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Kadhal Kottai is a film of genre Drama with Ajith Kumar

Kadhal Kottai (1996)

Kadhal Kottai
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Genres Drama,    Romance
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Kadhal Kottai is a 1996 epistolary Tamil film directed by Agathiyan, in which Ajith Kumar and Devayani play lead roles, apart from Heera Rajgopal, Thalaivasal Vijay, and Karan who played important roles.

The film was a major blockbuster and also won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil, the National Film Award for Best Direction as well as the National Film Award for Best Screenplay for Agathiyan. It garnered positive critical acclaim and completed a 240-day run at the box office. The film was dubbed into Telugu as Prema Lekha and to Kannada as Yaare Neenu Cheluve (1998). Agathiyan also remade the movie in Hindi titled Sirf Tum (1999. This film also remade in Bengali titled Hothat Brishti (1998) directed by Basu Chatterjee . The film was released as a novel in 2010 under the same name.

Synopsis

Kamali (Devayani) lives with her sister and brother-in-law in Ooty and is searching for a job. While in Madras, her purse is stolen and she fears she has lost her university certificates. Surya (Ajith Kumar) who works in Jaipur finds the purse and sends it back to her, and a love develops through letters and phone calls. They agree to love each other without meeting, and Surya eventually moves to Madras for work. However Kamali's brother-in-law is pressuring her to marry a suitable man and Surya's boss keeps trying to seduce him. Eventually, Kamali and Surya unite through a run of coincidences.

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