Unnai Ninaithu  Unnai Ninaithu () is a 2002 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film written and directed by Vikraman. It stars Suriya, Sneha and Laila in the lead roles, while Ramesh Khanna and Ramji play supporting roles. The film opened with high positive reviews in May 2002 and went on to become a hit at the box office, being remade into several other Indian regional languages. It was dubbed into Telugu as "Prematho" and was later remade into "Cheppave Chirugali" starting Venu Thottempudi. The film also was a turning point in Suriya's career. Surya (Suriya) works as a receptionist in a lodge in Chennai. He, along with his friend Gopi (Ramesh Khanna), manages the entire lodge. Actually, the lodge is owned by Surya's father but has been leased due to financial troubles. Radha (Sneha) is the daughter of the new manager (Balu Anand) for the lodge who stays next to the lodge along with her mother (Sathyapriya) and family. Radha gets attracted towards Surya upon seeing his good nature, but Surya tells his past love story to Radha. A few years back, Nirmala (Laila) lived in the same house where Radha lives now. Surya likes Nirmala and helps her family financially. Slowly, Surya and Nirmala fall in love, and Nirmala's parents (Thalaivasal Vijay and Pallavi) decide to get them married. Selvam (Ramji) is Suriya's friend who stays with him during his initial days. Later, Selvam secures a good job and starts earning well. Selvam also gets attracted towards Nirmala and tries to impress her. Nirmala's parents consider Selvam to be a better match for Nirmala as he earns more than Surya. They convince Nirmala to marry Selvam. Surya gets heartbroken knowing this, but one day, he finds Selvam in a shopping mall with another girl. Surya understands that Selvam has no intention of marrying Nirmala and is planning only for an illegitimate relationship with her. Surya informs this to Nirmala, who misunderstands that he is trying to break her relationship with Selvam by cooking up false stories.