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Vaishnavi was an Indian film actress. She was a prominent lead actress during the late 1980s and early 1990s in Malayalam and Tamil films. She is the granddaughter of actress Sowcar Janaki.
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Whistle (2003)
Actors Vikramaditya Shukla, Sherin, Vivek, Vikramaditya, Gayathri Raguram, Mayoori ( മയൂരി )
Rating54%
The film begins with murder of Swetha a college student which is considered as accident. The scene shifts to college. Anjali (Gayathri Raguram) & Jeeva (Vikramaditya Shukla) are college lovebirds. Maya (Sherin) has a crush on Jeeva. They along with their friends spend happy days in college. One day, Vinod is murdered by Naga which is witnessed by Anjali. But no one believes her. Subsequently two other friends are murdered by Naga. In the fear, Anjali reveals the past to Maya that during the school days how the six members ragged a village girl, Sarawathi (Divyadarshini) and she committed suicide of six, four are murdered. She thinks the murders are related to the incidents. In the turn of events, it is shown that Jeeva is the murderer. On the same night, Sharmi is murdered before Anjali by Naga. Later, it is revealed the actual murderer is Maya who is the sister of Sarawathi. Later, Jeeva saves Anjali and Maya is killed. The comedy track of the movie follows the theme of the Hollywood movie What Women Want.
Baba (2002)
, 2h58Directed by Suresh Krissna
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Action
Actors Manisha Koirala, Rajinikanth, M. N. Nambiar, Ashish Vidyarthi, Goundamani, Vijayakumar
Roles Chamundeeswari's Sister
Rating53%
The film opens with the birth of Baba (Rajinikanth), who is a 'baba amsa sambhootudu'. Baba grows up as an atheist, hot-blooded man but a Good Samaritan. His life style includes consuming alcohol, smoking substances, chewing tobacco. His mother (Sujatha) and his maternal uncle (M. N. Nambiar) are ardent devotees of Mahavatar Babaji (the Baba who is supposed to be of 2000 years old and who live in Himalayas). Chamundeswari (Manisha Koirala) stays in the neighborhood of Baba's residence who often quarrels with baba but eventually falls in love with his style and falls for his attitude.
Mahaprabhu (1996)
, 2h20Actors R. Sarathkumar, Sukanya, Vineetha, Sarath Babu, Manorama, Goundamani
Roles Uma, Eswari Pandian's wife
Daamodaran (Sarath Kumar) sells black cinema tickets alongside his friends Sethu (Goundamani) and Vicky (Senthil). Daamodaran is an angry man thus he promises to his mother Vellamma (Manorama) to avoid violence. Jyothi (Vineetha), Damodaran's cousin, is in love with Damodaran.
Bambai Ka Babu (1996)
Directed by Vikram Bhatt
Genres Action
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Saif Ali Khan, Atul Agnihotri, Kajol, Dalip Tahil, Vaishnavi Mahant, Vaishnavi
Roles Anita
Rating43%
Born and brought up in a small village by foster parents, Vikram alias Vicky (Saif Ali Khan) comes to Bombay - the big city - to find his fortune. He wants to get rich soon, and he does get lucky when fate, and his confidence, courage and good looks land him a job with a politician cum criminal named Masterji (Dalip Tahil). He also meets a bar dancer named Anita Vaishnavi Mahant and love blossoms. Masterji starts him off with petty crimes, just to ensure his capabilities. Through his hard work and dedication, Vicky soon wins the respect of Masterji and his colleagues, especially one trusted man of Masterji named Vinayak More (Viju Khote). He soon becomes "Bambai ka babu" Then Vicky is entrusted with a task of subduing Masterji's rival, Jaya Shetty (Vishwajeet Pradhan), which he does easily. Then instead of being disposed off, Jaya is asked to make friends with Masterji, so as to benefit the latter. But soon Vicky comes to know of Masterji's plan with Jaya to incite communal violence as a means of indirectly winning the elections, he decides to sabotage their plans. Angered at this, Masterji orders the death of Vicky at any cost. Vicky has nowhere to turn to, except to live in fear for the rest of his life, as sooner or later Jaya and Masterji's men will track him down.
Maanthrikam (1995)
Genres Thriller
Actors Mohanlal, P. V. Jagadish Kumar, Priya Raman, Rajan P. Dev, Raghuvaran, Vaishnavi
Roles Shakeela
Rating62%
Aanazhagan (1995)
Directed by Thiagarajan Sivanandam
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Prashanth, K. R. Vijaya, Vadivelu, Charle, Chinni Jayanth, S. Manivannan
Roles Doctor
Rating60%
Raja (Prashanth), Sudhakar (Charle), Raghava (Chinni Jayanth), Marudhu (Vadivelu) are good friends stay together as tenants at (Gandhimathi), after being thrown out of the house they start searching for a new house on rent but no one is willing to give their house for bachelors. Finally they come to know a landlady (K. R. Vijaya) in search of a family as her tenants. A plot is hatched by and all the four bachelors dress up to be a family man (Charle), his retarded brother (Chinni Jayanth), his uncle (Vadivelu) & his wife Lakshmi (Prashanth being the wife). Now Prashanth's (who happens to be in a woman's attire) lady love (Suneha - debut) happens to be the landlady's daughter. At one point of time by mistake the friends inform the landlady that Lakshmi is pregnant, the landlady arrange for valaikappu function, followed by a Doctor (Vaishnavi) checkup, burst into a series of rumbled conflicts & all hell breaks loose.
