Ratchagan

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Ratchagan
Directed by	Praveenkanth
Produced by	K.Kunjumon
Written by	Crazy Mohan
Starring	Nagarjuna, Sushmita Sen, Vadivelu
Music by	A.R. Rahman
Release date(s)	1997
Language	Tamil
Budget	Rs. 170,000,000
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Ratchagan is a record breaking, trendsetting blockbuster Tamil movie starring Nagarjuna and Sushmita Sen in the lead role and also stars Raghuvaran, SP Balasubramanyam, Vadivelu and Girish Karnad. The music is composed by A.R. Rahman. It held the record for the biggest budget for a tamil film until Jeans. It was a box-office record hit. The film was directed by Praveenkanth.

1 Plot
2 Cast and crew
3 Miscellanea
4 External links

[edit] Plot

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The story goes something like this... Ajay(Nagarjuna) an unemployed youth always gets into trouble because ofhis temper. He gets heated up when he sees anyone committing a crime; he takes the law in his own hands... beats them up and then gives them some free advice. Ajay’s father, played by SP Balasubramanyam, is very unhappy at his son’s attitude, and tries his level best to change Ajay but he fails in this matter. Ajay meets Soniya(Sushmita Sen) and she falls for him instantly. What Soniya likes about Ajay is his temper. Soniya gets Ajay’s father S.P.B’s help to get Ajay to love her. Ajay is not interested in her at first; but later changes his mind and falls in love with her.

Soniya’s father Sriram (Girish Karnad) a businessman, has no objection to his daughter’s relationship... But has one condition; which is , Ajay must control his temper for 90 days and not get into any fight what so ever, even though he sees a crime happening in front of his eyes. If Ajay doesn’t succeed he can’t marry Soniya. With a heavy heart Ajay agrees to the condition, and Sriram offers Ajay a job in his factory. Sriram actually has his own problems in his factory; 10 of his workers are working with his rival Easwar(Raghuvaran). Easwar is trying to put Sriram out of business and so his 10 people create havoc in the factory by killing old workers and "ragging" new workers. So when Ajay comes to work in Sriram’s factory these 10 people do the same to Ajay. Ajay keeps cool, trying to keep his promise to Sriram. But Sriram hopes otherwise; he wants Ajay to break the promise and beat up the 10 people and throw them out of the factory; At the same time, Sriram hopes that the imminent marriage between Ajay and Soniya would get cancelled, since he doesn’t want his daughter to be married to a "gangster/street fighter" like Ajay. So Sriram keeps on hoping that Ajay will somehow "burst out" so that his plans will succeed.

[edit] Cast and crew

Cast : Nagarjuna, Sushmita Sen, Vadivelu, Raghuvaran, SP Balasubramanyam, Girish Karnad
Director : Praveenkanth
Cinematography : Ajayan Vincent
Assistant Cinematographer: Nataraj
Editing : B.Lenin
Producer : K. Kunjumon
Music : A.R. Rahman

[edit] Miscellanea

This was the first movie of former Miss Universe Sushmita Sen.
The film has accompanied by score and songs by A. R. Rahman.
It was direted by debutant PraveenGandhi and the movie's songs composed by A.R.Rahman.
The film was later dubbed in Hindi and Telugu.