Parthen Rasithen

Parthen Rasithen (2000)

Shankar(Prashanth) is a graduate of BSC nautical science, waiting for a job in the shipping industry. He is a tenant in the house of Banu(Simran), who is his good friend and confidante. They spend almost all their time together and she seeks him out as a refuge from her step brother Panneer(Raghuvaran), whom she dislikes but is forced to live together with. Shankar falls in love with Sarika(Laila). She reciprocates but problems and misunderstandings plague their romance.

Date of release
2000-08-11
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (2)
Runtime
2h 25m
Genres
Romance, Drama
Director
Saran

Casting

Interesting facts

Parthen Rasithen is a 2000 Indian Tamil-language romantic thriller film written and directed by Saran. The film stars Prashanth, Simran and Laila. Raghuvaran, Jai Ganesh, Vinu Chakravarthy, Vaiyapuri, Charle, Dhamu, Lawrence Raghavendra, Fathima Babu and Jyothi play supporting roles. It narrates Shankar's love story with Sarika, but problems and misunderstandings plague their romance. Bhanu, Shankar's best friend, also falls in love with him, and schemes to get Shankar to fall in love with her and break his love with Sarika. This film is based on the Hollywood film My Best Friend's Wedding.

Production

Saran created the plot of Parthen Rasithen combining two elements: his experiences of travelling in bus to college and incidents that happened in the life of his brother K. V. Guhan, which inspired him to make a script on it. Saran agreed to the film for the producers who were simultaneously doing Hello (1999) with Prashanth at that time. The film was also reportedly inspired by the Hollywood film My Best Friend's Wedding (1997).

Saran chose Simran for the role of Bhanu since he felt the "script needed a performer like Simran. Her character had a lot of suppressed emotions, which would burst out once in a while", and also chose her after seeing her performance in Vaalee (1999). Saran first offered the script to Simran and "gave her a choice between Bhanu and Sarika's roles" she chose Bhanu's character since she had never played a villainous role before.

The crew bought a second-hand school bus, "and remodelled it for the shoot". They "removed the roof entirely and used acrylic sheets to let the light it, made the seats removable, and even had a trolley track inside the bus". Parthen Rasithen became the first Tamil film to be shot in Kilpauk Medical College. One of the songs were shot at 99 extensive group of islands at Malaysia.

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