Thulladha Manamum Thullum

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Thulladha Manamum Thullum is a 1999 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film written and directed by debutant Ezhil. It stars Vijay and Simran, while Manivannan, Dhamu and Vaiyapuri among others play supporting roles. The film is produced by R. B. Choudary and has its music composed by S. A. Rajkumar and cinematography performed by R. Selva.
The film received positive reviews and became a huge commercial success. It was remade in Telugu as Nuvvu Vastavani, in Kannada as O Nanna Nalle, in Bengali as Sathi, in Odia as I Love You and in Manipuri as Angoubasu Thamoi Palli.
PLOT
Kutty is an aspiring but struggling singer who works for a local cable provider Mani. He is unable to get recognition and a stage to exhibit his musical talent. Rukmini “Rukku”, a college student, is new to the locality where Kutty stays, and on hearing Kutty’s voice, she becomes his fan and decides to seek him and encourage his talent as his voice resembles that of her late father. However, Rukmini always catches Kutty in negative situations and, not knowing that he is Kutty, develops a hatred for him as she thinks that he is a rowdy. Once, when Kutty is pickpocketed, he pursues the pickpocket to Rukmini’s college. In the process, he accidentally drops a bottle of acid to the ground, which causes Rukmini, who is present at the spot where the acid bottle fell, to become blind.
Kutty is horrified when he finds out that he is the reason Rukmini had become blind. To make amends, he decides to become her close companion and help her in every way possible. Soon, love blossoms between the two. When Kutty’s mother dies, he finds out that her eyes had been donated. He decides to arrange the operation to restore Rukmini’s eyesight with his mother’s eyes, but as the price of the operation turns out to be very high, he accepts an offer from a Sikh man to donate a kidney for his Pune-based father for ₹40,000. Having paid for Rukmini’s surgery, Kutty leaves for Pune to donate his kidney. While waiting at the railway station to return back to Chennai, he is framed as a terrorist and arrested. He is then jailed in Pune prison.
Seven years later, Kutty is released from prison and returns to Chennai, only to find out that Rukmini had moved out of their locality and is now a collector, her eyesight having been restored as well. But Rukmini, on seeing Kutty and not knowing that he is Kutty, orders for him to be arrested, in revenge for his “rowdy activities” in the past and for making her blind. But when Kutty begins to sing, Rukmini realises that the “rowdy” she had arrested is none other than Kutty. She apologizes for misunderstanding him, and they happily embrace.