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{{short description|2001 film directed by Ezhil}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2024}}
{{Use Indian English|date=March 2024}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Poovellam Un Vaasam
| image = Poovellam Un Vaasam.jpg
| caption = Poster
| director = [[S. Ezhil]]
| writer = S. Ezhil<br />Na.Anbharasu <small>(uncredited)</small>
| producer = [[V. Ravichandran (film producer)|V. Ravichandran]]
| starring = [[Ajith Kumar]]<br />[[Jyothika]]
| cinematography = [[Arthur A. Wilson]]
| editing = [[A. Sreekar Prasad]]
| music = [[Vidyasagar (composer)|Vidyasagar]]
| studio = Oscar Films
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|2001|8|17|ref1=}}
| runtime = 158 minutes
| country = India
| language = Tamil
}}

'''''Poovellam Un Vaasam''''' ({{translation|All flowers bear your fragrance}}) is a 2001 Indian [[Tamil language|Tamil]]-language [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] written and directed by [[S. Ezhil]] and produced by [[V. Ravichandran (film producer)|V. Ravichandran]]. It stars [[Ajith Kumar]] and [[Jyothika]] as childhood friends, alongside an ensemble supporting cast of [[Nagesh]], [[Sivakumar]], [[Sayaji Shinde]], [[Vivek (actor)|Vivek]], [[Yugendran]], and [[Kovai Sarala]].

''Poovellam Un Vaasam'' was released on 17 August 2001. It received positive reviews and became a commercial success.

== Plot ==
Two families stay in identical bungalows, adjacent to each other, tracing their friendship to over 40 years. Their respective progenies Chinna and Chella are childhood friends, their easy camaraderie and strong bonding carried over to their adult years. The two of them study in the same college, same class, zoom together on the motorbike, their togetherness at home and college, as accepted a fact as it was in films like ''[[Piriyadha Varam Vendum]]'' (2001). Somewhere along the way, the duo falls in love, throwing some soft glances at each other when the other is not looking.

Their college mate Karna, makes devious plans to separate the duo and make Chella his. He does not seem to have any running feud with Chinna, is quite friendly with the duo, and does not seem to be particularly in love with Chella. Chinna laps up all that Karna tells him about Chella loving him, and is heartbroken and goes out on a business trip. Chella, persuaded by both families to marry a NRI, boldly informs them that she loved Chinna and would marry him. The two families are happy.

Chinna returns home and learns of the preparation for his engagement ceremony. Feeling that since Chella loved Karna, it must be family pressure that must have forced her to agree. Chinna then backs out. It is Chella's turn to be indignant about Chinna's mistrust of her love, and after giving him a piece of her mind, she backs out, with Chinna pleading for acceptance. After a period of separation, during which all ties between the two families are severed, both soon come to realise that they cannot live without their dearest friends and lovers. Chinna and Chella with their families then reunite.

== Cast ==
{{cast listing|
* [[Ajith Kumar]] as Chinna
* [[Jyothika]] as Chella
* [[Sivakumar]] as Arunachalam, Chinna's father
* [[Janaki Sabesh]] as Janaki, Chinna's mother
* [[Nagesh]] as Murugesan, Chinna's grandfather
* [[Sayaji Shinde]] as Rajasekar, as Chella's father
* Jaya Murali as Narmada, Chella's mother
* [[V. S. Raghavan]] as Chinnasamy, Chella's grandfather
* [[Sukumari]] as Chella's grandmother
* [[Vivek (actor)|Vivek]] as Varathan
* [[Yugendran]] as Karna
* [[Kovai Sarala]] as Kanniga
* [[Vaiyapuri]] as Durai
* [[Sona Heiden]] as Anitha
* [[Madhan Bob]] as Chella's family friend
* [[S. N. Lakshmi]] as Durai's grandmother
* [[Swaminathan]] as Saamy, cook
* [[Ilavarasu]] as Pandi, laundry owner
* [[Mayilswamy]] as a guest at Anitha's wedding
* [[Lavanya (actress)|Lavanya]] as Chinna's sister
* Prabhakaran Chandran "Prabhu" as Diwakar "Diwa", Chella's brother
* Mathiazhagan as a college professor
* [[Yukta Mookhey]] special appearance as herself in the song "Yukta Mookhey"
* [[Ezhil]] special appearance in the song "Yukta Mookhey"
* [[Raju Sundaram]] special appearance in the song "Yukta Mookhey"
}}

