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{{short description|2001 Tamil film by Siddique Ismail}}
{{Use Indian English|date=May 2019}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2015}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Friends
| image = Friends 2001 poster.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = [[Siddique (director)|Siddique]]
| screenplay = Siddique
| story = Siddique
| based_on = ''[[Friends (1999 film)|Friends]]'' (Malayalam)
| starring = [[Vijay (actor)|Vijay]]<br/>[[Suriya]]<br />[[Devayani (actress)|Devayani]]<br />[[Vijayalakshmi (Kannada actress)|Vijayalakshmi]]
| producer = [[Swargachitra Appachan|Appachan]]
| cinematography = Anandakuttan
| editing = [[B. Lenin]]<br />[[V. T. Vijayan]]
| music = [[Ilaiyaraaja]]
| studio = Swargachitra
| distributor =
| released = 14 January 2001
| runtime = 167 minutes
| country = India
| language = Tamil
}}
'''''Friends''''' is a 2001 Indian [[Tamil language|Tamil]]-language [[comedy-drama]] film, directed by [[Siddique (director)|Siddique]] and produced by [[Swargachitra Appachan|Appachan]]. It is a remake of Siddique's own 1999 [[Malayalam]] film [[Friends (1999 film)|of the same name]]. The film stars [[Vijay (actor)|Vijay]], [[Suriya]] and [[Ramesh Khanna]], while [[Devayani (actress)|Devayani]], [[Vijayalakshmi (Kannada actress)|Vijayalakshmi]], [[Abhinayashree]], [[Vadivelu]], and [[Radha Ravi]] played the supporting roles. The music was composed by [[Ilaiyaraaja]], while Anandakuttan handled cinematography. It was released on 14 January 2001 and completed a 175-day theatrical run at the box office.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movies/slideshow/top-20-best-films-of-vijay/10-friends-2001.html|title=10. Friends (2001) | Top 20 Best Films of Vijay|website=www.behindwoods.com}}</ref> This film also marks the second collaboration of Vijay and Suriya after ''[[Nerrukku Ner]]''.<ref>https://www.indiatoday.in/movies/celebrities/story/ilayathalapathy-vijay-thanks-suriya-singam-bairavaa-966155-2017-03-17</ref> The film was dubbed into Telugu as ''Devi Puthurulu '' and in Hindi as ''Friends''.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtdCAq2CnII</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eakZdIhDpo</ref>

==Plot==
Aravindan, Chandru and Krishnamoorthy have been best friends since their childhood. They consider their friendship above everything else, including family. Thus, Chandru resists the romantic overtures of Aravindan's younger sister Amutha. Chandru, an orphan, stays with Aravindan and is considered by Aravindan's parents as a second son. Some brushes with the law force Aravindan and Chandru to lie low in [[Chennai]] for a couple of days, where they and Krishnamoorthy take up jobs as painters in a mansion under contractor Nesamani, who is Krishnamoorthy's paternal uncle. Aravindan falls in love with Padmini, who lives in the mansion, though Padmini only considers him as a friend; nevertheless she is grateful to him when he saves her from an accidental electrocution. But Padmini's cousin Abhirami has a crush on Aravindan, and is enraged when she realises that he is in love with Padmini. Abhirami sends false letters to him in Padmini's name and makes him believe that his love is reciprocated. So when Padmini suddenly gets engaged to another man, Chandru stands up for Aravindan’s love and insults Padmini in front of her entire family, causing her engagement to get cancelled. This makes Padmini decide to marry Aravindan, but with the intention to take revenge on Chandru by breaking his and Aravindan's friendship. But during their marriage, Aravindan and Padmini realise that Abhirami is behind all the mishaps which had taken place, and that Chandru is innocent. Padmini reconciles with Chandru and Chandru's and Amutha's wedding is fixed.

