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1,977 | Navarathinam | Tamil | A. P. Nagarajan | M. G. Ramachandran, Latha, Jayachitra, Sripriya, Zarina Wahab, Jaya Guhanathan, Y. Vijaya, Shubha, 'Kumari' Padmini, P. R. Varalakshmi | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navarathinam | Thangam (MGR), a young and rich feudal lord flees, to escape the influence of her mother (S. Varalakshmi).
He wants to take revenge for his father.
Everybody launches in his pursuit.
The authorities, the family and particularly, Dharmasilam (M. N. Nambiar), his maternal uncle who wants to eliminate him to pocket his colossal fortune.
Meanwhile, Thangam travels(browses) the country and meets 9 women.
He will bring to them to each of them of the help (assistant) and answers to their life. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/25/Navarathinam.jpg |
1,977 | Palabishegham | Tamil | K. S. Gopalakrishnan | Jaishankar, Sripriya, Sreekanth, Thengai Srinivasan | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palabishegham | Kumaran(Jaishankar) is a hard working former living a simple life along with his mother Meenakshi(Pandari Bai). In reality meenakshi is the wife of Village Lanndlord(S. A. Ashokan).Who lives with his congubine Sengamalam(Rajasulochana) and son named Muthaiah(Sreekanth). Kumaran despises muthaiah and they lock horns to with love of Sivagami(Sripriya). But when sivagami chooses Kumaran. but She is father "poisatchi" Boothalingam(Thengai Srinivasan) did not approve her married. .So, Sivagamai escapes her home and getting married to kumaran. Muthaiah and sengu plot destroy him. Also sengu hatches a secret plan along with bootha lingam to take over landlord property. Sengu was huge boothalingam muthaiah was seen the visual, he must hated mother for bad activity. Sengu plan is her mixed poison with milk and landlord is dead and wrote letter for post with police herself and sign with her landlord signature. Then muthaiah was go to kumaran and told his mother evil plan and ask apology to kumaran. Kumaran and Muthaiah was unit and broke for sengu's plan .Kumaran put an end to the Mistress and boothalingam evil plans and unite his family. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8a/Palabishegam_poster.jpg |
1,978 | Aval Appadithan | Tamil | C. Rudhraiya | Kamal Haasan, Rajinikanth, Sripriya | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aval_Appadithan | Manju (Sripriya) was raised in a dysfunctional family that consisted of a timid father and a philandering mother; she hurtles from one disastrous affair to another, leading to her degenerating into a cynical woman. Into her life enter two radically different men. One of them is her boss, Thyagu (Rajinikanth), who owns the advertising agency she works for. He is a stereotype of the successful man: money-minded, opinionated, arrogant, and a male chauvinist. In sharp contrast is Arun (Kamal Haasan), who has come to Chennai from Coimbatore to make a documentary on women. Sensitive and sincere, he believes his job has a purpose and is both shocked and amused at the cynical attitudes of Manju and Thyagu.
Manju has been drafted by Thyagu to assist Arun in his documentary. As Arun and Manju start working together, Arun begins to understand Manju's complex personality. She tells Arun about her unfortunate past relationships: How she was molested by her uncle, the ending of her first relationship in college when her lover left her by marrying another woman for the sake of employment, and how her second love, Mano (Sivachandran), a Christian priest's son, used her to satisfy his needs and lust, calling her "sister" in front of her parents. These incidents have led to her present attitude towards men. Arun later shares these conversations with Thyagu, who warns him to steer clear of such women.
Inevitably, Arun falls for Manju. However Manju incurs Thyagu's wrath when he overhears her reprimanding her office staff for commenting on her character. When Thyagu also comments about her, she resigns from her job. When he learns of this, Arun requests Thyagu to re-employ her. Thyagu simply laughs and says that she is already back, after which Manju seems to have a change of heart and starts courting Thyagu. Arun is devastated to see that she has turned out to be just the sort of woman that Thyagu earlier said she was — opportunistic, money-minded, and fickle. When he asks her about her contradicting stands in life, she responds by saying that is the way she is and will be.
The truth finally emerges that Manju was merely baiting Thyagu to teach him a lesson. When Thyagu starts believing that Manju has fallen for him, he attempts to take advantage of her at a party banquet, but she rebukes and slaps him, after which Thyagu runs away in fright. However, this revelation comes too late for her, as Arun, who is disillusioned with her behaviour, has already married a small town girl (Saritha). When Manju tells her aunt about the attempt to humiliate Thyagu and its ramifications, her aunt tells Manju that she deserved it for leaving behind a golden opportunity to start a new life. In a final discussion in Thyagu's car, Manju asks Arun's wife, "What do you think of women's liberation?". Arun's wife replies, "I don't know". Manju replies with a cynical, "that is why you are happy". The film ends with Manju standing on the road as the car carrying Thyagu and the married couple pulls away from her. A voice-over says, "She died today. She will be reborn tomorrow. She will die again. She will be reborn again. That is how she is". | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6d/Aval_Appadithan.jpg |
1,978 | Bairavi | Tamil | M. Bhaskar | Rajinikanth, Sripriya, Geetha | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bairavi | Mookaiyah (Rajinikanth) and his sister Bairavi (Geetha) are the children of a drunkard (T. K. Ramachandran). They are separated after Bhairavi gets lost in an accident. Following this, Mookaiyah becomes a servant of a local landlord (Sreekanth). Mookaiyah is a loyal servant and does whatever is asked of him. The landlord, Rajalingam (Sreekanth), forces Mookaiyah to abduct a young girl from a neighboring village, Bhagyam (Geetha). Rajalingam rapes her in the absence of Mookaiyah. Maanikam, Bhagyam's adopted brother, finds to know about the incident. When the police investigate Maanikam, Mookaiyah discovers that Bhagyam is his long-lost sister (Bairavi). Then he immediately approaches Rajalingam and forces him to marry Bairavi; he was not ready to accept it at first but after a while he promises to Mookaiyah that he will marry Bairavi. As Mookaiyah was the person who abducted Bairavi, the police suspect that he is the culprit, comes to Rajalingam's house to know about Mookaiyah. Rajalingam also alleges to Police that Mookaiyah only raped Bairavi. The police therefore arrest Mookaiyah, based on the statement of Rajalingam. Meanwhile, Rajalingam plans to kill Bairavi when she was in an unconscious state in hospital. If Bairavi become conscious and gives a statement to the police then he will definitely be prone to punishment, so he kills her. After knowing about his adopted sister's murder, Maanikam vows to take revenge on Mookaiyah, whom he believes to be responsible for Bairavi's death. Meanwhile, Mookaiyah escapes from jail knowing about the incident. He then sets out to kill the landlord in revenge for his sister's death. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a8/Bairavi_poster.jpg |
1,978 | Kizhake Pogum Rail | Tamil | P. Bharathiraja | Sudhakar, Raadhika, Goundamani | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kizhake_Pogum_Rail | The film starts with the young woman Panchali (Raadhika) gets off the train named 'Kizhakke Pogum Rail' and lands in the village Thamaraikulam which follows strict rules. There, Panchali is accommodated by her sister Karuthamma (Gandhimathi) and her brother-in-law Ramaiah (Goundamani), Panchali informs her that their mother died a couple of days ago. Ramaiah starts to have an eye on Panchali.
Paranjothi (Betha Sudhakar) is an unemployed graduate and a big fan of poet Subramania Bharati who lives his father Maruthu (G. Srinivasan) and his sister Kanniyamma. His father Maruthu is a barber and considers Paranjothi as a good-for-nothing like all the villagers. After getting married, Kanniyamma leaves her birth home to live with her husband's family.
Panchali and Paranjothi slowly fall in love with each other. One day, the villagers spots Paranjothi running behind Panchali. At the gram panchayat (village court), the panchayat members blame Paranjothi for trying to behave badly toward the young woman. Only the retired military man Pattalathaar (Vijayan) and the farmer Ponnandi (K. Bhagyaraj) support him but the panchayat members overlook them and they punish him. Maruthu shaved off the hair of his son and Paranjothi parades on donkey in the streets of the village. Whereas Ramaiah forces his wife Karuthamma to burn Panchali's arm with a piece of wood.
After the humiliation, Maruthu commits suicide in the village's lake, Paranjothi decides to leave the village and he promises Panchali that he will come back to marry her. He also informs her that he will write a message on the last compartment of the 'Kizhakke Pogum Rail' train. In city, after several interviews, he finally finds a decent job. In the meantime, at village court, Ramaiah complains that Karuthamma is a barren woman and he puts forward his wish to get married with Panchali. Few day later, the village is battered by heavy rains. To stop the rain, the villagers contrive the way to stop it, executing an ancient belief : one virgin woman has to walk naked around the village at sunrise. Unexpectedly, Panchali is chosen to be that woman.
The day of the ritual, Paranjothi gladly returns at his village and he sees Panchali completely naked. Despite the fact that Paranjothi was devastated, he covers Panchali with his Dhoti and they both run away from the angry villagers. Pattalathaar helps the couple by stalling the villagers and he is killed in the process. The lovers manage to catch the running train 'Kizhakke Pogum Rail' under the eyes of the villagers. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9f/Kizhakke_Pogum_Rail.jpg |
1,978 | Manidharil Ithanai Nirangala! | Tamil | R. C. Sakthi | Kamal Haasan, Sridevi, Murali Mohan, Sathyapriya | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manidharil_Ithanai_Nirangala! | Santha (Sridevi) is an orphaned young woman who tries to find a job in Madras to survive. She is exploited by a crook and is mistakenly dubbed by the Police as a sex worker. She returns to her native village and starts living with her old friend Devaki (Sathyapriya). Devaki's husband is the belligerent but soft-hearted Velu (Kamal Haasan) who runs a cycle-repair shop. Santha relishes her life in the village with Devaki and Velu but things take a turn when the village station-master Mohan (Murali Mohan) falls in love with her. Santha is reluctant to reciprocate due to her past which also returns to haunt her in the form of the inspector who had once arrested her in Madras and is now transferred to her village and also through Mohan's father (Major Sundarrajan) who had once encountered her in a dubious situation. Whether Santha is able to transcend her unpleasant past and restore normalcy in her life forms the rest of the story. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b1/Manitharil_Ithanai_Nirangalah.jpg |
1,978 | Nizhal Nijamagiradhu | Tamil | K. Balachander | Kamal Haasan, Sumithra, Shoba, Sarath Babu | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizhal_Nijamagiradhu | Venkatachalam (Sarath Babu) and Indumathi (Sumithra) are siblings. Indumathi hates men and she is adamant that she will never get married. Sanjeevi (Kamal) is a friend of Venkatachalam and often visits his house. Sanjeevi likes Indumathi's attitude and starts teasing her many times, they often quarrel as well. Though Indumathi too starts liking him, she is too egotistic to show her romantic side to Sanjeevi as she doesn't want to remove her stubborn attitude 'mask'.