== Production ==
[[Ajith Kumar]] signed the film in early 2001 after pulling out of Praveenkanth's ''[[Star (2001 film)|Star]]''.<ref name="hindu2002">{{Cite web |date=26 April 2002 |title=A success team reunites |url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/fr/2002/04/26/stories/2002042600970400.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030704153642/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/fr/2002/04/26/stories/2002042600970400.htm |archive-date=4 July 2003 |access-date=1 December 2016 |website=[[The Hindu]]}}</ref> The producers initially approached [[Aishwarya Rai Bachchan|Aishwarya Rai]] and then [[Preity Zinta]] to star, with their refusals leading to the casting of [[Jyothika]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Whither K |url=http://cinematoday2.itgo.com/33Hot%20News%20Just%20for%20U6.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919031434/http://cinematoday2.itgo.com/33Hot%20News%20Just%20for%20U6.htm |archive-date=19 September 2016 |access-date=1 December 2016 |website=Cinematoday2.itgo.com}}</ref> [[Miss World]] 1999, [[Yukta Mookhey]] was chosen to appear in an [[item number]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=பூவெல்லாம் உன் வாசம் |url=http://cinematoday3.itgo.com/Previews%20-%20Poovellam%20Un%20Vaasam.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919030419/http://cinematoday3.itgo.com/Previews%20-%20Poovellam%20Un%20Vaasam.htm |archive-date=19 September 2016 |access-date=1 December 2016 |website=Cinematoday3.itgo.com}}</ref> Before filming began, Ajith became popular as an [[action hero]] due to films like ''[[Amarkkalam]]'', ''[[Dheena]]'' and ''[[Citizen (2001 film)|Citizen]]'', so producer [[V. Ravichandran (film producer)|Ravichandran]] expressed his doubts to Ezhil about continuing a family-oriented film with an action hero like Ajith. But Ezhil was confident about Ajith's capabilities in pulling off varying roles.<ref>{{Cite news |date=14 March 2013 |title=Ezhil praises Ajith |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tamil/movies/news/ezhil-praises-ajith/articleshow/18969013.cms |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/TTnPq |archive-date=1 November 2024 |access-date=1 November 2024 |work=[[The Times of India]]}}</ref>

Twin bungalows were erected in [[Prasad Studios]] for the film by art director Prabhakaran as the director could not locate a twin bungalow in the same compound.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rs 1 crore bungalow for Ajith film. |url=http://ajithkumar.free.fr/derniere07.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326191018/http://ajithkumar.free.fr/derniere07.htm |archive-date=26 March 2012 |access-date=1 December 2016 |website=ajithkumar.fr.fm}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Mannath |first=Malini |title=Poovellam Unn Vaasam |url=http://www.chennaionline.com/location/poovellam.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040821141014/http://www.chennaionline.com/location/poovellam.asp |archive-date=21 August 2004 |access-date=1 November 2024 |website=Chennai Online}}</ref> One house was built to feature antiques and the other with modern artefacts and computers.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rajitha |date=27 January 2001 |title=On the floors |url=http://www.rediff.com/movies/2001/jan/27tamil.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102101302/http://www.rediff.com/movies/2001/jan/27tamil.htm |archive-date=2 November 2012 |access-date=1 December 2016 |website=[[Rediff.com]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=19 January 2001 |title=More romance in the offing |url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/2001/01/19/stories/09190226.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110070258/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/2001/01/19/stories/09190226.htm |archive-date=10 November 2012 |access-date=1 December 2016 |website=[[The Hindu]]}}</ref> It took seventy five days to complete the set with the help of six hundred people.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chennaionline.com/interviews/ravi.asp|title=Producer Ravichandran and his Midas touch|website=Chennai Online|access-date=2 January 2026|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050108211002/http://www.chennaionline.com/interviews/ravi.asp|archive-date=8 January 2005}}</ref> During the making of the film, Ajith was admitted to a Chennai city hospital for a surgery of his backbone causing a month's delay in the film's release.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ajith wounded again during shoot |url=http://ajithkumar.free.fr/derniere06.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326191100/http://ajithkumar.free.fr/derniere06.htm |archive-date=26 March 2012 |access-date=1 December 2016 |website=ajithkumar.fr.fm}}</ref>

