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Rani also known as Raksha is a Tamil, Telugu and Kannada film actress. She has acted as the heroine in two movies, Villu Pattukaran and Chirunavvula Varamistava apart from some supporting roles in films like Avvai Shanmughi and Gemini. She is best known for the song "O Podu" from Gemini, sung by Anuradha Sriram and picturised on her; she is often referred to as "O Podu" Rani.
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Kadhal Sadugudu (2003)
, 2h27Genres Drama, Romantic comedy, Action, Romance
Actors Vikram, Priyanka Upendra, Prakash Raj, Vivek, M. N. Nambiar, Rekha
Rating55%
The film starts off by showing Chithambaram (Prakash Raj), and how he's an important man in the village. He is an adamant character who always sticks on to his decisions. When the temple festival starts, Kausalya (Priyanka) goes to her grandfather's house to celebrate. There she meets Suresh (Vikram) and they fall in love. Meanwhile, Chithambaram gets into many conflicts with Suresh, not even knowing who the other was. All the things that Suresh did were unintentional but Chithambaram doesn't realize this. Therefore, Chithambaram ends up with a very negative opinion of Suresh. When the day comes that everyone in Kausalya's grandfather's's home find out that Suresh and Kausalya are in love, they try to get Chithambaram (Kausalya's father) to agree to the wedding. He, however stubbornly sticks to his decision that the marriage should not take place.
Gemini (2002)
, 2h37Directed by Saran
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Gangster films
Actors Vikram, Kiran Rathod, Kalabhavan Mani, Murali, Murali, Vinu Chakravarthy
Roles Kamini, a divorcée and Gemini's classmate who lusts for him
Rating61%
Teja (Kalabhavan Mani) is a high-profile gangster in North Madras, who often imitates the behaviour characteristic of different animals for sarcastic effect. Accompanied by his gang, he arrives at a magistrate's court for a hearing. His animal antics are mocked at by "Chintai" Jeeva, another accused. Teja and his gang retaliate and kill Jeeva within the court premises. Jeeva was a member of a rival gang headed by Gemini (Vikram), an aspiring goon from Chintadripet who aspires to dethrone Teja and take his place. To avenge Jeeva's death, Gemini hunts down the murderer Pandian while Isaac, one of Gemini's men, kills him. This incident leads to a feud between Gemini and Teja, and a fight for supremacy ensues. Pandian's mother Annamma (Manorama), a destitute woman, locates the whereabouts of her son's murderers. She approaches Gemini, becomes the gang's cook and awaits a chance to poison them.
Gemeni (2002)
, 2h12Directed by Saran
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Vikram, Daggubati Venkatesh, Kiran Rathod, Namitha, Kalabhavan Mani, Murali
Rating70%
The story of Gemini revolves around Gemini (Venkatesh) and Ladda (Kalabhavan Mani), two contemporary rowdies in Vijayawada. Gemini's friend is murdered by Ladda's friend. Then Gemini and his gang search for the person who murdered his friend and kills him. This incident marks the start of their rivalry.
Indra (2002)
, 2h53Directed by B Gopal
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Sonali Bendre, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Aarthi Agarwal, Mukesh Rishi, Sivaji, Brahmanandam
Rating74%
Indra opens in a village in Andhra Pradesh showing the rivalry between two families. A police officer wishing to end this hostility comes up with the proposal of marriage between the two families which ultimately is used by Shivraj as a trap to finish off his rival. After the funeral, no one is willing to stake claim for the leadership of the clan when the young Indrasena Reddy comes in and tells his grandmother that he will.
Sivan (1998)
, 1h40Genres Crime
Actors Arun Pandian, Raadhika Sarathkumar, Swathi, Idichapuli Selvaraj, Uday Prakash, Rani
Alex (C. Arunpandian) and Sivagami (Raadhika Sarathkumar) are honest police officers who are charged to catch the terrorist Jupiter (Naga Kannan). While Murugan is a poor car mechanic living with his mother and beloved sister Meenakshi. Jupiter kills Alex and his family. Soon, Alex is resurrected as a cyborg by scientists. In the meantime, Meenakshi is killed by Murugan's brother Uday (Uday Prakash) and his mother died from heart attack. Alex begins by killing Jupiter's henchmen and partners one by one.
Avvai Shanmugi (1996)
, 2h41Directed by K.S.Ravikumar
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Kamal Haasan, Meena, Gemini Ganesan, Nagesh, S. Manivannan, Nassar
Roles Kousi Maami
Rating78%
The film starts in a courtroom where a Brahmin woman Janaki (Meena) is fighting for divorce from her husband Pandian (Kamal Haasan). She offers various reasons for wanting a divorce. She has married Pandian against the wishes of her rich father Vishwanathan Iyer (Gemini Ganesan). But she isn't able to come to terms with living in Pandian's small house without amenities. Pandian is an assistant dance director with a modest income and is not able to spend much time with the family. All this accumulates and Janaki decides to apply for divorce, which is granted. The court orders that Pandian can meet his daughter Barathi, once a week and this is his only solace. His daughter, however, loves him a lot and doesn't like the arrangement.
