Jodi

Prashanth and Simran play young lovers who refuse to marry without their families' blessing in Jodi, a romantic drama written and directed by Praveen Gandhi. Kannan, who works in a music shop, has long dreamt of a girl with gold anklets and finally recognises her in Gayathri, a student at a music college where he is sent to fix instruments. They get off to a prickly start, and a stolen song at a band contest in Bangalore leaves her convinced he has betrayed her, until a poem he wrote for her helps clear the air. The bigger hurdle is their fathers. Kannan's father Rudramurthy, a clerk at the registrar's office, disapproves of love matches, while Gayathri's father Vengudu, once a feared music critic, lives with a painful regret from his past. Rather than run away, the pair each set out to charm the other's parents. Nassar and Vijayakumar play the fathers, with Janagaraj, Srividya and Ambika in support, and Trisha makes an early, uncredited appearance as Gayathri's friend. The songs reuse A. R. Rahman melodies from the Hindi film Doli Saja Ke Rakhna, while Sabesh-Murali scored the background. A commercial hit in Tamil in 1999, it was dubbed into Telugu that same year.