Jeans (film)

Jeans
Film poster
Directed byS. Shankar
Written byS. Shankar
Dialogues by
Produced byAshok Amritraj
J. Murali Manohar
Sunanda Murali Manohar
Michael Soloman
S.K. Durairaj
StarringPrashanth
Aishwarya Rai
CinematographyAshok Kumar
Edited byB. Lenin
V. T. Vijayan
Music byA. R. Rahman
Production
company
Release date
  • 24 April 1998 (1998-04-24)
Running time
172 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil
Budget20 crore[1]
Box office35 crore[2]

Jeans is a 1998 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film directed by S. Shankar, and produced by Ashok Amritraj and Murali Manohar. The film stars Prashanth and Aishwarya Rai, while Lakshmi, Radhika Sarathkumar, Nassar, Senthil and Raju Sundaram play supporting roles. The background score and soundtrack were composed by A. R. Rahman, while Ashok Kumar and the duo B. Lenin and V. T. Vijayan handled the cinematography and editing, respectively.

Jeans had a wide release on 24 April 1998 and was the most expensive film to be made in Indian cinema at that time. The film won four Tamil Nadu State Film Awards, the Filmfare Award for Best Music Director – Tamil (Rahman) and the National Film Award for Best Special Effects. It was also India's official submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

  1. ^ "Tamil director Shankar's latest film, Jeans, costliest Indian production to date". India Today. 6 April 1998. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
  2. ^ Rabindran, Dilani. "15 Years of Jeans". Behindwoods. Archived from the original on 19 June 2016. Retrieved 27 December 2020.