Thilagam (Sobha) is a young girl from the village who comes to work as a servant in Venkatachalam's house. Her innocence draws Venkatachalam towards her and they get intimate. She becomes pregnant but Venkatachalam refuses her. Thilagam is driven out of Venkatachalam's house and gets support from Sanjeevi and Kasi (Hanumanthu), a person who is hard of hearing,also worked at Venkatachalam's house and has affection towards Thilagam. Sanjeevi provides Thilagam with lodging and requests Kasi to stay with her and look after her. Thilagam delivers a child.
Months later, after Sanjeevi and Kasi appealed to his conscience, Venkatachalam repents and is ready to accept Thilagam, but she decides to live her life with Kasi, who took care of her during her pregnancy. Indumathi, meanwhile, throws away her 'stubborn' mask and asks Sanjeevi to accept her. Sanjeevi accepts her love. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8f/Nizhal_Nijamagiradhu_DVD_cover.jpg |
1,978 | Sadhurangam | Tamil | Durai | Rajinikanth, Sreekanth, Jayachitra, Prameela, Thengai Srinivasan | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadhurangam_(1978_film) | A middle class Orthodox Brahmin family mother Pandari Bai has two sons, Sundaresan(Rajinikanth) and Ram Kumar(Sreekanth). Her both sons most loved for his mother. Sundaresan works at Charted Accountant. He is a straightforward and sincerely quiet man. so, his colleagues was teasing him. Younger brother Ram Kumar studied at a college, but he is very arrogant and misbehaves with the college girls, teased professors.He was come class to irregularly and not interested his studies. Thengai Srinivasan is a widower and son-in-law of Pandari Bai and Uncle of Sundaresan and Ram Kumar. He have sister.She is name Meenakshi(Prameela). She is dreaming of marrying a rich man, but as they are ask more dowry. finally, Pandari Bai decides Meenakshi get married for elder son Sundaresan. Uma(Jayachitra) was a bold girl. Sambantham(Y. G. Mahendran) was interested with her. Sambantham was give love letter to uma, but Uma and her friends was racked and sambantham was complained to his friend ram kumar. Ram kumar and sambantham friends are come to Sheriff Iyer house and complaint to his daughter Uma .She was foe of Ram Kumar. Uma was not respect with Ram kumar complaint.So, Ram told to his friend sambantham forgot your love. The Next day Ram Kumar spoils both their names writing by wall badly in the college compound wall about Uma. The rumor was spread to entire college. So, Uma decides to marry him. Uma and her father comes to Ram Kumar's house and tell lies to his mother. ram kumar and uma love each other. Pandari Bai makes Ram Kumar tie "Thali" . Uma is a rich girl and daughter of Sheriff Iyer(V. K. Ramasamy). So, Meenakshi develops jealousy on Uma. After Ramkumar marriage Sunderasan behavior changes on forced his wife Meenakshi. Sundaresan goes to wrong path and worked on illegally to Soma Sudaram(S. V. Ramadoss). Ram Kumar was dismissed from college. so his not able to write exam. So, Ram works as house broker and with his get salary buys gifts for his family members except Uma. Because he must avoid her. Ram Kumar was mostly hated his wife Uma. But Uma try to her husband was goes to high position and correcting for his bad behaviors. Ram was changed totally and look like a new man. Meenakshi and Uma goes to temple at the time Masilamani (V. Gopalakrishnan) met meenakshi and he give some files and told it was corrected sudaresan for immediately. Uma heard the news and she was found the all truth of hidden secrets of Sundaresan and told her mother-in-law Pandari Bai. Pandari Bai was angry with her son Sundaresan,and requested he leave the illegal work. But Meenakshi was argue to her mother-in-law and decided we goes to neutral family and come from new house. After Sundaresan activities was goes crudely, he was ever heavily drinking and smoking and goes to night clubs. And Sundaresan not spending time for his wife. Then, Ram Kumar Was accepted Uma for as heart and soul, they life was goes to calmly and happy. Then Meenakshi was felt to Sundaresan. He was totally changed reasonable for her jealous character only so, she was cried. Sundaresan Mother Pandari Bai was die bedded Uma was told to Meenakshi. Meenakshi wakeup Sundaresan but he is not steadily. Sundaresan was heavily drinking and flatted to bed. Then Ram Kumar was do the ritual event. Finally, Sundaresan was feel about his mother death and goes to police station approve his all crime and illegal activities and surrendered. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8f/Sadhurangam_%281978_film%29.jpg |
1,978 | Thappu Thalangal | Tamil | K. Balachander | Rajinikanth, Saritha | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thappu_Thalangal | Devu, a local thug whose weapon of choice is a bicycle chain he sports casually around the neck. Devu charges ₹ 30 to slice a finger, ₹ 300 to chop a hand, ₹ 3000 for the leg, and ten times as much to dispose off the whole body. On one of his nightly rounds, Devu is pursued by a cop and seeks refuge at a whorehouse run by a hooker Sarasu, played to perfection by Saritha. Despite her vehement protests, he stays put and leaves only at daybreak, but her persistent cough stays with him. At a theatre, Devu watches an advertisement for Glycodin Cough Syrup and proceeds to buy her a bottle. Devu and Sarasu bond over the cough syrup and philosophise late into the night, exchanging notes on their immoral lifestyles.
Devu's assault on a trade union leader delivering medicine to a critically ill worker leads to a mishap. Watching the wailings of the widow of the worker, Devu is traumatised and breaks down at Sarasu's place. In an inspired moment, he suggests they remap their lives and chart a moral course. Sarasu is attracted by the notion of giving up prostitution and leading a normal life as Devu's wife, though she wonders if they'll be able to pull it off. The couple go to great lengths to secure a job for Devu and lead a normal life, but there are too many skeletons in the closet. Devu is no longer feared for his might, and Sarasu's past clientele continue to haunt the joint. Sarasu gets a loan for Devu from his evil brother Soma, who continues to harass her on that pretext. In a particularly traumatic sequence of events, Sarasu is raped by Soma as a helpless Devu watches, pinned down by Soma's henchmen. The couple resolve to repay Soma's loan, and Devu undertakes a botched robbery attempt. Devu is imprisoned and in his absence, Sarasu has an abortion. The couple's plans for normality never attain fruition. The inevitable return to lives of vice is especially tragic and heartbreaking.
Devu's inherent goodness is contrasted with his "evil twin", a stepbrother Soma who thwarts his every attempt at morality and finally succumbs at Devu's hands. Kamalhaasan has an interesting cameo as a Hindi speaking client of Sarasu. Balachander skewers middle-class morality and takes potshots at the hypocrisy of do-gooders. In the final analysis, the film is an indictment of society at large, for not allowing lesser mortals to rejoin society and return to a life of normality. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4e/Thappu_Thalangal_poster.jpg |
1,979 | Azhiyatha Kolangal | Tamil | Balu Mahendra | Shoba, Pratap K. Pothen | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azhiyatha_Kolangal | Gowrishankar, a managing director of a company in Madras, receives a letter from his childhood friend Pattabi. The story goes into flashback mode where he along with Pattabi and another friend Raghupathi live in a small village. The three teenage friends are attracted to Indumathi, a school teacher who comes to their village, and try to impress her. Situations lead to Raghupathi's death by drowning. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/Azhiyatha_Kolangal.jpg |
1,979 | Niram Maaratha Pookkal | Tamil | P. Bharathiraja | Sudhakar, Raadhika, Vijayan, Rathi | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niram_Maaratha_Pookkal | All characters in the movie were named after the original names of the actors. Sudhakar (Sudhakar) is a poor young man desperately looking for work. One day he has a skirmish with Radhika (Raadhika), a rich girl and lone daughter of a businessman Selladurai, in a telephone booth. Radhika finds out that Sudhakar is searching for a job from his diary that he leaves at the booth. She employs him in her father's firm as a manager and soon they mutually fall in love. Radhika's class-conscious father initially opposes but later reluctantly agrees to have them married. However things take a turn when his business friend Sivaraman, to whom he owes a lot of favours, visits him and reminds him of his old promise to get Radhika married to Sivaraman's son Vijayan. And soon after Sudhakar goes missing with five lakhs of the office cash on his way to Bombay and is presumed to have absconded. Radhika is heart-broken and her father takes her to Sivaraman's estate in Ooty to relax for a while.
In Ooty, Radhika and her father are introduced to Sivaraman's son Vijayan who shockingly seems to be a severely despondent alcoholic. He is often seen standing near the shore of the river listening to his tape recorder playing a lone melodious song, sung by a woman. After a few days in the estate and several interactions, Vijayan and Radhika get acquainted and friendly with each other and he opens up about his erstwhile lover Rathi (Rati Agnihotri). Vijayan had fallen in love with the beautiful Rathi at first sight and pursues her relentlessly till she finally reciprocates. Rathi often playfully cheats Vijayan about not knowing stuff like horse riding and car driving when she actually could. And on an April fool's day when she claims she doesn't know how to swim, Vijayan thinks she's fooling him again and playfully pushes her into the river but to his horror she drowns and dies. The incident left Vijayan as a suicidal wreck who carries poison in his coat but doesn't consume it just for his father's sake. Rather he has chosen the slow poison of alcohol. When Vijayan learns Radhika too has a past forlorn love affair, he feels closer to her since they both seem to be in the same boat.
As days move on, Vijayan and Radhika get closer to each other and eventually agree to get married, much to the delight of their fathers but then on an eventful day Radhika encounters Sudhakar working as a gardener in the estate. Radhika angrily admonishes him for having deserted her and walks away but Vijayan is determined to find out the truth. It turns out that Sudhakar was coerced and forced to decamp by Radhika's father himself so he could get her married to Vijayan. On the day of their supposed marriage, Vijayan gets Radhika united with Sudhakar and they leave town together. Later, Vijayan who had promised to Radhika to give up alcohol, instead consumes the poison he carried in his pocket and walks into the river that had once consumed his beloved Rathi. Before dying Vijayan makes a statement to God, "They say love is blind, but You have been blind to my love, so I am leaving my glasses for You". | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/de/Niram_Maratha_Pookal.jpg |
1,979 | Pasi | Tamil | Durai | Shoba, Delhi Ganesh, Vijayan | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasi_(film) | Manian, a cycle-rickshaw puller, is a road-side dweller along with his wife Valliamma and their seven children – two daughters and five sons. Despite being the sole breadwinner of his family, Manian spends the majority of his meager earnings on liquor. His wife struggles to make ends meet with the remaining amount. Her friend Rakkamma, a street food vendor, lends financial support to Valliamma's family.
The educated Krishna, one of Manian's sons, elopes with a girl and separates himself from the family. Manian's daughter Kuppamma along with her friend Chellamma contribute a small income to the family by picking up rags on the roads. Rangan, a kindhearted lorry driver, befriends Kuppamma and offers assistance to her whenever she is in need of any help. They both get close to each other and their friendship leads to a physical relationship. When Valliamma gets to know this, she commits suicide fearing that Kuppamma's act has brought disgrace to the family. Meanwhile, Kuppamma gets shocked when she learns that Rangan is already married. With an intention to not disclose Rangan's identity, she keeps herself away from him. During this time, Kuppamma finds out that she's pregnant. Despite the advice of fellow road-side dwellers to abort the child, she refuses to do so. She also protects Rangan's identity by informing her relatives that her lover had died in an accident.
