For Friendship) is a 1998 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by K. S. Ravikumar, starring R. Sarathkumar in dual roles as a father and son, Simran, Vijayakumar and Sujatha.

Chinnayya works for an aged landlord named Karunakaran aka Ayya in a village in Coimbatore district.

Prabhavathy, Karunakaran's younger daughter, arrives at the village after completing her education in the United States.

After a series of incidents, Prabhavathy begins to love Chinnayya but he does not reciprocate, thinking that this would be a betrayal to Karunakaran's trust in him.

Karunakaran is shocked knowing the truth and feels bad that he misunderstood Chinnayya, believing his daughter's deception.

Chinnayya deeply hates his father Muthaiya since childhood as he believes Muthaiaya killed Lakshmi for money.

Karunakaran brings the then-12 year old boy Chinnayya to his house to care for him and the entire family protests.

The story returns to the present, and the wedding of Prabhavathy's and Perusu's brother Chinnarasu is planned.

After learning the truth, Prabavathy apologises to Muthaiya and hands over her to Karunakaran and succumbs to his fatal wound.

[1][2] The initial choice for Vijayakumar's role was Sivaji Ganesan who left the film due to unknown reasons.

The team had initially considered Soundarya, Meena and then Keerthi Reddy to play the leading female role; their unavailability led to Simran being cast.

[7][8] Sarathkumar and Vijayakumar made their singing debut with this film, performing "Namma Ayya Nallvarungo".

[11] K. Vijiyan of New Straits Times wrote that though the story was familiar, "Ravikumar keeps it interesting by letting us guess until the end what caused the split in the family".