| Mounam Pesiyadhe | |
| Director: | Ameer |
| Producer: | Ganesh Raghu Karthik Radhakrishnan Venky Narayanan Rajan Radhakrishnan |
| Starring: | Suriya Trisha Nandha |
| Cinematography: | Ramji |
| Editing: | Suresh Urs |
| Music: | Yuvan Shankar Raja |
| Studio: | Aparajeeth Films |
| Runtime: | 148 minutes |
| Country: | India |
| Language: | Tamil |
Mounam Pesiyadhe is a 2002 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film, written and directed by Ameer in his directorial debut. It stars Suriya and Trisha in the lead along with newcomers Nandha, Neha Pendse and choreographer-turned-actor Anju Mahendra in supporting roles along with several other newcomers, while Laila appears in a cameo role during the climax. It also marks the first film for Trisha as lead actress after playing a cameo role in Jodi (1999). The major part of the film is shot in Pondicherry. The film, released on 13 December 2002 and turned out to be a hit at the box office. It was remade in Telugu as Aadanthe Ado Type (2003)[1] and later dubbed in the same language as Kaanchu (2006).[2]
Gautham (Suriya) and Kannan (Nandha) are close friends from childhood days. Gautham owns a restaurant while Kannan works as a sales executive in a firm. Kannan is in love with Mahalakshmmi "Maha" (Neha Pendse) while Gautham has no interest towards girls and prefers to be single despite his family members trying to get him married.Sandhya (Trisha) is the relative of Kannan and their family members plan to get them married. Kannan is scared of his father and he is unable to inform about his love. So he requests Gautham to meet Sandhya and inform about the love between Kannan and Maha.
Gautham agrees and informs Sandhya about Kannan's love with Maha. Sandhya also says that even she is not interested in the marriage proposal and instead she prefers to marry someone like Gautham. Hearing this, Gautham is shocked and also confused.
Kannan and Sandhya's parents understand that neither Kannan nor Sandhya are interested in marriage and cancels the wedding plans between them. Meanwhile, Gautham develops affection towards Sandhya. Gautham receives frequent phone calls and he believes it to be from Sandhya. Gautham also gets gifts which he also believes to be sent by Sandhya.
One day, Sandhya calls Gautham to a restaurant. Gautham believes that she has called to convey her love but is shocked when she introduces Aravind as her lover. She also says that even Aravind is like Gautham who was not interested in girls but somehow is convinced by Sandhya. Gautham starts worrying and is confused about the happenings as he believed the phone calls and gifts were from Sandhya.
Maha's father gets angry knowing about her love and engages a few thugs to beat up Kannan. Kannan is injured which angers Gautham. He smashes all those thugs and scolds Maha's father for involving in such activities. Maha's father realises his mistake and apologises. Kannan and Maha's wedding is fixed.
On the day of Kannan and Maha's wedding, Gautham walks alone in the street thinking about his love failure. Suddenly a car comes in front of him and it is Laila. She walks towards Gautham and proposes her love. A small flashback is shown where Laila and Gautham were college mates and Laila was in love with Gautham. But Gautham did not reciprocate and avoided her during college.
On the last day of the college, Laila told Gautham that she will keep following him always and will never forget him. As she said, she kept following Gautham, kept calling Gautham and sent him frequent gifts which Gautham misunderstood to be from Sandhya. Gautham realises Laila's true love and accepts it. The movie ends with both leaving together in the car.
The film's title is based on a serial that was supposed to be directed by Vikram with Ameer working as the assistant director.[3] It also marks the first film for Trisha as lead actress.[4] Shooting took place in New Zealand, Italy, Mauritius, Egypt and other scenic locations in and around India. Moreover, a huge set worth was erected by art director Rajeevan at Pondicherry for a song. "Valentine" song was shot at AVM Studios, the rest of the songs were shot at locations in Mysore and Puducherry.[5]
The soundtrack was composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja and released on 6 October 2002. Upon release, it was very much appreciated and became very successful. Yuvan Shankar Raja himself claimed the album to be "the best he ever created since he became music director" till then.[6]
| Song | Singer(s) | Lyricist | Length | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "En Anbae En Anbae" | Kamakodiyan | 4:45 | |||
| "Chinna Chinnathai" | Pudhuvai Nambi | 5:16 | |||
| "Aadatha Aatamellam" | 4:29 | ||||
| "Eh Nanbane Kopam" | Hariharan, Shankar Mahadevan | Snehan | 4:13 | ||
| "Arupadhu Aayidichu" | 3:50 | ||||
| "Ilamai Oorai Sutrum" | Nidhesh Gopalan, Yuvan Shankar Raja | Vaali | 4:01 | ||
| "Love All Day" | Yuvan Shankar Raja | 1:52 | |||
| "Kannil Kanthamey" | S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Thara | Ameer | 4:50 |
Malathi Rangarajan of The Hindu wrote that Ameer "has introduced an element of suspense in the story. The end shows that the director has tried to make things a little different. The comedy merges well with the main narration and the asides are examples of healthy humour".[7] Visual Dasan of Kalki called the film "above average".[8]