Knowing that she is about to deliver their child, Kuppamma wishes to meet Rangan. But Rangan had relocated to another locality after she turned down his support. When Rangan's wife gets to know of the relationship, she empathises with Kuppamma and insists that Rangan bring her to their home. When Rangan reaches the slum, he finds Kuppamma in throes of labour pain. Kuppamma dies soon after, upon delivering their child. Rangan and his wife then decide to adopt the child as penance for Rangan's sins. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/ff/Pasi_film_poster.jpg |
1,980 | Billa | Tamil | R. Krishnamurthy | Rajinikanth, Sripriya, Helen, K. Balaji | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billa_(1980_film) | Billa is a powerful ganglord, who in spite of being one of the most wanted on the list of Interpol, remains elusive to the police. Along with the police, he makes a few other enemies through his merciless approach in running his organisation, especially when he kills one of his own men, Rajesh, when Rajesh decides to leave the business. This introduces Billa to two new enemies: Reena (Rajesh’s fiancée) and Rajesh's sister Radha. When Reena seduces Billa and attempts to have the police arrest him, her plan backfires, as Billa outsmarts her and escapes, and in the process Reena is killed.
A shattered, revenge-seeking Radha cuts her hair short, trains in judo and karate,and then enters Billa’s gang after deceiving them into thinking that she too is on the wrong side of the law. Billa is impressed with her fighting skills and allows her to work for him, without realising her true intentions. Meanwhile, after a couple of unsuccessful attempts at nabbing Billa, the police finally succeed, but Billa dies during the pursuit, botching DSP Alexander’s plan to reach the source of all crime—the man Billa reported to — by capturing Billa alive. DSP buries Billa’s body, ensuring that people believe that he is still be alive. Alexander remembers his chance encounter with Rajappa, a simpleton trying to survive in the hustle and bustle of Chennai to support two small foster children, who is a doppelganger of Billa. Alexander hatches a plan to transform Rajappa into Billa and place him back into the crime nexus, but this time as a police informer.
Around the time Rajappa "returns" to Billa's gang as Billa under the guise of amnesia, former circus man JJ, just released from prison, begins his mission of revenge against Alexander (for his wife's death) and his search for his children who had been saved and taken care off by Rajappa. Rajappa manages to replace the red diary with a blank one, and tells his gang that he is going to take revenge on the Alexander, but is actually going there to give him the red diary. Radha goes after him, but Rajappa survives the attack and he tries to explain to her that he is not Billa. She refuses to believe him at first but Alexander intervenes and tells her that the man she is trying to kill is indeed Rajappa.
Meanwhile, as Rajappa learns more and more about Billa through the discovery of his diary and Radha’s help, he announces to his colleagues that his memory is back. Celebrations ensue, as "Billa" announces his return to the underworld, but things take a drastic turn when the police raid the celebrations, acting upon Rajappa's information. Rajappa’s only witness to his true identity, Alexander, dies in the crossfire and Rajappa is arrested.
Tangled in a web of confusion when the police refused to believe that he is Rajappa, whereas his underworld gang realise that he is indeed not Billa, Rajappa becomes not only hated by the police, but also by Billa’s right-hand and the rest of his gang. To add to Rajappa’s woes, Billa’s diary which he had handed over to Alexander – his last hope of proving his innocence – is stolen by JJ in an attempt to track down his lost children, without realising that Rajappa is the one man who can reunite them. Rajappa escapes the clutches of the police and the underworld with Radha’s help and returns to his old self though he struggles to prove his identity and innocence. He eventually discovers that the Interpol Officer Gokulnath is Jagdish, the real underworld crime boss and after a long fight against Jagdish's men, Radha ends up getting the diary and one of the gangster's snatches it and burns it. The end reveals that the diary which was burnt was, in fact, the fake diary and Rajappa had the real one in order to trick Jagdish. He gives the proof to the police and cleared of all charges against him, Jagdish is arrested and Rajappa returns to his old life. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/00/Billa_1980_poster.jpg |
1,980 | Johnny | Tamil | J. Mahendran | Rajinikanth, Sridevi, Deepa, Suruli Rajan | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_(1980_film) | Archana (Sridevi) is a popular singer, and Johnny (Rajinikanth) is her ardent fan. Johnny is a con-man who does petty-thefts (only on the greedy OLones) to close the loan taken by his father. Johnny never misses Archana's concerts and she notices this. A tender love develops between the two, but Johnny is guarded in accepting Archana's love due to his not-so-clean background. But one day Johnny accepts the love of Archana when she proposes to him. Meanwhile, Vidyasagar (Rajinikanth), a barber and look-alike of Johnny, lives a lonely life with his assortment of pet animals. He falls for Bhama (Deepa) another loner and they both plan to marry. Vidyasagar notices his lover's infidelity and kills her in rage. Knowing about his look-alike Johnny and knowing that he is wanted by the police, he tries to pass on the murder charge to him and gives up on women as well looking at them in low light. Both of them are chased by police, Johnny hides in a forest, and Vidyasagar tries to pass off as Johnny by taking refuge in Archana's house. Archana gets hurt by the curt behaviour of Vidyasagar(who is in the guise of Johnny) and she is confused on the change in Johnny's behaviour. Finally, Vidyasagar realizes his folly, understands not all women are same as well as their love and unites the lovers by getting caught in the police, taking responsibility for Johnny's crimes included. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/Johnny_1980_poster.jpg |
1,980 | Moodu Pani | Tamil | Balu Mahendra | Pratap K. Pothen, Shoba, Mohan | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moodu_Pani | Chandru, the managing director of an export company in Bangalore, has a hatred for prostitutes since childhood, as he was the victim of a prostitute who ruined his family by taking his father away from his mother. Raghunath, a police inspector, knows Chandru and his mother. His son Ravi is engaged to Rekha, the daughter of his friend.
Haunted by memories of the prostitute, Chandru lures two prostitutes to lonely places and murders them as he sees that woman in each of them. Rekha's female friend Pallavi comes to Bangalore to meet her, and telephones her for her residential address. The conversation is overheard by the Madam of a brothel, who misleads Pallavi. Instead of being taken to Rekha's house, Pallavi is taken to the brothel and forced into prostitution. Rekha and Raghunath search for Pallavi. Chandru comes to the same brothel and takes Pallavi in his car, but kills her. Rekha learns of Pallavi's murder through Raghunath; neither Rekha nor Raghunath are aware that Chandru is the murderer.
Still photographer Bhaskar takes pictures of his lover with a motorbike in the background. Chandru, who had come on that motorbike, had parked it there and murdered a prostitute who enticed him near the same location, then rode away. Reading about the murder in a newspaper, Bhaskar shows Raghunath the pictures with the murderer's motorbike in the background. Raghunath investigates and learns that the owner has lent it to his friend.
Troubled by his constant anger, Chandru meets with a psychiatrist who advises him to marry soon so that he will no longer be lonely, saying the loneliness is leading him to dwell on his past and indulge in extreme acts. Chandru meets Rekha at a theatre and then at a book stall. He proposes to Rekha and even pleads with her to marry him. Surprised at his extreme pleading, Rekha politely informs him that she loves someone else (Ravi), and their marriage is already fixed. Raghunath is startled when Rekha tells him about Chandru's marriage proposal.
Chandru keeps following Rekha; one day when she goes to visit her friend, he makes her unconscious and takes her away to a bungalow in Ooty. When she regains consciousness, he tells her that he had purchased this house in Ooty only for her, and again asks her to marry him. When Rekha refuses and begs to be freed, he asks her to stay for at least a month so that she can understand him better, and then reduces it to a week. He makes all the arrangements to ensure that she cannot escape. Rekha later slams Chandru with a spade and runs away. He manages to catch and imprison her in the garage of his house, but is hospitalised for his injury.
Raghunath visits Chandru's office for an enquiry and learns that he has gone to Ooty. He also meets Chandru's psychiatrist and learns about his hatred for prostitutes. He immediately connects this with the recent news of the prostitutes murdered in the city. He visits Chandru's house. Hidden in the garage, he finds the same motorbike photographed by Bhaskar. With his suspicions growing stronger, he arrives in Ooty to meet Chandru and visits the police station, where he finds Chandru's car. The area's inspector tells Raghunath that an unknown person came in the car to the hospital and was admitted; the car was brought to the police station for safety. Raghunath visits the hospital, but finds that Chandru has left. Raghunath is joined by Ravi, and both rush to Chandru's house.
Meanwhile, Rekha escapes from the garage and enters the room where Chandru earlier claimed his mother stays. However, she finds only a skeleton and is cornered by Chandru, who tries to assault her. Ravi and Raghunath hear Rekha screaming and rush to the room. Raghunath subdues Chandru, who collapses and reveals that the skeleton is his mother's. Raghunath understands Chandru's love for his mother and his traumatic childhood, which had made him develop a hatred for women with loose morals. Chandru is arrested, while Rekha and Ravi unite. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/17/Moodu_Pani_poster.jpg |
1,980 | Nizhalgal | Tamil | P. Bharathiraja | Rajasekharan, Rohini, Nizhalgal Ravi, Chandrasekhar, Suveetha | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizhalgal | Gopi and Hari, two unemployed graduates, share a room and live together in Madras. While Gopi is looking for a job, Hari aspires to become a music composer in the film industry. They both manage to make ends meet with the help of their friends. Their neighbour is Prabhu, a college-going student who spends all the time in smoking, painting and singing. A new family relocates to their apartment. The couple have a daughter Maha. Prabhu and Maha both study in the same college and become good friends. Prabhu decided to apprentice under a Veena expert. Much to his disappointment, the expert dies before he joins the class.
Gopi takes tuition for Maha and they both fall in love. During this time, Gopi, Hari, and Prabhu get arrested for some reason. Maha pledges her chain and takes them out on bail. In an attempt to reform, Prabhu goes to meet his college principal, but gets dismissed from the college. He gets scolded by his father, but Maha becomes very supportive to him. Prabhu assumes that she loves him. During this time Maha's parents force her to discontinue her tuition as a few of their relatives suspect she and Gopi are in love with each other. Hari gets a break in films and gets an advance payment of money from the producers. Using the sum, they return Maha's chain. By this time, Maha's parents start looking for a groom for her.
Maha meets Gopi and advises him to find a job so that they can marry. Things start to take a turn for the worse when Hari is dropped from the film because the financier of the film is not convinced that having a newcomer is a good idea. The house owner expels Gopi and Hari from the house for not paying the rent. A dejected Gopi and Hari seek shelter with Mani, a rickshaw puller. Gopi gets a telegram informing that his father is dead. To bear his travel expenses, Mani's son Singam goes out, but meets with an accident. Hari tries to get some money by playing music in the streets but is hardly able to make it. Gopi approaches a moneylender to borrow money. The moneylender talks ill about Singam which makes Gopi angry. In a fit of rage, he stabs the moneylender and takes away the money. When he arrives, he is informed that Singam is dead.
