Anbu (2003 film)

Anbu is a 2003 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy drama film written and directed by Dalapathiraj. The film starred Bala and Deepu in the leading roles. It was a below average from films critics and audience.

Plot
Anbu (Bala), son of a politician Karuppiah (Vijayakumar), and Veena (Deepu) are lovers, but fate plays villain and the lovers are separated. Veena is from another caste and her father is against their marriage. So he gets her married to Adithya (Adithya) in Anbu's absence. Anbu in the meantime goes abroad and when he returns, he is shocked to hear the news about Veena's wedding. He rushes to Ooty with Subbiah (Vadivelu), where Veena is spending her honeymoon. Whether the lovers unite in the end forms the rest of this triangular love story.

Soundtrack
The music was composed by Vidyasagar.

Release
The film opened to average reviews, with a critic noting the director "managed to present things in an entertaining fashion in spite of the familiar stories". Another critic noted "in the recent movies by the debutants, this is one explicit movie, which is worth watching". Krishna Chidambaram of Kalki praised Vadivelu's comedy, Vidyasagar's music, story writer for having climax which breaks formula and director for making second half interesting but felt Sarathbabu, Vijayakumar and Rekha were underutilised and panned Bala's acting as amateur, dance choreography and director for testing patience in first half. All Indian Site wrote "[..] ‘Anbu’ has turned out to be a disappointing fare. For the first half the story moves fairly smoothly, without much flaws. But then the narration dries out". Sify wrote "Udhayageetha Cine Creations that had produced a classy film like Thangar Bachchan’s Azhagi has come out with their second film Anbu which is far from entertaining. The film is in the same genre as the Raj Kapoor classic Sangam and K.Bhagyaraj’s Antha Ezhu Naatkal". The film however did not perform well commercially at the box office.

Deepu went on to star in Nee Mattum (2004) also starring Vadivelu.