Theeya Velai Seiyyanum Kumaru

Theeya Velai Seiyyanum Kumaru (transl. You have got to work like fire, Kumar) is a 2013 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film co-produced and directed by Sundar C. and produced by his wife Khushbu. The film stars Siddharth, Santhanam, and Hansika Motwani.^[1] It was simultaneously partially reshot in Telugu as Something Something with Brahmanandam replacing Santhanam and a different supporting cast.^[2] The film released on 14 June 2013.

Theeya Velai Seiyyanum Kumaru
Poster of the Tamil version
Directed by	Sundar C
Screenplay by	Sundar C Nalan Kumarasamy Karunakaran Shrinivas Kavinayam Prabhu Das
Produced by	Ronnie Screwvala Siddharth Roy Kapur Subramanyam B. Suresh L.
Starring	Siddharth Santhanam Hansika Motwani
Cinematography	Gopi Amarnath
Edited by	Praveen K. L. N. B. Srikanth
Music by	C. Sathya
Production companies	UTV Motion Pictures Avni Cinemax
Distributed by	UTV Motion Pictures
Release date	14 June 2013 (2013-06-14)
Running time	138 minutes (Tamil) 128 minutes (Telugu)
Country	India
Languages	Tamil Telugu

Plot

Kumar is a software engineer who lives in a joint family. All of the marriages in his family have been love marriages for generations. He, however, swears off girls and love because of bad experiences in his childhood and teenage years. One day, he falls in love with Sanjana, a new employee in his office. Unable to convey his feelings, he seeks the help of Mokia (Premji in Telugu), a man who earns a living by helping men impress their lovers. Mokia teaches him to be more assertive and flirtatious. He makes Kumar spread the rumour that Sanjana is seeing her boss, George. As a result, Sanjana stops spending time with George. George then asks her to be his girlfriend, coincidentally when Kumar was planning to confess his love for Sanjana. She accepts, leaving Kumar heartbroken. Mokia then intervenes and breaks up George and Sanjana. Sanjana and Kumar finally get together but Mokia tries to break them apart after he finds out it is his sister (niece in Telugu) he has been helping Kumar with. Then, Kumar admits to Sanjana that he manipulated her feelings but then seeks her forgiveness. Then they get back together, with the acceptance of Mokia who sees Kumar's true love for Sanjana.

Cast

• Siddharth as Kumar
• Santhanam as Sathish (Mokia)
• Hansika Motwani as Sanjana
• Ganesh Venkatraman as George
• Bosskey as "Mottai" Mama
• Manobala as Pencil Mama / Cone Ice
• Delhi Ganesh as Bombay Ganesan
• RJ Balaji as Karna
• Chitra Lakshmanan as Kunchithapadam, Sathish & Sanjana's father
• Karunakaran as Wedding groom (Tamil version only)
• Vichu Vishwanath as Boss
• Balaji K. Mohan as "Mooku" Mama
• George Vishnu as Raghavendra Rao
• Bava Lakshmanan as Annakili's third younger brother
• John Vijay as Military Colonel
• Thalapathy Dinesh as Annakili's first younger elder brother
• Devadarshini as Kumar's first elder sister
• Nalini as Annakilli
• Meena Kumari as Kumar's second elder sister
• Jennifer as Maya, Sanjana's friend
• Vidyullekha Raman as Sanjana's friend and Sathish's love interest
• Bhavani
• Sriranjani as Janaki, Sathish & Sanjana's mother
• Rethika Srinivas as HR Manager Rekha Mohan
• Iswarya Menon as Kumar and Sanjana's coworker
• Pei Krishnan as Annakili's second younger brother
• Priyanka Nalkari as Sanjana's friend
• George Maryan as Parathaman
• Vishal as himself (special appearance)^[3]
• Samantha Ruth Prabhu (special appearance)^[4]
• Khushbu (special appearance in the song "Thiruttu Pasanga")
• Sundar C. (special appearance) (special appearance in the song "Thiruttu Pasanga") (Tamil version only)

Telugu version

Apart from the scenes involving these actors, the rest of the film was dubbed from the Tamil version.

• Brahmanandam as Premji
• Venu Madhav as Cone Ice Bava
• Sudha as Premji's sister and Sanjana's mother
• Gautam Raju as Police officer
• Rana Daggubati as himself (special appearance)

Production

In January 2013, Sundar C announced that he would collaborate with UTV Motion Pictures for another film after the success of Kalakalappu. The film was launched on 21 March 2013. The film's title Theeya Velai Seiyyanum Kumaru was derived from a dialogue from Pudhupettai, later popularised by Boss Engira Bhaskaran.^[5] Shooting took place in Chennai and Hyderabad, while the songs were filmed overseas.

Soundtrack

C. Sathya composed the music for this film.

All lyrics are written by Pa. Vijay.

Tamil

No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Azhagendral"	C. Sathya, Aalap Raju, Ranina Reddy	4:11
2.	"Kozhu Kozhu"	Vijay Prakash, Priya Himesh	4:23
3.	"Melliya Saaral"	Yazin Nizar, Harish Iyer	2:43
4.	"Lovukku Yes"	Sharmila, Ranjit, Dr. Narayanan	4:02
5.	"Enna Pesa"	Haricharan	4:29
6.	"Thiruttu Pasanga"	Saindhavi, Ranina Reddy, Dr. Narayanan	3:21
Total length:			23:09

All lyrics are written by Vanamali.

Telugu

No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Sogassante"	C. Sathya, Ranina Reddy	4:10
2.	"Misa Misala"	Mukesh, Priya Himesh	4:22
3.	"Melliya Saaral"	Yazin Nizar, Harish Iyer	2:41
4.	"Love Ku Yes"	Sharmila, Ranjit, Dr. Narayanan	4:03
5.	"Chinna Maata"	Ranjith	4:31
6.	"Dhonga Bhadavalu (Sweetu Sweetu)"	Saindhavi, Ranina Reddy, Dr. Narayanan	2:45
Total length:			22:32

Release

Theeya Velai Seiyyanum Kumaru was given a U certificate by the censor board without cuts.^[6] The film was released simultaneously with Thillu Mullu on 14 June 2013.

Box office

Critical reception

S. Saraswathi of Rediff.com wrote, "Theeya Velai Seyyanum Kumaru fails on many counts, the primary being the lead actors and their lackluster performance, the film is still quite boring and predictable".^[7] Vivek Ramanathan of In.com wrote, "Overall, TVSK is an average rom-com with few good laughs".^[8] Baradwaj Rangan wrote for The Hindu, "Theeya Velai Seiyyanum Kumaru at least has better one-liners, borderline surreal non sequiturs — and all of them are entrusted with RJ Balaji...Santhanam, in comparison, comes off a tad stale, with his now-patented mix of alliteration and rhyme."^[9]

In regards to the Telugu version, The Hindu wrote that "Something Something oscillates between being hilarious to ridiculous, backed by good performances by Siddharth, Hansika and Brahmanandam".^[10] Idlebrain.com gave a review of rating 3/5 stating "Something Something is a romantic comedy that features Brahmanandam in a full length character. It is one of those films in which the character suits Siddharth very well. The scenes and thread featuring Brahmanandam is the lifeline of the movie. On a whole, Something Something works because of Brahmanandam."^[11]