Raadha

Raadha Aur Seeta|
1979
Raadha Aur Seeta
1979 | 109 min
Shekhar, the only son of a wealthy father, is a first-class graduate in Engineering. He joins a factory which belongs to Raadha's father, who happens to be an old friend of his father, as a trainee. He goes to stay with his friend Bhagwan and meets Seeta who stays with her mother next door. On the very first meeting, Shekhar loses his heart to Seeta who also falls in love with him.Raadha and Seeta are great friends, so dear to each other that they would not hesitate to sacrifice their lives for the happiness of each other. However their attitude to life is different. While Seeta is placid and ready to accept whatever fate is in store for her, Raadha is impatient, ready to fight against fate to win her cherished object. Raadha meets Shekhar in the factory and falls in love with him.Raadha and Seeta do not divulge their love for Shekhar to each other for sometime. Ultimately Raadha agrees to introduce Seeta to her lover. But as luck would have it Shekhar is unable to keep the appointment. Meanwhile Raadha's father and Shekhar's father meet and fix their wedding. Just then Raadha finds out that Shekhar is in love with Seeta. Raadha who had never hesitated to defy fate to achieve her goal is in a quandary! So is Seeta who also realises that the friend for whom she would sacrifice her life is in love with Shekhar - the man she loves! What was the solution to this dilemma faced by Raadha and Seeta? Watch the movie to know the outcome to this tender and poignant story of love, friendship and sacrifice.
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Rajdhani Express|
2013
Rajdhani Express
2013 | 125 min
Rajdhani Express is the story of Keshav, an errand boy for an arms trafficker. On one such errand, Keshav steals the weapons and books a ticket on the Rajdhani Express from Delhi to Mumbai in order to escape. However, his fate follows him through his escape onto the train in the form of Yadav, the DY Commissioner of ATS. While trying to apprehend Keshav, Yadav manages to extract political mileage from the situation by weaving a web, endangering not only Keshav's, but also his co-passengers' lives. However, the Commissioner has an ulterior motive to get even with his boss, the Minister of Home, whose parents also happen to be on the train. Distanced, ridiculed and humiliated, he reacts by pointing his gun at them. All hell breaks loose. Can Keshav escape this trap? If so, how?
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Rajdhani Express - Russian|
2013

Radha Gopalam|
2005

Aradhana|
1969
Aradhana
1969 | 158 min
Vandana and Arun fall in love with the instant they meet. On a trip to a Shiv temple, they get married in an impromptu ceremony in front of God. A chance rainshower strands them at a remote hotel where Vandana gets pregnant. With their legal marriage just around the corner, they don't worry about the consequences of their actions, but unfortunately, Arun dies in a plane crash. Vandana chooses to have the child, Suraj, and as she promised to Arun, she wants to raise him to be an Air Force pilot. Fate is cruel to Vandana, however, and the child is adopted by a wealthy family. Vandana becomes a nursemaid to stay close to Suraj. A family member tries to molest her, and in the ensuing fight, Suraj comes to protect her and kills the perpetrator. Vandana chooses a jail sentence to save Suraj, but in the course of her sentence, loses the family--and with it: Suraj. Now what will Vandana do?
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Rajadhani|
1994

