The next day, Shakthi calls the uncle and aunties involved in the wedding, and manages to coax from them, Shruti's name and the college she attends. He then chases her down on her bus ride home, and tries to impress her with a DVD he has compiled from her dance routine at the wedding. Shruti is not interested in Shakthi, and reveals that her main interest in life is not boys, but starting her own wedding planner business by the name of 'Getti Melam'. Shakthi enthusiasm for courtship is quickly dampened once Shruti launches into a long presentation of her business ideas.
Shakthi is under pressure from his parents to come back to the village and work on the family sugarcane fields, and Shruti is being coaxed into getting married as soon as possible. After exams are over, Shruti makes a deal with her parents that she has five years to get her business up and running before they arrange a marriage for her. When Shakthi's father comes to take him back to his village to work chopping sugar cane, Shakthi refuses and lies that he cannot come back home, because he is starting a wedding planner business. He now goes back to Shruti with this idea but she refuses because she was worried that a romantic complication would rise between the two of them. She tells Shakthi that the number one rule of business is not to let love get in the way. Shakthi promises that that will never be a problem, but Shruti is not interested.
Shruti, with Shakthi tagging along, goes to meet with Chandralekha, a famous wedding planner, in the hopes that Chandra will hire her and thus allow Shruti the opportunity to learn about "high-class weddings". Chandra shows no interest in Shruti, but by sheer co-incidence loses one of her male workers at that very moment. Frustrated and short on time, she spots Shakthi next to Shruti, and offers Shakthi the just vacated job. Shakthi accepts only on the condition that both him and Shruti are hired together. While checking the arrangements on their first gig under Chandra, Shruti learns that Chandra is cheating her clients - she orders a cheaper arrangement of flowers and decorations than the family requested so she can keep more of the commission. Later that day, when the irate father of the bride confronts Chandra, she blames Shruti, claiming it was her fault that the flowers hadn't been ordered correctly. Shakthi, angry at Chandra for accusing Shruti, yells back that she has no right to treat her employees like this. He tells her they quit and Shruti, calling him her partner, leaves with him, warning Chandra that they'll "see her around the market".
The two thus begin their own company "Getti Melam", with the work equally split between the two. Their first project is low-budget but very successful. The flamboyant duo then go on to plan many more small weddings, working incredibly well as a team. Finally, they get their first big client by stealing them away from Chandra. After working night and day, the wedding is a huge success. That night, after the event, they dance to celebrate and both end up slightly drunk. A simple hug turns into more, and the two make love that night. Afterwards, Shakthi lies awake all night, worried about what had happened.
In the morning, Shakthi pretends to be asleep while Shruti wakes and dresses. When Shruti starts calling him "dear" he is obviously uncomfortable with it. Not wanting to hurt her feelings, Shakthi behaves awkwardly around her over the next few days, while Shruti realizes that she has fallen in love with him. Knowing that he is worried about what happened, Shruti tries to reassure Shakthi that she's not like other women he's been with who follow him around everywhere. Shakthi, misunderstanding, believes that she's telling him that the night didn't mean anything to her. Relieved, he tells her it meant nothing to him as well, citing her own rule that business and love don't mix. Shruti pretends to agree but cries after he leaves. This creates a tense atmosphere between the two, eventually leading to Shruti making a mistake with the sound board at a wedding. They have a huge fight resulting in Shruti breaking the partnership and forcing Shakthi to leave the company. Shakthi vows to start his own wedding planning business and the two go their separate ways. Both of them attempt to prove themselves in the industry while badmouthing the other's business to clients. However, they don't do as well by themselves, unable to handle the workload without their partner and both enterprises end up suffering huge losses, plunging them into debt.
They finally get a big contract, but it is contingent upon them working together as a team. The bride had been a guest at the first big wedding they'd done and wanted the same level for her own wedding. Facing debt collectors, they agree to partner up again for this one wedding for the sake of recovering their own losses. They divvy up the workload and each focus on their own departments, eventually falling back into their old rhythm. Shakthi and Shruti perform together for the wedding, something they hadn't done since before their falling out. The performance is a success and the next day, Shakthi tells Shruti that they should be partners again, saying that Getti Melam was never as successful as when they were together. Shruti refuses his offer, telling him that she is getting married in two months to her fiance, Siddharth, and will move to Dubai with him after the wedding. Shakthi is stunned and immediately argues with her that she can't get married, saying it is "totally wrong".
During the rest of the wedding preparations Shakthi pesters Shruti about her engagement, claiming that she'd be moving too far from her parents or that Dubai wouldn't suit her. When none of those reason dissuade her, Shakthi accuses her of her getting married to make him jealous, claiming that she'd fallen in love with him and that this was a way to get revenge because he paid her no heed after their night together. Shruti refuses to answer. He finally goes too far when he cuts off a call from Siddharth in an effort to get Shruti to answer his question. Livid, Shruti answers that she is not doing it for revenge, but for her own security and her parents' satisfaction to see her well-settled in life. She admits that she did fall in love with Shakthi, but since he didn't feel the same, she had moved on. Shruti answers a call from Siddharth and walks away sadly, leaving Shakthi alone.
At the sudden thought of losing her forever, Shakthi realizes that he has always been in love with Shruti, but was too scared to acknowledge it in fear of jeopardizing the business. Desperate to win her back, Shakthi steals Siddharth's phone number from Shruti's cell and calls him, telling him to back off and that Shruti was his. Hearing what Shakthi had done to Siddharth, Shruti angrily runs off to find Shakthi and confronts him where he is waiting for her on a rooftop. Shakthi tells Shruti that he'd loved her all along and was a fool to have run away from her love. Shruti calls off her engagement and the two share a passionate hug.
Cast
Nani as Shakthivel
Vaani Kapoor as Shruti Subramaniam
Karthik Nagarajan as GK (Shakthi's best friend)
Badava Gopi as Hyder (Florist)
M. J. Sriram as Ramesh (Caterer)
Five Star Krishna as Inspector
Simran as Chandralekha (Special appearance)
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