Dheena

Dheena
Directed by	A. R. Murugadoss
Produced by	Jaya Prasanth N
Written by	A. R. Murugadoss
Starring	Ajith Kumar Suresh Gopi Laila
Music by	Yuvan Shankar Raja
Cinematography	Arvind
Edited by	Suresh Urs
Production company	Vijayam Cine Combines
Release date	14 January 2001 (2001-01-14)
Running time	167 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Dheena is a 2001 Indian Tamil action-romance film directed by then-debutante AR Murugadoss, starring Ajith Kumar, Suresh Gopi and Laila in lead roles. The film, which had musical score by Yuvan Shankar Raja and cinematography by Arvind, was released on 14 January 2001 and garnered positive reviews and proved to be a box office success.

The film starts with the police arresting Aadhikesavan's (Suresh Gopi) men suspecting them for burning an MLA's wine shop. The MLA sends a false evidence to the court against Aadhikesavan. But Aadhi sends Dheenadhayalan(Ajith Kumar) who is actually his adopted brother to attack the false evidence. Later some people complain to Aadhi that the MLA had removed the breakwire from a schoolvan due to rivalry between his school and their school leading to the death of many children. Aadhi asks Dheena and his henchmen to cut the hands of the MLA and his men especially the right hand and Dheena completes his task.

Meanwhile, Dheena falls in love with a girl named Chitra (Laila) who initially mistakes him to be a bus conductor and later a vegetable seller. One day one of Dheena's henchmen ('Mahanathi' Shankar) spots Chitra and her cousin in the plaza and reports to Dheena. Dheena pretends to meet her by chance and pays their bill using the plaza manager's money. One day Chitra calls Dheena's home landline number posing as 'Pepsi' Uma and comes to know about Dheena's tricks. Meanwhile, Dheena comes to know that someone (Shyam Ganesh) has teased his sister Shanthi and thrashes him. One day when Dheena meets Chitra they are ridiculed by a gang of rowdies but Dheena stays calm as he thinks that girls hate people who are violent. The next day he meets Chitra at the plaza and tells him he should have beaten the rowdies as she likes violence. As a coincidence the rowdies come and Dheena thrashes them and informs Chitra that he is a local goon. Later she comes to know that Dheena has love for her as she did. Meanwhile, the same person who teased Shanthi gave a love letter to her and Dheena beats him up and comes to know that the persons sister was Chitra. Chitra tells him that they both love each other and Dheena agrees to help them. Shanthi accepts this to Dheena but afraid to tell to Aadhi. Finding the difficulty of the situation,Shanthi elopes with her lover and Aadhi's men chase them in which they get into an accident. In the hospital Shanthi tells Dheena to protect her lover's family from Aadhi. Dheena promises and she dies.