Nee Pathi Naan Pathi

Nandha, a young graduate falls in love with Nivedha, an illicit daughter of a venerated judge. The man's father learns of the affair; helps his son set up a scene to introduce Nivedha to their dominated mother, Vedavalli. Vedavalli likes the girl immediately and goes on to the Judge's house asking for Nivedha's hand to his first wife and ends up being bashed up. The second unmarried wife learns of the scene and begs the judge to give a moral life to their daughter. Judge goes to meet Nandha's parents and Vedavalli is not convinced. Nandha's father gives him cash asking him to elope with Nivedha. Meanwhile, the illicit wife gets arranged to be awarded for her acting skills from the hands of her own-not-publicly-known husband by their drama company chief played by Janagaraj. The scenes run parallel. As Nivedha elopes with Nandha, the award ceremony happens and when the mother was called to be awarded, she was spotted dead not being able to accept her daughter's eloped marriage. When she was shown to fall down, the car in which the couples eloped meets with an accident.

Few months pass by. The couples stay in Ooty where Madhu falls in love with Nandha and that's when it is shown that Nivedha has turned mentally retard after the accident. Though Nandha firmly resists the entry of Madhu in his life, he is helpless in needing help to look after Nivedha when he's not at home. Janagaraj happens to visit Ooty for a drama and shocked by Nivedha's stage, asks Nandha to go for a booze party. Nandha comes back home not conscious. Meanwhile, on ill-health issues, Nandha takes Nivedha to a doctor and while treatment, by miracle, Nivedha completely recovers. When everyone around is happy, Madhu gets to know of her pregnancy through Nandha. She decides to hide it. But on the day of Nandha's wedding with Nivedha, Nivedha gets to know. On a conversation with Nandha, Madhu and Janarthanan; Nivedha decides to break the wedding against the wishes of everyone. In the end, Nandha marries Madhu.

{{cast listing|

• Rahman as Nandha
• Gautami as Nivedha
• Heera as Madhu
• Janagaraj as Ramasamy
• Poornam Viswanathan
• Manorama as Vedavalli
• Srividya as Kalpanadevi
• Disco Shanti as Ramasamy's wife
• Jaishankar
• Delhi Ganesh
• Ganeshkar
• Sulakshana
• K. S. Jayalakshmi

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The soundtrack was composed by Maragathamani, with lyrics penned by Vaali.{{Cite web |title=Nee Paadhi Naan Paadhi (1992) |url=https://www.raaga.com/tamil/movie/nee-paadhi-naan-paadhi-songs-T0001955 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816082023/https://www.raaga.com/tamil/movie/nee-paadhi-naan-paadhi-songs-T0001955 |archive-date=16 August 2021 |access-date=16 August 2021 |website=Raaga.com |language=ta}}{{Cite web |title=Nee Paathi Naan Paathi Tamil Film LP vinyl Record by Maragathamani |url=https://mossymart.com/product/nee-paathi-naan-paathi-tamil-film-lp-vinyl-record-by-maragathamani/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816082023/https://mossymart.com/product/nee-paathi-naan-paathi-tamil-film-lp-vinyl-record-by-maragathamani/ |archive-date=16 August 2021 |access-date=16 August 2021 |website=Mossymart}}

N. Krishnaswamy of The Indian Express praised Vasanth for his direction and content but was critical of the second half of the film.{{Cite news |last=Krishnaswamy |first=N. |date=13 September 1991 |title=Nee Paadhi Naan Paadhi |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19910913&printsec=frontpage&hl=en |access-date=7 January 2019 |work=The Indian Express |pages=7 |via=Google News Archive}}{{cbignore}} Sundarji of Kalki criticised the film for lacking a strong and coherent story.{{Cite magazine |last=சுந்தர்ஜி |date=6 October 1991 |title=நீ பாதி நான் பாதி |url=https://ibb.co/n1jrNZ7 |url-status=usurped |magazine=Kalki |language=ta |page=17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230530053329/https://ibb.co/n1jrNZ7 |archive-date=30 May 2023 |access-date=30 May 2023}} At the 39th Filmfare Awards South, Gautami won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil,{{Cite magazine |title=39th Annual Filmfare Tamil Best Actor Actress |url=https://archive.org/details/39thAnnualFilmfareTamilBestActorActress |url-status=dead |magazine=Filmfare |archive-url=https://archive.today/20170208070857/https://archive.org/details/39thAnnualFilmfareTamilBestActorActress |archive-date=8 February 2017 |access-date=9 September 2019 |via=Internet Archive}} at the 12th Cinema Express Awards, she won the Best Actress (Special) award,{{Cite news |date=25 February 1992 |title='Chinnathambhi' bags Cinema Express award |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=VZBlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lJ4NAAAAIBAJ&pg=1432%2C722114 |access-date=26 September 2022 |work=The Indian Express |pages=3 |via=Google News Archive}}{{cbignore}} and she also won the Film Fans Association Award for Best Actress.{{Cite news |date=22 June 1992 |title=Kamal adjudged best actor for role in Guna |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19920622&printsec=frontpage&hl=en |access-date=12 September 2023 |work=The Indian Express |pages=3 |via=Google News Archive}}{{cbignore}}

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