Something Something... Unakkum Enakkum

Something Something... Unakkum Enakkum

Theatrical poster
Directed by M. Raja
Produced by T. Rama Rao,
M. Raja
Written by M. K. Maheswar (dialogues)
Story by Veeru Potla
Based on Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana
by Veeru Potla
Starring Jayam Ravi
Trisha
Prabhu
Walter Philips
Geetha
Bhagyaraj
Richa Pallod
Manivannan
Santhanam
Cochin Haneefa
Tejashree
Music by Devi Sri Prasad
Cinematography A. Venkatesh
Edited by S.Surajkavee
Production
company
Sri Lakshmi Productions
Jayam Company
Release dates
28 July 2006
Running time
175 min.
Country India
Language Tamil
Budget $3 million
Box office $10 million

Something Something... Unakkum Enakkum (English: Something Something... Between you and me) is a 2006 Tamil-language romance film directed by M. Raja. It stars Jayam Ravi and Trisha Krishnan in the lead roles and a huge star-cast, including Richa Pallod, veterans Prabhu, Bhagyaraj, Geetha and comedians Santhanam and Ganja Karuppu in supporting roles. The film is a remake of the 2005 Telugu blockbuster, Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana which is copy of Hollywood movie called Son In Law, starring Siddharth, Trisha Krishnan, Srihari, and Prakash Raj. The film's score and soundtrack was composed by Devi Sri Prasad, who also scored the music in the original version of the film, whilst cinematography was handled by A. Venkatesh and editing by S.SurajKavee. The film was remade in Hindi as Ramaiya Vastavaiya which was released on 19 July 2013.[1] The film was initially released with prefixes "Something Something"; later the film was released only as Unakkum Enakkum due to rule imposed by Government that titles of Tamil films should be named only in Tamil for tax exemption.

Plot

Muthupandi (Prabhu) takes care of his only sister Kavitha (Trisha) following their mother’s early death when they were young. He lives in a village and brings up his sister with lot of care and affection. In the meantime, Muthupandi has an aversion towards arrogant rich people in the society as his father, who was rich abandoned his mother following which she died.

Santhosh (Jayam Ravi) is the only of son of a London based business tycoon Krishnan (Bhagyaraj) and Janaki (Geetha). Santhosh comes to Chennai along with his mother Janaki to attend his cousin Lalitha’s (Richa Pallod) wedding. Lalitha is the best friend of Kavitha and she too comes to Chennai a few days before the wedding. Santhosh, a fun loving person develops an attraction immediately after seeing Kavitha. But Kavitha does not reciprocate and she maintains distance with Santhosh.

Slowly Santhosh and Kavitha become good friend and love blossoms between them. Shalini (Tejaswini) is the daughter of Santhosh’s family friend JP (Manivannan) and she too loves Santhosh. Janaki gets furious knowing about Santhosh and Kavitha’s love affair as she thinks Kavitha is poor and is from low societal status. On the day of Lalitha’s wedding, when Santhosh is away, Janaki and JP speak ill of Kavitha and ask her leave the place before Santhosh returns.

When Kavitha is about to leave the place, suddenly Muthupandi arrives and is shocked to see his sister’s condition. He gets angry and scolds everyone there for hurting his sister and he also takes Kavitha with him back to the village. Santhosh is shocked knowing about the events and he leaves to the village immediately with the hope of convincing Kavitha. But Muthupandi does not like Santhosh seeing Janaki’s attitude and thinks that he too will ill treat Kavitha.

Santhosh apologizes to Muthupandi for the mis happenings and requests to get Kavitha married to him. Now Muthupandi comes with a challenge. He allots 1 acre of agricultural land to Santhosh and asks him to do farming there. Muthupandi challenges Santhosh to cultivate more than him using the land allotted. Santhosh accepts the challenge although he does not knowing farming.

Santhosh tries hard to do farming and somehow he manages to learn cultivation. JP and Shalini do not want Santhosh to win the challenge and they rope Mayan (Kalabavan Mani) in the village to distract Santhosh. Also there is local rich man in the village Sivaji (Kadhal Dhandapani) and his son who wants to marry Kavitha at any cost. Cultivation is completed and rice grains are bundled in both Santhosh and Muthupandi’s farms.

One day, Sivaji and his son set fire to Muthupandi’s home with plans of killing Santhosh. But Santhosh gets alerted and he escapes. Also he saves Kavitha’s horse doll which she considers to be precious (as it was made by Muthupandi when they were young). On the day before the counting, Mayan takes a few bundles from Santhosh and places it along with Muthupandi’s so that Santhosh will lose the challenge.

On the other hand, Muthupandi understands Santhosh’s true love towards Kavitha and believes that he is the right match for his sister. At night, Muthupandi visits Santhosh’s land and places a few additional rice grain bundles so that Santhosh can easily win. Santhosh wins the challenge as he has cultivated more compared to Muthupandi following which he agrees for their wedding.

But Sivaji and his son get angry seeing this and they decide to kill Santhosh and marry Kavitha. They kidnap Kavitha and beat up Santhosh. A fight erupts and Sivaji’s son is killed by Santhosh and he saves Kavitha. When police arrives at the spot, Muthupandi takes the blame of murder and requests Santhosh to marry Kavitha and lead a happy life. Muthupandi gets jailed for two years and he gets released with the hope of seeing Kavitha and Santhosh leading a happy married life. But he is surprised seeing them in wedding attire in front of the jail when he comes out. Santhosh and Kavitha were waiting to conduct the marriage only after Muthupandi is released. Muthupandi feels proud of them. Janaki realizes her mistake and apologizes to Muthupandi. In the end, Santhosh and Kavitha are married. Muthupandi marries Valli (Mallika) who works in his home.

Cast

Production

The film was initially titled Something Something Unakkum Enakkum, but removed the English prefixes to exploit the Tamil Nadu Government's rule of entertainment tax exemption for films with Tamil titles.[2][3][4]

Character map and remakes

Characters in Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana and its adaptations
Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana (2005) Something Something... Unakkum Enakkum (2006) Neenello Naanalle (2006) I Love You (2007) Suna Chadhei Mo Rupa Chadhei (2009) Nissash Amar Tumi (2010) Ramaiya Vastavaiya (2014)
Telugu Tamil Kannada Bengali (Indian) Odia Bengali (Bangladeshi) Hindi
Sivarama Krishna
(Srihari)
Muthupandi
(Prabhu)
Veera
(Vishnuvardhan)

(Tapas Paul)

(Siddhanta Mahapatra)
Mohammod Ali
(Misha Sawdagor)
Raghuveer
(Sonu Sood)
Santosh
(Siddharth)
Santhosh
(Jayam Ravi)
Santhosh
(Anirudh)
Rahul
(Dev)

(Anubhav Mohanty)
Hridoy
(Shakib Khan)
Ram
(Girish Kumar)
Siri
(Trisha)
Kavitha
(Trisha)
Siri
(Rakshita)
Pooja
(Payel Sarkar)

(Barsha Priyadarshini)
Aasha
(Apu Biswas)
Sona
(Shruti Haasan)

Music

The film has six songs composed by Devi Sri Prasad.

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Box office

See also

References

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