Ethir Neechal is a 2013 Indian Tamil film written and directed by R. S. Durai Senthilkumar, a former assistant to Vetrimaran and produced by Dhanush. The star cast includes Sivakarthikeyan as Kunjithapatham/Harish, Priya Anand as Geetha, Nandita as Valli (Santhi Soundarajan), Sharath Lohitashwa as Valli's father, Sathish as Peter, Jayaprakash as Coach, Ravi Prakash as Raja Singh, Suza Kumar, Nithya Sree as Geetha's Friend, Lollu Sabha Swaminathan as Paavadaisamy/Google, Manobala as Numerologist, Gunasekara Raja, Madhan Bob as Kunjithapatham's Manager, Pasanga Sivakumar as Kunjithapatham's Father, Surekha Vani as Kunjithapatham's Mother, Aarthi, RJ Balaji, Dhanush as Soup Boy (Special appearance), Nayantara as White Girl (Special appearance), Anirudh Ravichander as Bar Waiter (Cameo appearance) and Attakathi Dinesh as Dinakaran (Guest appearance)

Produced by Dhanush under Wunderbar Films Pvt Ltd, Music composed by Anirudh Ravichander, Cinematography handled by Velraj and Edited by Kishore Te. Distributed by P.Madhan under Vendhar Movies.

The films starts in 1987 with the doctors struggling to protect a woman and her baby. Meanwhile, the woman's husband prays to his native deity that if his wife delivers his baby successfully, he would name the baby with the name of the deity.

The baby is born without any problems and as per the wish, they name the baby, Kunjithapadham (Sivakarthikeyan). As a boy, Kunjithapadham faces lots of problems and embarrassments due to his name.

He decides to change his name. But his mother falls seriously ill and he prays to god that he would never again wish to change his name. Years later, the adult Kunjithapadham's mother dies.

His friend Peter (Sathish) advises him to change his name in order to have a change in his life. Thus, he meets an astrologer (Manobala) and changes his name to Hareesh. Luck starts to him from that day on wards.

He falls in love with Geetha (Priya Anand) and succeeds her heart. He later gets a job and life goes smoothly for him. One day, his lottery ticket hits victory and he must cash it in for a television as a prize. But, the lottery has registered his name as 'Kunjithapadham'. He makes up the drama with Peter and gets the television, but later faces problems and Geetha finds out his true name. Geetha tells Hareesh that she is angry at him for lying to her about his name and that he needs to succeed something in life in order to win her heart.

Hareesh decides to participate in Chennai Marathon 2012 to achieve something in life. He meets with a trainer (Jayaprakash) who takes him to his former student Valli (Nandita) who had quit athletics.

She agrees to train Hareesh and later, Hareesh sees her crying in the terrace with a photo of her dead father. Hareesh asks her to tell her past. Valli was a naturally talented athlete from her young days. Her father (Sharath Lohitashwa) supports her talent and speaks with a lot of men to get her past many tournaments. She gets into State level tournament where she beats the rookie of a villainous coach Raja Singh (Ravi Prakash). Infuriated Raja Singh accuses Valli for failing a gender verification test. The board punishes Valli and stops her from participating.

Heartbroken, Valli's father dies of a heart attack. Touched by her past, Hareesh fights hard to win the Marathon from another one of Raja's rookies and publicly tells about Valli's innocence. Raja Singh gets arrested by the police and Valli resumes athletics. Hareesh also publicly accepts that his name is Kunjithapadham and runs a training camp.

He also wins Geetha's heart. The character of Valli in this film is a tribute to Indian athlete Santhi Soundarajan.[6][7] The film closes with Hareesh/Kunjithapadham, Peter, Geetha and Valli standing in a track named 'Kunjithapadham Athletic Coaching'. Dinakaran (Attakathi Dinesh) proposes his love to Valli as the film ends.

