Jaya (film)

Jaya is a 2002 Indian Tamil-language film directed by the duo Ratnaraj-Kalanathan and starring Ramya Krishnan and Sherin.

Synopsis
The movie is of murder mystery genre, where a college student gets murdered and one of her friends starts a hunt for the killers. Some of the shots for the movie were taken at the SRM College for Hotel Management, where Swetha Eswarawaka, a college student would be part of some competitions along with the lead cast of Ramya Krishnan and Sherin playing the role of college students.

Production
A set resembling a college auditorium was erected at a cost of about Rs. 10 lakhs at a studio in Chennai. It was a college scene, celebrating the International Women's day, that was shot. The variety programme had a dance item by Jaya, Preithy and gang.

Soundtrack
The music was composed by Bharani.

Reception
The Hindu wrote "WHAT COULD have been a thrilling action-packed film ends a damp squib, thanks to insipid treatment". Malini Mannath of Chennai Online wrote "The screenplay has many loopholes, scenes are carelessly joined together, the director quite forgetting what he had depicted in his earlier scenes. The rest of the cast too hardly get any scenes to impress. 'Jaya' is a disappointing fare".