Iyarkai (2003) on Netflix
Nancy sells fruit and is waiting for a ship captain who promised to come back for her. Marudhu, a sailor newly arrived in Rameswaram, falls in love with her.
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A sailor named Marudhu comes into Rameswaram port after fourteen years in Rome. At a bar he asks Nandu for directions to the church, and there he describes to Stephen, the parish priest, a captain who tried to flee a sinking ship. Nancy, who heard him, works at a roadside eatery kept by Mercy, her sister-in-law. She tells Marudhu that she is waiting for a ship captain she met three years earlier while selling mangoes, a man who gave her a ring and said she was too young to judge love, though she made him promise to return within a year. Marudhu offers to help her find him, but she never learned his name and called him only Sir and Officer. When he declares his love, she draws away.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Iyarkai (2003)
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- Suriya turned down the lead role in Iyarkai because he was not interested in doing romantic films; Shaam, whom director S. P. Jhananathan had worked with as an assistant editor on 12B (2001), was cast instead and signed the film before 12B was released.
- S. P. Jhananathan took inspiration for Iyarkai from his friend's uncle, who went alone on a boat voyage in the Mediterranean Sea immediately after getting married, was lost, and whose body was never found; unaware, his wife awaited his return.
- Because Jhananathan demanded an abandoned, slanted lighthouse for the Andaman Islands shoot, art director Sabu Cyril found an island an hour away from Port Blair and built a five-foot lighthouse there with thirty crew members, including ten carpenters, three molders and two painters, in eight days.
- Iyarkai won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil for 2003, competing with Virumaandi and Pithamagan. Director S. P. Jhananathan wanted to return the award in protest of the death penalty in the hanging of Dhananjoy Chatterjee, but he did not.
- Arun Kumar was chosen to play the ship captain in Iyarkai, a character based on the life of Jhananathan's friend's uncle. He turned down the role because he was not interested in a cameo, then changed his mind after Jhananathan explained the part's importance.
- Although he was advised not to, Pasupathy accepted the role of the priest in Iyarkai because he did not want to get typecast as a villain.
