Naam Iruvar Namakku Iruvar

Naam Iruvar Namakku Iruvar
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Directed by	Sundar C.
Produced by	K. Balachandran D. Shankar
Written by	Sundar C Subha (dialogues)
Starring	Prabhu Deva Meena Maheshwari
Music by	Karthik Raja
Cinematography	U. K. Senthil Kumar
Edited by	P. Sai Suresh
Production company	B. S. Arts
Release date	14 January 1998 (1998-01-14)
Running time	155 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Naam Iruvar Namakku Iruvar (transl. We Two, Ours Two) is a 1998 Indian Tamil-language directed by Sundar C. Prabhu Deva and Meena played the leading roles, whilst the film featured an extensive cast, along with a bevvy of supporting actors. The film released on 14 January 1998 and became a big success at the box office. The film was loosely based on the 1995 Hollywood movie Two Much. The film has been dubbed into Hindi as Biwi No. 2 (2007).

Cast

• Prabhu Deva as Prabhu/Deva
• Meena as Indhu
• Maheshwari as Pooja
• Manivannan as Mani
• Gemini Ganesan as Prabhu's grandfather
• S. S. Chandran as K. D. Chandrasekhar and Kunji Nair
• Senthil as Kumbudraswamy and Kuppuswamy
• Vivek as Valayapathi and Police inspector
• Manjula Vijayakumar as Manjula
• Kavitha as Janaki
• C. R. Saraswathi as Saraswathi
• Devaki as Girija
• Vasuki as Servant
• Anandaraj as Thief
• Kazan Khan as Thief
• Vichu Viswanath as Thief
• Jayaprakasam as Thief
• Halwa Vasu as Singapore
• Tirupur Ramasamy as Fake police
• Chelladurai as Fake police
• King Kong as Siddha doctor
• Mohan V. Raman as Pooja's grandfather
• Pandu
• Rajeev
• Manager Cheena as Settu
• Jayaram as Pooja's uncle (guest appearance)

Production

During a stage of production, Prabhudeva, Maheshwari and the entire crew including Sundar C had landed in South Africa. Rambha had not boarded the plane with them as planned. The unit became nervous, not knowing what to do, as the shooting time and spot that they had reserved in Sun City was getting wasted. After waiting for a long time, they went ahead and had Maheshwari put on Rambha's costumes and picturized the song with her and Prabhudeva. Rambha, who arrived two days later, got wild and furious that Sundar and company would picture the song without her. She went back to Chennai almost three days before the Naam Iruvar Namakku Iruvar unit and got ready to shoot for Kaathala Kaathala instead.

Sundar and others who were angry and disappointed with Rambha's behaviour filed complaints with film organizations. Meanwhile, more developments came about once Rambha left the film. It appeared that the director's wife, Khushbu had strongly thrown in a recommendation for Simran to grab the role that Rambha had trashed, but Meena entered the picture from somewhere, all of a sudden. The fact was that Meena gave up her Kaathala Kaathala role for Rambha and Soundarya, while Rambha gave up her Na. Ir. Na. Ir role for Meena. On a side note to the entire matter, Simran announced that she gave up her chances to star in both Kaathala Kaathala and Naam Iruvar Namakku Iruvar, because she did not want to pack herself with call sheet troubles and not be able to act in that she had already committed to.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack album consists of 6 songs composed by Karthik Raja and lyrics written by Palani Bharathi.

Track list

1. "Intha Siru Pennai" – Hariharan, Vibha Sharma (5:41)
2. "Kattaana Ponnu Romantica" – Hariharan, Sadhana Sargam (4:22)
3. "Aathi Adi Aathi" – Priya, Vibha Sharma, Farah (5:45)
4. "Aiylesaa Aiylesaa" – Udit Narayan, Pop Shalini (4:43)
5. "Nadanakalarani" – Yuvan Shankar Raja, Premji Amaran, Bhavatharini (5:16)
6. "Hello Mr. Kadhala" – Udit Narayan, Sadhana Sargam, Anuradha Paudwal (5:33)

Release

The film had a strong opening at the Chennai box office in January 1998.