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Engeyum Kadhal (Tamil: எங்கேயும் காதல், Eṅkēyum Kātal ? ; English: Love is Everywhere) is a 2011 Tamil romantic musical-film written and directed by Prabhu Deva that stars Jayam Ravi and Hansika Motwani in the lead roles. Featuring music by Harris Jayaraj, it was produced by Kalpathi S. Agoram and released on 6 May 2011 to mixed reviews.[1] The story revolves around a girl living inFrance who falls in love with a boy coming from India. According to Upperstall.com the film "seems to be a straight rip off from Billy Wilder's Love in the Afternoon, made way back in 1957".[2] Love in the Afternoon was directed by Billy Wilder and starred Gary Cooper and Audrey Hepburn.Plot
The film is set in France and Italy. Kamal (Jayam Ravi), a young billionaire, doesn`t believe in love. He works hard for 11 months and takes a month`s break from all the work related commitments. Celloist Kayalvizhi (Kayal for short or Lolita for Kamal) (Hansika Motwani) believes in true love and is highly fascinated with Indian culture. Then she sees Kamal one day and it is love at first sight for her, but before she can follow him he gets into his car and goes away. Her father Rajasekhar (Suman) runs a small detective agency in France and Kayal often reads her father`s case files for interesting stories. One day, Rajasekhar gets a new client (Sonu Gates) who wants to know about his girlfriend`s mystery man. After a brief investigation, Rajasekhar finds that his client`s girl friend is dating Kamal. Sonu gets angry and decides to kill Kamal. Kayal overhears the conversation and deciding to save them, rushes to their hotel. Sonu has sent some men to kill Kamal and he is on his way there. When Kayal reaches Kamal's room she finds the door locked from inside. Without knowing what to do Kayal tries to get inside through the balcony. When she was about to enter she hears a gunshot and faints in the balcony. By this time sonu's girlfriend has escaped from there. Just when Kamal is about to win the fight Sonu enters the room and threatens Kamal with a gun. Then he searches for his girlfriend he can't find her, instead he find Kayal in the balcony. Then he thinks that Rajasekar has made a mistake and apologizes to Kamal. Understanding that Kayal has saved him, he tries to get to know her better during their incidental meetings and even though Kayal tries to resist she cannot. Kamal leaves Paris for some board meetings and Kayal is heart broken. When he returns he doesn't remember her immediately even though she has been waiting for him. Kayal tries to make Kamal love her by pretending to have many boyfriends. Kamal does get a bit jealous and he decides to get a detective to know everything about her and her possible boyfriends. Initially the detective he chooses is Rajasekar Kayal's dad. Kamal doesn't know Kayal's name, but he says about all her fake boyfriends. Rajasekar realizes that the girl's boyfriends' names are same as the names of the people in his case files realizes that Kamal is actually inquiring about his daughter, Kayal as only she has seen them. He tells Kamal about it and asks him to leave his daughter as he always does when someone falls in love with him. Kamal agrees and tells Kayal that he will be leaving for Germany and that he doesn't know when he will return. Kayal is heartbroken. Kamal tries to forget her but find that he cannot as he realizes that he too loves her. So he returns to Paris and finds her. But Kayal is angry with him and walks away. Kamal runs after her saying that he is in love with her and will never leave her and they will be together thereafter.
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Cast
- Jayam Ravi as Kamal
- Hansika Motwani as Kayalvizhi Rajasekhar "Lolita"
- Suman as Rajasekhar
- Raju Sundaram as Raju
- Marion Arnaud
- Aurélien Chevallier
- Prakash Raj in a cameo appearance
- Prabhu Deva in a special appearance in song "Engeyum Kadhal"
- Manoj Pahwa
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Production
Prabhu Deva initially named this film as Paris. It was developed under the title Ich until it was finally renamed Engeyum Kadhal in 2010.[3] The name was changed in order to seek tax exemption.[4] The composition of the songs took place in Sydney toward the end of 2009.[5][6] The film started its shooting schedule in Paris on June 2, 2009, canning scenes featuring Ravi and Hansika.[7][8]
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Soundtrack
| Engeyum Kadhal | ||||
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| Soundtrack album by Harris Jayaraj | ||||
| Released | 8 November 2010 | |||
| Recorded | 2010 | |||
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
| Label | Sony Music | |||
| Producer | Harris Jayaraj | |||
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| Professional ratings | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Behindwoods.com |   [9] |
| Rediff | [10] |
The music is scored by Harris Jayaraj. The soundtrack was scheduled to release on October 3 but was postponed "due to Enthiranmania".[11] The audio launch, was held on November 8 by Sony Music, exactly ten years after Jayaraj's first album Minnale was released. The soundtrack received positive reviews from professional critics and also turned out to be Sony's Best Selling Album in 2011.[12][13] The track "Dhimu Dhimu" was also used in the album Orange as "Chilipaga". The soundtracks became a huge hit,even before the movie release. As part of the film score, a song "Kulu Kulu Venpani Pola" was additionally composed, penned by Jayaraj himself and sung by a new singer Arjun.[14][15]
| Track listing | ||||||||||
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| No. | Title | Lyrics | Singer(s) | Length | ||||||
| 1. | "Engeyum Kadhal" | Thamarai | Aalap Raju, Devan Ekambaram,Ranina Reddy | 5:35 | ||||||
| 2. | "Thee Illai" | Vaali | Naresh Iyer, Mukesh, Gopal Rao,Mahathi, Ranina Reddy | 5:30 | ||||||
| 3. | "Nangaai" | Vaali | Richard, Rahul Nambiar, Naveen Madhava | 4:35 | ||||||
| 4. | "Lolita" | Thamarai | Karthik, Prashanthini | 5:32 | ||||||
| 5. | "Bathing at Cannes" | Emcee Jesz, Kash | Emcee Jesz, Lady Kash and Krissy, Ranina Reddy | 2:55 | ||||||
| 6. | "Nenjil Nenjil" | Madhan Karky | Harish Raghavendra, Chinmayi | 5:32 | ||||||
| 7. | "Dhimu Dhimu" | Na. Muthukumar | Karthik | 5:34 | ||||||
Total length:
| 35:13 | |||||||||
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Critical response
The soundtrack got positive reviews from music critics. Indiaglitz said "Overall, Engeyum Kadhal is one of the best albums of this year. All the songs bear Harris stamp and Engeyum Kadhal and Nenjil Nenjil stand out to be real melodies. Harris has done his job perfectly and waiting to see how romantic Prabhu Deva has presented the songs on celluloid."[16] C. Karthik from Behindwoods.com gave a 3/5 rating and said "Overall, Engeyum Kadhal is a breezy, romantic album with a few different sounds and percussions. A few songs bear the typical Harris Jayaraj stamp and the rest are ready to stay in the Top 10 list for a while. We feel that Harris wanted to play it safe, devoid of any experiments, though Bathing in Cannes could appeal as a new genre in Tamil music. The album will definitely appeal to the masses and once the videos go on air, it is certain to make more people inquisitive!"[9] Pavithra Srinivasan of Rediff also gave a 3/5 rating and said "Engeyum Kadhal" might sound, at times, like it's a mishmash of Harris Jeyaraj's previous works, but it does have its melodious moments, and those make the album worth a listen."[10]
