Raasaiyya
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Director Yaar Kannan Release date 1995 (India) | 5/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Drama Budget 12.5 million INR | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 24 August 1995 Writer R. Selvaraj (screenplay), R. Selvaraj (story), Umesh Sharma (dialogue) Songs Dindukallu Similar movies Ilayaraja composed the music for Raasaiyya and Deiva Vaakku | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Raasaiyya is a 1995 Tamil Indian feature film directed by debutant R. Kannan and produced by T. Siva, starring Prabhu Deva in the lead role. Roja Selvamani played the film's female lead. After the film's release, it was dubbed into Hindi as Chhaila. The film revolves around the life struggle and love life of the character played by Prabhu Deva.
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Story
Raasaiyya (Prabhu Deva) lives with his grandfather, Shyamsunder (Vijayakumar), a kind-hearted and honest man in a small town in rural Southern India. Shyamsunder is very easy-going and permits Raasaiyya in indulge in all kinds of precocious activities. When young and beautiful Anita (Roja) comes to stay for a few days with Shyamsunder, both Raasaiyya and she fall in love with each other, and would like to get married. But Raasaiyya is unable to assert himself, and Anita's marriage is arranged with a U.S. settled groom. Shyamsunder would like to present a decent dowry for Anita, which includes a priceless diamond necklace. Unable to bear his separation from his sweetheart, Raasaiyya decides to tell Shyamsunder about this, but before he could do so, he finds out that his biological mother, Madhavi (Raadhika), is still alive, but will not have anything to do with him. Watch what happens when Raasaiyya finally meets her and finds out the secret why she abandoned him in his childhood.
Cast
Release
The film opened to extremely negative reviews from film critics, with a reviewer from Indolink.com noting it as "an absolute waste of time and money and above all an insult to your intelligence". Raasaiyya became a box office bomb. The film was later dubbed to Hindi as Chhaila, following the popularity of the dubbed version of Prabhu Deva's previous film Kaadhalan as Humse Hain Muqabla.
Soundtrack
The film has hit music scored by Ilaiyaraaja with lyrics by Vaali which features songs like "Masthana Masthana" and "Kadhal Vaanile". The audio was released under the label of Time Magnetics.
References
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