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{{short description|2002 Indian Tamil-language film by Vincent Selva}}
{{Use Indian English|date=October 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2015}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Youth
| image = File:Youth (2002 film).jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = [[Vincent Selva]]
| producer = T.Ajay kumar

| writer = Prasanna Kumar (dialogues)
| story = [[Trivikram Srinivas]]
| based_on = ''[[Chiru Navvuto]]'' (Telugu)
| starring = [[Vijay (actor)|Vijay]] [[Shaheen Khan (Indian actress)|Shaheen Khan]] [[Vivek (actor)|Vivek]] [[Vijayakumar (Tamil actor)|Vijayakumar]] [[Manivannan]] [[Yugendran]] [[Sindhu Menon]]
| music = [[Mani Sharma]]
| cinematography = [[Natarajan Subramaniam]]
| editing = [[V. T. Vijayan]]
| studio = [[Tatineni Rama Rao|Lakshmi Productions]]
| released = {{Film date|df=y|2002|07|19}}
| runtime = 170 minutes
| country = India
| language = Tamil
}}
'''''Youth''''' is a 2002 Indian [[Tamil language|Tamil]]-language [[Romantic film|romantic]] [[Drama film|drama]] [[film]] directed by [[Vincent Selva]]. It is the Tamil remake of the Telugu film, ''[[Chiru Navvuto]]'' (2000). [[Vijay (actor)|Vijay]] and [[Shaheen Khan (Indian actress)|Shaheen Khan]] appeared in the lead roles, while [[Yugendran]], [[Vivek (actor)|Vivek]], [[Manivannan]], and [[Sindhu Menon]] play other pivotal characters. The movie got positive reception from audience and was a commercial hit at the box-office.<ref>{{cite web | title='Priyamanavale' to 'Pokkiri': Five blockbuster Tamil films of Vijay that were remade from Telugu | website=The Times of India | date=2020-04-03 | url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tamil/movies/news/priyamanavale-to-pokkiri-five-blockbuster-tamil-films-of-vijay-that-were-remade-from-telugu/photostory/74968711.cms | ref={{sfnref | The Times of India | 2020}} | access-date=2020-11-25}}</ref>

==Plot==
On his wedding day, Shiva ([[Vijay (actor)|Vijay]]) discovers that his cousin and bride, Aruna ([[Sindhu Menon]]), has run away because she does not want to marry a cook, but he takes it lightly and moves to Chennai with Aruna's brother Prabhu (Shyam Ganesh) to look for a job. One night, Shiva saves Sandhya ([[Shaheen Khan (Indian actress)|Shaheen Khan]]) from some goons. In gratitude, she kisses him. Shiva starts to fall in love with her. After several occasions where they bump into each other, Shiva harbours hope that she too reciprocates his affections.

However at Sandhya's birthday party, she announces her engagement to computer engineer Pratap ([[Yugendran]]). Shiva is devastated at the news and leaves the room quietly. Sandhya finds him standing alone at the swimming pool. She asks him about his impression of Pratap and is shocked when Shiva reveals to her that he loves her. Sandhya declares that she only feels friendship towards him and tells him to stop loving her.

After receiving a telephone call, Shiva goes to the police station and finds Aruna. She had eloped with her to-be lover. However, he later abandoned her and left her penniless. With no one to turn to, Aruna attempted suicide. Shiva takes her back home to take care of her. Prabhu was still angry and calls up their parents. Shiva speaks up for Aruna and gets the family to forgive her. Before returning to the village, Aruna meets Pratap and discovers that Sandhya's fiancé is actually the lover who abandoned her.

On the eve of Sandhya's wedding, she finally understands that she loves Shiva and tells her father ([[Manivannan]]) that she does not want to marry Pratap. Her father refuses to cancel the wedding and gives Shiva a cheque for 10 million to get the latter to leave Sandhya. Sandhya runs away on her wedding day to look for Shiva and confesses to him that she loves him too. She wants to elope with Shiva, but he brings her back to the wedding venue.

Before the ceremony starts, he calls Pratap into a room and closes the door. When the door reopens, Shiva and Pratap had changed clothes. Shiva is now in the groom's attire, while Pratap is in ordinary clothes. Shiva marries Sandhya in the end. On their wedding night, Shiva reveals to Sandhya what happened between Pratap and him in the room. He offered Sandhya's father's cheque to Pratap in exchange for calling off his engagement, which Pratap accepted. Shiva also reveals that he knew that Sandhya's father would later cancel the cheque, thinking that Shiva is cheating him, which comes to pass.

