Classmates

Classmates is a 2007 Telugu drama feature film starring Sumanth, Sharwanand, Ravi Varma, Sunil, Sadha and Kamalinee Mukherjee. K. Vijaya Bhaskar directed the film and Sravanthi Ravi Kishore produced it. The film released on 20 April 2007. It is a remake of the 2006 Malayalam movie Classmates. Plot Ravi, Raaji, Satish, Razia and Baddu were classmates and a group of friends in the 1990s. After several years, they all meet again at their 10-year reunion. Everyone is present except for Murali, who died during their last semester. Back in college, Ravi was a firebrand leader of the left students wing and Satish was his rival who headed the opposite faction of the students wing. Murali was a hardcore singer. Rajeshwari was a classical dancer who regularly won awards for the college with her dance. After a brief friction, Ravi and Raaji become good friends fall in love with each other. Satish, eager to rise up higher in politics, wants to marry Raaji, who is the daughter of a politician. He encourages Raaji to stand in the college elections, opposing Ravi, hoping to drive a wedge between the couple. He eventually succeeds in doing so during the college elections. In an ensuing incident, Murali dies suddenly. Everybody thinks that Murali died of an asthmatic attack. Subsequently, Ravi abruptly drops out of college, during their BSC final semester and leaves angrily without telling anyone, hoping to get a good job and become successful. He later clears the exams too. Raaji thinks that Ravi left because of their ongoing conflict. Satish later confessed to Raaji that he was the person responsible for Ravi leaving the college and for separating Raaji from Ravi for his petty political gains. He also told to Raaji that Ravi was a good, friendly and honest person and that she misunderstood him. She too dropped her studies and tried to find Ravi's whereabouts but fails. Ravi later went to Delhi to join for UPSC coaching classes, since he had completed his exams and obtained his BSC degree and studied really hard and cleared the Civil Services Examination and became an honest and successful IAS officer. At present, Ravi is a District Collector in the Maharashtra cadre, moving successfully up in his career as a government officer, and remains a bachelor having almost completely forgotten his past and lives his life on his own terms. His mother had passed away by then and his sisters had been married off by then and are with their respective families.