Rishi

Rishi (2001)

ரிஷி

Rishi, a thief, happens to own a floppy incriminating a minister of murder. Things turn chaotic when his lookalike Velu is targeted by the minister for the footage.

Date of release
2001-02-16
TMDB
3.0 / 10 (2)
Runtime
2h 23m
Genres
Action
Director
Sundar C

Casting

Interesting facts

Rishi is a 2001 Indian Tamil-language action film written and directed by Sundar C. The film stars R. Sarathkumar in a dual role alongside Meena and Sanghavi, while Arun Pandian, Prakash Raj, Devan, and Ramesh Khanna play the supporting roles. The music was composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja, cinematography by U. K. Senthil Kumar, and editing by P. Sai Suresh. The film released on 16 February 2001. The core plot was partially reported to be inspired by the 1989 Hong Kong film The Killer.

Production

The film was initially titled Sri Ramajayam but ran into production trouble, before being relaunched and retitled as Rishi. The film was shot in Chennai, while stunt sequences was shot in Hong Kong and song sequences were shot in Switzerland. During the making of the film, there were reports that the film had a similar storyline to another Tamil film which was in production, Citizen (2001).

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