Hi friends in this article let us discuss about the movie which was the first movie for our National hero A.R.Rahman, and it is none other than "ROJA".This film is based on how a software engineer who was kidnapped by the terrorist escapes from them.I guess most of you would have watched the movie and this is one of the best movie I have ever seen.

The story of this film starts from a village and then it moves town and at last to  Kashmir where terrorist kidnap the hero.One important thing that made this movie a very emotional  and successfulis the music and this was done by A.R.Rahman and this was the first film for him and reports says that his salary was 25,000 rupees.

Till this movie Maniratnam, used Illayaraja as the music director for his previous films and after this movie, till date A.R.Rahmam is the music director for the rest of his movie and the latest being Ravanan.This combination has done miracle and some of their best movies includes Bombay,Kannathil Muthamittal etc.,

Most of these movies are based on National Integration and Maniratnam is well known for making these kind of movies.In this film he explains the Patriotism shown by the citizen of India and I assure you that,our spirits will be high after wathing this movie.

Technical Crew of the film

i)This film was produced by the famous director Mani Ratnam and he also won the Flim fare award for Best director.

ii)Mani Ratnam and K.Balachandar produced this film and it was distributed by Kavitalaya Productionas and Pyramid

iii)2 times Academy Award winner A.R.Rahman composed the music for this film and this was his first movie, and this also got him National Award for the Best music Director.He also won the

iv)The story for this film is written by Maniratnam

v)Famous cinematographer Santosh Sivan was used in this movie.

vi)Officially this film was released February 14, 1992 and it runs for about 2 hours and 15 minutes

vii)This film was a Blockbuster and the gross revenue for this film was around 20 crores.

viii)Times Magazine in 2005 announced the top ten best sound tracks in 2005 and in this list Roja was also featured.

ix)Vairamuthu was the lyric writer fro this film and he also got National Award for the best Lyric writer.

x)The theme of the movie is National Integration and naturally this film win the "Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film" on National Integration.

xi)Apart from the National Award this film also won Best film award in the Flim fare Award and also in  Moscow International Film Festival in 1993.

Cast and Characters in the film

i)Aravind Swamy as Rishi Kumar.He is a software engineer and this was the second film under Maniratnam's direction, the previous being Thalapathi which was his first movie.After this film he also acted in another Maniratnam big project,i.e,Bombay which was also based on National Integration and a huge hit.His acting was really great and especially in the scene when he tries Bring down the fire, on the National Flag which was set by the terrorist.This is a scene, where every Indians couldn't control their emotion after seeing the National Flag being burnt.

ii)Madhoo Bala as Roja and she is the important character as the entire film is about how she tries and fights for his husband to be rescued for the terrorist.She is a village girl but she is brave enough to fight alone for his husband in Kashmir.At first she doesn't like Rishi as she felt he didn't marry her sister, but later she realises the truth.

iii)Nasser as the Police Officer in Kashmir and he is also responsible for capturing the terrorist Wasim Khan(which is the opening scene of the movie) and he was not willing to trade Wasim Khan for Rishi as many soldiers lost their life during the process of capturing Wasim Khan.

iV)Pankaj Kapoor acts as the terrorist who kidnaps Rishi and he is the temprory leader of the group and the reason why he kidnaps Rishi is that he wants the release of his leader Wasim Khan.

v)Janakaraj plays a small but also an important role and he is fortune teller at a temple in Kashmir.He knew all the languages spoken in India and he is the one who helps roja for translating after her husband was kidnapped.

About the movie

This film starts in Kashmir when the Indian Army circles the terrorist Wasim Khan and they also managed to capture him.During this operation many soldiers have lost their life and this makes Nasser sad as he lost many his team.

Then the movie moves to a beautiful village in Tamil Nadu and it starts with a beautiful song "Chinna Chinna Aasai...." and

it was beautifuly picturized.This was a huge hit of that year and it was also used in advertisement i.e for the chocolate Aasai.

Then Roja, who is very playful goes to check about the character of the person who is going to marry her sister and she did this along with his younger sister by hiding, when Rishi, who comes to marry Roja's sister, was coming to the village and stops the vehicle when he saw sheep crossing the road.

But many unexpected things happen, because Roja's sister says Rishis she was in love with other person and he asks to say other he doen's like her.But Rishi goes and says that he likes Roja rather than her sister so that he could save Roja's sister and also makes her wish happen.

But Roja who was totally unaware of what was going, was shocked to hear that Rishi wants to marry her.But somehow both the marriage of Roja and her sister takes place and Roja was starts to hate Rishi as she doesn't know why Rishi did this.

Then Roja leaves the village along with Rishi to Chennai and after that in Chennai he finds the truth why Rishi asked Roja to marry her.Now she believes Rishi and after that they begin to live happily.After some time, Rishi was asked by his company to go to Kashmir for a secret project for the Indian Army.

Terrorists plan to kidnap him and when Roja was not there in the hotel,Rishi goes out of the hotel in search of his wife and when she sees her in a Temple there terrorist kidnap Rishi in front of his wife.

Then the rest of the story revolves how Rishi escapes from the terrorist group and also how Roja fights for her husband by asking the Government to meet the demand of the terrorist,i.e., to release to Wasim Khan.

Songs in the movie

i)“Chinna Chinna Aasai” sung by Minmini and this is the opening song and the picturization of this song is excellent and it explains how playful Roja is.

ii)"Rukkumaniye Rukkumaniye....” sung by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Chitra and this comes after the marraige of Roja and in this son we can see the dance of the choreographer Rajasundran

iv)“Pudhu Vellai Mazhai” sung by Unni Menon, Sujatha and this occurs when Rishi and Roja reach Kashmir

iii)“Kaadhal Rojave... Enge Nee Enge...” sung by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and this is my favourite song ever absloutely great music, lyrics and voice. Mind blowing song.

v)This song “Tamizha Tamizha” sung by Hariharan and this is one of the best inspirational song and every Indian will have a feeling when they hear this song and it provokes our patriotism and hats off to the music director, Lyric writer and the singer

The IMDB rating for this movie is 8.1 out of 10