Adbhutham

Vasu lives inside a run-down cinema hall, drinks, fights and answers to nobody except Tulasi Das, the former gangster who has been something like a father to him. A quarrel over a missing film reel puts him on a collision course with Mohana, a cheerful music student from a family of police officers, and Tulasi sees his chance: he wants revenge on her father, Commissioner Birla Bose, the man who once sent him to prison. Vasu is paid to kidnap Mohana, and later to pretend to love her. Neither job goes to plan, because what grows between the two of them turns out to be real, and Tulasi's scheme has more twists in it than Vasu knows. Saran wrote and directed this action romance, first released in Tamil as Amarkalam in 1999 and dubbed into Telugu as Adbhutham the following year. Ajith Kumar and Shalini lead, with Raghuvaran as Tulasi, Nassar as the commissioner and Radhika in support, and Bharadwaj composed the songs. It is the only film Ajith and Shalini made together, and their real-life romance is said to have begun on its set.