Shahjahan

 

Shahjahan is a 2001 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film written and directed by Ravi Abbulu and produced by R. B. Choudary. The film stars Vijay and Richa Pallod while Krishna and Vivek portray supporting roles. The film, which had music was composed by Mani Sharma, was released on 14 November 2001. The story is about the love life of a love doctor and how his love life ends in a tragedy unknowingly. The movie was a commercial success.

Plot

Ashok is a young man who helps lovers elope against the wishes of their families. He is assisted in this endeavour by his close friends Boopathi Ramaiyaa and Seenu. Once he comes across Uma Maheshwari "Mahee", an engineering student, and develops a crush on her. However, he chooses not to express his love to her and instead decides to wait for her to reciprocate her love due to a past incident involving his friend Giri. In a flashback, it is shown that Giri was in love with a Muslim girl named Aisha, who did not reciprocate. When Giri declared his love for her in front of her family, Aisha committed suicide, unable to bear the humiliation faced by her and her family members. This incident caused Giri to become mad and end up in an asylum.

One day, Ashok's friend Raja asks him to help him successfully pursue a mysterious girl. Ashok agrees to this and successfully helps Raja win the heart of the "mysterious girl", who, unknown to Ashok, turns out to be none other than Mahee. Eventually, when Mahee's father finds out about the relationship, Mahee and Raja decide to elope and seek the help of Ashok again. Ashok, who is still unaware that Raja wants to marry Mahee, agrees. It is only when Mahee arrives at the register office that Ashok realises that Raja's lover is Mahee and that he had helped Raja to make his love with Mahee succeed. Ashok breaks down inconsolably, but soon calms down and gets Raja and Mahee married. The newly married couple decide to leave for Coimbatore to escape from Mahee's father's wrath. But Mahee's father notices them and attacks them as well as Ashok, since he is responsible for getting his daughter to elope. Ashok is stabbed by Mahee's father. Despite his pain, Ashok manages to send Mahee and Raja away safely, and Mahee's father decides to leave him alone, since his daughter is already gone.

The movie ends with a man coming to an injured Ashok and asking him to help him in pursuing a girl he likes, to which Ashok agrees.

 

Cast

·         Vijay as Ashok

·         Richa Pallod as Uma Maheshwari "Mahee"

·         Vivek as Boopathi Ramaiyaa

·         Krishna as Raja

·         Sashikumar as Giri

·         Kovai Babu as Ashok's friend

·         Vishal as Sirish

·         Kovai Sarala as Jingili

·         Nizhalgal Ravi as Ashok's father

·         N. Mathrubootham as Prof. Das

·         Devan as Mahee's father

·         Janaki Sabesh as Mahee's mother

·         Jaya Murali as Ashok's mother

·         Sona Heiden as Sujatha

·         Pasi Sathya as Muniyamma

·         Thadi Balaji as Seenu

·         Ilavarasu as Police Inspector

·         Pandu as Lawyer

·         Ajay Rathnam as a Minister

·         Chaplin Balu as Bhoopathi's friend

·         Banu Balasubramaniam as Giri's mother

·         Varsha as Aisha

·         Shanmugasundaram as Aisha's father

·         Vaani as Aisha's mother

·         Marthandan as Family planning officer

·         Scissor Manohar as College peon

·         Padma Chowdary as Sirish's lover

·         Sridhar as dancer

·         Meena in a special appearance

·         Aruldoss as Bhoopathi's friend (uncredited)