Red (2002 film)


Red is a 2002 Indian Tamil-language action drama film directed by Singampuli and produced by S S Chakravarthy. The film stars Ajith Kumar and Priya Gill in the lead roles, while Manivannan, Salim Ghouse and Raghuvaran played pivotal roles. The film's background score and soundtrack are composed by Deva. The film received mixed to average reviews from critics and the film did average performance at the box office.

Plot

RED is an orphan who has grown up to be the local don in Madurai. He possesses a heart of gold, and when not bashing up bad guys, he spends his time forcing schools to accept students without donations and taking care of orphans. Cheeni is his biggest enemy. RED falls for Gayathri, the daughter of his friend and confidante Narayanan, and helps her without her knowledge. She likes him but wants him to give up his life of violence. Meanwhile, reporter Manimegalai for Ananda Vikatan begins to serialize RED's story under the name Aadhi, and it becomes quite the rage among readers. In the end, RED kills Cheeni and reunites with Gayathri.

Cast

The soundtrack features six songs composed by Deva. The film's soundtrack became a success prior to release, with critics praising the songs particularly "Thai Madiyae". All lyrics written by Vairamuthu.

Production

NIC Arts, the producers of Ajith Kumar's previous films Vaali, Mugavaree and Citizen signed him to appear in a film titled Right directed by debutant Singampulia, an associate of Sundar C. The original plot point of Ajith's 1999 film Unnai Thedi was recommended by Singampuli, and Ajith had mentioned that if the film became a success he would feature in a future film to be directed by Singampuli. Priya Gill was signed as heroine while the film has music by Deva and cinematography by Rajasekar. The shoot of the film started at Annapoorna Studios where art director Sabu Cyril erected a part of Madurai town for the film. Other members announced to a part of the cast included Salim Ghouse, Rajan P Dev, Raghuvaran, Manivannan and Srividya.

Release

The film was initially supposed to release in the Deepavali season of 2001 but was postponed to January 2002 to avoid competition with Kamal Haasan's Aalavandhan.The film ran more than 100 days at madurai only.