Five Star

Five Star (2002)

The story focuses on five friends at the Madras Institute of Technology, who want to remain friends and hope to join the same company after graduation. During a vacation, one of the friends, Ilango, goes home, where he is forced to get married to his rustic cousin, While their dream to work together becomes true, Ilango alone gets a transfer to Bombay. The friends force Elango to visit his wife before leaving for Bombay and put him on a train. But Elango manages to get off the train and from there loses touch with his friends and family in the village. The friends part and six years later, two of the five come back to join the two girls in Chennai. On the train in the journey back, Prabhu, one of the friends, and Ilango's wife Eashwari meet each other. Prabhu falls in love with Eashwari without realizing who she is.

Date of release
2002-10-04
TMDB
7.2 / 10 (3)
Runtime
2h 30m
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director
Susi Ganesan

Casting

Interesting facts

Five Star is a 2002 Indian Tamil-language coming-of-age film written and directed by Susi Ganesan in his debut, and produced by Madras Talkies. The film stars newcomers Prasanna, Kaniha, Krishnakumar Ramakumar, Sandhya, Mangai, and Karthik. The film had an ad campaign for 5 Star, which was seen during the interval and end credits. The film was later remade in Telugu as Lifestyle (2009) with a different climax, which had a similar campaign with Lifestyle.

Production

In March 1999, Susi Ganesan was able to convince producer Shanti Thiagarajan to fund his first feature film, after he left Mani Ratnam's team of assistant directors. The film was initially titled Thithikkum Thee and was to feature to Murali in the lead role of a firefighter.

For the heroine, Ganesan spotted her on a magazine cover page and insisted on her performing the lead female role in his second feature film. Divya eventually entered the Film industry, accepting the offer, while her name was changed to Kanika. She completed the entire film during her summer holidays, since she was a student.

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