February 14 (film)

February 14 is a 2005 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film directed by debutant S. P. Hosimin.^[1] Produced by Salem Chandrasekharan, the film stars Bharath and Renuka Menon, whilst its soundtrack was composed by Bharadwaj.

February 14
Directed by	S. P. Hosimin
Written by	S. P. Hosimin
Produced by	Salem Chandrasekharan
Starring	Bharath Renuka Menon
Cinematography	R. Rathnavelu
Edited by	Suresh Urs
Music by	Bharadwaj
Production company	Sri Saravanaa Creations
Release date	22 July 2005 (2005-07-22)
Running time	140 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Plot

Shiva enters into St. Peters college, Bangalore and meets Pooja, who was born and brought up in the United States and has come to India to stay with her grandparents while completing her college education. Shiva falls in love with her but soon realises that their characters are totally different. Pooja feels alone, like a fish out of water in India and she wants to return to the US. So Shiva thinks about a plan to get her to stay and he expresses his love to her by creating a fictitious character Mr. X but never reveals the identity of the character till the end. Pooja who got impressed by Mr. X refuses to see him in the later stage but understand and accepts Shiva's true love.

Cast

• Bharath as Shiva / Mr. X
• Renuka Menon as Pooja
• Vadivelu as Ezhumalai, Canteen owner
• Sathyan as Arvind Swamy
• Santhanam as College Student
• Suman Setty as Suman
• Pyramid Natarajan as Pooja's grandfather
• Raviprakash as Shiva's father
• Chithra Kumar as Shiva's mother
• Ajmal Ameer as Vicky, college student
• Bava Lakshmanan in a deleted scene
• Mayilsamy as Himself
• Halwa Vasu as Canteen employee
• Bonda Mani as Canteen employee
• Vijay Ganesh as Canteen employee
• Vengal Rao as Canteen employee (credited as Rao)
• Jennifer as Gayathri, Shiva's sister
• Ragasya as Special appearance in "Othayya Rettaya"

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Bharadwaj.^[2][3]

Song	Singers	Lyrics
"Laila Majnu"	Karthik, Sadhana Sargam	Na. Muthukumar
"Aantha Avasthai"	Shreya Ghoshal	Kabilan
"Nanba Nanba"	Bharadwaj, Karthik, Srinivas, Janani Bharadwaj	Pa. Vijay
"Un Peyarennada"	Anuradha Sriram	S. P. Hosimin
"Idhu Kathala"	Haricharan
"Ennachu Enakku"	Shri Krishna
"Othayya Rettaya"	Pushpavanam Kuppusamy, Anuradha Sriram
"Jana Gana"	Arjun Thomas, Donnan, Andrea

Critical reception

Malini Mannath of Chennai Online wrote, "The director's half-hearted attempts at lacing his narration with comedy scenes proves futile, their not quite fitting into his narration. Where he scores is in his song picturisation. The dance numbers are attractively shot, canned by Ratnavelu's camera, which throughout gives a rich glossy look to the frames".^[4] Visual Dasan of Kalki found Rathnavelu's cinematography as the film's only positive.^[5]