'''Kadhal Desam'''


1996 158’ col/scope Tamil
d/s Kadir pc Gentleman Film Intl.
p K.T. Kunjumon lyr [[Vali]] c Anandh
m [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.R._Rehman|A.R. Rehman]]
lp Vineet, Abbas, Tabu,
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._P._Balasubrahmanyam|S.P. Balasubramanyam]], Srividya


Producer K.T. Konjumon’s follow up to his
earlier spectacles Gentleman (1993) and
[[Kadhalan]] (1994), which had introduced the
genre of the megabudget musical into 90s
Tamil film, is a ‘teen’ movie featuring a love
triangle framed by rivalry between two men’s
colleges focused on sport and sexual conquest.
The impoverished intellectual Karthik (Vineet)
and the rich Arun (Abbas) are rivals who get
bonded together when Arun saves Karthik’s life
and Karthik, in turn, lets Arun score the
winning goal in a football match. Both fall for
Divya (Bombay star Tabu), but she only sees
them as friends and refuses to choose between
them. When a student from yet another college
tries to molest Divya, reprisals lead to full-scale
war between three colleges as students set
most of the city on fire. Eventually the triangle
is maintained in favour of collective friendship.
Set in two well known colleges, Loyola and
Pachaiyappa’s, in Madras, its mention of both
institutions led to protests from the students of
these colleges.

[[Film]]