Priyamaanavale

Priyamaanavale
Directed by	K. Selva Bharathy
Produced by	C. Venkata Raju G. Sivaraju
Story by	Bhupathi Raja
Starring	Vijay Simran
Music by	S. A. Rajkumar
Cinematography	Selva. R
Edited by	B. S. Vasu-Saleem
Production company	Gita Chitra International
Release date	26 October 2000
Running time	169 min.
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Priyamaanavale (English: The Girl I love) is a 2000 Tamil language romance film written and directed by K. Selva Bharathy, which is the remake of the Telugu film Pavithra Bandham. The film has Vijay and Simran playing the lead roles, with S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Vivek and Radhika Chaudhari in supporting roles. The film revolves around a working woman in a struggling family and portrays the sufferings she receives from her husband with negative shades in his role but later he realises his fault and he becomes a loving and caring husband. The film released on 26 October 2000 to highly positive reviews and was declared a blockbuster. The movie was later dubbed in Hindi as Dil Ki Baat.

Viswanathan (SPB) is a rich industrialist whose only son is Vijay (Vijay). Vijay returns from abroad after education and is heavily influenced by the western culture and prefers to enjoy the life instead of getting married and managing businesses. Viswanthan plans to get Vijay married so that he will become responsible in life. But to his shock, Vijay agrees for marriage provided that the marriage should be valid only for one year beyond which it is to be decided by Vijay. Viswanthan worries as no girl will be ready to accept for such a kind of agreement and then explains his situation to his personal secretary Priya (Simran) and requests her to marry Vijay, as Priya is more responsible and matured. Viswanthan believes that if Priya gets married to Vijay, then there are chances that Vijay’s character will get changed.

Priya hesitates initially but she is the only bread winner for her poor family. She has to look after her mother, elder sister who needs a heart surgery, younger sister who needs to get married and a brother who is jobless. So she decides to sacrifice her life for the sake of her family and agrees to marry Vijay accepting the agreement. Vijay and Priya become good friends after marriage. Vijay gets to know about the money siphoning made by his office employees, Thalaivasal Vijay and Kasan Khan. He dismisses them and lodges a complaint with police following which they both get arrested. They decide to kill Vijay and plans for an accident. Vijay gets injured and Priya takes care of Vijay very well following which Vijay recovers.