Kolangal (1995)
, 2h25Directed by I. V. Sasi
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about prostitution
Actors Jayaram, Kushboo Sundar, Raghuvaran, Raja, Kasthuri, Sarath Babu
Roles Archana
Rating57%
Ganga (Kushboo), a Tamil girl who doesn't know Hindi, looks for her friend Malini in Mumbai. She then meets Bairavan (Raghuvaran), a Tamil man, who says that he knows Malini and then Bairavan sells Ganga to a brothel. The Tamil Nadu Police raids at the brothel for rescuing Tamil women and they save most of the women including the innocent Ganga.
Muthu Kaalai (1995)
, 2h25Genres Drama
Actors Karthik, Soundarya, Vijayakumar, Chandrasekhar (Tamil actor), Goundamani, Vijayakumar
Roles Maheshwari
The film begins with Poochi (Vadivelu) announcing a bad news to Muthu Kaalai (Karthik). Muthu Kaalai first refuses to see Poonjolai in her death-bed but he finally accepts.
Jai Hind (1994)
, 2h30Directed by Arjun Sarja
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Films about terrorism
Actors Ranjitha, Arjun Sarja, Goundamani, Sundarrajan, Manorama, Senthil
Roles Susila
Rating70%
Bharath (Arjun), a police officer, is in love with a beautiful woman Priya (Ranjitha). A terrorist group attacks the state of Tamil Nadu and they kill the current Chief Minister (Kalyan Kumar) and Sriram (Devan), Bharath's brother.
Nattamai (1994)
Directed by K.S.Ravikumar
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Films about families
Actors R. Sarathkumar, Kushboo Sundar, Meena, Aachi Manorama, Sanghavi, Vijayakumar
Rating69%
Naattamai (Sarathkumar) is a very kind-hearted, disciplined man. He sits on the ancestral throne in his village to do justice (similar to panchayat). He hears all the cases and gives solutions and punishments to the wrong-doers. His wife, Khushboo admires and respects him a lot. His brothers Pasupathi (sarathkumar) and Raja Ravindra fear for him and also have a lot of respect for him as he has brought them up as his children. The young Sarathkumar marries Meena, daughter of an industrialist. She at first never liked Naatamai and her husband for being so timid before his brother but later transforms after knowing his greatness from her father.Raja Ravindra loves his paternal cousin(Ponnambalam)'s daughter (Sanghavi). In the flashback, Periya Naatamai(Vijayakumar) father of naatamai orders Ponnambalam to marry his servant's daughter whom he raped, though he is his sister's son. His brother-in-law shoots at him as he is disappointed by his verdict.Enraged Periya Naatamai gives his final verdict before dying to abandon their family and whoever visits his house will receive the same punishment and also not to share even a glass of water with them. Ponnambalam from then builds envy on his uncle's family and waits for an opportunity to take revenge on them. He plans to bring a lady (Subhashri) as a teacher to the school in the village and tells her to make young Sarathkumar fall for her. She does so to save her father who is in the hands of Ponnambalam. He kills her and makes the villagers believe that Sarathkumar has done this. Naatamai sentences 10 years of exile for his brother's family. Now Ponnambalam comes to know of his daughter's love and tries to kill Raja Ravindra with the help of his goons. Sarathkumar goes in rescue of him and pregnant Meena goes to Naatamai to convey this message. Manorama rushes to Nattamai and reveals the truth and tells that he punished his brother without committing any mistake. Naatamai takes revenge on Ponnambalam and dies on knowing that he gave a wrong verdict. Now younger Sarathkumar is shown taking the ancestral throne from his brother.
Utthama Raasa (1993)
, 2h21Directed by Raj Kapoor
Actors Prabhu, Kushboo Sundar, Radha Ravi, Raja, Goundamani, Senthil
Makkal Mahathmyam (1992)
Genres Drama
Actors Mukesh, Saikumar, Innocent, P. V. Jagadish Kumar, K. P. A. C. Lalitha, Vaishnavi
Roles Radhika
Rating59%
The film is about the fights between two stepbrothers, Madhavankutty and Krishnankutty. The film takes a turn when Madhavankutty is accused in the murder of Pisharady Mash, an alcoholic.
Aham (1992)
Directed by T. Rajeevnath
Genres Drama
Actors Mohanlal, Urvashi, Ramya Krishnan, Neena Gupta, Suresh Gopi, Nedumudi Venu
Rating69%
Aham is the story of Sidharthan (Mohanlal), who grew up in a disciplined and strict environment and tried to lead his family life in similar lines. But his wife (Urvasi) was not able to adjust with his crazy lifestyle. She wanted to become self-dependent but this created suspicion in Siddharthan's mind. In a resulting argument and physical struggle, She got pushed from the balcony and goes into a coma. This makes Siddharthan lose his mental balance. Later he ends up in a mental asylum and leads a spiritual life there. At the end Siddharthan commits suicide.
Annamalai (1992)
, 2h44Directed by Suresh Krissna
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Rajinikanth, Kushboo Sundar, Sarath Babu, Meena, Radha Ravi, Janagaraj
Roles Annamalai's sister
Rating76%
Annamalai (Rajinikanth) and Ashok (Sarath Babu) have been best friends since childhood. Annamalai is a milkman while Ashok is the only son of a rich businessman (Radharavi). When Ashok falls in love with Geetha (Rekha), a poor girl, his father is naturally against the wedding. Annamalai holds the wedding and earns his ire. Meanwhile, Annamalai falls for Subu (Kushboo Sundar), whom he subsequently marries.
Ayalathe Adheham (1992)
, 2h18Directed by Rajasenan
Genres Drama
Actors Jayaram, Gautami, Siddique, Thilakan, Meena, Vaishnavi
Roles Radhika
Rating67%
The story is about an ordinary family man Premachandran (Jayaram), who faces troubles when his wife Sulochana (Gautami) develops an inferiority complex about their family life, after seeing their happily married neighbours Rajeevan and Radhika (Siddique and Vaishnavi).