Producer: Madras Talkies
Director: Mani Ratnam
Music: A R Rahman
Cast: Surya, Madhavan, Siddharth, Esha Deol, Meera Jasmine, Trisha
 
Mani Ratnam says that his Aayitha Ezhuthu is actually based on the life of a student of Osmania University in Hyderabad.

Aayitha Ezhuthu is about three young men from three different strata of society having different views towards life. Their paths cross one day and their life changes forever.

Surya is a child protégée who is invited to America to do his Ph.D under Nobel Laureate Weinberg. He is violent by nature and can’t tolerate anything he believes is wrong. His love interest is Esha Deol who teaches French and studies politics. She is madly in love with him and always waiting for him to propose. But Surya is not keen as he does not believe in the institution of marriage. He wants Esha to move in with him and live together.

Madhavan is a mean street ‘dada’ of Chennai, a guy who grew up in the slums. He uses the language of the gutter and at the least provocation gets violent. The guy however has one weakness, his lovely wife Meera Jasmine, a Brahmin girl with whom he had eloped. Maddy’s mantra in life - “If you don’t get it by asking, then snatch it.”

Siddharth plays a typical Tamil Brahmin engineer on his way to USA, the land of fortune and opportunity. He believes “in minimum efforts but maximum returns”. He will do anything to live life to the fullest- ‘anything’ includes lying, bending the rules, cajoling, even begging! His ‘nanba’ is Trisha who wants to raise his family. They live up life in discos! Suddenly out of the blue their paths cross which leads to the twist in the tale, as they encounter a common enemy. The film has an impressive technical team of Ravi K.Chandran (camera), Sujatha (dialogues), A.R.Rahman (music), Vairamuthu (lyrics), Sabu Cyril (art), Srikar Prasad (editing), Brinda (choreography) and Vikram Dharma (stunt).