When Guna failed to unite a prisoner Ilankumaran (Aadukalam Naren) with his family, Mallika does the job.

Meanwhile, Harris gets involved in a bike accident where his legs and hands have been hurt, but he encourages Divya to take part in the Olympics swimming match.

She is the epitome of goodness and confidence, and he narrates that though she had won the match, she died due to heart attack on the swimming pool.

[4] The film would consist of three love stories featuring the three lead characters, which play out in three landscapes: by the seaside, in the mountains and on the plains.

[8] Muktha Bhanu, formerly credited as Bhanu, was chosen to portray one of the female leads,[9] while Shruti Iyer, a Kingfisher Calendar Model Hunt model from Mumbai and participant of I AM She 2010 beauty pageant,[10][11] and Punjabi actress Surveen Chawla agreed to play the other two lead roles, making their Tamil film debuts.

[12] Furthermore, National Film Award winning actors Thambi Ramaiah and Appukutty were selected for supporting roles, providing comic relief.

Chawla, despite already knowing how to swim, did additional training to prepare for her role and Muktha Banu had to speak in Nagercoil slang for her scenes.

[2] Vasanth hired Yuvan Shankar Raja as the composer, with whom he had previously worked in Poovellam Kettuppar (1999) and his last project Satham Podathey (2007).

In an interview, the director stated that Yuvan Shankar Raja had put in about seven months of work for this film, while describing the genre of the soundtrack as post-modern music.

[19] Nandini Srikar of Ra.One fame crooned a solo "Aaha Kadhal", which, too, was recorded in Mumbai,[20] while composer Ramesh Vinayagam sang a peppy number titled "Stop the Paatu" for the album.

[21] A teaser trailer of "Stop The Paatu" was released online in September 2012 and garnered positive response.

[5] Yuvan Shankar Raja later revealed that he had not composed a single new tune for the film, but that all were stock songs he had earlier recorded which were chosen by Vasanth.

[25] The entire cast and crew of the film, besides noted film personalities, including directors K. Balachander, K. S. Ravikumar, K. Bhagyaraj, N. Lingusamy, Sasi and actors Shanthanu Bhagyaraj, Khushbu, Krishna, Prakash Raj were present at the function which was host by television anchors Ma Ka Pa Anand and Divyadarshini.