Love Today is a 2022 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Pradeep Ranganathan of Comali fame, and produced by Kalapathi S. Aghoram under the banner of AGS Entertainment.[3] The film stars Pradeep Ranganathan himself (in his acting debut), Ivana, Raveena Ravi, Yogi Babu and Raadhika Sarathkumar in lead roles.[4] The film’s music and score is composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja, with cinematography handled by Dinesh Purushothaman and editing done by Pradeep E. Ragav. It is an adaptation of Pradeep Ranganathan’s own short film App(a) Lock. A young couple is made to exchange their phones for a day. What follows is a hilarious and emotional sequence of events that puts their lives in misery.
This is the second collaboration of Yogi Babu, Pradeep Ranganathan and Pradeep E. Ragav after 2019 film Comali. The film was predominantly shot in Chennai and Pondicherry.Love Today was released by theatrically on 4 November 2022. The film was a critical and commercial success at the box office grossing ₹70 crore against a budget of ₹5 crore and became one of the highest grossing Tamil films of 2022. Uthaman Pradeep is a 24-year-old lead developer in Cognizant, Chennai. He lives with his mother and elder sister Divya, who is engaged to a dentist Yogi for the past 8 months and is about to get married in 4 days. Pradeep is in a relationship with his colleague Nikitha, whose father Venu Sastri is a sly and orthodox person. Pradeep goes to her house to meet and convince Venu for their marriage. Venu toys around with Pradeep for a while and puts forward a strange deal: Pradeep and Nikitha must immediately exchange their mobile devices for one day along with respective mobile’s unlocking key. After the end of the period, if they still feel that they are in love, Venu will not object to their union else they can go their separate ways. Both Pradeep and Nikitha agree to it halfheartedly and Pradeep comes back home to manage his sister’s wedding event. Due to some revelations while browsing Nikitha’s phone, Love Today including her conversations with her ex which frustrates and leaves Pradeep suspicious about her. Pradeep confronts Nikitha about this and then goes to Venu’s home the next day and extends the exchange until end of his sister’s wedding to know more about Nikitha cheating in their relationship, and Venu agrees; unbeknownst to Pradeep, Venu instructs Nikitha to restore the WhatsApp messages that Pradeep had cleared prior to the exchanging, to know about Pradeep’s true colors.Meanwhile, Divya and Yogi seem to get along very well, as Yogi is a cultured and mild-mannered man, who treats Divya as equal. During the wedding rituals, he becomes moody and snatches his phone from Divya when she picks it up due to an incoming call and does not give his phone to anyone either. This puts a lot of doubt in minds of Divya and her friends. They repeatedly try to get his phone, open it and check the contents, but they are thwarted by Yogi. This creates a lot of ruckus, especially when he does not hand his phone to Divya’s phone-addicted nephew.
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