Gowtham is Aravindan's cousin who lusts for Amutha. He plans to separate Aravindan and Chandru so that he can marry Amutha. He first sets Amutha's sari on fire while she is cooking in the kitchen. Chandru blames Padmini for the mishap as she was in the kitchen with Amutha at the time, even though Padmini is innocent, but no one, including Aravindan, believes Chandru. Gowtham then turns his eye on the annual bullock race in which Chandru is taking part, by loosening the wheels on Chandru's cart with the intention to cause a serious accident and frame Padmini as the culprit, thus creating a wedge between Chandru and Aravindan. Unfortunately for Gowtham, Aravindan decides to take part in the race in Chandru's place since Chandru is to be married, and manages to win despite using the broken bullock cart. Chandru accuses Padmini of trying to kill him. Padmini threatens to leave the house if Aravindan remains friends with Chandru and does not throw him out of the house. Aravindan then reveals to her that he had accidentally killed Chandru's deaf-and-dumb younger brother when they were children, which traumatised him so much that he never told anyone about it, and since then, he has been looking out for Chandru out of the guilt that he had no one else in his life anymore. Gowtham overhears their conversation and tells Chandru about it to anger him. Chandru fights with Aravindan, breaks their friendship and leaves the house. Aravindan tries to convince Chandru to return and marry Amutha, even if he cannot repair their friendship. However, in the process, Aravindan falls from a cliff and seemingly dies.

Five years later, Chandru is a Major in the [[Indian Army]] and has never returned to Aravindan's home since his supposed death. He receives a letter from Krishnamoorthy stating that Aravindan is not dead, but in a [[Persistent vegetative state|vegetative state]], not responding to anyone and only sitting in a corner. Chandru immediately leaves for Aravindan's house, where he also learns that Aravindan and Padmini have a young son whose name is Chandru, in tribute to their friendship. Meanwhile, Gowtham, who has been torturing Padmini and Amutha since Aravindan went into the vegetative state, finds that Chandru has returned, and beats him up. On hearing Chandru's cries, Aravindan wakes up and subdues Gowtham and his goons. In the end, Aravindan, Chandru Krishnamoorthy, Padmini and Amutha, are reunited happily.

==Cast==
{{colbegin}}
* [[Vijay (actor)|Vijay]] as Aravindan
* [[Suriya]] as Chandru
* [[Ramesh Khanna]] as Krishnamoorthy
* [[Devayani (actress)|Devayani]] as Padmini
* [[Vijayalakshmi (Kannada actress)|Vijayalakshmi]] as Amutha
* [[Abhinayashree]] as Abhirami
* [[Vadivelu]] as [[Nesamani]]
* [[Radha Ravi]] as Ramanathan
* [[Rajeev (Tamil actor)|Rajeev]] as Raghuraman
* [[Charle]] as Gopal
* [[Sriman (actor)|Sriman]] as Gowtham
* [[Madhan Bob]] as Manager Sundaresan
* [[Pyramid Natarajan]] as Varatharajan
* [[Saritha]] as Savithri
* [[Sathyapriya]] as Rajalakshmi
* [[S. N. Lakshmi]] as Maragatham{{colend}}

==Production==
After their teaming in ''[[Nerukku Ner]]'', [[Vijay (actor)|Vijay]] and [[Suriya (actor)|Suriya]] came together again in this film, a remake of a successful Malayalam film of the same name that was produced by actress [[Saritha]], and had her husband [[Mukesh (Malayalam actor)|Mukesh]] co-starring with [[Jayaram]]. [[Siddique (director)|Siddique]] who directed the original has directed the Tamil version too. [[Ramesh Khanna]] was selected to play the role which was enacted by [[Sreenivasan (actor)|Sreenivasan]] in original. First [[Meena (actress)|Meena]] was approached to play the female lead as she did the original Malayalam version. Due to dates problem, she could not be part of it. Then [[Jyothika]] was signed along with [[Suvalakshmi]] to play the lead actresses in the film but soon backed out due to date problems and were replaced by [[Devayani (actress)|Devayani]] and new girl [[Vijayalakshmi (Kannada actress)|Vijayalakshmi]] from Mysore. Shooting was held in a fast pace on location in Ooty, Pollachi, Pazhani and Udumalaipettai.<ref>[http://cinematoday2.itgo.com/friends.htm Friends]. Cinematoday2.itgo.com. Retrieved on 26 July 2015.</ref> The song 'Thendral Varum Vazhiye' was shot in [[New Zealand]].

