Kedi (2006 film)

Kedi
Directed by	Jyothi Krishna
Produced by	A. M. Rathnam
Written by	Jyothi Krishna
Starring	Ravi Krishna Tamannaah Bhatia Ileana D'Cruz Atul Kulkarni
Music by	Yuvan Shankar Raja
Cinematography	A. T. Karun
Edited by	Kola Bhaskar
Production company	Sri Surya Movies
Release date	24 September 2006 (2006-09-24)
Country	India
Language	Tamil
Budget	1.5 crores
Box office	10 crores

Kedi is a 2006 Indian Tamil film written and directed by Jyothi Krishna, who earlier directed the 2004 Tamil film Enakku 20 Unakku 18. Starring his brother Ravi Krishna in the lead role, the film marks the Kollywood debut of the female actress Tamannaah Bhatia and Ileana. Where Tamannaah plays a character with negative shade and Ileana plays love interest of Ravi Krishna whilst Ramesh Khanna, Atul Kulkarni, Adithya, M. S. Baskar and Suman Setty played supporting roles in the film. The film's score and soundtrack are composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja. The film released on 24 September 2006 and was later dubbed into Telugu and released as Jadoo.The film earned mixed to positive reviews in both Tamil and Telugu and commercial success.^[1][2][3]

Plot

Raghu (Ravi Krishna) is a happy-go-lucky youngster, who is not serious about his studies or life. He has a great time in college playing pranks with fellow students. His dad (M. S. Bhaskar) dotes on him and so do his close friends (Suman Setty & gang). A new girl Priyanka (Tamannaah) joins his class, and she is the sister of Pughazhenthy (Atul Kulkarni), a powerful gangster-turned minister. Priyanka is born with the silver spoon and the college gets a face lift as her classroom is fitted with an air conditioner and the canteen gets a hip look.

Priyanka even manages to change the principal using her brother’s influence, and she hates the sight of Raghu, whom she considers a creep. Aarthi (Ileana D'Cruz) a maid’s daughter studies in the same class, and she has a secret admiration towards Raghu. Seeing the way in which Priyanka treats him, Aarthi gives moral support and motivates Raghu to come above Priyanka, who is an all-rounder and best student in the university. This infuriates Priyanka who slowly wants Raghu at any cost. Aarthi is blackmailed by a boy who takes her vulgar photos in a toilet and he saves her from it. Priyanka decides to separate them and creates photos with him.

Priyanka comes to know about Raghu's love towards Aarthi, and she tries everything possible to separate them. Pughazhenthy will go to any extreme costs to make Raghu marry his sister. he makes Arthi mad by first kidnapping her and he start electrifing her, but she turns normal on seeing Raghu, but goes back as she sees Raghu getting shot. In the end, Aarthi goes mental, which enrages Raghu who vows revenge on Priyanka. He pretends to accept the marriage and marries Aarthi at the last minute. Raghu comes to know that Priyanka even murdered her brother in order to live with Raghu. The film ends with Priyanka killing herself and Raghu burying Aarthi's chain at Priyanka's grave.

Cast

• Ravi Krishna as Raghu
• Tamannaah Bhatia as Priyanka
• Ileana D'Cruz as Aarthi
• Atul Kulkarni as Pughazhenthy
• Suman Setty as Raghu's friend
• M. S. Bhaskar as Raghu's father
• Adithya Menon as Aadhi
• Ramesh Khanna

Soundtrack

After working with A. R. Rahman in his previous project Enakku 20 Unakku 18, Jyothi Krishna decided to work together with Yuvan Shankar Raja in this film. The soundtrack, released on 9 June 2006, consists of 8 tracks with lyrics written by Pa. Vijay, whilst director Perarasu and Kabilan wrote lyrics for each one song. Music Director and composer Deva's brother Sabesh had sung one of the songs.

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