Nethaji

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Karunamurthy, an honest home minister, is forced to help terrorists kill the current governor to save his daughter Priya. Nethaji, an upright journalist, runs a newspaper called "India" and falls in love with Priya. Baba is a terrorist who smuggles arms with his right-hand Dharma. Nethaji saves the scientist Shivashankari from terrorists, and Charan, a police officer, congrats Nethaji and arrests Baba. Dharma hurts Nethaji's sister and niece Ammu and later kidnaps the latter. Dharma threatens Nethaji to kill Ammu, and Nethaji is forced to kidnap Shivashankari. Nethaji kidnaps Shivashankari and saves Ammu, and later, Charan arrests him. The rest of story is how Nethaji will be able to prove himself innocent and punish the terrorists.

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• Sarathkumar as Nethaji
• Lisa Ray as Priya
• Manivannan as Mani
• Babu Antony as Baba
• Charan Raj as ACP Charan
• Kitty as Karuna Murthy
• Senthil
• Jyothi Meena
• Vimalraj as Dharma
• Manimala as Shivashankari
• Sudha as Nethaji's sister
• Baby Nikitha as Ammu
• CID Sakunthala

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The film marked the directorial debut of Murthy Krishna,{{Cite news |last=Vijiyan |first=K. N. |date=6 January 1997 |title=Movie marred by poor acting and storyline |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=x8G803Bi31IC&dat=19970105&printsec=frontpage&hl=en |access-date=14 January 2025 |work=New Straits Times |pages=61 |via=Google News Archive}}{{cbignore}} who used the screen name Kicha for his subsequent ventures.{{Cite web |last=Aggarwal |first=Asmita |date=2 August 2024 |title=Lisa Ray interview: 'Motherhood has forced me to prioritize what truly matters' |url=https://thefederal.com/category/features/lisa-ray-interview-motherhood-has-forced-me-to-prioritize-what-truly-matters-136624 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250114163157/https://thefederal.com/category/features/lisa-ray-interview-motherhood-has-forced-me-to-prioritize-what-truly-matters-136624 |archive-date=14 January 2025 |access-date=14 January 2025 |website=The Federal |language=en}} Antara Mali was originally chosen as the lead actress; however she got a chance to act in Hindi films and left the film uninformed, thus she was replaced by Lisa Ray.{{cite magazine |date=4 August 1996 |title=நடிக்க வருகிறார் மனநல மருத்துவர்! |url=https://archive.org/download/kalki1996-08-04/kalki1996-08-04.pdf |access-date=14 May 2023 |magazine=Kalki |pages=8–10 |language=Ta |via=Internet Archive}}

The music was composed by Vidyasagar, with lyrics written by Vaali.{{Cite web |date=31 August 2014 |title=Nethaji |url=https://www.jiosaavn.com/album/nethaji/TqhbBy00fQs_ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230512054032/https://www.jiosaavn.com/album/nethaji/TqhbBy00fQs_ |archive-date=12 May 2023 |access-date=12 May 2023 |website=JioSaavn}}

R. P. R. of Kalki felt there were too many plots and the screenplay crosses from continent to continent.{{Cite magazine |last=ஆர். பி. ஆர் |date=22 December 1996 |title=நேதாஜி |url=https://archive.org/details/kalki1996-12-22/page/n81/mode/2up |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230511145726/https://archive.org/details/kalki1996-12-22/page/n81/mode/2up |archive-date=11 May 2023 |access-date=11 May 2023 |magazine=Kalki |page=80 |language=Ta |via=Internet Archive}} K. N. Vijiyan of New Straits Times wrote "Murthi's directorial debut is marred by glaring mistakes made in the storyline so much so that it becomes implausible and leaves the audience very frustrated".

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Category:1990s Indian films

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