Senthil doesn't suspect anything strange and just thinks that this happened because Ram was drunk. Upon finding out that his two friends have moved on, Ram hallucinates and almost drowns when he tries to swim past a beach but is saved. A distraught Senthil tells her that when she was leaving for the US, Kumaran got a job in Singapore at the same time. She again requests Senthil's parents to convince Senthil to help Janani and she asks him to reveal what they were hiding from her. Later, she finds a suicide letter from Ram in his coat. She enquires Senthil's parents but she doesn't find any clue. They later get married, despite the opposition from their respective parents.Īfter Janani is awoken by her maid, she tries to hunt for Ram's friend, Senthil, for knowing the mystery behind Ram's death. She leaves her home and requests Ram to marry her, since her parents will not allow her back into her home, and also, because she loves him. Her parents berate her, after learning that she burnt her passport, in order to stay with Ram. She lets her family know that she is in love with Ram. Asleep, she experiences another flashback about when her family had a visa to go to the US.
As time goes by, she eventually reciprocates his love.īack in the present, Janani has a teary conversation with her mother about Ram.
He joins her tuition, in order to see her everyday, in the hopes that she will reciprocate his love for her. Īt Ram's ( Dhanush) funeral, his wife Janani ( Shruti Haasan) hallucinates about him running away, and the film flashes back to when Ram and Janani were 10th-grade students, when Ram helps Janani fix her bicycle and tells his friends Senthil ( Sunder Ramu) and Kumaran ( Sivakarthikeyan) that he has a crush on her. Following the success of the song "Why This Kolaveri Di", Dhanush was invited by Former Prime Minister Dr. Dhanush won three awards, Best Actor, Best Lyricist and Best Male Playback Singer at the 2nd South Indian International Movie Awards. The film won three Filmfare Awards for Best Actor and Best Male Playback Singer for Dhanush, and Best Music Director for Anirudh Ravichander.
The film released worldwide on 30 March 2012, to mostly positive reviews, praising the performances of the lead actors, especially Dhanush's performance, Anirudh's soundtrack and score, but criticising the narration of the film. The song "Why This Kolaveri Di" penned and sung by Dhanush, became one of the most streamed songs of all time, and also listed in one of the "Recently Most Popular (Gold) Videos" on YouTube. The soundtrack album and background score were composed by Dhanush's cousin-in-law Anirudh Ravichander, marking his debut as a composer with lyrics written by Dhanush, received positive reviews upon release. The cinematography was handled by Velraj and editing was done by Kola Bhaskar. The film was launched on 5 August 2011 in Chennai, with Dhanush and Amala Paul in lead roles, the latter was replaced by Shruti Haasan, due to schedule conflicts. However, Janani is mystified when Ram commits suicide all of a sudden and she tries to find out the truth behind his death. The film follows Ram(Dhanush) and Janani (Shruti Haasan), two high school sweethearts who eventually get married. He also played the male lead role alongside Shruti Haasan, whilst Sivakarthikeyan and Sunder Ramu appear in prominent roles. Dhanush, wife of actor Dhanush, who also produced the film, thus making their debut in both the fields. 3 is a 2012 Indian Tamil-language romantic psychological thriller film written and directed by Aishwarya R.