Rakhi (2006 film)

Rakhi
Directed by Krishna Vamsi
Produced by K.L. Narayana
Written by Krishna Vamsi
Sainath Thotapalli
Starring Jr. NTR
Ileana D'Cruz
Charmme Kaur
Suhasini
Ravi Varma
Music by Devi Sri Prasad
Cinematography S. Gopal Reddy
Edited by Shankar
Release dates
22 December 2006
Running time
173 minutes
Country India
Language Telugu
Budget 16 crores
Box office 34 crores

Rakhi is a Telugu drama thriller film directed by Krishna Vamsi and has Jr. NTR in the lead role and Ileana D'Cruz and Charmme Kaur in supporting roles. This film released on 22 December 2006 with 250 prints.[1] The movie got a very good response and was declared as a big hit with good critical reviews. Jr. NTR tried his luck with women Sentiment.[2] It was dubbed into Hindi as The Return of Kalia.

Plot

Ramakrishnan or Rakhi (Jr. NTR) aspires to become railway stationmaster like his father (Chandramohan). His love interest and close friend Tripura (Ileana D'Cruz) is a reporter in TV channel who exposes atrocities against women in society. For Rakhi, his sister Gayathri (Manjusha) is everything. She is married off to software professional (Ravi Varma) who plans to go USA. The greedy in-laws burn her alive for more dowry. Devastated by this he takes the law into his own hands and starts to kill men for harassing women. A police officer Meenakshi Iyer (Suhasini) convinces him to surrender to the law. Before surrendering, he has killed over 49 misogynists. Finally in jail, he kills his sister's friend's murderer like a tiger and in the climax, the main villain ministers . His dialogues in the court are remarkable. The court drama forms the rest of the story.

Cast

Ileana D'Cruz was selected as lead heroine marking her first collaboration with NTR Jr.

Crew

Music

The film has six songs composed by Devi Sri Prasad. The music was well received.[3]

No. TitleSinger(s) Length
1. "Rangu Rabba Rabba"  Amalraj, Priya Himesh 06:05
2. "Zara Zara"  Andrea Jeremiah 04:36
3. "Vasthava Vasthava"  Jassie Gift, Srilekha Parthasarathy 04:27
4. "Rakhi Rakhi"  Devi Sri Prasad, Mamta Mohandas 05:33
5. "Kallallo Kaalagni"  S. P. Balasubramanyam 04:33
6. "Ninnu Choosthe"  Shankar Mahadevan, Gopika Poornima 04:04

Release

The film was released in 545 screens,including 431 in andhra Pradesh,29 in Karnataka,6 in Orissa,3 in Tamil Nadu,3 in Mumbai and 73 in Overseas.[4]

The DVD version of the movie was released By KAD Idream

Box office performance

References

  1. "Rakhi to release with 250 prints". telugucinema.com. Archived from the original on 2 January 2007. Retrieved 19 December 2006.
  2. Rakhi proves its mettle at box office. indiaglitz.com http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/article/28027.html. Retrieved 7 January 2007. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. "Rakhi tops the chartbusters". telugucinema.com. Retrieved 22 December 2006.
  4. ::Welcome to Superhit
  5. CineGoer.com – Box-Office Records And Collections – 100-day Centres Of Rakhee

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