Classmates Vs. Ninaithale Inikkum

VS.

I Watched both movies Classmates,Malayalam and its remake Ninaithale Inikkum,Tamil for like the 4th time today. I know I shouldn't be comparing, but both of them had Prithviraj in the lead so, I had to watch and compare! lol :D

Different:

The flashback of Classmates takes place in 1992 while Ninaithale Inikkum's takes place in 2000

Main Cast and Character names names:

Classmates:

Prithviraj-Sukumaran aka Suku

Kavya M.-Tara Kurup

Jayasurya-Satheesian Kanjikuzhi

Indrajith-Pious George

Nairen-Murali

Radhika-Raziya

Balachandra Menon-Murali's dad.

Ninaithale Innikum

Prithviraj-Shiva

Priyamani-Meera

Karthik-Vasu

unknown

Shakti Vasu-Shakti

Anuja Iyer-Shalini

K.Bhagyaraj-Shakti's father

Classmates starts off with Prithvi dreaming about beating Jayasurya, while NI starts with Prithvi on a plane.

Prithvi and his friends actually get beaten a little when Jayasurya sends his goondas but in NI Prithvi and his friends dont.

There are lots of scenes with Prithvi and the female lead Kavya, while there are only a few with Prithvi and the tamil lead Priyamani.

Priyamani doesn't get beat badly by the police like Kavya does.

Murali's parents are teachers in his college but Shakti's parents aren't.

Priyamani doesn't have a wound on her lip like Kavya does in Classmates.

Prithvi doesn't go in depth of why he likes Priyamani in NI as he does in Classmates,and Kavya also has a side to explain why she likes Prithvi in the film. :)

Kavya never asks for a kiss in Classmates while Priyamani does in Ninaithale Inikkum.

Instead of A letter there is a photo in Ninaithale Inikkum.

There isn't a scene in Ninaithale Inikkum where in Classmates Prithvi makes Murali sing for SFK and Jayasurya drags him away.

Jayasurya has more scenes in Classmates than Karthick in Ninaithale Inikkum.

In Classmates Jayasurya hangs up bad posters of Kavya, while in Ninaithale Inikkum Karthik paints over the posters that are already hung up.

In Ninaithale Inikkum Prithvi doesn't beat Karthik up after the election results are out, but in Classmates he does beat up Jayasurya.

In Classmates Jayasurya stops the car to tell Kavya that he was the one who put up the bad posters and he was the one who put the letter in the ballet box but in Ninaithale Inikkum Karthik tells Priyamani the truth in a restaurant before they go to Prithvi's house.

Kavya goes to Prithvi's house to get her old certificates, while in Ninaithale Inikkum she goes to his house after finding out the truth.

In Ninaithale Inikkum Shakti's father never investigates Priyamani like in Classmates when Murali's father investigates Kavya.

Prithvi sees Kavya before he joins the same college has her, just for her, in Ninaithale Inikkum he sees her during college.

Instead of Prithvi like Classmates, in Ninaithale Inikkum Shalini leaves first.

In Ninaithale Inikkum Prithvi,Shakti and his other friend went to go watch Vijay's Kushi.

Priyamani doesn't call to meet Prithvi in Ninaithale Innikum, like Kavya calls him during dinner.

The music,director,and everything else except Prithvi and the story. :)

Same:

Story- which is all about these group of classmates and an incident that changes every one of their lives.

Prithviraj is the main male lead in both versions.

Elections in both,and Police come about the issue

Characters in both versions have the same characterization

Love Object- In both versions the villains put the love object which was given to Prithvi from the heroine in the Ballet box.

Friend- Friend of the Villain tells Prithvi about the thing in the Ballet box.

Kill-When Prithvi goes to get the object from the Ballet box at night he ends up Killing is Shakti/Murali by accident.

BBC-Both have the BBC person.

In both versions Shakti and Murali's lovers attempts to murder Prithvi

Shakti and Murali in both versions have Asthma

Prithvi's friend loves music

The girl who attempts to murder Prithvi was in love with his friend,and so was he.

Prithvi accidently kills his friend(Shakti & Murali) in the Generator room in both.

They all apologize and realize their mistakes at the end.

In both of the versions the girl who is in love with prithvi's friend "loses" her book.

In both versions Prithvi ends up fighting in mud at some point.

Both,Murali and Shakti take their lovers notebook.

Shakti and Murali help their lovers, when the Police start beating people.

My opinion : I personally thought Classmates was wayyyy better. I mean,Ninaithale Inikkum just lost the tinge. It was'nt has breezy and fun as Classmates. But Prithviraj was great in both . The whole cast was great in both versions, they did what was needed. But I think it was the changing of the scenes that made NI not so good.Also, the story of NI was supposed to take place in 2000, but everything in the flashback of 2000 looked present day. I mean really does this song seem 2000 to you?? :

Everything seemed out of place, especially the costumes , they looked soo 2009! :D lol. But, yet we saw them go watch Vijay's Kushi. The music didn't seem 2000 to me at all. I mean in Classmates the music at least had a 90s tune to them.

There was better romance in Classmates than Ninaithale Inikkum, in Ninaithale Inikkum it was kind of dry. I also thought that Classmates had better comedy, Ninaithale Innikum had some to, but there weren'nt many like Classmates. :

But I really liked the songs Ninathale Innikum especially Allah,Pia Pia,Sexy Lady, and Azhagai Pokkuthe. But, I do agree they didn't suit the time they were in.

That's my opinion, Comment of yours! :D and also Please do tell me if I have forgotten some differences or the things that are the same :). I hope you liked my post of Classmates Vs. Ninaithale Inikkum! :D

Classmates poster was gotten from: http://actorprithviraj.blogspot.com/

(Thanks Achu!) :)