Overview
Rakhi or Rakhee is a 2006 Indian Telugu-language action film directed by Krishna Vamsi and starring Jr. NTR, Ileana D'Cruz and Charmme Kaur. Suhasini, Sarath Babu, Chandra Mohan, Brahmaji, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Saranya Ponvannan, Brahmanandam, Sunil, and Sayaji Shinde play other supporting roles. The music of the movie was composed by Devi Sri Prasad 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. N.T.R.) aspires to become a railway stationmaster like his father (Chandra Mohan). His love interest and close friend Tripura (Ileana D'Cruz) is a reporter on a TV channel who exposes atrocities against women in society. For Rakhi, his sister Gayathri (Manjusha) is everything. She is married to a software professional (Ravi Varma) who plans to go to the USA. However, his uncle brought a proposal where he would get 1 crore as a dowry. At first, they try to get rid of her by fighting with Rakhi and demanding 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 a corrupt lawyer, a policeman, and a doctor fabricate that Gayathri was mentally disturbed and committed suicide. Rakhi was unable to accept this. Tripura calls Rakhi's father and grandfather for the second hearing of the case. In a graveyard, Rakhi still is in shock, and looking at Gayathri's ashes, he hallucinates and sees Gayathri screaming near him and burnt to death, eventually seeing that every girl like Gayathri is tortured, killed, molested, and burnt, and they also call him "brother". In a 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 Gayathri's in-laws burnt her alive. He researches the atrocities on the women at Tripura's office, Tripura is shocked to see him as he had murdered the perpetrators of Gayathri, including the corrupt lawyer, doctor, and police officer. He then explains to her that every woman is harassed, killed, and tortured like Gayathri, even molested, and the world is filled with these wretched men who think that a woman is vulnerable, also showing an information paper.
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