The film won three Filmfare Awards for Best Actor and Best Male Playback Singer for Dhanush, and Best Music Director for Anirudh Ravichander. The film released worldwide on 30 March 2012, to mostly positive reviews, praising the performances of the lead actors, especially Dhanush's performance, Anirudh's soundtrack and score, but criticising the narration of the film. The song 'Why This Kolaveri Di' penned and sung by Dhanush, became one of the most streamed songs of all time, and also listed in one of the 'Recently Most Popular (Gold) Videos' on YouTube. The soundtrack album and background score were composed by Dhanush's cousin-in-law Anirudh Ravichander, marking his debut as a composer with lyrics written by Dhanush, received positive reviews upon release. The cinematography was handled by Velraj and editing was done by Kola Bhaskar. The film was launched on 5 August 2011 in Chennai, with Dhanush and Amala Paul in lead roles, the latter was replaced by Shruti Haasan, due to schedule conflicts. However, Janani is mystified when Ram commits suicide all of a sudden and she tries to find out the truth behind his death. The film follows Ram(Dhanush) and Janani (Shruti Haasan), two high school sweethearts who eventually get married. He also played the male lead role alongside Shruti Haasan, whilst Sivakarthikeyan and Sunder Ramu appear in prominent roles.

Dhanush, wife of actor Dhanush, who also produced the film, thus making their debut in both the fields.

3 is a 2012 Indian Tamil-language romantic psychological thriller film written and directed by Aishwarya R.

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