Iyarkai

Iyarkai
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Directed by	S.P.Jananathan
Produced by	V. R. Kumar A.E.Gunasekaran G. Natarajan
Written by	S. P. Jananathan (Story & Dialogue)
Screenplay by	N. Kalyanakrishnan
Starring	Shaam Arun Vijay Seema Biswas Kutti Radhika Senthil Pasupathy Karunas Chinni Jayanth
Music by	Vidyasagar
Cinematography	N.K.Ekambaram
Edited by	N. Ganesh Kumar editing supervisor: V. T. Vijayan
Production company	Prisam Films
Distributed by	Prisam Films
Release dates	21 November 2003 (2003-11-21)
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Iyarkai(English translation: "Nature") is a 2003 Tamil romantic drama film co-written and directed by S. P. Jananathan and produced by V. R. Kumar, A. E. Gunasekaran, and G. Natarajan for Prisam Films. The film stars Shaam, Arun Vijay, Kutti Radhika, and Seema Biswas. This film was a low-budget production and the soundtrack was composed by Vidyasagar. This love story is set against the backdrop of a lost ship on an island. It enjoyed relative success in the Kollywood box office. The soundtrack was a great hit but most importantly, the film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil for 2003, competing with Virumaandi and Pithamagan as that year's submissions. This movie is loosely based on Dostoyevsky's "White Nights".

Plot

Iyarkai is a familiar love triangle that plays out in unfamiliar surroundings. It revolves around a girl and the two men who love her but by placing the happenings in a port town of Rameswaram, the director manages to give the proceedings a fresh feeling.

Marudhu (Shaam), an orphaned ship mechanic and sailor, lands in Rameswaram and decides to give up his sailing life and settle down there. He develops a liking for Nancy (Radhika), who sells fruits and other items to sailors on ships that have arrived at the port. But Nancy still holds a candle for the captain of a ship that docked there three years ago. Though Nancy had proposed to him three years ago, he declined stating that 17 was a very young age to marry. The captain (Arun Vijay) had promised her that he would return in a year but three years later, Nancy has still not given up hope. Marudhu helps Nancy search for the captain using his knowledge of ships and naval technology. but when he reveals that even he loves Nancy, she distances himself from him. But they reconcile and become friends. All hope is lost to find the captain, as they see the captain junior, now as the first officer of another ship. This guys reveals that the captains ship was destroyed in a blast.

Soon Marudu's ship is scheduled to leave by the night of 25 December. Marudu can decide to join or leave by then. All of them pressurise Nancy to leave her ideas about the captain and marry Marudu. After a very long thought she agrees by the night of the 24th and arrangements are made for the wedding next day. But the captain returns and Marudu finds him kissing Nancy's hand in the crowd. He decides that he is the best for her.

She is in a dilemma whether to choose the captain or Marudhu and finally selects the former leaving mixed feelings of joy and sorrow. Marudhu leaves India in his ship seeking more journeys and promising never to return to his home—Tamil Nadu.

• Story, Dialogue and Director: S. P. Jananathan
• Screenplay: S .P. Jananathan
• Cinematography: N. K. Ekambaram
• Music: Vidyasagar
• Editing: N. Ganesh Kumar
• Editing Supervisor: V. T. Vijayan
• Producer: V. R. Kumar, A .E. Gunasekaran and G. Natarajan
• Action Co-Originator: Vikram Dharma
• Production Designer: Sabu Cyril
• Art Director: V. Selvakumar
• Studio: Prisam Films

Soundtrack

Music: Vidyasagar