Minsaara Kanavu (1997)

This is the story of Priya (Kajol) and her life. She is friendly, outspoken, sensitive, yet precocious and apt to get into trouble, and is brought up by her dad, Amal Raj (Girish Karnad). In her senior school days, she has an admirer by the name of Thomas (Arvind Swamy). She starts to like Thomas as well. The only problem is that her dad does not like Thomas' dad. How will Priya be able to convince her dad to change his mind? Why does Amal Raj dislike Thomas' dad?