Nannbenda

You are truly my friend) is a 2015 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film [1] written and directed by Jagadish and produced by Udhayanidhi Stalin.

[1] Sathya is an unemployed youth from Thanjavur who goes to Trichy every month to meet his old childhood friend Sivakozhundhu, who is a hotel manager, and spend his day with the latter's salary.

He comes to them in prison and informs them that he had found the real murderer but will not say it to the judge, until they sentence the two of them to life imprisonment or death.

Ramya says that she had used the surveillance camera in the park and given it to Thangadurai, who found out that "Baby" Kumar, Shankar's enemy, had thrown the knife from a distance when he was falling down.

In July 2013, Udhayanidhi Stalin revealed that he would produce and appear in a venture titled Nannbenda alongside Santhanam and that the project would be directed by Jagadish, an assistant to director M.

[2][3] Nazriya Nazim was initially approached to play the female lead role but she turned down the offer.

[4] The first look of the film was released in January 2014, with confirmation that the cinematography would be handled by Balasubramaniem and music composed by Harris Jayaraj, both collaborating with Stalin for his third successive venture as an actor.

[5] Later that month, it was announced that Nayanthara had replaced Kajal Aggarwal and would collaborate with Stalin for the second time after Idhu Kathirvelan Kadhal.

[6] Tamannaah Bhatia agreed to appear in a cameo role as herself and shot for an entire day for the film in Chennai in April 2014.

[9] A video teaser of the "Nee Sunno New Moono" song was released by Udhayanidhi on his YouTube production page on 21 December 2014.

[15] M.Suganth of The Times of India rated the film 3 out of 5 and wrote"... it exploits formula to the hilt and like a well-oiled machine, does what it set out to be".

[16] Nicy V.P of The International Business Times gave 2 stars out of 5 and wrote "To conclude 'Nannbenda' is a forgettable movie and is meant for only for those people who badly crave to see Nayanthara onscreen".

[17] Gautaman Bhaskaran of The Hindustan Times rated 1 out of 5 and wrote "Honestly, Nannbenda is a 151-minute of sheer boredom, liberally peppered with juvenile jokes and intolerably silly situations".

[20] Sify criticised the script citing that " the screenplay is painfully predictable and you will find yourself chuckling and cringing alternately while watching the film".