A multi-layered, intricately woven socio-political drama that delves into deep concepts like integrity, responsibility and unity through the intricately interwoven lives of three men, who belong to diametrically different strata of society.
Cast: Esha Deol, Meera Jasmine, R Madhavan , Siddharth Narayan, Suriya Sivakumar, Trisha Krishnan
Crew: Mani Ratnam (Director), Ravi K Chandran (Director of Photography), AR Rahman (Music Director)
Rating: U (India)
Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller
Release Dates: 21 May 2004 (India)
Tagline: 3 men, 3 differnt goals, 3 differnt lives but 1 goal
Telugu Name: యువతి
Did you know? Karthi, the brother of Suriya, was offered a role in the movie, but declined the offer to make his debut and worked as an assistant director on the film because he wanted to become a film director and preferred directing to acting. Read More
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as Gitanjali
as Sasi
as Inbasekar
as Arjun Balakrishnan
as Michael Vasanth
as Mira
Supporting Actor
as Esha's Uncle
Supporting Actor
as Lawyer
as Dilli
Supporting Actress
as College Student
Direction
Director
Distribution
Distributor
Camera and Electrical
Director of Photography
Music
Music Director
Music Label
Lyricist
Art
Art Director
Choreography
Choreographer
Editorial
Editor
Stunts
Stunt Director
Thanks
Special Thanks
Film Type:
Feature
Language:
Telugu
Colour Info:
Color
Frame Rate:
24 fps
Aspect Ratio:
2.35:1
Stereoscopy:
No
Taglines:
3 men, 3 differnt goals, 3 differnt lives but 1 goal
6 people, 3 men, 3 women, but 1 problem
6 people, 3 men, 3 women, but 1 problem
Trivia:
Esha Deol, daughter of actress Hema Malini, was chosen to play the role in the Tamil version of the film after Suhasini enquired whether she could speak Tamil. After finishing her work in the Tamil version, Deol was signed on for the Hindi version of the film too and thus Deol became the only common leading actor between the versions. To prepare for her role, Deol worked on certain pronunciations of Iyer Tamil with Mani Ratnam's assistant Kannan mentoring her progress.
Relative newcomer Trisha Krishnan played a youngster in the film and dubbed for her own voice for the first time.
Malayalam actress Meera Jasmine was signed on to play a slum dweller in the film portraying Madhavan's wife and it was reported that she spent hours perfecting her Tamil for the film, trying to get rid of her native Malayalam accent to adapt to the sound sync technique used in this movie.
Siddharth, who had previously apprenticed as an assistant director under Mani Ratnam in 'Kannathil Muthamittal' before his making his acting debut in Shankar's 'Boys', was subsequently signed on for the film. Prior to release, Siddharth felt he was cast as he "looked, talked and behaved like Arjun" and mentioned that the sync sound technique used worked in favour of him as he was an experienced theatre actor.
Karthi, the brother of Suriya, was offered a role in the movie, but declined the offer to make his debut and worked as an assistant director on the film because he wanted to become a film director and preferred directing to acting.
Madhavan was signed on to appear in Mani Ratnam's fourth successive project after playing the lead roles in his 'Alaipayuthey' (2000) and 'Kannathil Muthamittal' (2002) as well as his 2001 production, 'Dumm Dumm Dumm'. The actor bulked up and sported a shaven look for the first time in his career to resemble his character of a ruffian.
Parts of the movie have been inspired by two classics, namely the 2000 neorealist Mexican film, 'Amores perros' by Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Akira Kurosawa's 1950 Japanese film Rashomon as both films dealt with a cause-effect and a third-view.
The movie was remade in Hindi as 'Yuva', and was also dubbed in the Telugu language.
The title of the movie is the name of a Tamil letter, ஃ - three dots corresponding to the film's three different personalities from completely different strata of society.
Isha Deol is the only character in common between the two versions of this film, 'Aayitha Ezhuthu' and 'Yuva' (Hindi).
Relative newcomer Trisha Krishnan played a youngster in the film and dubbed for her own voice for the first time.
Malayalam actress Meera Jasmine was signed on to play a slum dweller in the film portraying Madhavan's wife and it was reported that she spent hours perfecting her Tamil for the film, trying to get rid of her native Malayalam accent to adapt to the sound sync technique used in this movie.
Siddharth, who had previously apprenticed as an assistant director under Mani Ratnam in 'Kannathil Muthamittal' before his making his acting debut in Shankar's 'Boys', was subsequently signed on for the film. Prior to release, Siddharth felt he was cast as he "looked, talked and behaved like Arjun" and mentioned that the sync sound technique used worked in favour of him as he was an experienced theatre actor.
Karthi, the brother of Suriya, was offered a role in the movie, but declined the offer to make his debut and worked as an assistant director on the film because he wanted to become a film director and preferred directing to acting.
Madhavan was signed on to appear in Mani Ratnam's fourth successive project after playing the lead roles in his 'Alaipayuthey' (2000) and 'Kannathil Muthamittal' (2002) as well as his 2001 production, 'Dumm Dumm Dumm'. The actor bulked up and sported a shaven look for the first time in his career to resemble his character of a ruffian.
Parts of the movie have been inspired by two classics, namely the 2000 neorealist Mexican film, 'Amores perros' by Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Akira Kurosawa's 1950 Japanese film Rashomon as both films dealt with a cause-effect and a third-view.
The movie was remade in Hindi as 'Yuva', and was also dubbed in the Telugu language.
The title of the movie is the name of a Tamil letter, ஃ - three dots corresponding to the film's three different personalities from completely different strata of society.
Isha Deol is the only character in common between the two versions of this film, 'Aayitha Ezhuthu' and 'Yuva' (Hindi).
