Hindi as Vaastav The Return.
Nandha is a movie about a young man from a juvenile jail coming back to a society and his family he had left many years ago. It is about a battle of love and life and how a misfit tries to fight to fit into the usual social circus, a fight to earn his mother's love and a fight to live the second chance he has given himself. The story takes place in the town of Ramanathapuram.
Nandha (Surya) is sent to a rehabilitation center for murdering his father as a boy after witnessing his father's infidelity and abuse towards Nandha's mother (Rajashree) when she finds it. He returns home to his mother, who is deaf and mute, and his sister (Sheela, who are still in a state of shock after what has happened to their family.
He decides to get a new life by trying to give himself a college education. Having the record of being an ex-convict, he finds it difficult to get a seat in a college. He meets Periyavar (Rajkiran), a very rich disciplinarian who runs an arts and science college with an iron hand. Periyavar's forefathers were the kings of the Ramanathapuram kingdom and fell in line in with the Britishers. After independence, all of their palaces and titles were taken by the government of India, but a lot of other material wealth was in their hands. He still thinks himself a guardian of people and helps a lot of poor people. He even goes to the extent of providing justice when law and police can't or won't.