''Dost'' () is a 2001

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-language action-crime film directed by S. A. Chandrasekhar. The film stars

R. Sarathkumar Sarathkumar Ramanathan (born 14 July 1954) is an Indian actor, politician, filmmaker, and singer. He has acted in more than 130 Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films. He has won two Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and three Filmfare Award ...

and Abhirami whilst

Raghuvaran Raghuvaran Velayutham (11 December 1958 – 19 March 2008) was an Indian actor who predominantly acted in films made in South India. He has acted in more than 200 Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi films. According to the ''Hindustan T ...

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and Indu play supporting roles.

Plot

Vishwa (

Sarathkumar Sarathkumar Ramanathan (born 14 July 1954) is an Indian actor, politician, filmmaker, and singer. He has acted in more than 130 Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films. He has won two Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and three Filmfare Awards S ...

) and Raghu (

) are the closest of friends. However, the former is true, while the latter is merely a mercenary. Nothing matters to Raghu except money. He uses his wealthy friend as a ruse to rise in status. Devoted to his selfish friend, Vishwa is too naive to know that Raghu is an archetypal scheming villain who could ruin him for money. When he does realize the truth, it is too late – he is already a wreck, estranged from his child and lover and behind bars. Now it is time for revenge.

Cast

as Vishwanathan * Abhirami as Anamika *

as Raghu *

as ACP Neelakanda Brahmachari *Indhu as Gowri *

Santhana Bharathi Santhana Bharathi is an Indian film director and actor who has primarily worked in Tamil cinema. Career Santhana Bharathi originally wanted to be a director but didn't get the right opportunity, even after working for a well known director ...

as Judge *

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as Dharmaraj *

Nizhalgal Ravi Ravichandran Samanna (born 16 April 1956), known professionally as Nizhalgal Ravi, is an Indian film, television and voice actor who works mainly in Tamil cinema. He has performed in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu films and television series. He st ...

as Jail Superintendent *

Besant Ravi Besant Ravi (born R. Ravi Kumar; 1 June 1970) is an Indian actor and stunt choreographer. He has played antagonistic supporting roles in Tamil, Hindi and several other Indian language films. Early life Besant Ravi, who was born and brought up ...

as Police Inspector *

Mohan Sharma Mohan Sharma is an Indian film and television actor, film producer, director and screenwriter, who works in South Indian films. He has produced more than 15 films in Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada. He became noted through his role in '' C ...

as I. G. *

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as Astrologer *

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as Seller *

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as Fighter *

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as a child in cemetery *

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as Bomb Bakri (special appearance) * Kasthuri in a special appearance *

K. S. Ravikumar K. S. Ravikumar (born 30 May 1958) is an Indian film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, primarily working in Tamil films. Career 1990–1997 Ravikumar worked as co-director on R. B. Choudary's production ''Pudhu Vasantham'' direct ...

in a special appearance as boxing referee * Ramji in a special appearance

Production

S. A. Chandrasekhar had written the film in the late 1990s but shelved the venture as he could not find the correct actor to portray a boxer. After receiving an offer from

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to direct the film, he reworked the script and cast

, alongside

and

Soundtrack

Lyrics were written by Vaali.

Reception

Malathi Rangarajan of ''

The Hindu ''The Hindu'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It began as a weekly in 1878 and became a daily in 1889. It is one of the Indian newspapers of record and the secon ...

'' wrote, "The film has flashes of intelligence, splashes of humour, spurts of sentiment and mounds of melodrama. Yet the cocktail does not offer complete satiety. One reason could be the pace, affected as it is by inevitable appendages", and criticised its conspicuous similarities to the American film ''

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'' (1999). Visual Dasan of ''

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'' called the film "average".

References

External links

* {{S. A. Chandrasekhar 2000s crime action films 2000s Tamil-language films 2000s vigilante films 2001 action thriller films 2001 crime thriller films 2001 films Films directed by S. A. Chandrasekhar Films scored by Deva (composer) Indian action thriller films Indian crime action films Indian crime thriller films Indian films about revenge Indian legal films Indian vigilante films