Badri (2001 film)
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Badri is a superhit Tamil film which released on July 15, 2001 and written and directed by P.A. Arun Prasad. The film stars Vijay, Bhumika Chawla, Monal, Dhamu, Vivek, Riyaz Khan. Music by Ramana Gogula was a chartbuster. This is a remake of Tollywood hit Thammudu.
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Badrinath (Vijay), who is fondly called as Badri by everyone prefers to be called as Badri. A spoiled college brat, Badri hangs around with a bunch of friends of similar nature. Janaki(Bhumika Chawla), is his neighbour and also his childhood friend. She secretly loves Badri, but never reveals it. Badri's elder brother, Vetrinath (Riyaz Khan) and his father runs a canteen in which Malli (Anu Mohan) is a cook. Vetrinath, representing govt. college, practices kickboxing to participate in the intercollege competition, but is defeated by rival, Rohit from Model college. Badri's gang and his govt. college mates are looked down cheaply by Model college's Rohit and gang and are insulted often. Badri plans to teach them a lesson and tries every trick to woo Lovely(Monal), who is a new entry into model college. Subbu pretends as the lone son of a multi-millionaire and wins over lovely's heart by presenting her a diamond ring on valentines day. He borrows money from janaki for this. Lovely realizes subbu's true identity through rohit and ditches him. Janaki's father(Chandra Mohan) blames Subbu's father for the money borrowed. His father gets sick of his misdeeds and kick him out of his house. Chakri tries to talk subbu out of his problems, and while returning home is attacked by rohit and his men. Chakri lies in hospital and is declared unfit to compete in kickboxing competition. Subbu realizes the truth behind Chakri's incident and decides to participate in kickboxing competition. But chakri's guru refuses to train subbu, as he suspects Subbu's integrity. Subbu manages to convince his guru and learn kickboxing with all his energies concentrated. He wins over Rohit and also everyone's heart again.
