Exuberance of Youth) is a 2002 Indian Tamil-language teen drama film written by Selvaraghavan, with direction credited to his father Kasthuri Raja.

The film depicts the story of six high-school classmates: three boys and three girls, coming from different strata of society, who have each their own problems in their respective families and escape from their homes, deciding to live together on their own with the help of an older friend of theirs.

Anitha's parents live abroad, concentrating merely on their work and business, having no time for their daughter and always neglecting her.

When they find out that Anitha is addicted to drugs, they decide to run away from their homes along with Mani, a pavement bookseller and an older friend of theirs in order to rehabilitate her, but also as a result of their discontent and feeling of alienation from their respective families.

Late at night, Vishnu, Mani, and Mahesh go looking for Anitha while Pooja and Divya stay with Harish.

The friends spot Anitha being brought by a man to be sell her as a prostitute and Harish fight them, only to get stabbed.

Hearing the principal's words and her father scolding her, Pooja consumes an unnamed acid from her school lab.

When his family faced financial pressures in the early 2000s with his father was out of work, and subsequently, they decided to put their remaining earnings into the film.

[6] Post-release, Selvaraghavan stated that he had also directed the film but was forced to credit his more established filmmaker father as the sole director, to help the project find a distributor.

[8][9] Viji Manuel composed the film score on Yuvan Shankar Raja's request who had to leave for London on an urgent work.

[10] The soundtrack initially featured 7 songs overall, later a second CD was released which included 3 additional short tracks.

[12] Tulika of Rediff.com called the film "an example of moviemaking smarts", adding, "Sitting in a movie theatre watching someone else live out their problems and find solutions, helps".

[13] After taking a small opening, the film began to get teen audiences to cinema halls for its adolescent themes.