Title Song : Vaarayo Thozhi Vaarayen
Title Movie : Jeans
Singer : Sonu Nigam , Shahul Hameed , Harini , Sangetha Rajeshwaran
Lyrics : Padma Shri & Padma Bhushan Kavingar Vairamuthu Ramasamy
Music Director : Oskar Nayagan & Isai Puyal A.R.Rahman
Starring : Top Star Prasanth, Miss World & Padma Shri Aishwarya Rai , Nassar , Lakshmi , Radhika & Raju Sundaram
Written & Directed Story By : S. Shankar
Produced by : Ashok Amritraj Sunanda Murali Manohar
Cinematography : Ashok Kumar
Edited By : V.T.Vijayan & B.Lenin
Release Date : 24 April 1998
Story : Romantic Entertainment & Comedy Movie
Budget : ₹20 crore (equivalent to ₹73 crore or US$10 million in 2019)
Achievements : Jeans was Nominated by india as its entry for the Best Foreign Language Film for the Academy Award in 1998,but did not make the final shortlist.The decision to submit the film met with heavy ridicule as it was seen as a "populist popcorn entertainer".Sudhir Srinivasan, writing for The Hindu Thread in 2016, also disliked the decision to submit Jeans.The film won four Tamil Nadu State Film Award : Best Comedian (Senthil), Best Female Playback Singer (Nithyasree Mahadevan), Best Choreographer (Raju Sundaram) and Best Costume Designer (Kasi).It also won a Filmfare Award for Best Music for A. R. Rahman, and the National Film Award for Best Special Effects.

The film opened to Indian audiences on 24 April 1998 and was the Most Expensive Film to be made in indian cinema at that time. Owing to its success, it was later dubbed into the Hindi and Telugu languages and released with the same title. The film was Selected by india as its Official Submission for the Best Foreign Language Film for the Academy Award in 1998, but was not nominated.

Jeans was released worldwide on 24 April 1998.With 240 prints, the films holds the 1998 record for a Tamil film.Upon release the film was subsequently dubbed into two languages, Telugu and Hindi. The film completed 100 days of screening in the theatres in the state of Tamil Nadu, and the Tamil and Telugu versions were commercially successful.At the Mumbai box office, it performed poorly.

Jeans received widespread critical acclaim, especially for the performance of Prasanth, Nassar and Lakshmi Rajitha, a reviewer from Rediff. praised the characters of Prashanth, Aishwarya Rai and Nassar as "ever dependable", whilst singling out praise for Radhika whom she describes that " with her startling cameo, sweeps the acting honours". The reviewer praised the technical crew describing Venky's FX as a "virtual reality", Ashok Kumar's cinematography as "throughout and outstanding", Raju Sundaram's choreography as "memorable" and A. R. Rahman's score as "entirely hummable". Shankar's directorial attributes were described to be to a "perfect flow of narrative and a penchant for demanding and getting perfection out of every element of his cast and crew" and that the film was an "easy fit".The Indian Express Called the film a "hilarious comedy" and drew significant praise to the performance of Aishwarya Rai and the music of Rahman.Indolink rated the film 3.5 stars and said, "Jeans is a great family entertainer with no violence or intimate scenes. But do bear in mind that the movie is almost 3 hours long (not that you feel the length). But do ensure that you watch it in a cinema with "dts" facility."In contrast, Deccan Herald described the film as a "colossal waste", criticising Shankar's story and direction and the performances of Prashanth and Lakshmi.

The entire production of the film took about a year and a half to be completed and released. Jeans, unlike Shankar's other films, was the first to be shot outside of India for major portions of the film. The producers of the film were Ashok Amritraj, Michael Soloman and Murali Manohar, whom all made their Tamil Film debuts with Jeans.Amritraj did not work on any Tamil film afterwards.The film reunited Shankar with his award-winning technical crew from his previous film Indian, whilst the cast was finalised by him after he had completed the story.

A difference of opinion exists regarding how the film got its name. According to Amritraj, the title Jeans was selected due to being a Homophone of "genes", and "seem[ed] very appropriate to the movie". However, the magazine Rashtriya Saharastated that Genes was the film's initial title considered by Shankar because the film had Prashanth and Nasser playing dual roles each, adding, "birth of twins is governed by the behaviour of genes".

The film's launch was held at the AVM Studios in Vadapalani Chennai in December 1996. The Jeans invitation was printed, wrapped in denim and hand delivered by Shankar to his close colleagues and friends in Chennai, which included prominent actors in the Tamil Filmdom The cast and crew of the film wore their favourite pair of blue jeans to the launch, as requested by the film's producers.