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A clever thief gets mistaken for an NRI who has come back to join a wealthy businessman's firm, and he decides to play along when the family expects him to marry their daughter. While he navigates the comforts and complications of his assumed identity, the real NRI winds up forming an unexpected connection with the thief's friend. Misunderstandings pile up, comic situations escalate, and two unlikely pairs grow closer as secrets, flirtations, and pratfalls keep everyone guessing about what will happen next. The film keeps its focus on light romance and humor without revealing any major surprises from its finale.

Directed by Saba Kailash and released in 1997, the movie was created by Vairamuthu and K. Selvabharathy and stars Prabhu Deva, Abbas, Rambha, Simran, and Manivannan. Its late 90s production values and casting leaned into dance, comic timing, and broad romantic beats common to that period.

Box office figures for the film are not widely documented in public records, and there aren’t reliable, widely reported totals to cite. It joined a crowded field of mid 1990s romantic comedies and didn’t leave a clear commercial footprint in mainstream box office summaries.

Critical reaction that’s publicly available is limited, with a low average rating in some databases and only a small number of recorded votes. The movie leans on mistaken identity, slapstick situations, and performative dance numbers to drive its humor and romance, making tone and star turns more central than narrative depth or subtle character study.

Though it didn’t become a major cultural milestone, viewers who follow late 1990s Indian romantic comedies often point to Prabhu Deva’s energetic moves and the film’s goofy spirit as its most memorable elements. For fans of lighthearted romantic mix ups and dance-driven sequences, it remains a niche, period-specific pleasure.