Ramana (film)

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Ramana
Directed by A.R. Murugadoss
Produced by Oscar V. Ravichandran
Written by Murugadoss
Starring Vijayakanth
Simran
Vijayan
Yugi Sethu
Ashima Bhalla
Riyaz Khan
Mukesh Rishi
Music by Ilaiyaraja
Distributed by Oscar Films
Release date(s) October, 2002
Language Tamil
Budget Rupees 11.5 million
IMDb profile

Ramana is a 2002 Tamil action film directed by A.R. Murugadoss.The film stars Vijaykanth and Simran.

[edit] Plot

Ramana is all about Vijayakanth who decides to abolish corruption once for all with the help of his students who are now in decent position government offices. The reason behind this powerful decision is told in the flashback. Vijayakanth is a happy professor with his wife Simran and daughter. And one day when Vijaykanth is out to make some purchases, the entire neighbourhood collapses due to some fault in the construction and many of the residents including Simran and her daughter lose their lives. Vijayakanth rushes to the Government Officials when he comes to know that all this was due to one person namely Vijayan, an industrialist with the necessary proof. But the incidents that he faces at the office, and on finding that these officials who are now corrupt to the core are mere puppets in the hands of Vijayan he gets frustrated on the situation and this makes him to form the ACF (Anti Corruption Force).

15 Thasildars are found missing and then the police find that 14 of them have been released after 3 days but one of them gets killed. They find some files and a tape along with the body of the dead thasildar. These files carry details of why the kidnap of the 15 thasildars had been done and the reason for the murder of one of them and have the words ACF written on it. It is understood by the police that these men where the thasildars who had indulged themselves in bribery and that they were the top 15 of the list of the corrupt thasildars. ACF sends the tape, with the message that they shall continue the kidnap of the corrupt officers in all the departments and that the No.1 corrupt shall be sentenced to death according to the law of the Anti Corruption Force.

There is fear among the corrupt officials. They come forward to file their returns. For a while there are no illegal transactions done, but the corruption soon continues in the society due to the threatening of the local mob to sign illegal documents and accept bribes. Meanwhile, the ACF finds that it is Vijayan who is the real reason behind this corruption scenario. Then the kidnapping continues. Finally with the help of a police constable played by Yugi Sethu, who takes up this case, they find the students working for the ACF and they are put to torture in the cell to reveal the name of their leader. Vijaykanth on seeing his students suffer, surrenders to the police and requests police to release his students. However in the climax Ramana kills Vijayan and the very next day Ramana gets hanged by the police on the charges of several murders done by Ramana & his students.

[edit] Review

The Best Performed Movies From Vijayakanth Ever!!!!. Ramana was hyped as the next big thing in Kollywood and even now a lot of critics are showering praise on the young director Muragadas for his racy screenplay and neat handling of the movie. Well they may be right to some extent. We have a neat screenplay and a decent but old storyline which we have seen in some movies released earlier but it does have fiery dialogues and a good presentation.

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