Kaadhal (Tamil: காதல்; English: Love) is a 2004 Tamil romantic drama film based on a true story, directed by Balaji Sakthivel, starring Bharath and Sandhya in her feature film debut. It was produced by S. Shankar and featured music composed by Joshua Sridhar. The film opened to critical acclaim and was a high commercial success. Upon release, the film was dubbed into Telugu as Premisthe. It was also remade in Kannada as Cheluvina Chittara in 2007 and Bengali as Chirodini Tumi Je Amar in 2008.

Murugan (Bharath) is a diligent scooter mechanic in Madurai and life goes on smoothly for the young man till the rich schoolgirl Aishwarya (Sandhya) sets her eyes on him. The infatuation reaches dangerous levels when she coaxes Murugan to take her away from the clutches of her family, which has other plans about her future. The naïve Murugan hesitantly yields to her charm and the two run away to Chennai. Murugan's friend Stephen (Sukumar) helps them in the hour of crisis and the lovers unite in marriage. But her family is not going to give up so easily on the daughter they dote on. The family tracks down the couple that has eloped and eventually separates them. Aishwarya agrees to marry another man in order to save Murugan's life after he is being beaten by her father. While she believes this decision is best and moves on with her life, she one day while on the road with her husband and daughter runs into Murugan who was suffered permanent brain damage. Knowing that she had made a mistake and not knowing how to undo the sins of her father, she and her husband decide to take care of Murugan.

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects. The process of filmmaking has developed into an art form and industry.

Films are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures, which reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them. Film is considered to be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment and a powerful method for educating – or indoctrinating – citizens. The visual elements of cinema give motion pictures a universal power of communication. Some films have become popular worldwide attractions by using dubbing or subtitles that translate the dialogue into the language of the viewer.

Films are made up of a series of individual images called frames. When these images are shown rapidly in succession, a viewer has the illusion that motion is occurring. The viewer cannot see the flickering between frames due to an effect known as persistence of vision, whereby the eye retains a visual image for a fraction of a second after the source has been removed. Viewers perceive motion due to a psychological effect called beta movement.

Udhayanidhi Stalin (Tamil : உதயநிதி ஸ்டாலின்) is a Tamil cinema producer. He is the owner of Red Giant Movies banner.

His grandfather is M. Karunanidhi, the Ex-Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. His father is M. K. Stalin, the Ex-Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. He is married to Kiruthiga Udhayanidhi, head of Inbox 1305, a magazine.

His debut film as a producer was Kuruvi, starring Joseph Vijay and Trisha Krishnan. His next venture was Aadhavan, which was released on Deepavali 2009. His third production, Kamal Haasan's Manmadan Ambu, which was released on 23 December 2010. He also produced Ezham Arivu starring Surya Sivakumar. He also worked as a distributor, with his first one being Gautham Menon's Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa. He then released the movies Madrasapattinam, Boss Engira Bhaskaran and Mynaa in 2010.