Plot.

Shiva and Indu are city-based students,who love each other. However, their love is strongly opposed by the latter’s parents. They're given a handwritten book titled "Pathinaaru" (Sixteen) by Indhu's mother to read. The book depicts a real-life story about two village teenagers Gopi and Ilavarasi, and their romance as they step into adolescence. Facing opposition from her affluent family, the gutsy Ilavarasi takes some bold unconventional steps, which backfires on her. The story of unrequited love and betrayal leaves Indu in a dilemma and she prepares to go with her family’s desires. But Siva is not ready to give up Indu and sets out to do his own investigation to get to the bottom of what ultimately happened to Gopi and Ilavarasi.

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Cast & Crew.

Shiva

Madhu Shalini

Indhu Gopalakrishnan

Abhishek Shankar

Gopalakrishnan

Pandi

Sakkarai

Velu Prabhakaran

Actor

Darbuka Siva

Kasturi Shankar

Ilavarasi (cameo appearance)

Yuvan Shankar Raja

Music

Saba Kailash

Writer / Director

Aruldoss

Cinematography

Details.

Release Date
January 28, 2011

Original Name
பதினாறு

Status
Released

Genres
Romance

Last updated: 2023-11-08

Wiki.

Pathinaaru (transl. Sixteen) is a 2011 Tamil-language romantic drama film written and directed by Sabapathy Dekshinamurthy, who previously directed the films V.I.P (1997), Punnagai Poove (2003) and A Aa E Ee (2009). It stars Shiva and Madhu Shalini. The film's background score and soundtrack was composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja. After being launched in October 2008 under the title 16, the film was shot for over one year, wrapping in early 2010. A year after completion, Kalaipuli S. Thanu bought the distribution rights and released the film on 28 January 2011 under his V. Creations banner. However, it was financially unsuccessful. Despite that, it was remade as Jolly Boy in Kannada language.