| Oru Kalluriyin Kathai | |
| Director: | Nandha Periyasamy |
| Starring: | Arya Sonia Agarwal |
| Producer: | Sakthi Sanghavi Mohana Sanghavi |
| Music: | Yuvan Shankar Raja |
| Cinematography: | R. Madhi |
| Editing: | Kola Bhaskar |
| Studio: | Chozha Creations |
| Runtime: | 156 minutes |
| Language: | Tamil |
| Country: | India |
Oru Kalluriyin Kathai is a 2005 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film written and directed by newcomer Nandha Periyasamy. It stars Arya and Sonia Agarwal, while Jaivarma, Santhanam, and Charuhasan play supporting roles. The music was composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja with editing by Kola Bhaskar and cinematography by R. Madhi. The film was released in 2005 and was deemed a success upon its release.[1]
Satya (Arya) planned to meet his five friends after five years of leaving college. Unfortunately, his father comes only to inform them that Satya is in a coma. In a psycho-test conducted by his doctor (Charuhasan), Satya reveals some of the incidents that happened in the early years of his college life. It turns out that he is in love with Jothi (Sonia Agarwal) after she helps him get on a train that he was about to miss. When Jothi joined the same college where he studied, he was so happy since he could see her more often. However, he never confesses his love to her, and it lasted until the farewell day when he heard Jothi advising her friend about this. Satya's narration ended here as he started shouting in the doctor's room.
Following the doctor's advice, Satya's friends decide to follow a treatment which will help him wake himself up from the coma. Agreeing to this, his friends, Chandru (Jaivarma), David (Santhanam), and more contacted, all the students from batch 2000 to help in this treatment. When they go to find Jothi at her house, it is shown that she is already engaged. Still, Chandru hid the truth that Satya loves Jothi to make her agree to their plan, and she agrees.
The group of students then turns their now new modern college to an old college as it was in the year 2000. Satya is brought and begins to believe that it was the same time when he studied. He falls in love with Jothi and until the farewell day as he was waiting five years ago. On the night before the farewell day, he finds out that the current situation that he is facing is not the real one. He realizes that it is 2005 now and not 2000 as he was thinking. Slowly, he begins to remember what exactly happened five years ago on the farewell day.
Satya waited for Jothi outside a temple to confess his love, when someone hits his head from the back. He suddenly wakes up and comes back to the present day and realizes what his friends have done. On the last day, his friends force him to propose to Jothi. Satya went to Jothi and asked her to stop the acting that his friends had asked and also not to cheat herself. He then walks away without saying his love. Jothi comes running towards Satya and tells him that she needs him and regrets why she wasted the five years not knowing his love for her. The couple then hugs each other, followed by cheers from all the college students.
The music, including the film score and soundtrack, was composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja. The soundtrack was released on 4 August 2005 and features eight tracks with lyrics penned by Na. Muthukumar.[2] Chennai Online wrote Yuvan "songs for 'Oru Kalluriyin Kadhai' are an apt example of Yuvan's perception and understanding of the demands of the market. Yet, he is able to provide something distinctive in the overall delivery, presentation and packaging of the songs".[3]
Indiaglitz wrote "The director Nandha Periyasamy deserves special mention for trying his hand at a difficult theme considering this to be his maiden venture."[4] Sify wrote "On the whole Oru Kalooriyin Kathai is too high-concept for our audience with a slow paced narration that goes back and forth with a predictable climax."[5] G. Ulaganathan of Deccan Herald wrote, "Weird and depressing. That in a nutshell is Oru Kalluriyin Kadhai [...] Yuvan Shankar Raja’s music is the only saving grace".[6] Lajjavathi of Kalki wrote though the story is good but called screenplay, dialogues and direction as average and most of the scenes did not stay in the mind and advised Arya to concentrate more on script selection.[7]