Priyamaanavale

Priyamaanavale is a 2000 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film written and directed by K. Selva Bharathy. The film stars Vijay and Simran, in lead roles with SPB, Vivek and Radhika Chaudhari in supporting roles. It revolves around a working woman in a struggling family marrying a billionaire for upbringing of her poor family and the distress she receives from her NRI husband with non-Indian cultural shades in his role but he later realises about the importance of Indian culture and marriage and then becomes a loving and caring husband. This film is the Tamil remake of the 1996 Telugu film Pavitra Bandham. The film released on 26 October 2000, and became a commercial success. Plot Vijay is the only son of a rich industrialist, Vishwanathan. Having pursued his education abroad, he is highly Westernised and spends his time partying and enjoying with his friends Chandru and Sowmya instead of managing his father's business. Moreover, he has no faith in the institution of marriage. When Vishwanathan decides to get Vijay married in order to make him more responsible, Vijay agrees under the condition that the marriage is valid only for one year, and that he will decide if he wants to continue the marriage after that. Vishwanathan is upset at this as he feels that no girl will accept the conditions put forth by Vijay. He explains his situation to his personal assistant, Priya, and requests her to marry him, with the idea that Priya would be able to change Vijay and make him more responsible. Priya initially refuses on knowing about Vijay's agreement. However, she is the sole breadwinner of her family. She has an elder sister who needs to undergo a heart surgery, a younger sister who needs to get married, and a younger brother, Shankar, who is unemployed. So she decides to sacrifice her life and marry Vijay, accepting the conditions of his marriage agreement, for the sake of her family. Vijay and Priya become good friends after marriage, however, Vijay refuses to consider Priya as his wife. On Priya's insistence, Vijay decides to work in his father's office, where he gets to know about the money siphoning made by his office employees Manohar, who is an associate of Vijay, and 7 Times, Priya's crude and uncouth uncle who lusts for her. He dismisses them and lodges a police complaint against them. In retribution, Manohar and 7 Times orchestrate a car accident, severely injuring Vijay.