The Best Films of the Birthday Girl Raadhika
Today is the Birthday of Raadhika who is one of the finest and versatile actresses of Tamil cinema. Radhika ruled South Indian Cinema as a heroine in the 1980s and early 90s and gradually emerged as a character artist since the late 90s. She is today one of the best female character artist who can perform any kind of role with ease and perfection. Here is a look at some of the best roles portrayed by her on screen.
Kizhakke Pogum Rail
This is the debut film of Raadhika the daughter of Nadigavel M.R.Radha. Bharathiraja who is the most efficient in spotting talents introduced her with his second film. Raadhika proved his intuition right and gave a realistic performance as an innocent village girl and played a vital part in the success of the film. '
Indru Poi Naalai Vaa
In this Bhagyaraj directed classic comedy Raadhika played the role of a girl next door who is an angel to the youngsters of the locality. The film is a run away hit and Radhika's vivacious performance is one of the important contributors for making it a classic.
Rettai Vaal Kuruvi
Raadhika who was seen in homely characters expressed her modern and sensual best in this romantic comedy directed by Balu Mahendra. Her chemistry with Mohan was spectacular to say the least.
Sippikkul Muthu
Raadhika shined in this film as a caring wife of an innocent husband played by one of India's best actor and the mother of a child. The film was directed by K.Viswanath who has given many classic. Raadhika's casting in this film by the legendary filmmaker proved to be a worthy selection as the film became a super hit in Telugu as well as Tamil and also later remade in other languages.
Keladi Kanmani
In this debut film of director Vasanth, Raadhika proved that she is adept in handling matured characters and played a teacher who falls in love with the single parent of one of her students.
Paasap Paravaigal
Many Tamil films have explored the Brother-Sister relationship right from the ageless classic 'Pasamalargal'. This film had a sister trying to put her brother behind the bars to get justice for her husband's murder. The film written by M.Karunanidhi offered a multi-dimensional character to Raadhika as a caring wife, affectionate sister and a widowed lawyer who struggles in the Court of law to get justice for her husband's death and stands as one of the best performance of the actress till date.
Kizhakku Cheemayile
After many years, Raadhika teamed up with her mentor Bharathiraja only to deliver this classic film on rural values and the greatness of brother-sister relationship. Radhika's played Virumayi a women toiling between her most affectionate brother and dominating and angry husband. This is easily one of the most memorable performances of the actress.
Naan Petha Magane
In this film high on mother-son sentiment. Raadhika did not play the role of the mother but she played the role of the one who saving the mother played by Manorama who is wrongly accused for a murder. Radhika played a lawyer in this film and it is one of the best roles she has played till date.
Jeans
With this film. the Tamil film industry and movie buffs came to know that Raadhika can pull off even negative characters with great finesse. Though the character had negative shades the turn her character takes towards the end and her performance in the climax scene took the film to great heights and ensured its huge success.
Naanum Rowdy Dhaan
In recent years Raadhika has been acting as hero's mother and shows her versatility even in this role which is often stereotyped as sentimental. In this film she played a police officer-single mother of the her Vijay Sethupathi and her chemistry with the versatile actor was one of the best in recent times between a character artists and a hero that too as mother and son. Everyone loved the mother as well as the son in the film and that is one of the vital reasons for the film's success.
Pavithra and Theri
Raadhika has acted with today's leading stars Thala Ajith and Thalapathy Vijay. With Ajith she acted in 'Pavithra' in a character resembling a foster mother. The film which was one of the earliest films in Ajith's career is hailed for Raadhika's spellbinding performance.With Vijay she acted in his most recent 'Theri' which turned out to be a blockbuster of 2016. Her chemistry with Thalapathy and her performance as a mother is caring, understanding and sophisticated, made the role as one of the best mothers we have ever seen in Tamil cinema.
Conclusion
IndiaGlitz is proud to pay a Birthday tribute to this most talented actress in the form of this slide show Raadhika is an actress who has acted in over 200 films in all South Indian languages in a career spanning close to four decades. It is unfair to reduce her to these ten films and this is just summation of her Best Films according to over choice and judgement. This certainly does not mean she has performed well only in these ten films that her performances in her other films are any lesser
The Best Films of the Birthday Girl Raadhika
Today is the Birthday of Raadhika who is one of the finest and versatile actresses of Tamil cinema. Radhika ruled South Indian Cinema as a heroine in the 1980s and early 90s and gradually emerged as a character artist since the late 90s. She is today one of the best female character artist who can perform any kind of role with ease and perfection. Here is a look at some of the best roles portrayed by her on screen.
