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Banner | Indira Productions |
Director | Gautham Menon |
Writer | Gautham Menon, Umarji Anuradha |
Producer | Manjula Ghattamaneni, Sanjay Swaroop |
Music Director | A.R. Rahman |
Cinematography | Manoj Paramahamsa |
Film Editing | Anthony Gonsalves |
Art Director | Rajeevan |
Camera Operator | Arun Bathmanabhan |
Assistant Cameramen | S. Gokul |
Playback Singers | Benny Dayal, Kalyani Menon, Devan Ekambaram, Chinmayi, Karthik, Shreaya Ghoshal, VijayPrakash, Suzanne, Blaze, Naresh Iyer, Alphons |
Character | Actor / Actress |
Karthik | Naga Chaitanya Akkineni |
Jessie Thekekuttu | Samantha Ruth Prabhu |
Krishna | Krishnudu |
Raghava Rao | Sanjay Swaroop |
Joseph Thekekuttu | Devan |
Surekavani | |
Teresa Thekekuttu | Lakshmi Ramakrishnan |
Puri Jagannadh | |
Jerry Thekekuttu | Sudheer Babu Posani |
Surekha Vani | |
Nandhini | Sapan Saran |
Anupama | Trisha Alex |
Trisha Krishnan | |
T.R. Silambarasan | |
Subbalakshmi | |
Gautham Menon |
Karthik (Naga Chaitanya) is a mechanical engineering graduate but aspires to become a filmmaker. Through his friend, Karthik gets introduced to a cinematographer. With his support,Karthik family, who are Hindus, rents the ground floor of a two-storeyed house which belongs to the Thekekuttus. The Thekekuttu family is a conservative Malayali Syrian Catholic family from Alappuzha, Kerala, who live upstairs. The Thekekuttus have a daughter, Jessie (Samantha). When Karthik meets Jessie for the first time, he falls in love with her. Karthik expresses his love one day to her, who is afraid of speaking to men around her strict father, and ends up angering Jessie. The two meet several times afterwards and Jessie begins to admit that she likes Karthik but wants to refrain from any problems because she knows her father won't accept a Hindu marrying their daughter. Her parents learn about their affair and arrange a marriage for her. But at the wedding, she refuses to marry the groom, displeasing everyone in her family. Karthik and Jessie continue to love each other without the knowledge of their parents. Suddenly, Jessie is forced by her father to marry and seeks Karthik's help, who was in Goa for a film shooting. Busy Karthik is unable to attend to her calls and messages; Jessie is unable to reach him. After a tense phone call from Jessie, Karthik goes back one night to check on her. An angry and hurt Jessie makes a final decision to break up with Karthik because of her father's strong disapproval of their love.Later on, Karthik learns that Jessie got married and is settled abroad. Two years later, Karthik meets Nandini (Sapan Saran), who falls in love with him,. She is rejected by Karthik who cites his previous affair with Jessie whom he can not get over. He then comes up with a script for his first film, which happens to be his own love story. He calls upon Silambarasan Rajendar as the film's protagonist and Trisha Krishnan (who are leads in the Tamil version of the film) as the female lead. The film is eventually titled Jessie.He sees Jessie three years later in the U.S. and thinks she is married. She reveals that she is not. She refused to marry anyone her parents set up because they rejected Karthik. Out of anger, her parents leave. They then get married at a Hindu temple and a church. The film ends at a theater where they watch Jessie. |
Release date | 26-February-2010 |
Budget | ₹ 10.5 crore |
Revenue | ₹ 20 crore |
Nandi Awards: Best Screenplay Writer - Gautham Menon Best Female Dubbing Artist - Chinmayi (dubbing for Samantha) Special Jury Award - Samantha Ruth Prabhu Filmfare Awards South: Best Music Director - A. R. Rahman Best Female Debutant - Samantha Ruth Prabhu Best Cinematographer - Manoj Paramahamsa CineMAA Awards: Best Director - Gautham Menon Best Music Director - A.R.Rahman Best Cinematographer - Manoj Paramahamsa Best Female Debut - Samantha Ruth Prabhu |
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