==Cast==
{{colbegin}}
* [[Vijay (actor)|Vijay]] as Shiva
* [[Shaheen Khan (Indian actress)|Shaheen Khan]] as Sandhya
* [[Vivek (actor)|Vivek]] as "Karruthu" Kandasamy
* [[Vijayakumar (Tamil actor)|Vijayakumar]] as Shiva's uncle
* [[Manivannan]] as Sandhya's father
* [[Yugendran]] as Pratap
* Shyam Ganesh as Prabhu
* [[Sindhu Menon]] as Aruna
* [[Cochin Haneefa]] as Dhanushkodi
* [[Kalairani]] as Aruna's mother
* [[Madhan Bob]] as Interviewer
* [[Bosskey]] as Giri
* [[Fathima Babu]] as Sandhya's mother
* [[Pandu (actor)|Pandu]]
* Cell Murugan
* Ravikumar
* [[Muthukaalai]]
* [[Bonda Mani]]
* Thayir Vadai Desikan
* Karnaa Radha
* [[Natarajan Subramaniam]] as a customer (uncredited)
* [[Diya (actress)|Diya]] as Fashion Show Host (uncredited)
* [[Mysskin]] as Vincent Selva's assistant (uncredited)
* [[Simran (actress)|Simran]] in an [[item number]] for the song "Aal Thotta Boopathy"
* [[Sridhar (choreographer)|Sridhar]] as dancer in the song "Aal Thotta Boopathy"
{{colend}}

==Production==
The film is a remake of the 2000 Telugu film ''[[Chiru Navvuto]]'' starring [[Venu Thottempudi|Venu]] and [[Shaheen Khan (Indian actress)|Shaheen Khan]]. The film was also made in Kannada as ''[[Premakke Sai]]'' in 2001 with Ravichandran and Shaheen.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sify.com/movies/premakke-sai-review-kannada-7918732.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140305132733/http://www.sify.com/movies/premakke-sai-review-kannada-7918732.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-03-05 |title=Movie Review:Premakke Sai |publisher=Sify.com |access-date=2012-08-05}}</ref> Despite appearing in only four feature films, three of Shaheen's films have featured her reprising the role of Sandhya.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/fr/2002/06/07/stories/2002060701240300.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030704162738/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/fr/2002/06/07/stories/2002060701240300.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2003-07-04 |title=Sheer daredevilry |date=2002-06-07 |work=[[The Hindu]] |access-date=2012-08-05}}</ref> "Velu" and "Prince" were considered as titles before naming it as "Youth".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dinakaran.com/cinema/english/gossip/2001/sep/02-09-01.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011123001851/http://www.dinakaran.com/cinema/english/gossip/2001/sep/02-09-01.htm|archive-date=23 November 2001|title=Dinakaran}}</ref> Some scenes were shot at Hyderabad where a song too was shot on a lavish set erected, and it had Vijay dancing with about a hundred dancers. Some stunt scenes were later shot at Chennai, at the Vauhini Studios, at the AVM Studios, a lavish set costing a cool {{INR}}12 lakh, was erected resembling a waterfall, with trees and grass around. A song was shot on the lead pair here. Some of the songs were shot in [[Tobermory, Ontario]] [[Canada]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chennaionline.com/location/youth.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040825223206/http://www.chennaionline.com/location/youth.asp |url-status=dead |archive-date=2004-08-25 |date=2004-08-25 |access-date=2012-08-05 }}</ref> Director [[Mysskin]] worked as an assistant director for this film.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://baradwajrangan.wordpress.com/2010/09/11/between-reviews-meeting-mysskin/|title = Between Reviews: Meeting Mysskin|date = 11 September 2010}}</ref>

==Release==
The film released on 19 July 2002. Critics from [[The Hindu]] gave the film a positive review, In regard to performances, the critic mentioned that "Vijay is so used to this romantic sojourn that the essay comes without effort", while it was cited that [[Shaheen Khan (Indian actress)|Shaheen Khan]]'s "magical screen presence is definitely missing".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/fr/2002/07/26/stories/2002072600880202.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030627234930/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/fr/2002/07/26/stories/2002072600880202.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2003-06-27 |title=Youth |date=2002-07-26 |work=[[The Hindu]] |access-date=2012-08-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=HostOnNet.com |url=http://movies.bizhat.com/review_youth.php |title=BizHat.com - Youth Review. Vijay, Sandhya, Vivek, Vijaykumar, Manivannan, Hanifa, Kalairani |publisher=Movies.bizhat.com |access-date=2012-08-05}}</ref>

