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{{Infobox film
| name =I Love You Da
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| director = C. Raajadurai
| producer = [[Manoj Kumar (Tamil film director)|Manojkumar]]
| writer = C. Raajadurai,<br/>"Vaanavil" N. Raghu (dialogues)
| screenplay =
| story =
| starring = {{ubl|[[Raju Sundaram]]|[[Simran (actress)|Simran]]|[[Raghuvaran]]|[[Prakash Raj]]}}
| music = [[Bharadwaj (music director)|Bharathwaj]]
| cinematography = A. Karthik Raja
| editing = P. Mohanraj
| studio = Guru Films
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|2002|11|29|df=y}}
| runtime = 145 minutes
| country = India
| language = Tamil
}}

'''''I Love You Da''''' is a 2002 Indian [[Tamil language|Tamil]]-language [[Action film|action]] [[romance film]] directed by Raajadurai. The film featured [[Raju Sundaram]] and [[Simran (actress)|Simran]] in the lead roles with [[Raghuvaran]] and [[Prakash Raj]] in supporting roles.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thiraipadam.com/cgi-bin/movie.pl?id=266&lang=english |title=I Love You Daa — Tamil Movie |publisher=Thiraipadam.com |accessdate=2016-12-01}}</ref><ref>http://www.spicevienna.org/showMovie.php?m=1306</ref> The film which had music composed by [[Bharadwaj (music director)|Bharathwaj]], released in November 2002 to poor reviews.<ref>https://m.sify.com/movies/-i-love-you-da-review-tamil-pcluoweajhjbe.html</ref>

== Plot ==
Raju ([[Raju Sundaram]]) is a small time cricketer who makes it big and Priya [[Simran (actress)|Simran]] is his neighbour in love with him. But Raju pretends that he does not care for her, as he knows that his brother Madhan ([[Ramesh Khanna]]) has a crush on her. This creates some confusion but finally the lovers get united.

In between Raju is selected in the Indian team and makes it to the World Cup. The finals are played between India and Pakistan. Priya's father ([[Raghuvaran]]) is a bookie who tries to induce Raju into match fixing. But he does not fall into his trap and scores the required 20 runs to win the World Cup.

== Cast ==
*[[Raju Sundaram]] as Raju
*[[Simran (actress)|Simran]] as Priya
*[[Raghuvaran]] as Rajkishore
*[[Prakash Raj]] as Siddharth
*[[Senthil]] as Raju's Grandfather
*[[Janagaraj]] as Sadasivam
*[[Venniradai Moorthy]] as Pattabi
*[[Alex (actor)|Alex]] as Inspector Pandiyan
*[[Ramesh Khanna]] as Madhan
*Indhu as Sudha
*[[Singamuthu]] as Police constable

== Production ==
The film marked the debut of choreographer [[Raju Sundaram]] as the protagonist in films, after he had appeared in [[item number]]s as well as a supporting role in [[S. Shankar|Shankar]]'s ''[[Jeans (1998 film)|Jeans]]''. The director of the film was to be Raajadurai, who had been an erstwhile assistant of director Manoj Kumar during the making of ''[[Vaanavil]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/movies/2001/mar/31tt.htm |title=rediff.com, Movies: Gossip from the southern film industry: Anil Kumble to act?! |publisher=Rediff|date=2001-03-31 |accessdate=2016-12-01}}</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20010306083553/http://www.chennaionline.com/location/raju.asp</ref> When the film began production in late 2001, a Telugu version titled ''I Love You Raa'' was also planned.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/entertai/2001/dec/04raju.htm |title=rediff.com, Movies: Dancer in the dark: Raju Sundaram |publisher=Rediff|date=2001-12-04 |accessdate=2016-12-01}}</ref> Actress [[Simran (actress)|Simran]], Raju Sundaram's girlfriend during the period, was signed to play the female lead role.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lolluexpress.com/kisukisu.htm |title=I Love You Da |work=Lollu Express |access-date=2012-04-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140506070553/http://lolluexpress.com/kisukisu.htm |archive-date=6 May 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://cinematoday3.itgo.com/Interview%20with%20Actress%20Simran,.htm |title=subas |publisher=Cinematoday3.itgo.com |accessdate=2016-12-01}}</ref> The couple however split during the production of the film.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cooljilax.com/2002/stats2002.html |title=Tamil Film Statistics - 2002 |publisher=Cooljilax.com |date=2003-02-06 |accessdate=2016-12-01}}</ref> Early reports suggested that noted South Indian cricketers including [[Sadagoppan Ramesh]], [[Anil Kumble]], [[Rahul Dravid]] and [[Javagal Srinath]] may feature as themselves in the film, but this proved to be untrue.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cinematoday2.itgo.com/Hot%20news%20For%20You%20080520011.htm |title=Chinna |publisher=Cinematoday2.itgo.com |accessdate=2016-12-01}}</ref>