Kadhal Kottai (1996)
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Ajith Kumar, Devayani, Heera, Karan, Raja, Rani
Rating74%
Kamali (Devayani) lives with her sister and brother-in-law in Ooty and is searching for a job. While in Madras, her purse is stolen and she fears she has lost her university certificates. Surya (Ajith Kumar) who works in Jaipur finds the purse and sends it back to her, and a love develops through letters and phone calls. They agree to love each other without meeting, and Surya eventually moves to Madras for work. However Kamali's brother-in-law is pressuring her to marry a suitable man and Surya's boss keeps trying to seduce him. Eventually, Kamali and Surya unite through a run of coincidences.
Karnaa (1995)
, 2h20Genres Action
Themes Films about families
Actors Arjun Sarja, Ranjitha, Vineetha, Goundamani, Ravichandran, Senthil
Rating63%
Vijay (Arjun Sarja), a carefree and frolicsome youth, is sent by his father Deenadayalan (Ravichandran) in Ooty to work and becoming a responsible businessman. There, he falls in love with the college student Anjali (Vineetha). Her brothers (Mohan Raj and Vimalraj) are dangerous criminals and they are against their love because Vijay's father is a police officer. Thereafter, Devaraj is sent to jail so his brother appoints the lawyer Karnaa (Arjun Sarja) who is disabled and a sensitive person.
Nattamai (1994)
Directed by K.S.Ravikumar
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Films about families
Actors R. Sarathkumar, Kushboo Sundar, Meena, Aachi Manorama, Sanghavi, Vijayakumar
Rating69%
Naattamai (Sarathkumar) is a very kind-hearted, disciplined man. He sits on the ancestral throne in his village to do justice (similar to panchayat). He hears all the cases and gives solutions and punishments to the wrong-doers. His wife, Khushboo admires and respects him a lot. His brothers Pasupathi (sarathkumar) and Raja Ravindra fear for him and also have a lot of respect for him as he has brought them up as his children. The young Sarathkumar marries Meena, daughter of an industrialist. She at first never liked Naatamai and her husband for being so timid before his brother but later transforms after knowing his greatness from her father.Raja Ravindra loves his paternal cousin(Ponnambalam)'s daughter (Sanghavi). In the flashback, Periya Naatamai(Vijayakumar) father of naatamai orders Ponnambalam to marry his servant's daughter whom he raped, though he is his sister's son. His brother-in-law shoots at him as he is disappointed by his verdict.Enraged Periya Naatamai gives his final verdict before dying to abandon their family and whoever visits his house will receive the same punishment and also not to share even a glass of water with them. Ponnambalam from then builds envy on his uncle's family and waits for an opportunity to take revenge on them. He plans to bring a lady (Subhashri) as a teacher to the school in the village and tells her to make young Sarathkumar fall for her. She does so to save her father who is in the hands of Ponnambalam. He kills her and makes the villagers believe that Sarathkumar has done this. Naatamai sentences 10 years of exile for his brother's family. Now Ponnambalam comes to know of his daughter's love and tries to kill Raja Ravindra with the help of his goons. Sarathkumar goes in rescue of him and pregnant Meena goes to Naatamai to convey this message. Manorama rushes to Nattamai and reveals the truth and tells that he punished his brother without committing any mistake. Naatamai takes revenge on Ponnambalam and dies on knowing that he gave a wrong verdict. Now younger Sarathkumar is shown taking the ancestral throne from his brother.
Namma Annachi (1994)
, 2h20Genres Drama
Actors R. Sarathkumar, Raadhika Sarathkumar, Heera, Rupini, Radha Ravi, R. Sundarrajan
Rating60%
Ayya (R. Sarathkumar) was an honest police officer, the villagers respected him for protecting the village against the heartless don Vaiyapuri (Mohan Natarajan). He lived hapilly with his wife (Rupini) and his son Annachi. One day, the don killed Ayya and his wife in front of their son. Later, Annachi hurted heavily Vaiyapuri and fled to the city.
Chirunavvula Varamistava (1993)
, 2h8Genres Romance
Actors Vikram, Rani, Ramya Krishnan, Raju Sundaram, Mumtaj, Raghava Lawrence
Roles Vijaya
Vicky (Vikram), the son of a leading litigator, meets Vijaya (Rani), at college. They both initially clash with one another, however soon after Vicky falls in love with Vijaya, but Vijaya continues to resent him. In order, to win Vijaya's love Vicky ends up playing a trick; blowing out of proportion the stomach ache he gets and makes her believe that he has got cancer. On his fathers insistences and taking pity on him, Vijaya agrees to act as if though she loves Vicky, just to make him happy till he is alive.
Villu Pattukaran (1991)
, 2h10Directed by Gangai Amaran
Actors Ramarajan, Rani, Chandrasekhar (Tamil actor), M. N. Nambiar, Goundamani, Senthil
Roles Abhirami
Rating56%
Kalimuthu (Ramarajan) is the lead singer of a group performing Villu Paatu. The village head (Shanmugasundaram) decides to reconstruct the tumbledown village temple and gives Kalimuthu responsibility for funding money. Finally, the music director Ilaiyaraaja helps them financially. Then, Kalimuthu approaches a reputed sculptor (M. N. Nambiar) from another village. The sculptor and his daughter Abhirami (Rani) come to their village. Later, Kalimuthu and Abhirami fall in love with each other. Abhirami's father wants to marry Abhirami to his nephew Rajasekharan (Chandrasekhar) while the village head's son Chelladurai (Vikas Rishi), a womanizer, has an eye for Abhirami. What transpires later forms the crux of the story.