== Soundtrack ==
The soundtrack was composed by [[Vidyasagar (composer)|Vidyasagar]], with lyrics by [[Vairamuthu]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Poovellam Unn Vaasam |url=https://www.jiosaavn.com/album/poovellam-unn-vaasam/0lr-TdKHYh0_ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220901111028/https://www.jiosaavn.com/album/poovellam-unn-vaasam/0lr-TdKHYh0_ |archive-date=1 September 2022 |access-date=7 June 2023 |website=[[JioSaavn]]|date=January 2001 }}</ref> The song "Kaadhal Vandhadhum" is set in [[Kapi (raga)|Kapi]] raga. Vidyasagar reused the tune later in Telugu as "Pannendintiki Padukkonte", for the 2002 Telugu film ''[[Neetho (2002 film)|Neetho]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Mani |first=Charulatha |author-link=Charulatha Mani |date=7 December 2012 |title=Notes that intrigue |work=[[The Hindu]] |url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/music/Notes-that-intrigue/article15616721.ece |url-status=live |access-date=16 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118235754/https://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/music/Notes-that-intrigue/article15616721.ece |archive-date=18 January 2021}}</ref>

{{track listing
| extra_column = Singer(s)
| headline = Track listing
| total_length = 32:24
| title1 = Kaadhal Vandhadhum
| extra1 = [[K. J. Yesudas]], [[Sadhana Sargam]]
| length1 = 5:35
| title2 = Pudhu Malar Thottu
| extra2 = [[Sriram Parthasarathy]]
| length2 = 4:42
| title3 = Thirumana Malargal
| extra3 = [[Swarnalatha]]
| length4 = 5:25
| title4 = Thalaattum Kaatre
| extra4 = [[Shankar Mahadevan]]
| length3 = 6:14
| title5 = Chella Namm Veettukku
| extra5 = [[Malaysia Vasudevan]], [[Sujatha Mohan]], [[Harish Raghavendra]], Sangeetha Sajith
| length5 = 4:51
| title6 = Yukthaamukhi
| extra6 = [[Devan Ekambaram|Devan]], [[Clinton Cerejo]]
| length6 = 5:37
}}

