Vijayraghavachari and Vishnu Priya are travelling in the train from Chennai to Coimbatore under the identities Abu Bakar and Aayisha.
Saddened by this, Raghava meets an Unani doctor named Showkhat Ali and learns about Islam just for Priya's sake.
In February 2012, producer V. Ravichandran of Aascar Films signed debutant Anis to direct a project titled Thirumanam Enum Nikkah with Jai and Samantha being announced as the lead cast.
[3] Deekshitha Manikkam, runner up of the Miss South India 2013, was signed up to play the pivotal character of Nazriya's friend in the film.
Scenes of actual Hindu and Muslim festivals like Golu at the Sri Adikesava Perumal Temple in Sriperumbudur and Avani Avittam as well as Ramadan in Malabar and Muharram in Hyderabad were captured for the film.
[8] The film's score and six-song soundtrack were composed by Ghibran, with lyrics written by Kadhal Mathi, Munna Shaoukat Ali, Karthik Netha, Parvathy, Thenmozhi and Nizami Brothers.
The album was released as a soft launch on 15 December 2013 at Sathyam Cinemas in Chennai with the film's cast and crew being present.
[19] In the petition, the Jamath vice-president Tablez Ali Khan of Thousand Lights said the chest-beating procession is mourning the martyrdom of the grandson of Muhammad, and the occasion is sentimental having religious sanctity.
[25] The Times of India gave 3 out of 5 stars for the film saying "Thirumanam Enum Nikkah is like the romance dramas in which there will be no story at all if the leads talk to each other in a frank manner and so will have to keep pretending for the plot to go on".
[26] In his review for Hindustan Times, Gauthaman Bhaskaran gave 1 out of 5 and wrote "Thirumanam Enum Nikkah has a story and script that seem to have been penned in the most bizarre style.
Except for Nazriya Nazim, who is superbly charming as the girl playing both a Muslim and a Hindu, the rest of the cast are no better than caricatures.
"[27] Anupama Subramanian of Deccan Chronicle gave 2.5 out of 5 and summarised "Anis’s sincere attempt to convey a romantic story laced with inter-religious tension is appreciable, but he has erred in the execution part of it.