Jaya (film)

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

Jaya
Poster
Directed by	Ratnaraj-Kalanathan
Written by	Amudha Durairaj
Produced by	R.C. Venkatadri
Starring	Ramya Krishnan Sherin Karunas Sriman Manorama
Cinematography	K. V. Mani
Edited by	Sunil Kumar V. T. Vijayan (Supervision)
Music by	Bharani
Production companies	Ratna Films Deivanai Movies
Release date	6 December 2002 (2002-12-06)
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Plot

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.

Cast

• Ramya Krishnan as Jaya
• Sherin Shringar as Preethi
• Sriman as Balaji
• Manorama
• Karunas as Micheal
• Ramesh Kanna as Ramesh Kanna
• Trilok as Saleem
• Swetha Eswarawaka
• Ambika
• Anu Mohan
• Thalaivasal Vijay
• FEFSI Vijayan
• Kumarimuthu
• Suryakanth
• Madhan Bob
• Vani Viswanath
• Baburaj

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.^[1]

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Bharani.^[2]

Song	Singers	Lyrics
Berla Berla	Anuradha Sriram	Kabilan
Gundu Banagara Goli	Manikka Vinayagam	Pa. Vijay
Jinjinna Jinjinna	Sujatha, Sumitra	Thamarai
Nilave Nilave	K. S. Chithra
Tension Tension	Anuradha Sriram	Newton
Velli Kolusu Mani	Srinivas	Palani Bharathi

Reception

The Hindu wrote "WHAT COULD have been a thrilling action-packed film ends a damp squib, thanks to insipid treatment".^[3] 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".^[4]