== Release and reception ==
''Poovellam Un Vaasam'' was released on 17 August 2001.<ref>{{Cite web |date=26 March 2019 |title=ஆகஸ்ட் மாதம் ரிலீசாகும் ஹிட் படங்கள்... அஜித்தின் சென்டிமென்ட்! |url=https://tamil.news18.com/photogallery/ajith-movies-released-in-the-month-of-august-130809.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230607075945/https://tamil.news18.com/photogallery/entertainment/ajith-movies-released-in-the-month-of-august-130809.html |archive-date=7 June 2023 |access-date=7 June 2023 |website=[[News18]] |language=ta}}</ref> A critic from ''[[The Hindu]]'' labelled it as "reasonably interesting", with Ajith's performance being praised as "natural and neat".<ref>{{Cite web |date=24 August 2001 |title=Film Review: Poovellam Un Vaasam |url=http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/2001/08/24/stories/09240222.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050225044038/http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/2001/08/24/stories/09240222.htm |archive-date=25 February 2005 |access-date=7 June 2023 |website=[[The Hindu]]}}</ref> Visual Dasan of ''[[Kalki (magazine)|Kalki]]'', playing on the film's title, said "Poovellam Serial Vaasam" (the flowers bear the smell of [[Serial (radio and television)|serials]]).<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=தாசன் |first=விஷுவல் |date=2 September 2001 |title=பூவெல்லாம் உன் வாசம் |url=https://archive.org/details/kalki2001-09-02/page/n97/mode/2up |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230607075559/https://archive.org/details/kalki2001-09-02/page/n97/mode/2up |archive-date=7 June 2023 |access-date=7 June 2023 |magazine=[[Kalki (magazine)|Kalki]] |page=96 |language=ta |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref> Rajitha of ''[[Rediff.com]]'' wrote, "Trouble is the story/script/screenplay which, in a word, is insipid. To the point where, when the movie crescendoes with the two once-close families splitting amidst high drama, you put a polite hand up to stifle a yawn".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rajitha |date=4 October 2001 |title=Yawn! |url=https://www.rediff.com/movies/2001/oct/04poove.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920172752/https://www.rediff.com/movies/2001/oct/04poove.htm |archive-date=20 September 2022 |access-date=18 September 2022 |website=[[Rediff.com]]}}</ref> The success of the film prompted Ezhil, Ajith and Jyothika to team up for a venture the following year with ''[[Raja (2002 film)|Raja]]'' (2002).<ref name="hindu2002" /> K. N. Vijiyan of ''[[New Straits Times]]'' called it "strictly for Ajith and Jyothika fans".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Vijiyan |first=K. N. |date=1 September 2001 |title=So lost in love |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2aktAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jXgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4056%2C491347 |access-date=2 November 2024 |website=[[New Straits Times]] |pages=35 |via=[[Google News Archive]]}}</ref> Malini Mannath of ''Chennai Online'' wrote "No effort has been spared to make it a lavish production. The songs are pleasantly picturised, with Arthur Wilson's camera capturing the richness of the sets and the colourful ambience. But what is lacking is a clear script and freshness in narration".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mannath |first=Malini |title=Poovellam Unn Vasam |url=http://chennaionline.com/moviereviews/tammov140.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031212023322/http://chennaionline.com/moviereviews/tammov140.asp |archive-date=12 December 2003 |access-date=2 November 2024 |website=Chennai Online}}</ref>

== Accolades ==
''Poovellam Un Vaasam'' won the [[Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Family Film|Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Second Best Family Film]] and Ajith won a [[Tamil Nadu State Film Award Special Prize|special prize from the committee]]. At the same ceremony, Sai won [[Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Costume Designer|Best Costume Designer]], Prabhakaran won [[Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Art Director|Best Art Director]], Kovai Sarala won [[Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Comedian|Best Comedian]] and Vidyasagar won [[Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Music Director|Best Music Director]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=1 October 2004 |title=Tamil Nadu announces film awards for three years |url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/article/10733.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041024060415/http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/article/10733.html |archive-date=24 October 2004 |access-date=19 October 2009 |website=IndiaGlitz}}</ref> Jyothika won the [[Cinema Express Award for Best Actress – Tamil]], which was given to her by Ajith at the [[Cinema Express Awards]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=1 May 2018 |title=Happy birthday Thala: Here are some rare photos of actor Ajith on his birthday |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/galleries/entertainment/2018/may/01/happy-birthday-thala-here-are-some-rare-photos-of-actor-ajith-on-his-birthday-101472--34.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191002101458/http://www.newindianexpress.com/galleries/entertainment/2018/may/01/happy-birthday-thala-here-are-some-rare-photos-of-actor-ajith-on-his-birthday-101472--34.html |archive-date=2 October 2019 |access-date=18 January 2020 |website=[[The New Indian Express]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=18 October 2011 |title=Jyothika Suriya: Beautiful at 33 |url=https://www.ndtv.com/photos/entertainment/jyothika-suriya-beautiful-at-33-11583 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230607074653/https://www.ndtv.com/photos/entertainment/jyothika-suriya-beautiful-at-33-11583 |archive-date=7 June 2023 |access-date=7 June 2023 |website=[[NDTV]]}}</ref> Ajith was nominated for the [[Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Tamil]], and Jyothika for [[Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil|Best Actress – Tamil]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The 49th Annual Filmfare Awards -South {{!}} Nominees |url=http://downloads.movies.indiatimes.com/south2001/sthnom.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150419010312/http://downloads.movies.indiatimes.com/south2001/sthnom.html |archive-date=19 April 2015 |access-date=7 June 2023 |website=Indiatimes}}</ref>

== References ==
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