Meanwhile, Maha's parents arrange a marriage for her. When she meets Prabhu, he confesses his love for her. A shocked Maha informs him that she never loved him, but only loves Gopi. Prabhu gets disappointed and feels life has ditched him as every single moment. He tries to molest Maha but is stopped when she takes a knife and threatens that she will kill herself. Prabhu feels guilty and takes the knife and stabs himself to death. By this time, Gopi arrives at her house and informs her that he has killed the moneylender for money. They both go a step ahead and marry each other. The next day they are arrested for Prabhu's murder. Hari throws his harmonium in the sea and becomes mad. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/12/Nizhalgal_poster.jpg |
1,980 | Oru Thalai Ragam | Tamil | E. M. Ibrahim T. Rajendar | Shankar, Roopa, Raveendran, Chandrasekhar, Usha Rajendar | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oru_Thalai_Ragam | Oru Thalai Raagam is the heart breaking love story of Subhadra and Raja, played by (Roopa) and (Shankar) respectively. They are classmates and their colleagues/classmates include Ravindran, Chandrasekhar, Kailash, Thyagu and others. The day starts for them at the Railway Station, where they all catch the train to the college. Raja sincerely loves Subhadra, but she does not reciprocate as she is an introvert as well as she is afraid of society's backlash. Moreover her mother's character isn't spoken good by the same people. Even though Subhadra loves Raja, she always tries to insult him whenever opportunity comes, but on the positive side, she sometimes shows her feelings for him as well.
Raja's life becomes hell as he couldn't concentrate on his studies and he is not taking care of his health as well as he gets affected by liver jaundice. Raja cuts a sorry figure among his colleagues and all of them want Subhadra to accept Raja's love. Later Raja's health deteriorates as he still neglects to have proper food and rest. Finally, college days are over for the batch and Subhadra decides to proclaim her love. She gets in the train and see Raja sitting in the compartment and she happily starts speaking with him saying to accept his love and seek apology for her indifferent behavior, but it was too late as Raja dies during her proclamation. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6a/Oru_Thalai_Ragam_poster.jpg |
1,980 | Ullasa Paravaigal | Tamil | C. V. Rajendran | Kamal Haasan, Rathi, Deepa | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ullasa_Paravaigal | Ravi is in denial about his mental health as a result of the death of his girlfriend. His father and friend Raju played by Suruli Rajan hatch a plan to take him overseas to get him treatment for his illness. He meets his childhood friend Nirmala Rati Agnihotri. With the help of Nirmala and Raju, Ravi gets better.
The second half of the film deals with how Ravi's uncle tries to kill him to get his hands on his fortune and how Ravi overcomes his uncle. The film is famous for its songs some of which are considered Ilaiyaraaja's masterpieces including deiveega raagam, azhagu aayiram and germaniyin senthen malare.
Rati Agnihotri played heroine's role. Major Sundarajan played the role of Kamal Haasan's[1] father. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e0/Ullasa_Paravaigal_poster.jpg |
1,981 | 47 Natkal | Tamil | K. Balachander | Chiranjeevi, Jaya Prada, Sarath Babu, Rama Prabha | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/47_Natkal | Actress Saritha comes to a small town to talk to Vaishali (Jayapradha), because she is about to play her in a film based on her life. Vaishali suffers from hysteria and angrily shuts out Saritha. The story is now told in flashback form, when Vaishali's brother tells Saritha about her marriage to Kumar (Chiranjeevi), lasting for only 47 days. Kumar takes Vaishali to a country manor in a town 30 km away from Paris, France (Férolles). She does not know French or English. Kumar already has a French first wife Lucy (Anne Patricia) living there on the top floor. He deceives both his wives: He tells Vaishali that Lucy is a friend, while he tells Lucy that Vaishali is his sister. Eventually, Vaishali figures out his bigamy and wishes not to stay with him as his second wife/ mistress. She does not know of anyone who knows her language and who can help her escape.
Kumar tortures and threatens her to make her act as his mentally deranged sister. He treats her in a very sadistic manner unacceptable to any human in the world at all. He uses his cigarette to burn her fingers, burns her palm on the stove and takes her to watch a porn film since she did not want to sleep in the same bed as him. A pickpocket (Ramaprabha) sees Kumar abusing Vaishali and tells her about an Indian doctor named Shankar (Sarath Babu) who maybe able to help her. In the meantime, Vaishali becomes pregnant, and Kumar is afraid that Lucy will discover his deception. He tries to force Vaishali to have an unsafe and uncivil abortion. Dr. Shanker rescues her and tells Lucy everything about Kumar's bigamy. Lucy ends their marriage by throwing her ring into the river. Dr. Shanker brings Vaishali back to India; she moves back in with her brother and mother. No mention is made as to what happened to her pregnancy and no baby is seen or heard. It is presumed that she may have later had an abortion, since she did not want to be connected to her ex-husband Kumar in any way whatsoever. When Saritha asks why she didn't remarry (perhaps to her rescuer Dr. Shanker), Vaishali, clearly pissed off by the question, angrily replies that a woman does not always have to be married. However, she placates Saritha by saying that she wouldn't mind if her character is shown as remarried in the film.[1] | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/11/47_Natkal.jpg |
1,981 | Antha Ezhu Naatkal | Tamil | K. Bhagyaraj | K. Bhagyaraj, Ambika, Rajesh | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antha_Ezhu_Naatkal | The story starts off with Vasanthi (Ambika) and Dr. Anand's (Rajesh) marriage. On their wedding night Vasanthi attempts suicide and is saved by Dr. Anand. He then inquires about her past. Vasanthi tells him of her failed love affair with Palakkad Madhavan (Bhagyaraj). Palakkad Madhavan is a poor Brahmin, naive, honest, aspiring music director with a huge family back home to support. His assistant Gopi is a kid wise beyond his age who has the knack of surviving in a big town. They move into an upper portion of the house where Vasanthi lives with her grandfather, mother, sister and a disabled brother. Initially Vasanthi sympathizes with Madhavan's unfortunate financial situation but eventually falls for his naive innocence and integrity in spite of his difficulties. Madhavan initially refuses Vasanthi's advances fearing her family and his financial inability to support her but eventually accepts her love.
While their love is blossoming, Vasanthi's parents get a proposal for Vasanthi from a wealthy widower who wants to marry a middle-class lady who would take care of his daughter and be a good daughter-in-law to his ailing mother. Vasanthi's grandfather and mother decide to marry her to the doctor. Vasanthi refuses the proposal and decides to get married to Madhavan at a temple the next day. Her family and other people from her neighbourhood injure Madhavan and force Vasanthi into a marriage with Dr. Anand. She explains to Dr. Anand that she is unable to change her heart and accept him as her husband.
Hearing of Vasanthi's past, Dr. Anand decides that she should reunite with her lover and he will help her do that. He asks her to stay in his house for a week as his terminally ill mother is counting her last days. Vasanthi agrees to this while Anand is looking for Madhavan in Kerala and in Madras. During her seven-day stay with Dr. Anand, she starts interacting with him, his mother, his daughter. When her husband finds and brings Madhavan to take Vasanthi with him, she refuses to go and decides to stay with her husband. The movie ends with Bhagyraj's famous line "my lover can become your wife but your wife can never become my lover. That is our culture". | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b3/Andha_7_Naatkal.jpg |
1,981 | Ellam Inba Mayyam | Tamil | G. N. Rangarajan | Kamal Haasan, Jaishankar, Madhavi, Suman, Surekha, Y. G. Mahendra, Fatafat Jayalaxmi, Thengai Srinivasan, Manorama | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellam_Inba_Mayyam | Pazhani (Y. G. Mahendran) and Velu (Kamal Haasan), two country bumpkins, arrive at Chennai in search of a job. They end up getting conned the very first day and lose all their meager possessions. The next day, each man decides to go his own way in search of a job and both agree to meet up in the evening to share prospects. Velu manages to enter the service of Kailasa Mudaliyar (Jaishankar) who is a building contractor and eventually becomes his personal servant. Meanwhile, Pazhani gets a job at a hotel and eventually starts to develop feelings for his boss's daughter Savitri. Although Pazhani picks up the knack of living in a city, Velu remains the same old innocent fellow, loyal to his employer.
A businessman visits Mudaliyar and brings with him illegal gold biscuits worth Rs. 12 lakh. Mudaliyar warns the businessman about venturing out with the gold and asks him to stay in his house. Later that day, Mudaliyar steals gold worth Rs. 10 lakh when the businessman is away. Velu is unaware of all the dealings and goes about doing his household chores. The next day, Mudaliyar rushes the businessman to make a quick deal with a buyer; when he seems too nervous to do it, he sends Velu instead to deliver the remaining gold worth Rs. 2 lakh and get the cash. The innocent Velu, who is unaware of the trap, proceeds to fulfill his employer's command. Meanwhile, Mudaliyar calls the police and informs them about Velu in the car with the gold. Policemen give chase and catch up with Velu. When they trace the car back to Mudaliyar, he pretends innocence and tricks Velu into owning up for the crime. Velu takes the blame, hoping Mudaliyar will save him. Instead, he is sentenced to three years in prison. It is only then that he realizes that he has been cheated by his employer.
While Velu is lamenting in prison, Mudaliyar has started an Export Import business through which he gains fame and riches. In prison, Velu is mentored by a fellow convict. At the end of the term, he emerges as a completely reformed man who is ready to take on Mudaliyar. His old friend Pazhani meets him outside the prison complex and takes him home. Pazhani who is now married to Savitri introduces Velu to his wife and sister-in-law Gomathi (Surekha). Velu goes to meet Mudaliyar and demands half of his fortune. When Mudaliyar refuses, Velu challenges him that he will extract what is rightfully due to him.
Mudaliyar celebrates his 50th birthday by throwing a grand party for over a thousand guests. Velu comes to know about this event and challenges Mudaliyar that he will humiliate him by wrecking the party. He arrives at the event dressed as a dancer and with Pazhani's help successfully starts a brawl between two guests, thereby leading to a commotion at the event. Newspapers get word of this and humiliate Mudaliyar by reporting the event in detail.
Mudaliyar's son Sukumar (Suman) returns from abroad. Velu proposes his next challenge to Mudaliyar; he vows to pit father against son. Mudaliyar warns Sukumar about Velu and his motives. Meanwhile, Velu begins preparations to get Sukumar to fall for Gomathi. Gomathi and Velu pose as a poor, slum-dwelling daughter and father (Muniamma and Mari) to Sukumar. He develops feelings for Muniamma and proposes marriage to her; Mari asks him to get his father's consent first. To no one's surprise, Mudaliyar refuses to grant his blessings and Sukumar angrily storms out of the house. He tells Mari about his dad's refusal. Mari encourages him to see a lawyer, who is Velu again in a Brahmin lawyer's garb. Velu incognito as the lawyer, pays Mudaliyar a visit and coerces him into accepting his son's marriage with Muniamma. Mudaliyar gives in and the couple is united.