==Soundtrack==
The film featured music composed by [[Ilaiyaraaja]] received positive response and topped the charts. All lyrics of the songs were penned by ''Palani Bharathi''.
{{Infobox album
| name = Friends
| type = [[Soundtrack]]
| artist = [[Ilaiyaraaja]]
| cover =
| alt =
| released = 2001
| recorded =2001
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[Soundtrack]]
| length = 40.55
| label = Five Star Audio
| producer =
| prev_title = [[Mugam]]
| prev_year = 2001
| next_title = [[Housefull (1999 film)|Housefull]]
| next_year = 2001
}}

{{track listing
| headline = Track-list
| extra_column = Artist(s)
| total_length = 40.55
| title1 = Thendral Varum
| extra1 = [[Hariharan (singer)|Hariharan]], [[Bhavatharini]]
| length1 = 05:03
| title2 = Kuyilikku Koo Koo
| extra2 = [[S. P. Balasubrahmanyam]], Hariharan, [[Shankar Mahadevan]]
| length2 = 05:06
| title3 = Rukku Rukku
| extra3 = [[Yuvan Shankar Raja]], [[Vijay Yesudas]], [[Sowmya Raoh]]
| length3 = 04:30
| title4 = Manjal Poosum Manjal Poosum
| extra4 = [[Sujatha Mohan]], [[Devan Ekambaram]]
| length4 = 05:08
| title5 = Penkaloda Potti
| extra5 = Hariharan, Sujatha Mohan, [[Ranjith (singer)|Ranjith]]
| length5 = 05:02
| title6 = Poonkatrae
| extra6 = Hariharan
| length6 = 05:26
| title7 = Vaanam Perusuthan
| extra7 = S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Vijay Yesudas, Arun Mozhi
| length7 = 05:10
}}

==Critical response==
''Friends'' was released on 14 January 2001, [[Thai Pongal]] day.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.sify.com/movies/thala-v-s-thalapathy-battle-begins-news-tamil-objrjgfjhhisi.html|title=Thala v/s Thalapathy battle begins|website=Sify}}</ref> Malathi Rangarajan of ''The Hindu'' stated, "With friendship as the theme, Siddique presents a decent entertainer, which of course could have been crisper."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-miscellaneous/tp-others/film-review-friends/article27912820.ece|title=Film Review: Friends|date=26 January 2001|via=www.thehindu.com}}</ref> A review from [[Zee TV]] noted "at last, we have one thoroughly enjoyable picture this year" and "except for the end, which is a bit melodramatic, ''Friends'' is an excellent movie for debutant director Siddique."<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20010408174438/http://cinema.zeenext.com/reviews/2302reviewfriends.asp</ref>

Despite facing competition from [[Ajith Kumar]]'s ''[[Dheena]]'', released on the same day,<ref name=":0" /> the film emerged a commercial success, running for more than 175 days in theatres.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.timesnownews.com/entertainment/south-gossip/photo-gallery/tamil-actor-vijay-completes-26-years-in-the-industry-take-a-look-at-his-journey-in-pictures/324783|title=Tamil actor Vijay completes 26 years in the industry. Take a look at his journey, in pictures | Entertainment News|website=www.timesnownews.com}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Pray for Nesamani]]
* ''[[Snehamante Idera]]''

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0308280|Friends}}
{{Siddique (director)}}

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[[Category:2001 films]]
[[Category:Tamil-language films]]
[[Category:2000s Tamil-language films]]
[[Category:2000s comedy-drama films]]
[[Category:Films scored by Ilaiyaraaja]]
[[Category:Films directed by Siddique]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Indian buddy films]]
[[Category:Indian comedy-drama films]]
[[Category:Tamil remakes of Malayalam films]]
[[Category:Indian Army in films]]
[[Category:Films shot in Ooty]]
[[Category:Films shot in Pollachi]]
[[Category:Films shot in Palani]]
[[Category:Films shot in New Zealand]]
[[Category:2001 comedy films]]
[[Category:2001 drama films]]

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