Jeans (film)

Jeans
Film poster
Directed by	S. Shankar
Written by	S. Shankar (Story & Screenplay) Balakumaran (Dialogues)
Produced by	Ashok Amritraj Sunanda Murali Manohar
Starring	Prashanth Aishwarya Rai
Cinematography	Ashok Kumar
Edited by	B. Lenin V. T. Vijayan
Music by	A. R. Rahman
Production company	Amritraj Solomon Communications
Distributed by	Aascar Films
Release date	24 April 1998 (1998-04-24)
Running time	172 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil
Budget	₹20 crore[1]
Box office	₹35 crore[2]

Jeans is a 1998 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film co-written and directed by S. Shankar, and produced by Ashok Amritraj and Murali Manohar. The film stars Prashanth and Aishwarya Rai, while Lakshmi, Radhika Sarathkumar, Nassar, Senthil and Raju Sundaram play supporting roles. The background score and soundtrack were composed by A. R. Rahman, while Ashok Kumar and the duo B. Lenin and V. T. Vijayan handled the cinematography and editing, respectively.

Jeans had a wide release on 24 April 1998 and was the most expensive film to be made in Indian cinema at that time. The film won four Tamil Nadu State Film Awards, the Filmfare Award for Best Music Director – Tamil (Rahman) and the National Film Award for Best Special Effects. It was also India's official submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.