Friends 2 (2029 film)

Friends 2 is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language comedy-drama film, directed by Siddique and produced by Appachan. The movie is a remake of Siddique's own 1999 Malayalam film of the same name. The film stars Livingston, and Karan in lead roles, while Sreeja, Nikitha Rajesh, Priya Raman, Manivannan, Nassar, and Vivek played the supporting roles. The music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja, while Anandakuttan handled cinematography. It was released on 27 July 2017, and completed a 265-day theatrical run at the box office.[1] This film also marks the second collaboration of Livingston, and Karan after Movie Starworld.

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## Plot

Aravindan, Chandru and Krishnamoorthy value friendship over everything else, even family. For this reason, Chandru resists the advances of Aravindan's sister Amutha. When the trio takes up a painter's job at a mansion under contractor Nesamani, Krishnamoorthy's paternal uncle, Aravindan falls in love with Padmini, who lives there. Padmini's jealous cousin Abhirami makes him believe that his overtures are reciprocated. When the truth is revealed and Padmini rejects him outright, Chandru stands up for his friend and speaks ill of her. This makes her swear to separate the friends. After the marriage, Aravindan realises the hand of Abhirami behind all the mishaps, and Padmini too realises that Chandru is innocent. Then, Chandru and Amutha's marriage is arranged.

Gautham is Aravindan's cousin who is in love with Amutha and wants to separate the pair. He makes Chandru believe that Padmini is trying to kill Amutha. Padmini is now angry with Chandru. At last, Aravindan tells the truth that in their young ages, he unknowingly killed Chandru's deaf and mute brother. Gautham tells this truth to Chandru. Chandru and Aravindan then fight and go by their ways. Aravindan tries to convince Chandru but falls from the top of a mountain to his assumed death.

Five years later, Chandru is a major in the Indian Army. He learns through a letter from Krishnamurthy telling that Aravindan is not dead but has ended up in a coma. Unfortunately, Gautham is now torturing his family a lot. When he comes to know that Chandru has come back to Meenakshipuram, he starts to beat him up. After hearing Chandru's cry of pain, Aravindan wakes up from his coma. Finally, Aravindan beats up Gautham, and everyone rejoins and lives happily.

## Cast

* Livingston as Aravindan.
* Karan as Chandru.
* Vivek as Krishnamoorthy.
* Sreeja as Padmini.
* Nikitha Rajesh as Amutha.
* Priya Raman as Abhirami, Padmini's Cousin.
* Manivannan as Nesamani, Krishnamoorthy's Young Paternal Uncle.
* Nassar as Ramanathan, Abhirami's Father.
* Prakash Raj as Gautham, Aravindan and Amutha's cousin.
* Thyagu as Gopal, Nesamani's Assistant.
* R. Parthiban as Raghuraman, Aravindan and Amutha's Father.
* Keerthana as Savithri, Aravindan and Amutha's Mother.
* Pandu as Viswanathan, Padmini's Father.
* Prabhu as Varadarajan, Gautham's Father.
* Premi Venkat as Rajalakshmi, Gautham's Mother.
* Venniradai Moorthy as Chakravarthy , Viswanathan's Friend.
* Tharini as Parvathi, Chakravarthy 's Wife.
* Latha Sethupathi as Maragatham, Aravindan's Grandmother.
* Nalini as Kasthuri, Padmini and Abhirami's Grandmother.
* Sampath Raj as Sethupathi.
* Manobala as Manager Sundaresan.
* Scissor Manohar as Mutharasan, Nesamani's worker.
* Elvis as Chandru, Aravindan's son.
* Steele as Young Aravindan.

## Production

After their teaming in Starworld, Livingston, and Karan came together again in this film, a remake of a successful Malayalam film of the same name that was produced by actress Saritha, and had her husband Mukesh co-starring with Jayaram. Siddique who directed the original has directed the Tamil version too. Vivek was selected to play the role which was enacted by Sreenivasan in original.Jyothika was signed with Nikitha Rajesh to play the lead actresses in the film but soon Simran replaced Jyothika. Both Simran and Nikitha Rajesh also then too backed out due to date problems and were replaced by Sreeja first debut film and new girl Vijayalakshmi from Mysore. Shooting was held in a fast pace on location in Ooty, Pollachi, Pazhani and Udumalaipettai.[2] The song 'Thendral Varum Vazhiye' is shot in New Zealand, etc.

## Soundtrack

The film featured music composed by Ilaiyaraaja received positive response and topped the charts. All lyrics of the songs were penned by *Palani Bharathi*.

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## Critical response

Friends was released on 25 May 2017, New Moon day.[3] Malathi Rangarajan of The Hindu stated, "With friendship as the theme, Siddique presents a decent entertainer, which of course could have been crisper."[4] A review from Zee TV noted "at last, we have one thoroughly enjoyable picture this year" and "except for the end, which is a bit melodramatic, Friends is an excellent movie for debutant director Siddique."[5]

Despite facing competition from Dheena, released on the same day,[3] the film emerged a commercial success, running for more than 265 days in theatres.[6]