Velu poses his next challenge to Mudaliyar, he now vows to pit daughter against father. Fearing him, Mudaliyar tries to get his daughter Madhavi (Madhavi) married before Velu can reach her. However, she has decided that she will marry only a simple fool who will not impinge upon her freedom and independence after marriage. Velu hears this and hatches a plan along with Manorama and K. A. Thangavelu (in cameos). He approaches Madhavi posing as the slightly retarded Basavappa with the veterans acting as his parents. Madhavi takes a genuine liking for the innocent Basavappa and lets her father know about her intention to marry him. Mudaliyar, who is intent on escaping Velu, almost falls for the scam, but is alerted due to a small mistake on Velu's part. He immediately exposes Basavappa as Velu in disguise. Madhavi is furious and gives Velu the boot, but later realizes that she still harbors feelings for Velu and makes it up with him.
Mudaliyar and Velu clash with each other again and the former decides to hire a notorious thug, Rowdy Rakkappan to deliver Velu's chopped leg, in order to fulfill his challenge to Velu. He sends his secretary (Thengai Srinivasan) to fetch Rakkappan. Velu, again in the guise of the rowdy, manages to fool both Mudaliyar and his secretary and sets out to get Velu's leg. He later returns in the thick of night and tells Mudaliyar that he accidentally killed Velu and shows a severed head as proof. Mudaliyar, fearing the repercussions of this murder, hurriedly sends Rakkappan out of his house. Later he is haunted by Velu's ghost (in a mock-up of Dracula).
The terrified Mudaliyar confesses the crime to his secretary, who accidentally sees Velu up and about and realizes that the entire episode of Velu’s murder was a sham to trick Mudaliyar in the first place. He reports this back to Mudaliyar, who approaches the actual rowdy Rakkappan and arranges for him to kill Velu. Madhavi who hears about this plan appeals to her father to see reason that Velu had not actually harmed him and was only demanding the share of money due to him, albeit in a different way. When his daughter-in-law Gomathi reaffirms that she is a graduate from a respectable family, he realizes that Velu had indeed not done anything wrong and sets out with his daughter to stop Rakkappan. But by the time they get to the hideout, Rakkappan stabs Velu. A distraught Mudaliyar confesses to his past mistakes and declares that he will donate his fortune to charity, at which point Velu rises and reveals that his stabbing is yet another trick to force Mudaliyar to reveal his real self. Velu is reunited with Madhavi and all are happy. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f3/Ellam_Inba_Mayyam.jpg |
1,981 | Garjanai | Tamil | C. V. Rajendran | Rajinikanth, Madhavi, Jaishankar, Geetha | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garjanai | Dr.Vijay (Rajinikanth) is an honest doctor who faces off against a dangerous, diabolical gang led by Mithra (M.N. Nambiar) and Parasuram (Jaishankar) that contaminates common food items with lethal substances and then makes profits by supplying antidotes. Geetha (Madhavi) is Vijay's love interest while Rekha (Geetha) is his sister. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/16/Garjanai_poster.jpg |
1,981 | Indru Poi Naalai Vaa | Tamil | K. Bhagyaraj | K. Bhagyaraj, Raadhika, Pazhanisamy, G. Ramli | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indru_Poi_Naalai_Vaa | The film is all about three friends who fall for the same girl, narrated as a comedy. Palanisamy and his two friends have no job other than going behind girls. A pretty girl (Radhika) gets relocated with family to the opposite house of Palanisamy (Bhagyaraj). They three fall for the girls beauty and makes a gentleman agreement leaving the decision of the girl's choice to choose her lover. To impress her, the three attempt three different methods. Palanisamy helps Radhika's mother in domestic chores, one of the other friends joins her father's tuition to learn Hindi and the third one comes to learn martial arts from her grandfather.. the rest is all about who won the girl's heart.
Ilayaraja scored the music for the film and was a decent hit.
A 2013 movie titled Kanna Laddu Thinna Aasaiya ran into controversy due to the plot similarities with this film. However, it went to become one of the highest-grossing movie of that year. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e6/Indru_Poi_Naalai_Vaa.jpg |
1,981 | Kadal Meengal | Tamil | G. N. Rangarajan | Kamal Haasan, Sujatha, Swapna, Suman, Ambika, Nagesh, Thengai Srinivasan | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadal_Meengal | Selvanayakam a.k.a. Selvam (Kamal Haasan) is a poor but hard-working fisherman who is in love with Bhagyam (Sujatha) from the same fishing hamlet. After a tiff with the locals, Selvam moves to a neighbouring village for fishing and is feared dead during a cyclone. Selvam returns alive after a while and unable to find Bhagyam, marries another woman. Bhagyam has borne his child but lives in isolation away from the life of Selvam who has grown to be a rich businessman. After several years, Bhagyam's son Rajan (the younger Kamal Haasan) finds out about his father whom he despises for having deserted his mother. He vengefully joins his father's rivals and enters into a long confrontation with his father in business and in personal life as well. Nisha (Swapna), is Rajan's love interest while Ambika plays his step-sister's role. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/da/Kadal_Meengal.jpg |
1,981 | Keezh Vaanam Sivakkum | Tamil | V. Srinivasan | Sivaji Ganesan, Jaishankar, Saritha, Sarath Babu, Menaka, Y. G. Mahendra | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keezh_Vaanam_Sivakkum | Dr. Dwarakanath (Sivaji Ganesan) is a renowned ophthalmologist in Coimbatore, devoted to God and with a high moral standing. He shares his happy home with his son Srivathsan (Sarath Babu), daughter-in-law Manju (Saritha), a couple of relatives and a faithful servant (played by Manorama). Dwarakanath's peaceful life is shattered by a double whammy, first when he discovers that Manju is afflicted with a dreadful disease and has only a few months to live and then a blind man Kumaran (Jaishankar) who is seeking revenge against an unknown perpetrator responsible for his sister's suicide, shows up at his doors and Dwarakanath realizes the culprit is none other than his son Srivathsan. Dwarakanath tries to keep his son's culpability under wraps for Manju's sake considering her impending demise but Manju who is ignorant of her own ailment, misconstrues Dwarakanath's intentions and tries to unmask the culprit's identity and it soon turns out to be an intricate cat and mouse game between them both. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f6/Keezh_Vaanam_Sivakkum.jpg |
1,981 | Kudumbam Oru Kadambam | Tamil | S. P. Muthuraman | Pratap K. Pothen, Suhasini, Sumalatha, S. Ve. Shekher, Visu, Kamala Kamesh, Bhaskar, Nithya | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudumbam_Oru_Kadambam | The film opens on an ordinary day in the lives of the families in a large apartment house in Chennai. Each family represents a different slice of early 1980s middle-class society. Kannan and Uma are a working couple. Kannan's father, retired from Government service, lives with them. They enjoy the comforts of dual income, but their general lament is that their long work hours compel them to send their five-year-old daughter Priya to boarding school. The second couple comprises real estate agent Paramasivam and his homemaker wife Parvathi. Real estate in the early 1980s is not very profitable or progressive. Paramasivam and Parvathi enjoy a happy marriage, but Paramasivam's limited (and sporadic) income is barely able to meet household costs. The third couple is Srinivasa Raghavan and Lakshmiammal. Fifty-five-year-old Srinivasa Raghavan is a worthless wastrel. In spite of a college education, he has never worked a day in his life. He chooses to roam about the city and engage in pointless banter with anyone he can find. Lakshmiammal works as a cook to earn a meager wage, but they frequently have to pawn their valuables to get by. Their son Madhu is an aspiring actor with dreams of making it big, and their daughter Mythili is still in high school.
Their everyday lives have ups and downs. Kannan and Uma work all through the week. Uma takes German lessons in the evenings. Their overburdened schedule permits them to see their daughter only on weekends, and as a result they gradually drift away from the needs of their child. As for Paramasivam, his income is squeezed by the down market or by crafty tenants (who collude with the owners and ultimately do not pay his commissions). Lakshmiammal works long hours in hot kitchens, and worries that her declining health might just give out one day.
There are some new arrivals. The first is Parvathi's brother Kumar. Kumar has recently graduated from college, and he arrives in Chennai to start a new job. He plans to stay with Parvathi for a few days until he finds a new place. The second arrival is Anandan, a mild-mannered young man. He used to work at a rice mill in Nagapatnam, but when the mill was destroyed in a cyclone, his employer transferred him to another job in Chennai. Anandan is happy to find another job, but despairs because he is away from his wife and children in Nagapatnam. He is not able to afford weekly trips to see his family. Lakshmiammal recognizes an opportunity and proposes a boarding arrangement. Anandan is happy to accept; Lakshmiammal's home cooked food is healthier and cheaper than eating out every day.
The families are faced with various crises. Kannan's father discovers that Lakshmiammal has been visiting a hospital to treat an emerging tuberculosis ailment caused by long exposure to cooking flames. Kannan's father discreetly informs Mythili that Lakshmiammal must not continue working. Mythili drops out of school and starts working at a palatial mansion in the city. (Her job is not revealed, but it is strongly suggested that she may be working as an escort for a rich man.) The job, however, pays quite well and Mythili anonymously sends a portion of the money to her mother. Srinivasa Raghavan remains oblivious or apathetic to the whole situation.
Kannan and Paramasivam are also faced with trouble. Uma receives a promotion at work. Kannan is unable to accept that his wife makes more money. Priya continues to drift away from her parents, and refuses to come home for Diwali. When Parvathi suddenly becomes pregnant, she is forced to abort because of their strained financial situation. Paramasivam is stricken cold by the fact that he did not have cash for the cab to bring his wife to the hospital. Uma, Parvathi and Lakshmiammal individually ponder the central questions of the film — the role of money and the role of working women in the new society order.
Their troubles escalate. Kannan dreams that Uma is seduced by her German boss, and that she will eventually leave him. Paramasivam is compelled to borrow money, at exorbitant interest, from a loan shark. Parvathi is deeply grieved to learn this. Lakshmiammal follows Mythili and assumes the worst when she sees that a car is sent to fetch Mythili every day. She breaks down in tears before Srinivasa Raghavan. When Srinivasa Raghavan angrily question Mythili, she retorts that he, having never provided for the family, has no fatherly rights to ask about her business.
The men set about evaluating their situation. Kannan and Uma decide that their child is a higher priority than additional income, and Uma accordingly resigns from her job. Kannan's father provides additional support by way of his retirement income. Paramasivam finally agrees to let Parvathi get a real job. And Srinivasa Raghavan, stung by his daughter's criticism, sets off to find work. Undaunted by rejection from various offices, he finally earns a day's wages by working on the docks. He returns home with dignity. Now that he has restored his station as a father, he claims the right to question Mythili. He bluntly asks if she has been prostituting herself. Mythili takes him to the palatial mansion. She reveals that the lady of the house has been stricken with a paralysing disease and that Mythili's job is to help her with her daily duties. Mythili breaks into sobs, saying she has not done anything to dishonor the family.
