Podaa Podi (Tamil: போடா
போடி; English:Go Boy,Go
Girl) is an 2012 Indian Tamil romantic drama film written and directed by
debutant Vignesh Shivan, starring Silambarasan and Varalaxmi Sarathkumar. The
score and soundtrack of the film was composed by Dharan Kumar, while
cinematography and editing were handled by Duncan Telford and Anthony
Gonsalves, respectively. The film started production in 2008 and was released
on 13 November 2012, as a Diwali release. The film was grandly welcomed by
audience despite fetching negative reviews from critics [1] and was declared as
a super hit at the box office despite receiving tough competition from Vijay's
Thuppakki. Podaa Podi had an higher percentage opening weekend collection
Story:
Arjun (Silambarasan), an animation artist living in London
with his uncle (Ganesh), meets Nisha (Varalaxmi Sarathkumar) in a London pub.
She is an aspiring dancer who is living with her aunt (Shobana). After going
around together for a day, Nisha proposes a relationship and Arjun agrees.
Arjun hates Nisha attending salsa classes with her friend Mojo as her partner.
However, he agrees to marry her.
After their wedding, Nisha makes it clear that she still
wants to dance and enter the UK competition 'Let's Dance', and make a career
for herself. Arjun suddenly discovers that he is, at bottom, a "Pachai
Thamizhan" who believes that a woman's place is in the home (preferably
the kitchen, but she has the freedom to walk from one room to another if she
wants). On the advice of his uncle, he makes her pregnant, so that she stays
away from dancing.
Birth of their first child brings happiness to their family.
They go to Hong Kong Disneyland for their babymoon. After the tour, in a family
conversation, Arjun's uncle mentions his "advice" of making Nisha
pregnant so that she would not dance any more. Realising that the child was the
result of Arjun’s cheap plan and not love towards her, Nisha walks out. Arjun
tries to console her, but gets angry when she meets a friend who greets her
with a hug. Arjun, who gets immediately jealous, goes and starts fighting with
her friend, while she pleads him to stop. Then, a car comes and kills their
baby. They separate and live in sorrow. After several months, Arjun comes to
Nisha and pleads her aunt to make her come back and says that if he ever has
another child (which he definitely wants) it will be only with her.
She comes back, on the condition that she continues dancing.
However during her practices she become self conscious due to the things Arjun
said to her. Her partner, Mojo, refuses to work with her so Arjun tries to
convince him to come back. Arjun then ends up beating Mojo, so that she will be
left without a partner and leave the competition. She convinces Arjun to be her
partner, but his steps fail in the first round. Impressed by Nisha dancing
skills, judges give her another chance, provided she changes her partner. Arjun
convinces her to do a “kuthu” dance, which impresses the judges. But she is not
happy, because they have to clear 14 rounds to win the competition. Suddenly,
Arjun decides to make her pregnant again. The movie ends with both of them
living with their new child.