''Rakhi'' or ''Rakhee'' is a 2006 Indian

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directed by

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and starring Jr. NTR,

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and

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, Chandra Mohan,

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, Sunil, and

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play other supporting roles. The music of the movie was composed by

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with cinematography by S. Gopal Reddy action sequences by Stun Shiva and editing by Shankar. This film was released on 22 December 2006 with 250 prints. The movie was a Superhit at the box office .

Plot

Ramakrishna aka Rakhi ( Jr. NTR) aspires to become a railway stationmaster like his father ( Chandra Mohan). His love interest and close friend Tripura (

) is a reporter in a TV channel who exposes atrocities against women in the society. For Rakhi, his sister Gayathri (Manjusha) is everything. She is married off to a software professional (

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) who plans to go to the USA. However, his uncle brings a proposal where he would get 1 crore as dowry. At first they try to get rid of her by fighting with Rakhi and demanding for more dowry, but when Gayathri overhears them they burn her alive. Devastated by this as she was also pregnant, Rakhi's family tries to sue them in court but corrupt lawyers, policemen, and doctors fabricate that Gayathri was mentally disturbed and committed suicide. Rakhi was unable to accept this. In a fit of rage, he burns her in-laws and all those people alive who fabricated things about her in front of the court in the same way as Gayathri's in-laws burnt her alive. He then starts a manhunt for all sex offenders and perverted men and burns them alive while dropping a rakhi at every site. A police officer named Meenakshi Iyer (

) is leading the hunt for him, and the entire police force is under a dilemma as the public women all consider Rakhi to be a god and all men are staying away from women so as to not be killed. Rakhi eventually surrenders to Meenakshi, and goes to jail but it is revealed that he did so to kill his sister's friend's murderer, a love crazed man (

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) who killed her friend because of repeatedly refusing his proposal. Meenakshi talks to Rakhi after being verbally abused and kicked by a minister whose son also was killed by Rakhi, and she realizes that what Rakhi is doing is correct as the law is protecting all those men from death after abusing women. Rakhi also kills the minister (

) after he placed a bomb outside Rakhi's jail that killed many women who came forward to Rakhi to tie Rakhi's on his wrist, including his cousin Gowri (

). Rakhi goes to court and the judge (

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) also sees that Rakhi did a justice to the country, resigns from his post and announces that he will be Rakhi's lawyer and get him acquitted. The film ends with Rakhi motivating all the women present outside the court in support of him.

Cast

* Jr. NTR as K. Ramakrishna (Rakhi) *

as Tripura Sundari *

as Gowri, Rakhi's cousin *

as Meenakshi Iyer *

as Police Commissioner * Chandra Mohan as Mohan Rao, Rakhi's father *

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as Ranga, Rakhi's brother *

as Rakhi's grandfather *

as Gowri's mother *

as TV Channel Owner * Sunil as Mohan Reddy *

as Minister * Manjusha as Gayathri, Rakhi's sister *

as Gayathri's husband * Master Ajai as Meenakshi Iyer's son * Ranii Pandey as Prostitution Racket Head * Bharat as Bharat, Minister's son *

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as Marriage broker *

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as Criminal lawyer Sachidanandam *

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as Auto driver *

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as Madhukar * Bharath Reddy as Bharat's friend *

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as Police Inspector *

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as Police Officer *

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as Minister's aide *

as Judge (Guest role) *

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Music

The film has six songs composed by

. The music was well received.

Release

The film was released in 545 screens, including 431 in

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, 29 in

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, six in

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, three in

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, three in

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and 73 overseas. The film's dubbed versions were released in Tamil, Hindi and Bhojpuri as ''Rakhi'', ''The Return of Kaalia'' (2007) and ''Kaalia'' (2016) respectively.Also Dubbed to Kannada Name as same title

Reception

The film had a 100-day run in 30-centres.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rakhi (2006 Film) 2006 films Indian action drama films Indian vigilante films Films directed by Krishna Vamsi Fictional portrayals of the Andhra Pradesh Police 2006 action drama films 2000s vigilante films 2000s Telugu-language films Indian films about revenge Films about social issues in India