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Kalyana Samayal Saadham

Kalyana Samayal Saadham (transl. Wedding Feast), also known by the initialism KSS, is a 2013 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film written and directed by R. S. Prasanna in his directorial debut. It stars Prasanna and Lekha Washington, while Crazy Mohan, Delhi Ganesh, Uma appear in supporting roles. Produced by Ananth Govindan and Arun Vaidyanathan under the Everest Entertainment banner, it was distributed by Abinesh Elangovan's Abi TCS Studios, C. V. Kumar's Thirukumaran Entertainment and RPP Film Factory. The film's title is derived from a legendary song from the 1957 film Mayabazar.

The film follows Raghu, a software engineer who faces several challenges in his arranged marriage as he suffers from erectile dysfunction and tries to find a solution to his problem. Principal photography of the film started on 3 January 2013, and completed within 25 days. The music was composed by Arrora, with cinematography handled by Krishnan Vasant and editing done by Sathyaraj Natarajan.

Kalyana Samayal Saadham, was marketed as a feel-good wedding movie, with some modern twists. The film released worldwide on 7 December 2013, and received critical acclaim. It was listed on "The list of Films, that redefined Tamil cinema" by The Hindu. The film was remade in Hindi, titled as Shubh Mangal Savdhan, directed by Prasanna himself.

Raghu, a software engineer, gets engaged to another engineer named Meera. It is going to be an arranged marriage, and the extended families of both are looking forward to it. However, Raghu has erectile dysfunction, and on the advice of his friends, tries out various quacks treating impotency. Funny things happen on the way of solving the problem.

The film marks Prasanna's first feature film after his marriage with Sneha. It also marked the directorial debut of R. S. Prasanna, a gold medal winner from the L. V. Prasad Film Institute. The first look released in November 2012, which features the technical crew, Krishnan Vasant handling the cinematography, Sathyaraj Natarajan being the editor, and Vedanth Bharadwaj and singer Karthik, were initially roped into compose the music, later replaced by flautist Navin Iyer, credited as Arrora. Delhi Ganesh and Uma Padmanabhan, joined the film, playing the parents of Lekha Washington, whereas Geetha Ravishankar and Natarajan essayed the role of Prasanna's parents. Crazy Mohan, also joined the film in a supporting role.

Principal photography of the movie began on 3 January 2013, with a pooja (blessing) ceremony. Most of the film's shoot schedule was completed within 25 days. The sound mixing of the film took place at the Warner Brothers Studio in Los Angeles, with audiographer Kunal Rajan.

The music for Kalyana Samayal Saadham is composed by flautist Navin, credited as Arrora, who made his debut as a music composer. The soundtrack album features six tracks, with lyrics written by singer Harish Raghavendra, Muthamil, Arrora, Sakthi, Srikanth Varadhan, with the latter making his debut as a lyricist. Actor Prasanna also made his debut as a playback singer for the song "Pallu Pona Raja" which has a female version sung by Sangeetha Rajeshwaran. The audio rights of the film were purchased and marketed by Think Music.

The first single track "Mella Sirithai" sung by Haricharan, Chinmayi was released on 9 September 2013 coinciding with the occasion of Vinayaka Chathurthi, at Suryan FM 93.5 Radio Station in Chennai, in the presence of directors Nalan Kumarasamy, Karthik Subbaraj, Balaji Tharaneetharan, Balaji Mohan, Pa. Ranjith and Alphonse Puthren. The video of the song got positive response for its innovative making. The audio launch of the film took place on 16 October 2013, at Sathyam Cinemas in Chennai, with the presence of K. S. Ravikumar, Balu Mahendra, G. Dhananjayan, K. E. Gnanavel Raja, Nalan Kumarasamy and Santhosh Narayanan, alongside the cast and crew. The audio CD of the film was unveiled by Ravikumar and received it to Balu Mahendra.

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