Raajjiyam
Raajjiyam is a 2002 Indian Tamil-language political action film directed and produced by Manoj Kumar. The film stars Vijayakanth, Dileep, Shamita Shetty and Priyanka Trivedi. The music was composed by Bharadwaj. The film was released on 14 April 2002, and it became a commercial failure. The film marked the debut of actors Dileep, Shamita and Priyanka in Tamil cinema. The film was remade into Bengali Bangladesh in 2002 as Bhaiya starring Manna, Rachna Banerjee and Shabnur.
Plot
Karthikeyan runs a Central Government-authorized Secret Service agency called "Jothi Security Force" under the guise of an organization that helps people arriving in Chennai. He leads a happy life with his wife Geetha, daughter Pooja, and younger brother Surya, a mute. Surya falls in love with Anuradha, a woman that Karthikeyan brings home from the railway station, but her past forces her to reject his romance. When the governor's daughter-in-law dies, Karthikeyan finds out that it was a murder and arrests the governor's son Kiran Kumar. Though the governor congratulates Karthikeyan and appoints him as his personal bodyguard, he is plotting his revenge on him. The innocent Surya is then arrested during a riot. In jail, Inspector Kabilan, who hates Karthikeyan after being humiliated by him and works for the governor, tortures Surya. Kabilan later swaps Kiran Kumar and Surya: Surya gets hooked in jail and Kiran Kumar is secretly released from jail. Karthikeyan eventually discovers the plot and takes revenge by killing Kabilan and the governor.Cast
Production
The fight scene between Vijayakanth and Ponnamabalam was taken on a revolving bamboo, with the two men standing on either edge, the scene choreographed by Super Subbarayan. For the set, 20 lorries carrying bamboos were brought in, and set designer Shanmugham arranged them in order to make the place look like a bamboo fortress. It took twelve days to shoot the scene, and canning the shots was Kartikraja. The film was produced at a cost of 7 crore. The song "Thamizhan Thamizhan" was shot in Kanyakumari, Tirunelveli, Madurai, Tiruchi, Salem, Coimbatore and Chennai.Soundtrack
The music was composed by Bharadwaj, and lyrics were written by Snehan. The song "Oru Aayiram Suriyan" is based on Bharadwaj's own Telugu song "Oh Manasa Thondhara" from Telugu film Oka Chinna Maata.| Song | Singers |
| "Naan Unna Ninaichen" | S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Pop Shalini |
| "Thamizhan Thamizhan" | Krishnaraj, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam |
| "Ore Oru Punnagai " | P. Unnikrishnan, Sujatha |
| "Oru Aayiram Suriya" | Reshmi, Bharadwaj |
| "Namma Ooru Chennaiyile" | Sabesh |
| "Annan Thambi" | Bharadwaj |
| "Uyir Theduthe" | Bharadwaj |
| "Kangalai Pole" | Bharadwaj |