She appeared before the eyes) is a 1998 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film directed by newcomer Ravichandran.

The film was remade in Telugu as Manasulo Maata (1998), in Kannada as Snehaloka (1999), in Malayalam as Dhosth (2001), and in Marathi as Friends (2016).

He enrolls in an engineering college in Chennai, where he butts heads with Shankar, a short-tempered and somewhat violent senior.

Smitten, he chases her and while she seems uninterested, he persists in his affections, eventually landing up in jail for eve-teasing after a misunderstanding with the police relating to their relationship, which she does not attempt to clear.

[4][5] Ji of Kalki praised Ravichandran's direction, the acting of Prashanth and Simran, and Thangar Bachan's cinematography but panned Deva's music.

[6] D. S. Ramanujam of The Hindu wrote, "Debutant director Ravichandran has done a fairly impressive job, the momentum in the small nucleus of the plot being kept till the end by his screenplay and dialogue.

[8][9] The film was remade in Telugu as Manasulo Maata (1998), in Kannada as Snehaloka (1999)[10] in Malayalam as Dhosth (2001),[11] and in Marathi as Friends (2016).