Five Star is a 2002 Indian Tamil-language coming-of-age film directed by Susi Ganesan in his debut, and produced by Madras Talkies.

In March 1999, Susi Ganesan was able to convince producer Shanti Thiagarajan to fund his first feature film, after he left Mani Ratnam's team of assistant directors.

Pepsi was later supposed to star Madhavan in a lead role, but he eventually did not feature as the team opted for newcomers.

[3] For the heroine, Ganesan spotted her on a magazine cover page and insisted on her performing the lead female role in his second feature film.

[4] Prasanna who was doing college at that time saw an ad on Vijay TV that Madras Talkies was auditioning for newcomers, he applied and got selected.

[5] For other lead roles, Karthik, the son of a Tirupur businessman, Krishna, an earlier assistant to director Rajiv Menon, Sandhya, a model and also a former Ms. Chennai, and Mangaikarasi, a dancer based in Sweden.

[citation needed] Malini Mannath of Chennai Online wrote "Some young promising talent, a story centered round youth and their aspirations, the fulfillment of some, the disillusionment of others, stylised takings and a sincere attempt to give an entertainer sans vulgarity and double entendres, makes 'Five Star' a clean, fairly engaging family entertainer.

"[7] Malathi Rangarajan of The Hindu wrote, "Susi Ganesan's youthful, hard-hitting dialogue and a fairly neat screenplay are notable aspects of the film — the story and direction, also by him are done with a difference".