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Rakhi (2006 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Rakhi' or 'Rakhee' is a 2006 Indian Telugu-language masala film directed by Krishna Vamsi and starring Jr. NTR, Ileana D'Cruz and Charmme Kaur. Suhasini, Sarath Babu, Chandra Mohan, Brahmaji, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Saranya Ponvannan, Brahmanandam, Sunil, and Sayaji Shinde play other supporting roles. The music of the movie was composed by Devi Sri Prasad with cinematography by S. Gopal Reddy action sequences by Stun Shiva and editing by Shankar.https://www.rediff.com/movies/2006/dec/26rakhee.htm
This film was released on 22 December 2006 with 250 prints. The movie was a hit at the box office .
Plot
Ramakrishna aka Rakhi (Jr. NTR) aspires to become a railway stationmaster like his father (Chandra Mohan). His love interest and close friend Tripura (Ileana D'Cruz) is a reporter in a TV channel who exposes atrocities against women in the society. For Rakhi, his sister Gayathri (Manjusha) is everything. She is married off to a software professional (Ravi Varma) who plans to go to the USA. However, his uncle brings a proposal where he would get 1 crore as dowry. At first they try to get rid of her by fighting with Rakhi and demanding for more dowry, but when Gayathri overhears them they burn her alive. Devastated by this as she was also pregnant, Rakhi's family tries to sue them in court but corrupt lawyers, policemen, and doctors fabricate that Gayathri was mentally disturbed and committed suicide. Rakhi was unable to accept this. In a fit of rage, he burns her in-laws and all those people alive who fabricated things about her in front of the court in the same way as Gayathri's in-laws burnt her alive. He then starts a manhunt for all sex offenders and perverted men and burns them alive while dropping a rakhi at every site. A police officer named Meenakshi Iyer (Suhasini) is leading the hunt for him, and the entire police force is under a dilemma as the public women all consider Rakhi to be a god and all men are staying away from women so as to not be killed. Rakhi eventually surrenders to Meenakshi, and goes to jail but it is revealed that he did so to kill his sister's friend's murderer, a love crazed man (Amit Tiwari) who killed her friend because of repeatedly refusing his proposal. Meenakshi talks to Rakhi after being verbally abused and kicked by a minister whose son also was killed by Rakhi, and she realizes that what Rakhi is doing is correct as the law is protecting all those men from death after abusing women. Rakhi also kills the minister (Sayaji Shinde) after he placed a bomb outside Rakhi's jail that killed many women who came forward to Rakhi to tie Rakhi's on his wrist, including his cousin Gowri (Charmme Kaur). Rakhi goes to court and the judge (Prakash Raj) also sees that Rakhi did a justice to the country, resigns from his post and announces that he will be Rakhi's lawyer and get him acquitted. The film ends with Rakhi motivating all the women present outside the court in support of him.
Cast
* Jr. NTR as K. Ramakrishna (Rakhi)
* Ileana D'Cruz as Tripura Sundari
* Charmme Kaur as Gowri, Rakhi's cousin
* Suhasini as Meenakshi Iyer
* Sarath Babu as Police Commissioner
* Chandra Mohan as Mohan Rao, Rakhi's father
* Bramhaji as Ranga, Rakhi's brother
* Kota Srinivasa Rao as Rakhi's grandfather
* Saranya Ponvannan as Gowri's mother
* Brahmanandam as TV Channel Owner
* Sunil as Mohan Reddy
* Sayaji Shinde as Minister
* Manjusha as Gayathri, Rakhi's sister
* Ravi Varma as Gayathri's husband
* Master Ajai as Meenakshi Iyer's son
* Ranii Pandey as Prostitution Racket Head
* Bharat as Bharat, Minister's son
* Dharmavarapu Subramanyam as Marriage broker
* Tanikella Bharani as Criminal lawyer Sachidanandam
* M. S. Narayana
* Harsha Vardhan as Auto driver
* Kondavalasa Lakshmana Rao
* Uttej
* Amit Tiwari as Madhukar
* Bharath Reddy as Bharat's friend
* Sameer as Police Inspector
* Satyam Rajesh as Police Officer
* Krishna Bhagavaan as Minister's aide
* Prakash Raj as Judge (Guest role)
* Raghu Karumanchi
Music
The film has six songs composed by Devi Sri Prasad. The music was well received.
Release
The film was released in 545 screens, including 431 in Andhra Pradesh, 29 in Karnataka, six in Orissa, three in Tamil Nadu, three in Mumbai and 73 overseas. The film's dubbed versions were released in Tamil, Hindi and Bhojpuri as 'Rakhi', 'The Return of Kaalia' (2007) and 'Kaalia' (2016) respectively.Also Dubbed to Kannada Name as same title
Reception
The film had a 100-day run in 30-centres.
References
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