Harmony is restored to just about everyone. Anandam, in tragicomic irony, is suddenly transferred away to Dindigul just as he has found a job for his wife in Chennai. His wife now takes his place in the apartment and writes to him every week.
The film ends with the missive that money is required for life but life must not be entirely consumed by money. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/93/Kudumbam_Oru_Kadambam.jpg |
1,981 | Mouna Geethangal | Tamil | K. Bhagyaraj | K. Bhagyaraj, Saritha, 'Master' Suresh | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouna_Geethangal | Bhagyaraj and Saritha are a married couple. Bhagyaraj is a graduate and works as an administrator in a company. Their marriage comes to an end when Bhagyaraj betrays Saritha for her widowed friend. Bhagyaraj confesses the truth as he gets drunk, and tries to explain himself, and even her family tries to convince her to condone this one little mistake, but Saritha cannot forgive his unfaithfulness and they break up. After their divorce, Saritha finds out that she is pregnant. She moves into her new home. Five years later, they meet each other on a bus. Coincidentally, Bhagyaraj's new house is close to Saritha's in the same neighborhood. Now when they're neighbors, Bhagyaraj tries to captivate her again and return his family and wife. He gets close to his son. Though his son speaks well with Bhagyaraj, Saritha dislikes it, telling her (also his) son not to talk with him. As Days passes by Saritha keeps on thinking about good things he did to her when he was with her. In a controversy between him and Saritha, Bhagyaraj slaps her saying he gives 30 days to return to him, though she refuses it, later she realizes her faults, falls again in love with her. In the climax, Bhagyaraj marries another girl. Changed up Saritha comes there, begs him not to Marry another girl than her, he refuses her requests and marries. Saritha dares to die with her son. Then the clerk arrives there telling the whole thing was a drama and Bhagyaraj is still clean. The movie ends up with Saritha walking back to his house. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e7/Mouna_Geethangal.jpg |
1,981 | Netrikkann | Tamil | S. P. Muthuraman | Rajinikanth, Lakshmi, Saritha, Menaka, Vijayashanti | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrikkann | The story revolves around Chakravarthy (Older Rajini) who is a successful textile businessman in Coimbatore. He is a big womaniser (perhaps his only weakness) and picks up any women he wants. Other characters being wife Meenakshi (Lakshmi), his son Santosh (also Rajini) and his daughter Sangeetha (Vijayashanthi). It doesn't take long for Santosh to find his father's provocative behaviour and tries to mend his father's ways. Radha (Saritha) gets introduced as a candidate for PRO (Public Relations Officer) interview and eventually gets selected and is sent to Hong Kong for training. Chakravarthy unable to tolerate his son's growing menace also sets off to Hong Kong for a holiday. Here he meets Radha and at one point ends up raping her. Chakravarthy flies back to India where he is met with a number of changes which all points out to the new General Manager. This person turns out be Radha who has joined with Santosh to teach Chakravarthy a lesson for lifetime. How the duo succeed in changing Chakravarthy's behaviour forms the crux of the story. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/71/Netrikkan_poster.jpg |
1,981 | Panneer Pushpangal | Tamil | Bharathi-Vasu | Pratap K. Pothen, Suresh, Shanthi Krishna, Archana | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panneer_Pushpangal | Panneer Pushpangal is a love story between Suresh and Shantikrishna supported by their teacher Prathap Pothen. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9d/Panneer_Pushpangal.jpg |
1,981 | Raja Paarvai | Tamil | Singeetam Srinivasa Rao | Kamal Haasan, Madhavi, L. V. Prasad, Y. G. Mahendra | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raja_Paarvai | Raghu is a blind violinist oppressed since infancy by his stepmother. Nancy, a Christian, is keen on chronicling Raghu's inspiring life as a visually impaired but independently living person. Their relationship blossoms into a romance that is supported by Nancy's grandfather. Nancy is eventually due to be married to another man selected by her father, but aided by her grandfather, leaves the church and rides away with Raghu. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/29/Raja_Paarvai.jpg |
1,981 | Ranuva Veeran | Tamil | S. P. Muthuraman | Rajinikanth, Sridevi, Chiranjeevi | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranuva_Veeran | The film opens with Chiranjeevi being chased and caught by a group of policemen, but he escapes. Meanwhile, a young military man (Rajinikanth) returns to his village, which is known for frequent thefts and murders perpetrated by the mysterious "One-Eyed Man" (Chiranjeevi) and his gang of thieves. Rajini soon meets Chiranjeevi; the two were once college roommates, but they had since separated. In addition to Chiranjeevi, Rajini reunites with his father (Poornam Vishwanatha), an Orthodox Iyengar who always condemns him, and he finds out that his sister eloped with a man few years before, which he later finds out was other than the gangleader of the thieves himself, Chiranjeevi. Sridevi plays Rajini's love interest as a poultry farm girl in a highly glamorous role. The climax fight between Rajini and Chiranjeevi is the highlight of the movie. In the end Chiranjeevi gets shot by his own son. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d9/Ranuva_Veeran_poster.jpg |
1,981 | Thanneer Thanneer | Tamil | K. Balachander | Saritha, V. K. Veeraswami, Prasanna Srinivasan, Radha Ravi | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanneer_Thanneer | Thaneer Thaneer is a political drama and a universal human story based in a dry rural hamlet near Kovilpatti, in Tamil Nadu state of India. This is a film about administration negligance of suffering villagers, excessive bureaucratic regulation (Red tape), greed, power and powerlessness. When a remote village Athipatti in Madurai district faces severe water shortages, the inhabitants adopt all possible means to bring their problem to the attention of the authorities. But the process soon reveals the apathetic attitude of politicians, bureaucrats and the press alike. A convict Vellaiswamy (Guhan) wanted for the murder of a local landlord turns the villagers' plight to his advantage and begins a co-operative scheme to transport water in a cart from a spring ten miles away with help of vathiyar(Komal Swaminathan).The local politicians try to make people of village to vote for them in election.But all people of village boycott the elections.The local politician beats the convict and breaks vehicle used for transporting water.The villagers decide to build canal by themselves.But Alagiri(Radha Ravi) ,husband of sevanthi(Saritha)comes to village and finds convict hidden in village.The convict promises to Alagiri that he will surrender after canal is finished.But fate intervenes in form of Public Works Department Officer,who stops villagers from finishing canal work.The villagers are shot by police.The convict dies due to thirst for water.A villager joins naxalites.Vathiyar(Vaathiyar Raman)is arrested for aiding the convict.The villagers leave the town.But Sevanthi(Saritha) watches the sky every evening in hope of rain.These incidents are narrated by Press reporter who had come to the village.The final scene mocks bureaucracy by showing pictures of govt sponsored meetings for water resource improvement.It shows all political parties flag in farmland.It shows bureaucracy and politics fails to the common man aspirations.[1] | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2b/Thanneer_Thanneer.jpg |
1,981 | Thillu Mullu | Tamil | K. Balachander | Rajinikanth, Madhavi, Thengai Srinivasan, Sowcar Janaki | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thillu_Mullu_(1981_film) | Aiyampettai Arivudainambi Kaliyaperumal Chandran (Rajinikanth) is looking for a better paying job after completing his degree. He and his sister Uma (Viji Chandrasekhar) have no relatives or acquaintances except their doctor/family friend (Poornam Vishwanathan). The doctor advises him to attend an interview for a job at his friend Sriramachandramurthy's (Thengai Srinivasan) import-export company, Sarojini Traders. Sriramachandramurthy is a man of traditional values: he hates youths wearing modern clothes. He is a sports fan but thinks lowly of youths knowing anything about sports. He dislikes men without moustaches as he believes such men are characterless.
Chandran, however, has a moustache; the doctor advises Chandran to take care of the other problems by acting in a manner Sriramachandramurthy appreciates: namely wearing a Nehru jacket for a usual dress given the poverty in the country, to always tell his full name, giving importance to his moustache, behaving decently, showing a lack of interest in sports and drama considering that they do not promote any well being to the home or the country, respecting one's parents and detesting the concept of having someone else recommend a person for jobs instead of recommending for oneself. Sriramachandramurthy hires him immediately after Chandran impresses him.
One day, Chandran takes leave by pretending that his mother, who actually died many years ago, has taken ill and goes to watch a football match. Sriramachandramurthy, who attends the match as well, sees him there. The next day, Sriramachandramurthy queries Chandran about what he witnessed. To escape from the ire of his boss and being fired from his first job, he lies that it was his identical twin brother Indran. Remembering the plot of a film his friend, actor Nagesh is shooting, Chandran convinces Sriramachandramurthy that he had seen his "moustache-less" identical twin, Indran, at the stadium. Sriramachandramurthy buys his argument and feels bad about accusing him. He makes amends by hiring Indran to teach his daughter Sarojini (Madhavi) music.
For most of the rest of the film Chandran leads a dual life: as Chandran, a sincere hardworking employee, and as Indran, who teaches music to Sarojini; subsequently, the two fall in love. Things takes an unexpected turn when Sriramachandramurthy asks Chandran to meet his mother. Chandran, with Nagesh's help, requests a wealthy socialite, Meenakshi Duraiswamy (Sowcar Janaki) to pretend to be Chandran's widowed mother. A series of humorous scenarios follow, all involving Chandran fooling Sriramachandramurthy. Chandran tells Sarojini the truth. Sarojini tells him to tell the truth to Sriramachandramurthy as well. Chandran goes to Sriramachandramurthy to tell the truth, but Sriramachandramurthy sees Chandran's moustache giving away. Sriramachandramurthy exposes Chandran but ends up thinking that Indran murdered Chandran and impersonated him to marry Sarojini. Sriramachandramurthy then chases Chandran across the city to kill him. Due to his rash driving, he seemingly cripples Uma during the chase.