Aadhavan|
2009
Aadhavan
2009 | 159 min
Aadhavan (Surya) is a professional killer/hit-man who works for Ibrahim Rowther (Sayaji Shinde) who is also his father along with Tharani (Anand Babu)- who is his brother. He is contracted by Abdul Kulkarny (Rahul Dev) to kill prominent Judge Subramaniam (Murali)(who is presently working on child kidnapping and murder cases in the eastern Indian belt for sale of their organs to foreign countries) -but fails to shoot him at the first attempt. He promises to get the judge, angry with himself for having missed such a thing and uses the Judge's innocent servant Bannerjee (Vadivelu) to get into the house as Murugan, Bannerjee's brother in law (He locks up Bannerjee's actual brother in law Murugan in a ship and threatens Bannerjee with his name all the time). Slowly Murugan/Aadhavan- begins to win over the members of the Judge's household- the Judge's mother (B.Saroja Devi), his other relatives and finally his niece- Thara(Nayantara). He tries to assassinate the judge in the middle of the night and also by planting a bomb in the van by which the judge is travelling to Darjeeling- but both attempts fail. In Darjeeling, Aadhavan is handed over a guitar belonging to the madcap, wanna be musician, would be husband of Thara- Ilaiman (Ramesh Khanna) by Thara to hide away. He plants a mobile bomb in the guitar and places it in one of the cars which soon explodes. Thara is now suspicious but Murugan informs her in secret that he is in fact the Judge's runaway son Madhavan who ran away from home when he was only ten years old. Thara soon informs all the members of the household except the Judge that Murugan is Madhavan- although in private Muruguan tells Bannerjee that he was only joking and that he is not Madhavan. However on Thara's birthday- Aadhavan shows that he is indeed Madhavan- when in a flashback it is shown that- young Madhavan carried a gift for Thara where a bomb had been planted by Madhavan's friend's mother as an act of revenge (Madhavan's father had put her husband in jail). Though Thara survives, her mother (Anu Hassan) opens the box and is killed along with her husband in the bomb explosion. Madhavan runs away from home- after stealing a gun from the cops, accidentally shooting his father and killing his friend's mother who planted the bomb in the toy. Meanwhile- Abdul Kulkarny is fed up with the attempts of Aadhavan and Ibrahim Rowther and decides to play his cards in another way. He persuades Ibrahim and his gang to surrender to the police and make a confession regarding Aadhavan. When Police ACP (Riaz Khan) confronts Aadhavan and is about to have him hauled off - Aadhavan takes the Judge hostage and also Thara (after asking Thara to bring the Laptop and the Memory stick where the entire information about the culprits involved in the child kidnappings and murder case is stored in). In the meanwhile the police commissioner arrives and makes the confession. Aadhavan is actually indeed Madhavan- the Judge's runaway son. The police had caught him when he was making his escape after his attempt to kill the Judge had failed. It was then that he made his confession of being the Judge's son. The Police ask him to go back to the house to protect his father over a twenty four hour period everyday.This information is relayed to the Judge who is tearfully grateful to his son Meanwhile- Abdul Kulkarny attacks the vechicle in which the Judge, his son and Thara are travelling and a fight ensues where the good guys win and Kulkarny is killed. And the movie ends with a recovered Madhavan and Banerjee tells that he bought assistants to maintain the house who are his brother-in-laws and everyone tells what the story starts again.
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Chennai Kaadhal|
2006
Chennai Kaadhal
2006 | 129 min
Vinod (Bharath) a college drop-out and a good-for-nothing guy falls in love with Narmada (Genelia) daughter of a local don Sakthivel (Radha Ravi). She lives in a hostel after learning that her dad is a criminal who now wants her to marry his partner Sardar's (Barhmaji) brother. So the two lovers elope to Mumbai and soon they are tracked and separated. Finally Vinod (Bharath) along with his friends fight against all odds to win back Narmada(Genelia).
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Sillunu Oru Kaadhal|
2006
Sillunu Oru Kaadhal
2006 | 175 min
Kundavi (Jyothika) was brought up in a small village called Ambasamudram. She, along with her two friends, decide to have a love marriage. However, she is not so successful. Her father arranges her marriage to Gautham (Surya Sivakumar) against her wishes. Both look gloomy during the wedding due to obvious reasons. Six years later in Mumbai they have a 5-year-old daughter Aishu (Shriya Sharma) and live as a happily married couple. Gautham works as the chief mechanic at an automobile company and goes to New York for a short period. During this time, Kundavi comes across Gautham's old college diary. Gautham wanted to be an engineer from a young age and forced his father's brother to pay for a seat in Coimbatore for Mechanical Engineering. From the second year of college he is the don. In college, he is attracted to Aishu (Bhumika Chawla), whose father is a Coimbatore MP. Gautham and Aishu fall in love and decide to get married. At the registrar's office after Gautham ties the knot, Aishu's father and his men beat him up, separating the lovers and sending Aishu off to Australia. At the end of the diary, Gautham writes a note: "if I have one wish, it would be to live with Aishu happily at least for one day." Gautham returns from New York and finds his wife changed. She works late and avoids him. She finds Gautham's lost love Aishu, who had just returned from Australia. Aishu has become a modern girl in contrast to the demure salwar kameez girl she was in college. Kundavi asks Aishu to visit them and she tells her husband that he should live happily with Aishu for a day and that for that one day, she and their daughter do not exist for him, and leaves Gautham with Aishwarya.That day Gautham spends with Aishwarya, Kundavi imagines them to have a good time and eventually fall in love with each other all over again. When she gets back home, dreading, she finds her husband alone at home. She asks about his day with Aishwarya, and he gives her a letter written to Kundavi from Aishwarya. In it, Aishwarya says that within five minutes of speaking to him, Gautham mentioned 'Kundavi' so many times that she realised that he loved his wife very much and is leading a very happy life. She wishes the couple a happy life and leaves, never to return.
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