Despite the completion of the film's scenes by early 2002, production delays meant that the film faced a belated release at the end of the year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/fr/2002/05/17/stories/2002051701380300.htm |title=A shot in the arm |date=2002-05-17 |access-date=2016-12-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140607064837/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/fr/2002/05/17/stories/2002051701380300.htm |work=[[The Hindu]] |archive-date=7 June 2014}}</ref>

== Release ==
The film gained unanimously poor reviews upon release, with Malathi Rangarajan of [[The Hindu]] stating that the film "falls flat due to identifiable reasons — the director has not done his homework properly, the dialogue makes you squirm at times, none of the actors seems involved in the role taken up and to top it all the lead pair fails to make even a slight impression".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/fr/2002/12/13/stories/2002121301100200.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030630024732/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/fr/2002/12/13/stories/2002121301100200.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2003-06-30 |title=I Love You Da |date=2002-12-13 |work=[[The Hindu]] |accessdate=2016-12-01}}</ref>

== Soundtrack ==
{{Infobox album
| name = I Love You Da
| type = [[Soundtrack]]
| artist = [[Bharathwaj]]
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| released = 2002
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| prev_title = [[Jjunction]]
| prev_year = 2002
| next_title = [[Kalatpadai]]
| next_year = 2003
}}
The soundtrack of the film was composed by [[Bharathwaj]]. Lyrics were written by [[Vairamuthu]], [[Snehan]] and [[P. Vijay]].

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"
! No. !! Song !! Singers !! Lyrics
|-
| 1 || "Adicha Sixaru" I || [[Tippu (singer)|Tippu]] || rowspan=2|[[Snehan]]
|-
| 2 || "Adicha Sixaru" II || [[Shankar Mahadevan]]
|-
| 3 || "Autograph" || [[Yugendran]], [[Pop Shalini]] || [[P. Vijay]]
|-
| 4 || "I Love You Daa" || [[Karthik (singer)|Karthik]], [[Pop Shalini]] || [[Vairamuthu]]
|-
| 5 || "MTV Paathuputta" || [[Mathangi Jagdish|Mathangi]] || P. Vijay
|-
| 6 || "Oh Priya" I || [[Ramani Bharadwaj|Bharathwaj]] || rowspan=2|Vairamuthu
|-
| 7 || "Oh Priya" II || [[Hariharan (singer)|Hariharan]]
|-
| 8 || "Ulagae Maayam" || Reshmi || [[Snehan]]
|-
| 9 || "Vandutaandaa" || [[Mano (singer)|Mano]], [[Ramani Bharadwaj|Bharadwaj]] || Vairamuthu
|-
| 10 || "Yetho Yetho Ennil" || Josh Neelam, [[Srinivas (singer)|Srinivas]] || Snehan
|-
|}

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==

[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Tamil-language films]]
[[Category:2002 films]]
[[Category:Films about cricket in India]]
[[Category:2000s Tamil-language films]]
[[Category:Films scored by Bharadwaj (music director)]]
[[Category:2002 directorial debut films]]

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