| 1 | '''Kadhal Desam''' |
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| 4 | 1996 158’ col/scope Tamil |
| 5 | d/s Kadir pc Gentleman Film Intl. |
| 6 | p K.T. Kunjumon lyr Vali c Anandh |
| 7 | m A.R. Rehman |
| 8 | lp Vineet, Abbas, Tabu, |
| 9 | S.P. Balasubramanyam, Srividya |
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| 12 | Producer K.T. Konjumon’s follow up to his |
| 13 | earlier spectacles Gentleman (1993) and |
| 14 | Kadhalan (1994), which had introduced the |
| 15 | genre of the megabudget musical into 90s |
| 16 | Tamil film, is a ‘teen’ movie featuring a love |
| 17 | triangle framed by rivalry between two men’s |
| 18 | colleges focused on sport and sexual conquest. |
| 19 | The impoverished intellectual Karthik (Vineet) |
| 20 | and the rich Arun (Abbas) are rivals who get |
| 21 | bonded together when Arun saves Karthik’s life |
| 22 | and Karthik, in turn, lets Arun score the |
| 23 | winning goal in a football match. Both fall for |
| 24 | Divya (Bombay star Tabu), but she only sees |
| 25 | them as friends and refuses to choose between |
| 26 | them. When a student from yet another college |
| 27 | tries to molest Divya, reprisals lead to full-scale |
| 28 | war between three colleges as students set |
| 29 | most of the city on fire. Eventually the triangle |
| 30 | is maintained in favour of collective friendship. |
| 31 | Set in two well known colleges, Loyola and |
| 32 | Pachaiyappa’s, in Madras, its mention of both |
| 33 | institutions led to protests from the students of |
| 34 | these colleges. |
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