Nala Damayanthi

Nala Damayanthi is a 2003 Tamil film directed by Mouli and written by Mouli and Kamal Hassan. The film stars Madhavan and Geetu Mohandas in lead roles. It also featured guest roles from Kamal Hassan and Jayaram. It was inspired by a 1990 Hollywood movie Green Card.

Plot

Ramji (Madhavan), a village cook from Palakkad, goes to Australia to become a chef at home of an Indian multi-millionaire. Unfortunately, the millionaire dies of indigestion the day Ramji arrives, leaving him jobless and without his passport and visa, which had been lost. Desperate to stay and earn, he starts working illegally as a cook in an Indian hotel owned by an NRI Badri (Sriman), but to stay on, he needs to get a legal work permit as the immigration police are after him. A solution comes up when Damayanthi (Geetu Mohandas), a free-spirited motorbiker chick of Sri Lankan Tamil Christian background and the fiancee of Badri's friend Ivan (Bruno Xavier), agrees to marry the docile cook in order to settle her loans. Ramji converts to Christianity, becoming Robert, and then moves into Damayanthi's house. Constant stalking by the police forces the couple to stay together to avoid detection by authority. However, when Ramji meets and begins to learn karate from Suguna, Ivan's ex-wife, whom he left after taking all her money and leaving her to be supported by her distant relatives, he tries to tell Damayanthi the truth and initiates...
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