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Minsara Kanavu
Minsara Kanavu (1997) is a Tamil film musical directed by Rajiv Menon. The film's score and soundtrack is composed by A. R. Rahman.It stars Arvind Swamy, Prabhu Deva, and Kajol Devgan. Kajol Devgan plays a young woman who wishes to become a nun, whilst at the same time being torn between two competing suitors, played by the two lead actors.The film was noted for its musical-like quality and choreography. The film's music composer A. R. Rahman earned the Best Music Director award for the second time at the National Film Awards for his work on the score and soundtrack (his first win was for his debut work on the film Roja).Originally produced in Tamil, it went on to be dubbed in Telugu under the title Merupu Kalalu owing to its popularity and in Hindi as Sapnay.The movie concerns a love triangle between characters played by Kajol, Arvind Swamy and Prabhu Deva.Thomas (Arvind Swamy), an NRI business man, returns to India from America to look after his father's Thanga Durai (S.P.B) business. One day he happens to see Priya (Kajol) when he goes to a church hostel to see his aunt, a nun in that church. He falls in love with Priya but won't disclose the fact when he comes to know that Priya is interested in God and servicing the poor. So he asks Deva (Prabhu Deva), a barber who knows the tricks of seducing girls to fall in love. Deva befriends Priya through his musical troop (Nassar and his group) and does various kinds of activities to make Priya fall in love with Thomas. But at one point, Deva himself falls in love with Priya which she reciprocates. Thomas realizes this at the end and sacrifices his love and plans to become a church priest; it is a unique climax among all movies from that time period.The way the director, Rajiv Menon, portrays the screenplay really makes the film fascinating.
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Language: English
Year of production: 1997
Length: 153 mins
Country: United States
Directors:
Rajiv Menon
Producers:
A. R. Rahman
Actors:
Arvind Swamy, Prabhu Deva, Kajol Devgan, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Nassar, Girish Karnad
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