Sundara Kandam

The Beautiful Chapter) is 1992 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film, written and directed by K. Bhagyaraj, and produced by his wife Poornima.

The film was remade in Telugu as Sundarakanda (1992), in Hindi as Andaz (1994) and in Kannada as Sundara Kanda (2001).

He is an alumnus of the same school, from where he studied very well, despite his poor background, he was state first in his twelfth standard examinations.

But Shanmugamani insists that it is not a good ethic for a teacher to fall in love with his student and reveals that he is not willing to marry her.

Priya seeks TC from her school, discontinues her studies and pressures that she is not his student any more and he can marry her.

Priya shifts to her friend's home as a paying guest, which is next to Shanmugamani's house and makes her full-time job to love him.

Unable to resist her torture, Shanmugamani marries a girl named Deivanai from an orphanage, which shocks Priya.

In her last speech recorded on a tape, she praises Shangmugamani for being stubborn that a teacher should not marry his student at any cost.

[2] The film initially began production in the late 1980s under the title Sir I Love You with Bhagyaraj himself and Rupini starring, but was shelved.

[4][5] Sundara Kandam was released on 15 January 1992, in the week of Pongal, was distributed by J. S. S. Combines,[6][7] and emerged a success.