Sriramachandramurthy is sued by lawyer Charu Haasan (Kamal Haasan) on Chandran's behalf for injuring Uma. Sriramachandramurthy is, for the most part, scared during the lawyer's monologue, but eventually realises that he is being fooled again — this time by Charu Haasan, who is actually an actor hired by Chandran, while Uma was not actually crippled in the chase. At this point, all the main characters approach Sriramachandramurthy and tell him the truth. A visibly confused and shaken Sriramachandramurthy locks himself in a room, and comes out clean shaven after a while, feeling that he does not need something which caused so much trouble. Sriramachandramurthy then laments to Lord Kartikeya about his foolishness. As he does so, the picture of Kartikeya changes into that of Lord Ganesha; a voice from heaven (Ganesha's) apologises to him as he was also involved in fooling him. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ef/Thillu_Mullu_poster.jpg |
1,981 | Vidiyum Varai Kaathiru | Tamil | K. Bhagyaraj | K. Bhagyaraj, Sathyakala | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidiyum_Varai_Kaathiru | Can true love change the heart of even a hardened criminal? This is the question thrown at the audience in 'Vidiyumvarai Kaathiru'. Raja (Bhagyaraj) is a hardened criminal, forever plotting to usurp the property of others. He comes to Ooty and wins the confidence of Rajshekar, a rich businessman. Rajshekar develops so much faith in Raja that he gets him married to his own mentally unstable daughter Satya (Satyakala) and bequeaths all his property in her name. He also adds a clause that in case Satya meets with her death, then all the property would go to Raja. Raja plots and makes several attempts to kill Satya, but always fails. At last, he comes to know that all along, Satya has been aware of his plans. She now begs him to surrender to the police as she is in the family way. Does Raja have a change of heart? Does he surrender or does he kill her and run away with her property? | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a6/Vidiyum_Varai_Kaathiru.jpg |
1,982 | Ezhavathu Manithan | Tamil | K. Hariharan | Raghuvaran, Rathna | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezhavathu_Manithan | Anand, a skilled engineering graduate, comes to a village from Madras to work in a cement factory. He is shocked when he learns about the exploitation and mistreatment of the workers there. Arjun, the corrupt manager of the factory, takes half of the wages from every worker as his commission. Anand complains to Ramkumar, the son of the factory owner, who used to be a college friend, and Ramkumar gives Arjun a warning. Meanwhile, Anand befriends Senthamari, a labourer in the factory, and is attracted to Gowri, Senthamari's sister.[1]
Gowri has not told anyone that she is affected by a lung disease caused by air pollution. Sudhakar, another labourer in the factory, is affected by the same disease. Dr Prema, a government doctor, informs Sudhakar that the disease has advanced and he needs to be treated in Chennai. Kulashekara Perumal, the factory owner, refuses to provide treatment to Sudhakar, resulting in the latter's death. A distressed Anand pleads with the management to look into the issue and to provide the employees with benefits that they are entitled to receive, but he is refused.[1]
Ramkumar tries to get the doctor who treated Sudhaker to issue a false certificate of death, but she refuses. Dr Prema also lets Anand know that she reported the death to the government health ministry, but nothing will be done about it because Ramkumar has bribed all the officials. Anand tries to speak with Ramkumar, but he beats him up. Anand establishes a union at the factory and calls a strike. When Senthamari leaves town to start another job, Ramkumar chases after him and murders him. The new factory manager, Settaya, arranges for Ramkumar to lay low in Chennai, while he buries Senthamari's body in the factory.[1]
All the management's attempts to get Anand to call off the strike fail. Settaya files a police report against Anand, accusing him of the attempted murder of Ramkumar. He also promises the factory workers that he will build a new chimney to reduce the air pollution if they call off the strike. A lawyer who is supportive of the factory's trade union bails out Anand and alerts the government to the factory's poor environmental record. The management decides to blow up the factory and claim the insurance money. However, their plan backfires as Anand and his friends spot most of the bombs and dispose of them. The one bomb that they do not remove is in the room where Settaya is hiding; he dies in the subsequent blast. Anand and the rest of the workers assume control of the factory. Dr Prema informs Anand that Gowri will recover from her illness.[2] | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f7/Ezhavathu_Manithan.jpg |
1,982 | Gopurangal Saivathillai | Tamil | Manivannan | Mohan, Suhasini, Radha, S. Ve. Shekher | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopurangal_Saivathillai | Arukkani (Suhasini Maniratnam) is an illiterate village girl and her father is upset to not find her a groom. One day, her father meets his old friend Bhoothalingam (Vinu Chakravarthy) and shares his sadness; Bhoothalingam proposes his son Murali (Mohan) to marry her and Arukkani's father accepts. Murali is a handsome man and also a successful sales manager. He doesn't see his future wife yet and he is excited to see her. At his marriage's day, Murali is shocked to see his future wife Arukkani, who is ugly, and gets married with her anyway. Murali feels very disappointed and cannot bear her. He takes a transfer to Bangalore leaving his father and his wife. In Bangalore, he gets friendly with his colleague Julie (Radha), who is modern and good-looking. They fall in love with each other and they get married. What transpires later forms the crux of the story. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/53/Gopurangal_Saivathillai.jpg |
1,982 | Hitler Umanath | Tamil | P. Madhavan | Sivaji Ganesan, K. R. Vijaya, Suruli Rajan | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Umanath | A mild-mannered and timid man causes amusement when he comes to work in a business — because of his resemblance to Adolf Hitler. Soon, however, he finds himself growing into a more forceful and dynamic person, becoming a charismatic leader and a successful businessman as his wife teaches him more and more about Hitler's charismatic personality and leadership abilities. In the end, once he finds out about Hitler's evil deeds, he regrets emulating such a evil person. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/96/Hitler_Umanath.jpg |
1,982 | Krodham | Tamil | A. Jagannathan | Prem, Rani Padmini | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krodham_(1982_film) | Prem (Prem Menon) is an architect living in Chennai city with his wife Indhu(Anjali) and sister Subha(Chithra) and her husband Siva (Sridhar). The film begins with scenes of a recent outing Prem and their family and had taken to restratant. Oneday, Indhu and Subha are followed from Shopping mall by two thugs who invade the house posing as delivery mans. They fatally injure indhu and sexually assault Subha.
After his wife's funeral in Connecticut during a snowstorm and shortly following, his return to work. Prem's boss gives him an extended business vocation, and he files to Mysore district, Karnataka to meet a client Kavitha(Rani Padmini) and his father (K. A. Thangavelu). While working Mysore district, Prem witnesses a mock gunfight at Mysore, a reconstructed western frontier town used a movie set. A few days later while he is working late at office. Prem invited to dinner by Kavitha's father at his gun club. At the gun club, Kavitha's father is impressed when prem shoots with near accuracy at the targets. Prem had been taught to handle firearms at a young age by his father, who was hunter, but after his father was killed in a hunting accident Prem decided to swear his mother never to use guns again. After Prem makes improvements to Kavitha's father plans for residential development a thoroughly pleased Kavitha drives Prem. Back to the Mysore district Airport with a gift, which he places into prem checked luggage.
Back in Chennai city, Prem learns from his brother-in-law Siva(Sridhar) that his sister is severely depressed from the Trauma of the assault Prem visits his Sister, who is now Catatonic at the hospital. Heartbroken, Prem and his brother-in-law have his sister committed to a mental hospital on Brooklyn United States of America for intensive treatment. Late upon his return to Chennai city, he opens his suitcase and discovers that Kavitha's Father gift was a nickel-plated .32 Colt Police positive revolver, places it into his overcoat and takes a late night stroll. Prem encounters a mugger, an ex-convict, who attempts to rob two women at knife-point. Prem Shoot muggers with the revolver Kavitha's father had give him.
Shocked that he just killed a human being, Prem runs home and throws up. But motivated by his desire for revenge he continues to walk the city streets at night looking for violent criminals. The following night, Prem against deliberately walks through the city order to invite an attack. He guns down three muggers who are robbing a defenseless old man in an alley. A few night later, two muggers see Prem on a subway. They attempt to rob him at knife-point but prem shoots them both with his revolver.
On another night, Prem sits as bait in a sleazy Restaurant Coffee shop surrounded by Prostitutes and assorted street people. He pays his bill to the cashier, purposely revealing a wallet full of cash. He leaves followed by two thugs, who have taken the bait. Ye he again a robbers attempt is made. Prem shoots one but other manages to stab him in his shoulder. As a wounded Prem stumbles off, the one who stabbed him runs away but he is mortally shot, later dying at a hospital.
Inspector Prasad(S. A. Ashokan) investigates the vigilante killings. His department narrows it down to a list to men who have had a family members recently killed by muggers and who are war veterans. The public meanwhile, is happy that somebody doing something about crime. Prasad soon suspects Prem. He is about to make an arrest when the district Chennai intervenes and tells Prasad to "let him loose in another city instead". The D. A. and the police commissioner do not want the fact to get out that street crimes in Chennai city has dropped dramatically. Since Prem become vigilante. And they fear that if he isn't stopped the whole city will explode into anarchy. Prasad doen't like the idea, but relents, Prasad says that he will try to "Scare him off".
Prem shoots two muggers on the stairs before wounded by a third mugger with a M1911A1 pistol at a ware house. His gun is discovered by a young patrolman who hands it to Inspector Prasad, who tells him to forget that he even saw it and additionally tells the press that the wounded Prem is just another mugging victim. Hospitalised, Prem is ordered by Prasad to leave Chennai city permanently. Prasad tells Prem to have his company transfer him to another city in exchange. Prasad will dispose of Prem's revolver. As Prasad walks out of Prem's hospital room, Prem replies, "By sundown?"
Prem arrives in Egmore Railway Station by train. Being greeted by a company representative, he notices a group of hoodlums harassing a young woman. He excuses himself and helps the woman. The hoodlums make obscene gestures, but Prem point his right hand like a gun and smiles, suggesting that his vigilantism will continue. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5e/Krodham.jpg |
1,982 | Moondru Mugam | Tamil | A. Jagannathan | Rajinikanth, Raadhika, Rajyalakshmi, Kamala Kamesh | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondru_Mugam | Arun, the son of a rich businessman Ramanathan, returns to India after 10 years in America, but as a saint. His shocked father enlists a charming press reporter, Rekha, to change him back to normal.
Rekha first sets up an interview, which he thwarts. Later, on the pretense of taking him to a temple, she plans another set up. On the way to the temple, she pretends that the car has broken down and he leaves to roam around a bit when sees a crying child and offers a chocolate. Suddenly he is swarmed by more children and other villagers who confront him of being a child-kidnapper. Using the event, Rekha cuts Arun's beard off, a symbol of piety. After a few more set up events, he renounces his sainthood.
Later, Arun goes to work and is puzzled about why his father has been sending money to a woman named Sagaya Mary for over twenty years.
In a parallel scenario, a man informs Sagaya Mary that someone has proposed to her nephew John. When asked about John's parentage, she opens up about her brother and John's father, Alex Pandian.
A flashback ensues that explains Alex Pandian's story. Alex Pandian is a scrupulous police officer. He is ruthless on criminals and clashes with notorious mob boss, Egambaram. After repeated confrontations, Egambaram fatally stabs him. With his last breath, Alex Pandian vows that he will be reborn to take revenge.
When Alex Pandian dies so does his wife after giving birth to twins. Ramanathan's wife gives birth in the same hospital but the child dies, as with her previous three pregnancies. Sagaya Mary hands over one of Alex Pandian's children to them and he is christened Arun, while she raises the other child, John.
On Arun's 25th birthday party he gets a divine epiphany that makes him realise he is the reincarnation of Alex Pandian. He is asked to meet a woman named Asha at a hotel but it proves to be a set up. In the ensuing battle for survival, he kills the attacker and goes to jail. He comes to court to reveal the truth when suddenly a man claiming to be Alex Pandian shows up and says that he is not in fact dead but had been in Sri Lanka the whole time. The man posing to be Alex Pandian is in fact Arun's twin, John. Unknown to Arun, he is working with Egambaram, the man who murdered his father.
