Because of You) is a 2007 Indian Tamil-language musical romantic comedy film The movie is written, cinematograph and directed by Jeeva and produced by Oscar Ravichandran.
[4] The film opens with a man (Aravind Akash) and woman interviewing civilians on love and the opposite sex.
The credits end as a boy, after being rejected by his girlfriend, is accidentally hit by a passing car and dies.
On the plane, he encounters a playful, flirtatious girl named Deepika (Tanishaa), whom he sits next to during the flight.
At a restaurant, Karthik bumps into a fellow Tamilian named Vaidyanathan (Srinath) and explains his love for Jhansi.
Taking a liking to Jhansi, Karthik begins to follow her intentionally, hoping for her to fall in love with him.
This comes to a head when Karthik acts as the boyfriend of Raju's girlfriend Pooja (Paloma Rao), only for Jhansi to get confused and mistake him.
His reputation as a trusting boyfriend takes another turn for the worse, when at a wedding, the bride (Lekha Washington) gives him a kiss after he improvises a song.
As the pair have a love-hate relationship, the breakup beckons when Jhansi sends her friend (Vasundhara Kashyap) undercover to flirt with Karthik.
At the end of the film, the male interviewer who appeared at the start questions Jhansi on her decision to leave anonymously; however, she refuses to answer at first.
Agarwal cited that her marriage was on the cards and she would find it difficult to sign on for a year, whilst the other two were unable to star in the film due to undisclosed reasons.
The choice of Sadha was more difficult and since Anniyan she had received many negative reviews and the film became important to rekindle her success.
[14] For the film's music and soundtrack, Jeeva renewed his previous association (12B and Ullam Ketkumae) with Harris Jayaraj.
[22] All tracks are written by BhuvanachandraThe movie was released worldwide alongside Mayakannadi, Madurai Veeran and Arputha Theevu on Tamil New Year's Day, 14 April 2007.
[25] The reception in Malaysia was equally successful and was released in six major metropolises for up to 9 weeks, the film collected $114,883 (then approximately ₹5 million) within its 50-day run.
[27] Lajjavathi of Kalki praised the acting of lead pair, humour, Jayaraj's music, Ramakrishnan's dialogues and added Jeeva scored both as cinematographer and director and praised him for narrating the plot like a Haiku and felt the screenplay was fast paced and concluded saying let's welcome this Unnale Unnale to come and sit in the row of films like 'Mozhi'.
[28] Chennai Online wrote "A youthful colourful ambience, a handsome star cast, and some pleasant melodies, all packaged in attractive frames was the trademark of Jeeva's earlier films.
The movie does not have clichéd characters nor the typical masalas associated with Tamil films and is packaged in Bollywood style.
In his endeavour, music director Harris Jayaraj has chipped in heartily and adds a unique lustre".