An angry and hurt Jessie makes a final decision to break up with Karthik because of her father's strong disapproval of their love. After a tense phone call from Jessie, Karthik goes back one night to check on her. Busy Karthik is unable to attend to her calls and messages Jessie is unable to reach him. Suddenly, Jessie is forced by her father to marry and seeks Karthik's help, who was in Goa for a film shooting. Karthik and Jessie continue to love each other without the knowledge of their parents. But at the wedding, she refuses to marry the groom, Roy Thomas ( Surya), displeasing everyone in her family. Her parents learn about their affair with this fight and arrange a marriage for her. Now, Jerry finds that they like each other and in the fight that follows we come to know that Karthik is a part-time boxer where he beats up Jerry and his friends. In the train he kisses her for which she slaps him and later the two meet several times afterwards and Jessie begins to admit that she likes Karthik but wants to refrain from any problems because she knows her father won't accept a Hindu marrying their daughter.
After coming to know from her that she is going back to Hyderabad alone, he decides to turn the friendship in to love in the train journey. Then Karthik tells her that they can be good friends. Karthik gets to know this from his sister and goes to Alappuzha, along with his friend Krishnudu ( Krishnudu), where he gets introduces to her family as his classmate.
Later Jessie goes to Alappuzha, her grandparents' place. Karthik expresses his love one day to her, who is afraid of speaking to men around her strict father, and ends up angering Jessie. When Karthik meets Jessie for the first time, he falls in love with her. Jessie ( Samantha), their daughter, is 2 years older than Karthik. Karthik's family rents the ground floor of a two-storeyed house which belongs to a Kerala Christian family who are very conservative Syrian Catholic family from Alappuzha, Kerala, who live upstairs. The film was also a commercial success, eventually becoming the biggest hit in Suriya's career then.Karthik ( Naga Chaitanya) is a mechanical engineering graduate but aspires to become a filmmaker. It won many awards including the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil. The film was produced by Venu Ravichandran and has musical score by Harris Jayaraj, making Vaaranam Aayiram his final project with Gautham Menon before the formal break-up of their partnership, which was eventually resumed 7 years later, in Yennai Arindhaal (2015). As a tribute to the father of the director, the film opened in several countries with critical acclaim. The film illustrates the theme of how a father often came across his son's life as a hero and inspiration, whose death was deeply mourned in the end. It was dubbed and released in Telugu as Surya s/o Krishnan. The film had been under production since late 2006, and was released worldwide on 14 November 2008. Suriya plays dual lead roles, with Simran, Divya Spandana, and Sameera Reddy. Vaaranam Aayiram (English: A thousand elephants) is a 2008 Indian Tamil-language drama film written and directed by Gautham Menon.
Movie wiki in one line Title: Vaaranam Aayiram, Running time (duration): 169 mins, Release date: 14 November 2008, Language: Tamil, Censor type: U, Stars: Suriya and Simran and Divya Spandana and Sameera Reddy, Director: Gautham Menon, Music director: Harris Jayaraj, Poster: Attached, Budget: ₹15 crore, Box office collections: ₹30 crore, Producer: V.