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3 is a 2012 Indian Tamil romantic psychological thriller film directed by Aishwarya R. Dhanush who made her directorial debut with the film. It stars Dhanush as Ram, who himself co-produced the film, alongside Shruti Haasan as Janani. Other cast includes Sunder Ramu as Senthil, Prabhu as Ram's father, Sivakarthikeyan as Kumaran, Rohini as Janani's mother, Jeeva Ravi (actor) as Janani's father, Bhanupriya as Ram's mother, Gabriella Natalie Charlton as Janani's sister, Anuradha Krishnamurthy as Senthil's mother and Sunitha Gogoi as Janani's friend.

Produced by Dr. K. Vimalageetha under R.K. Productions Pvt Ltd and Dhanush under Wunderbar Films Pvt Ltd.

Music Composed by Anirudh, Cinematography handled by Velraj and Edited by Khola Baskar.

The story opens with the death of Ram (Dhanush). His wife Janani (Shruti Haasan) realizes that her husband did not die naturally, as she finds his room stained with blood spatters. She recalls memories from when they first met and the story starts with a flashback when Ram and Janani were 12th grade students.

Ram is a rich happy-go-lucky guy. He sees Janani and has a crush on her straightaway. He begins to follow her around with his friends Senthil and Kumaran. When Janani reciprocates his love, she is stopped by her poor family.

When Janani's mother tells her that they are moving to America, Janani burns her passport so she can stay with Ram. She is then disowned by her family by her mother and she lands up at Ram's door.

The two get married with Ram's father's help and lead a happy life. The story then returns to reality with Janani finding a suicide letter in Ram's coat, and after reading it, she asks Senthil about his death. Senthil tells her the truth about Ram, that there were two sides to him. After Janani had told him she was leaving for America, the same night his best friend Kumaran had also planned to leave for Singapore. Ram couldn't take all this pain and went for a jag, which was when Senthil had realized that Ram was suffering from bipolar disorder.

If something positive happened, Ram would jump in joy, but if a tiny negative thing happened, he wouldn't be able to control his rage. Senthil explains that once when he told Ram about his disease, Ram smashed a glass bottle on his head. Ram escapes from the house and while walking on the road, suddenly hit his head on a vehicle. After that accident, Senthil couldn't see any other strange behavior from him. Ram agrees with Senthil to go see a doctor. But he rejects medications thinking that Janani would know about the situation.

He loves her very much, and he didn't want to see her in tears. As a request of Ram, Senthil stays at Ram and Janani's house for few weeks, in case the situation becomes dangerous and if Ram tried to hurt Janani.

Once, Ram tried to kill Janani during her sleep but was luckily stopped by Senthil. The story moves forward to one evening at a nightclub, where Ram gets into a fight with a guy who misbehaves with Janani. Ram takes Janani to their car and sends her home. After she leaves, the guy who misbehaved with Janani shows up with his friends and attacks Ram and Senthil. In the course of the fight, Ram hits his head against the hood of a car. His medical situation is worsened as a result. He begins to experience bouts of rage. Owing to this, Ram manages to defeat the attackers.

Meanwhile Senthil injects Ram with a medicine the doctor had prescribed in case of an emergency, thus sedating him and dissipating his rage. On another day, while Ram and Senthil are in the car, Ram suddenly bashes Senthil's head against the steering wheel, rendering him unconscious.

Ram says his last words to his friend, "Sorry dude, you have done so much for me" and leaves the car in order to and go see Janani himself. He remembers all the beautiful memories from their young age, and the ending takes onto the final scene of Ram's life, as he goes to Janani's bedroom and watches her sleeping. He tries to control his emotions and kiss her for the last time and suddenly he hallucinates seeing a young girl saying "Either kill her or you die".

He immediately gets away from her bed and goes to his office and writes a suicide note. He sees visions of many people in front of him crying and laughing. To avoid causing further harm to Janani, he picks up a knife and slits his throat, and kills himself, saying his final words "I love you, Janani". The film ends with Janani wailing in grief, as she learns her husband's fate.

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