Rajakumaran (film)

Rajakumaran
Movie poster
Directed by	R. V. Udayakumar
Produced by	Prabhu
Written by	Gokula Krishna (dialogues)
Screenplay by	R. V. Udayakumar
Story by	Sujatha Udhayakumar
Starring	Prabhu Meena Nadhiya Nassar Vijayakumar Sujatha Koundamani Senthil Vadivelu Captain Raju
Music by	Ilaiyaraaja
Cinematography	Abdul Rahman
Edited by	B. S. Nagaraj N. Kapilan
Production company	Sivaji Productions
Release dates	14 January 1994
Running time	145 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Rajakumaran is a 1994 Tamil language drama film directed by R. V. Udayakumar. The film features Prabhu, Meena and Nadhiya in lead roles. The film was released on 14 January 1994 coinciding with Thai Pongal. The film was Prabhu's 100th film and was produced by Sivaji Productions.^[1][2] It was dubbed in Telugu as Hello Bava.

Plot

Rajakumaran (Prabhu) is the son of the village chief (Vijayakumar). Yuvaraj (Nassar) hates Rajakumaran and his village. Selvi (Meena) and Vaidehi (Nadhiya) are in love with their cousin Rajakumaran but he chooses Vaidehi. Selvi decides to sacrifice her love, her father Selvaraj (Captain Raju) refuses to give his property to village people as promised and his only request is that Rajakumaran gets married with Selvi. Selvi convinced Rajakumaran to lie, he lies to her father and he gives his property. Later, Vaidehi committed suicide and Rajakumaran reveals his lie. One day, some goons decide to put a bomb and Rajakumaran saves the village. The village thinks that the culprit was Thangaraj (Thyagu) because he wanted to revenge Rajakumaran after his lie. Angry, Thangaraj insults Rajakumaran's father in public and Rajakumaran's father died. Yuvaraj asks to Selvaraj and Thangaraj to marry Selvi, and they accept. The village was against the marriage. A man (R. V. Udayakumar) came and said that a deaf-mute girl, who learnt to read and to write, was the witness of Vaidehi's murder by Yuvaraj. On the marriage day, Yuvaraj cancelled the marriage and decided to humiliate Selvi. Rajakumaran saves her and he decides to marry her.

Cast

• Prabhu as Rajakumaran
• Meena as Selvi
• Nadhiya as Vaidehi
• Nassar as Yuvaraj
• Vijayakumar as Rajakumaran's father
• Sujatha as Rajakumaran's mother
• Goundamani as Maarusamy, the milkman
• Senthil as the postman
• Vadivelu as 'Vicharuva' Veerasamy
• Captain Raju as Selvaraj, Selvi's father
• Kavitha as Selvi's mother
• Rajmadhan as Vaidehi's father
• Sathyapriya as Vaidehi's mother
• Thyagu as Thangaraj
• Kaka Radhakrishnan
• Oru Viral Krishna Rao
• Periya Karuppu Thevar
• Kovai Senthil
• Pasi Narayanan
• Chelladurai
• R. V. Udayakumar in a cameo appearance

Soundtrack

The film score and the soundtrack were composed by film composer Ilaiyaraaja. The soundtrack, released in 1994, features 7 tracks with lyrics written by, the director himself, R. V. Udayakumar. The song 'Ennavendru Solvathamma' was inspired from the M.S.Viswanathan's song 'Athai Madi Methaiyadi' from the film Karpagam, Ilayaraja himself has told this in the T.V interview.^[3][4] All songs are blockbusters.

Reception

Though its soundtrack was a huge success, the film failed to click at the box office.^[5]

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