Jodi

Jodi (1999)

ஜோடி

Two lovers want to get married, but only with their parents' consent.

Date of release
1999-09-09
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (6)
Runtime
2h 41m
Genres
Romance
Director
Praveenkanth

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Ooty

Jodi (transl. Couple) is a 1999 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy drama film written and directed by Praveenkanth and produced by Sunanda Murali Manohar. The film stars Prashanth and Simran. Vijayakumar, Nassar and Srividya play supporting roles. The soundtrack is composed by A. R. Rahman, featuring music reused from his own earlier soundtrack for the Hindi film Doli Saja Ke Rakhna, except for the song Oru Poiyavathu. Due to Rahman's unavailability, Praveen signed Sabesh–Murali to quickly compose the background score.

Production

Sunanda Murali Manohar was keen to film Tamil versions of A. R. Rahman's songs from the Hindi film Doli Saja Ke Rakhna (1998) as a music album, and discussed making the project with director Praveenkanth, cinematographer Jeeva and choreographer Raju Sundaram. Praveenkanth, reverted to his original name, after being known as Praveen Gandhi in his debut film Ratchagan (1997).

Praveen first approached Vijay to play the lead role, but his refusal meant that Prashanth, who had appeared in Manohar's earlier productions Jeans (1998) and Kaadhal Kavidhai (1998), was selected. Aishwarya Rai was offered the female lead role after the success of her previous Tamil film, Jeans, but her busy schedule in Hindi films and her decision to prioritise her work in Kandukondain Kandukondain (2000), resulted in Simran eventually being ca…

The film shared a similar storyline to the Suriya and Jyothika starrer Poovellam Kettuppar, released earlier in the same year, which incidentally had Vijayakumar and Nassar playing similar roles of leader of feuding families. The song "Velli Malare" shot at Lalitha Mahal, Mysore.

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