Badri

Badri is a 2001 Tamil–language sports action directed by P.A. Arun Prasad. The film stars Joseph Vijay as a spoiled college brat who turns into a kickboxer to prove as a good son for his father and a good young brother for his elder brother. Bhumika Chawla, Monal, Dhamu and Vivek also starred in the film. The film was scored by popular musician Ramana Gogula, who scored eight songs in the film.

The film was a loose remake of 2000 Telugu–language film, Thammudu . Thammudu starred Pawan Kalyan, Preeti Jhangiani, Aditi Govitrikar, Achyuth, Chandra Mohan and Mallikarjuna Rao. Initially, Thammudu was a remake of 1989 English–language film, Kickboxer and a high influence of 1992 Hindi–language film, Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar.

Story

Badrinatha Moorthy (Vijay), who is fondly called as Badri by everyone prefers to be called as Badri. A spoiled college brat, Badri hangs around with a bunch of friends of similar nature. Janaki (Bhumika Chawla), is his neighbour and also his childhood friend. She secretly loves Badri, but never reveals it. Badri's elder brother, Vetrinath (Riyaz Khan) and his father runs a canteen in which Malli (Anu Mohan) is a cook. Vetrinath, representing govt. college, practices kickboxing to participate in the intercollege competition, but is defeated by rival, Rohit from Model college. Badri's gang and his govt. college mates are looked down cheaply by Model college's Rohit and gang and are insulted often. Badri plans to teach them a lesson and tries every trick to woo Lovely (Monal), who is a new entry into model college. Badri pretends as the lone son of a multi-millionaire and wins over Lovely's heart by presenting her a diamond ring on Valentine's Day. He borrows money from Janaki for this. Lovely realizes Badri's true identity through Rohit and ditches him. Janaki's father (M. Vasudevan) blames Badri's father for the money borrowed. His father gets sick of his misdeeds and kick him out of his house. Vetrinath tries to talk Badri out of his problems, and while returning home is attacked by Rohit and his men. Vetrinath lies in hospital and is declared unfit to compete in kickboxing competition. Badri realizes the truth behind Vetrinath's incident and decides to participate in kickboxing competition. But Vetrinath's guru refuses to train Badri, as he questions Badri's integrity. Badri manages to convince his guru and learn kickboxing with all his energies concentrated. He wins over Rohit and also everyone's heart again.

Cast

Actor	Role
Vijay	Badri
Bhumika Chawla	Janaki
Riyaz Khan	Vetrinath
Anu Mohan	Malli
Monal	Lovely
Vivek

Music

Song	Singer(s)
Angel	K S Chithra, Devi Sri Prasad
King of Chennai	Devi Sri Prasad
Kalakala	Shankar Mahadevan
Ennoda Laila	Vijay
Salaaam Maharaasa	Devan, Priya
Stella Maris	Tippu, Vivek, Dhamu
Travelling Soldier(a soundtrack English song)	Ramana Gokula

Box Office

• The film grossed $2 million at the box office and was declared a hit upon release.

Badri
Directed by	P.A. Arun Prasad
Starring	Vijay, Bhumika Chawla, Monal, Vivek
Music by	Ramana Gogula
Release date(s)	April 16, 2001
Running time	165 min.
Language	Tamil