==Soundtrack==

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| name = Youth
| type = [[soundtrack]]
| artist = [[Mani Sharma]]
| cover =
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| recorded = 2002
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| label = Star Music Hit Musics Ayngaran Music An Ak Audio
| producer = [[Mani Sharma]]
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The film's soundtrack is composed by [[Mani Sharma]]. Sharma Reused three of the film's song from his previous Telugu films such as ''[[Annayya (2000 film)|Annayya]]'', ''[[Chiru Navvutho]]'' and ''[[Kushi (2001 film)|Kushi]]'', while the other three are new.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.raaga.com/channels/tamil/movie/T0000471.html |title=Youth Songs - Youth Tamil Movie Songs - Tamil Songs Lyrics Trailer Videos, Preview Stills Reviews |publisher=Raaga.com |access-date=2012-08-05}}</ref> The song, "Aal Thotta Bhoopathi Nanada", featured [[Simran (actress)|Simran]] in an item number.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movies-cinema-news-15/list-of-illayathalapathy-vijays-item-numbers-with-leading-heroines.html|title=List of Ilayathalapathy Vijay's special dance numbers with leading heroines|date=16 June 2015}}</ref> The title of the song translates to "I am the king of Aal Garden", referring to the now non-existent Hall's Garden region of Chennai with a spelling mistake.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/searching-for-aal-thottam/article4690092.ece|title = Searching for Aal Thottam|newspaper = The Hindu|date = 7 May 2013|last1 = V|first1 = Sriram}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="width:50%;"
|-
! Song !! Singer(s) !! Lyricist !! Notes
|-
| "Old Model Laila" || [[Tippu (singer)|Tippu]] || [[Vaali (poet)|Vaali]]
|-
| "Adi One Inch Two" || [[S. P. Balasubrahmanyam]], [[Sujatha Mohan|Sujatha]] || Vaali ||Reused from ''[[Annayya (2000 film)|Annayya]]''
|-
| "Sagiyea Sagiyea" || [[Hariharan (singer)|Hariharan]], [[Harini (singer)|Harini]] || [[Vairamuthu]] || Reused from ''[[Kushi (2001 film)|Kushi]]''
|-
| "Sakkarai Nilavea" || [[Harish Raghavendra]] || Vairamuthu
|-
| "Santhosam Valkaiyin" || S. P. Balasubrahmanyam || Vairamuthu || Reused from ''[[Chiru Navvuto]]''
|-
| "Aal Thotta Bhoopathi Nanada" || [[Shankar Mahadevan]] || [[Kabilan (lyricist)|Kabilan]], [[Mysskin]] (partial lyrics)
|}

==Remakes==
{| class="wikitable" style="width:50%;"
|- style="background:#ccc; text-align:center;"
| '''''[[Chiru Navvuto]]''''' ([[Telugu language|Telugu]]) (2000) || '''''[[Premakke Sai]]''''' ([[Kannada language|Kannada]]) (2001) || '''''Youth''''' ([[Tamil language|Tamil]]) (2002)
|-
| [[Venu Thottempudi]] || [[V. Ravichandran]] || [[Vijay (actor)|Vijay]]
|-
| [[Shaheen Khan (Indian actress)|Shaheen Khan]] || [[Shaheen Khan (Indian actress)|Shaheen Khan]] || [[Shaheen Khan (Indian actress)|Shaheen Khan]]
|-
|}
The film had an uncredited remake in Hindi called ''Muskurake Dekh Zara''.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|2326107}}
{{Vincent Selva}}

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[[Category:Indian romantic comedy-drama films]]
[[Category:2002 romantic comedy-drama films]]
[[Category:2000s Tamil-language films]]
[[Category:Films scored by Mani Sharma]]
[[Category:Films shot in Chennai]]
[[Category:Films shot in Hyderabad, India]]
[[Category:Films shot in Canada]]
[[Category:Films featuring an item number]]
[[Category:2002 comedy films]]
[[Category:2002 drama films]]

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