Kalloori Vaasal (கல்லூரி வாசல்) is a Tamil movie starring Ajith Kumar, Prashanth, Pooja Bhatt, Devayani and Manivannan. The movie was directed by Pavithran. It was released in March 1996. It was later dubbed into Telugu as College Gate.

Vasanth (Ajith) and Sathya (Prashanth) are very best friends ever since from their childhood. Manivannan is working under Sathya’s mother and he wanted his daughter Pooja (Pooja Bhatt) to get married to Sathya so that he could be a wealthy man for the rest of his life. For this he makes many tricks and pranks to make them walk togethter alone, to go for a ride and many more.

On Vasanth’s birthday Sathya goes to wish him but he denies his wish and says birthday is no more meant to him. Simulanteanously Sathya’s mother deceided his son to get married to Pooja and the engaement day arrives. With informing her, when she enters the house as all the other guests did, manivannan insists her to wear the engagement saree. Knowing the situation she leaves the place crying and Sathya follows her. On middle of the street he shouts at her and asks the reason why she cant marry her. She immdiately shows her wedding thread which she has hidden these days from all and cries that she was already married. Flashback begins with Nivetha (Devayani) and Pooja being best friends from school and on the first day of college Nivetha meets Vasanth and falls in love. Without knowing this Pooja and Vasanth loves each other.

When Pooja came to know about the love of her friend for Vasanth, she deceided to sacrifice her love that he had on Vasanth. On Vasanth’s birthday she denies his love for him and he forcefully marries her immdiately. Seeing this Nivetha commits suiside in front of their eyes. And Pooja gets separated from Vasanth thinking that he is the reason behind her friends death. After knowing this Sathya goes on to have a fight with Vasanth. But after knowing the actual truth, Sathya decides to sacrifice his love that he had on Pooja, and decides to unite Vasanth and Pooja together. On a cultural day when Sathya, Vasanth and Pooja make a combine performance, the opposite gang Manivannan makes a vengeful plan against Vasanth by striking him through a knife. The blame is then putted on Sathya, and suddenly gets ended up being in jail. When Pooja sees her husband gets hurted in reality she forgets everything and starts to cry for him. Then soon as Vasanth became concious, him and Pooja finally gets united.

And after it’s all said and done manivannan does get changed from his wealthy opions. The film is mainly about how college issues are getting solved, and their success depends on trust, friendship and love.

Directed by : Pavithran
Starring : Ajith Kumar, Prashanth, Pooja Bhatt, Devayani, Manivannan
Music by: Deva
Release date: March 1996