Kizhakke Pogum Rail
This is the debut film of Raadhika the daughter of Nadigavel M.R.Radha. Bharathiraja who is the most efficient in spotting talents introduced her with his second film. Raadhika proved his intuition right and gave a realistic performance as an innocent village girl and played a vital part in the success of the film. '
Indru Poi Naalai Vaa
In this Bhagyaraj directed classic comedy Raadhika played the role of a girl next door who is an angel to the youngsters of the locality. The film is a run away hit and Radhika's vivacious performance is one of the important contributors for making it a classic.
Rettai Vaal Kuruvi
Raadhika who was seen in homely characters expressed her modern and sensual best in this romantic comedy directed by Balu Mahendra. Her chemistry with Mohan was spectacular to say the least.
Sippikkul Muthu
Raadhika shined in this film as a caring wife of an innocent husband played by one of India's best actor and the mother of a child. The film was directed by K.Viswanath who has given many classic. Raadhika's casting in this film by the legendary filmmaker proved to be a worthy selection as the film became a super hit in Telugu as well as Tamil and also later remade in other languages.
Keladi Kanmani
In this debut film of director Vasanth, Raadhika proved that she is adept in handling matured characters and played a teacher who falls in love with the single parent of one of her students.
Paasap Paravaigal
Many Tamil films have explored the Brother-Sister relationship right from the ageless classic 'Pasamalargal'. This film had a sister trying to put her brother behind the bars to get justice for her husband's murder. The film written by M.Karunanidhi offered a multi-dimensional character to Raadhika as a caring wife, affectionate sister and a widowed lawyer who struggles in the Court of law to get justice for her husband's death and stands as one of the best performance of the actress till date.
Kizhakku Cheemayile
After many years, Raadhika teamed up with her mentor Bharathiraja only to deliver this classic film on rural values and the greatness of brother-sister relationship. Radhika's played Virumayi a women toiling between her most affectionate brother and dominating and angry husband. This is easily one of the most memorable performances of the actress.
Naan Petha Magane
In this film high on mother-son sentiment. Raadhika did not play the role of the mother but she played the role of the one who saving the mother played by Manorama who is wrongly accused for a murder. Radhika played a lawyer in this film and it is one of the best roles she has played till date.
Jeans
With this film. the Tamil film industry and movie buffs came to know that Raadhika can pull off even negative characters with great finesse. Though the character had negative shades the turn her character takes towards the end and her performance in the climax scene took the film to great heights and ensured its huge success.
Naanum Rowdy Dhaan
In recent years Raadhika has been acting as hero's mother and shows her versatility even in this role which is often stereotyped as sentimental. In this film she played a police officer-single mother of the her Vijay Sethupathi and her chemistry with the versatile actor was one of the best in recent times between a character artists and a hero that too as mother and son. Everyone loved the mother as well as the son in the film and that is one of the vital reasons for the film's success.
Pavithra and Theri
Raadhika has acted with today's leading stars Thala Ajith and Thalapathy Vijay. With Ajith she acted in 'Pavithra' in a character resembling a foster mother. The film which was one of the earliest films in Ajith's career is hailed for Raadhika's spellbinding performance.With Vijay she acted in his most recent 'Theri' which turned out to be a blockbuster of 2016. Her chemistry with Thalapathy and her performance as a mother is caring, understanding and sophisticated, made the role as one of the best mothers we have ever seen in Tamil cinema.
Conclusion
IndiaGlitz is proud to pay a Birthday tribute to this most talented actress in the form of this slide show Raadhika is an actress who has acted in over 200 films in all South Indian languages in a career spanning close to four decades. It is unfair to reduce her to these ten films and this is just summation of her Best Films according to over choice and judgement. This certainly does not mean she has performed well only in these ten films that her performances in her other films are any lesser
Today is the Birthday of Raadhika who is one of the finest and versatile actresses of Tamil cinema.
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