Jeans (film)
Jeans is a 1998 Indian Tamil romantic drama film written and directed by Shankar. Produced by Ashok Amritraj and Murali Manohar, it stars Prashanth, Aishwarya Rai and Nassar in the lead roles, whilst Raju Sundaram, Raadhika Sarathkumar and Lakshmi played other supporting role characters. The film features a chart-topping soundtrack from A. R. Rahman, whilst Ashok Kumar and the pair of B. Lenin and V. T. Vijayan took care of the cinematography and editing respectively.
The film revolves around a Non-resident Indian man, Nachiappan, who has twin sons, Vishwanathan and Ramamoorthy. As a result of Nachiappan's separation from his twin brother, he wants his sons to be married to twins. However, Visu falls in love with a girl, Madhumitha, who visits the United States to help her grandmother remove a brain tumour. Visu and Ramu are medical students who are attached to the hospital where Madhu's grandmother has her operation, and mistake requires Visu's intervention. After helping Madhu's grandmother, he eventually tells her his father's wishes. Eventually Vishwanathan and Madhumitha put on a double act attempting to deceive the father, who is insistent that his sons get married to twins, however their plans are foiled. How the couple manages to change his father's decision to marry his sons to twins forms the crux of the story.
The film opened to Indian audiences after several delays, on 24 April 1998 and was the most expensive film to be made in Indian cinema at the time. Owing to its success, it was later dubbed into the Hindi and Telugu language and released with the same name. The film was nominated by India as its entry for the Best Foreign Language Film for the Academy Awards in 1998.