Roja Kootam

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Roja Kootam
Directed by	Sasi
Produced by	Oscar Films
Starring	Srikanth Bhoomika Chawla Vivek Raadhika Raghuvaran Jai Akash Vijay Adhiraj
Music by	Bharadwaj
Release date(s)	2002
Country	India
Language	Tamil
Budget	Rs. 4.5 crores

Roja Kootam (2002) is a Tamil film directed by Sasi. The romantic film stars Srikanth and Bhoomika Chawla as the lead pair. The film's score and soundtrack are composed by Bhardwaj. The movie turned out to be a hit.

[edit] Plot

Srikanth and Sriram are best friends. Srikanth is the only son of Radhika and Raghuvaran who is interested in anything but his academics. He falls in love with Bhoomika who also eventually happens to reside opposite their house with her loud-mouthed sub-inspector Mom, Rekha. With the responsibilities of a brother to get his sisters married Sriram leaves for Libya on a job received through Srikanth's parents. Before he leaves, he tells Srikanth that Bhoomika and himself are in love and asks Srikanth to look after his lover until he is back. Srikanth swallows his love secret for the sake of friendship. Meanwhile Rekha arranges for Bhoomika to get married to Vijay Adhiraj for his wealth. At this juncture Bhoomika and Srikanth lie that they are already married. They both leave their parents and Srikanth starts earning to support Bhoomika. Finishing his job assignment Sriram returns only to give yet another family responsibility as an excuse. He apologizes for not being able to marry Bhoomika as he is a tight corner to marry somebody else for the sake of his sister's marriage.

[edit] Production

This was director Sasi's second film. This was Bhoomika's second Tamil film after Badri, in which she co-stared with Vijay. This was Srikanth's first film. After the film became a hit, Srikanth was flooded with offers. Unfortunately, the actor had a string of flops and couldn't sustain himself in the industry.^{[citation needed]} All the songs in the movie were very popular at the time of release.^{[citation needed]}