Later, Arun says he concocted the fact that he was an incarnation of Alex Pandian to draw the killers out. Soon, John finds the truth about Alex Pandian and Arun and fights to save his brother. However, John is fatally wounded by Egambaram who he eventually kills and throws into the sea, the same way his father was killed. The film ends with Arun and Rekha getting married. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5a/Moondru_Mugam.jpg |
1,982 | Pagadai Panirendu | Tamil | N. Dhamodharan | Kamal Haasan, Sripriya, Y. G. Mahendra | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagadai_Panirendu | The film is the story of Anand (Kamal Haasan), a journalist and a martial arts expert. Anand is in love with Sripriya. He gets a micro film showing the wrongdoings of underworld king Sudarsan. Now the gang is after Anand for the micro film. Sudarsan's gang member Sathyapriya befriend Anand to get the micro film, but fails. Meantime Anand's love Sripriya leaves her house as her father Major Sundarrajan is against their affair. Sripriya get threatened by Sudarsan's gang for micro film. Anand's friend Y. G. Mahendran also get trapped by the underworld gang to retrieve the micro film. Anand had to fight against his martial arts master too, who is an aide of Sudarsan. Finally Anand succeeds in eliminating the entire gang saving micro film. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e2/Pagadai_Panirendu.jpg |
1,982 | Payanangal Mudivathillai | Tamil | R. Sundarrajan | Mohan, Poornima Jayaram, S. Ve. Shekher | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payanangal_Mudivathillai | The film showcases the true love of Mohan to Poornima in that he didnt want her or her father (Poornam Vishwanathan) to know about his terminal illness (leukamia/blood cancer at the final stage) and his counting days. With this intent, he was planning to create a gap from Poornima. However, Poornima and her father intrepreted him badly as if he had changed his mentality after becoming rich. They were depressed because he became rich from a pauper stage only because of Poornima and her fathers opportunity to him to give a lot of singing opportunities to him. Poornima and her father realise the real cause of change of Mohan's mind only after Rajesh (the doctor who attends Mohan) tells about his sickness. Rajesh believes that Mohan does not know but Mohan has eavesdropped the report while Rajesh was discussing in his clinic. The story reaches climax with the suicide of Poornima and Mohan in that their journey through music continues even after their worldly life. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0f/Payanangal_Mudivathillai.jpg |
1,982 | Pokkiri Raja | Tamil | S. P. Muthuraman | Rajinikanth, Sridevi, Raadhika | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokkiri_Raja_(1982_film) | Ramesh (Rajinikanth) starts managing the office of an industrialist who strongly suspects his relatives to be looting him. Ramesh finds the culprit and keeps a tight leash on everything happening in the office, thereby earning the wrath of the industrialist's relatives. Ramesh and Sridevi (the industrialist's daughter) initially find themselves at loggerheads, but eventually fall in love with each other. The industrialist is happy about this development until he sees Ramesh cheating on his daughter. He fires Ramesh the very same day.
The industrialist is murdered and Sridevi also sees Ramesh in her house that same night. Ramesh is dragged to court and is shortly framed for murder. Sridevi is upset, and the ill-intentioned relatives start closing their net around her, forcing her to marry Y. G. Mahendran (the son of two of the industrialist's relatives).
In the meantime, the grief-stricken Ramesh meets another person named Raja (also Rajinikanth) in jail who looks exactly like him. Together Ramesh and Raja plan to punish the culprits and set the record straight. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3f/Pokkiri_Raja_1982.jpg |
1,982 | Ranga | Tamil | R. Thyagarajan | Rajinikanth, Raadhika, K. R. Vijaya, Raveendran, Silk Smitha | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranga_(1982_film) | Ranga (Rajinikanth) alias Ranganathan is a young man who lost his sister Laksmi (K . R .Vijaya) in childhood and has come to the city searching for work suitable for his graduation. There, he meets Raju (Karate Mani) who is a thief. Ranga advises Raju to give up his life of crime and be a good man, whilst Raju simultaneously advises Ranga to turn to crime. After going their separate ways, both men end up taking each other's advice and change, Raju turning over a new leaf and Ranga going the other way and becoming a hitman for hire. Laksmi is now married to a wealthy man and with a child called Suresh (Master Suresh). Raju who had changed comes across Suresh and saves him from a local thug. Laksmi decides to keep Raju as a guardian for Suresh to keep him safe from danger. Ranga has taken a contract from Ganga (Radhika) to collect money from the local gang leader Ravi (Ravindran). However, Ravi invites Ranga to join his gang, which is declined by Ranga who states that he does not work for any gang, but is ready to do anything given enough money. Ranga's first assignment with Ravi is to kidnap Suresh so they can threaten his parents for money. Ranga kidnaps Suresh, who is then saved by Raju. Raju does not know that it is Ranga who came to kidnap Suresh as Ranga was in disguise. Ranga realises it was Raju and he comes to meet Raju. Raju's joy knows no bounds as he meets Ranga and tells him that he works as a guardian for Suresh. Raju also introduces Laksmi to Ranga. Not knowing that Ranga is her brother and a hitman, she agrees to keep Ranga as another guardian for Suresh. Ranga reveals his true nature to Raju that he is the one who attempted to kidnap Suresh. Raju advises Ranga to give up his criminal life and be loyal to Laksmi. Ranga however is determined to kidnap Suresh and also challenges Raju, that he will chase him out and finish his task, which he does. But Ravi double crosses Ranga and reveals to him that Laksmi is his sister. Ranga is caught by Ravi's thugs but Raju comes to the rescue and saves Ranga. Ravi is thrown in jail, Ranga reunites with his sister and he, ganga and Raju all lead a happy life . | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8c/Ranga_%281982_film%29.jpg |
1,982 | Simla Special | Tamil | V. Srinivasan | Kamal Haasan, Sripriya, S. Ve. Shekher, Y. G. Mahendra, Manorama, Thengai Srinivasan | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simla_Special | Gopu (Kamal Haasan) is a budding drama artist. He and his good friend, Babu (S Ve Sekhar), own a popular troupe that performs low-budget comedies. To help Babu pay for his sister's wedding, they accept a commission to perform a set of plays for Tamilians in Simla. One of the plays is titled "Simla Special" and is written by Mahalakshmi (Sripriya).
While Kamal is in Simla, Babu receives a telegram intended for Gopu informing him of Gopu's mom being seriously ill. Fearing the loss of the money if they renege on the Simla commission, Babu keeps the information from Gopu. Gopu subsequently finds out about his mother's illness when a friend calls to tell him that her situation has worsened. However, for the sake of his friend's sister, he decides to continue acting. He also keeps the information to himself, thinking that if Babu knew, he'd insist that Gopu go back to be by his mother's side.
On the last day of their engagement, Kamal finds the telegram in Babu's coat pocket and realizes his friend's deception. He breaks off his friendship with Babu — but is forced to stay for one last encore before he leaves. While he is performing, Babu receives a call that Gopu's mom has recovered. All is forgiven and the friends reunite. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3a/Simla_Special.jpg |
1,982 | Thanikattu Raja | Tamil | V. C. Guhanathan | Rajinikanth, Sridevi, Sripriya, Jaishankar, Vijayakumar, Sathyakala, Y. G. Mahendra | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanikattu_Raja | Soori (Rajinikanth) is a rebellious young man who works as a mechanic and often lands in trouble fighting for justice. He falls in love with a rich girl Vaani (Sridevi), but Vaani's father plots to break their relationship through his manager (Vijayakumar). In the ensuing melee, Soori murders the manager to save Vaani's honour. Soori is about to be sentenced to death and Vaani finds that the only way she can save Soori is by marrying a rich, roguish man (Jaishankar) who uses his money to get Soori's death penalty commuted to a prison term.
After his release, Soori is distraught at losing Vaani and takes to drinking. He moves to his village where he becomes immensely popular among the villagers due to his righteous work and progressive activities. He offers protection to a village damsel Vidhya (Sripriya) to escape from being forced to be a 'devadasi' and later marries her but still remains alcoholic. Vaani meets and advises him to stop drinking and turn over a new leaf. Despite being abused by her husband and falsely accused of hobnobbing with Soori, Vaani maintains the sanctity of her marriage. Whether Soori and Vaani's lives return to normal forms the rest of the story. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/Thanikattu_Raja_poster.jpg |
1,982 | Vazhvey Maayam | Tamil | R. Krishnamurthy | Kamal Haasan, Sridevi, Sripriya, Pratap K. Pothen, Ambika | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vazhvey_Maayam | Rajasekaran is happy-go-lucky and spoilt brat from rich family background. He always take advantage of the affection showered by his mother on him and this irritates his father. He is a member of flight club and does many aerial stunts in his plane. He looks at a group of air-hostesses and gets attracted to one of them named Devi who is also an arrogant. When Raja tried to chat with her she insults him. Raja decides to impress her in one way or other. He finds that Devi is familiar to his friend Prathap. Raja hears from Prathap that he knows Devi from her childhood and her elder brother is a good friend of him. Prathap actually wants to marry Devi and he is yet to propose her. Raja is very happy that since Prathap is a friend of Devi Raja himself is her friend as Prathap is his friend. Prathap does not like this and unwillingly accepts this. Raja makes many attempts to impress Devi and follows her to wherever she goes. Raja visits the home of Devi and tries to attract all of her family members except Devi and her elder brother. Raja befriends Devi's friend,a senior air-hostess Baby who is a spinster. Baby likes Raja and his mischief and she helps him to win the love of Devi. She proposes a plan of annoying Devi by moving closely with another woman. She seeks the help of old air-hostess turned prostitute friend whose life turned disaster when she was deceived and raped by a man. Raja pretends to move closely with that woman but the plan did not turned fruitful and earned more aversion of Devi. Raja then pretends to have injured and broken his legs for sake of Devi. Devi at first believes him and moves close with him. But when she finds the truth she leaves him.
Raja's parents finds a bride for him much against Raja's protest. Raja's mother persuade him to come and have a formal meet for his father's sake and she would take care of the rejection of the proposal. Raja meets the girl but he sees her as Devi and accepts for marriage. The next day when the girl comes to meet him he wonders that he did not accept her to marry but Devi. This hurts the girl and she decides to end up her life. Raja stops her and say if it is going to be her decision then he would marry her and apologizes for his actions. Raja promises that until she gets married he would not think of his marriage. Soon after the girl comes up with her wedding invitation to Raja. The girl is also friend of Devi and she invites her for the marriage. On the day of wedding Devi gets angry on Raja and shouts at him for his acts and Raja is hurted on it. Raja's friends sue Devi for being so arrogant and Raja is continuously flying and this scares them. They call her to stop him. Devi who is already feeling for her behaviour rushes to Raja and accepts his love.
Prathap without knowing the Raja-Devi's relationship tries to expose his feelings for him but she does not reciprocate. Devi's brother wants his sister to marry Prathap but all other family members including Devi favour Raja. Hence he accepts their love and the couple get engaged. Raja and Devi start to distribute their wedding invitations. Devi visits her friend's house and gets shocked on seeing her friend as widow. Devi is told that her friend's husband was already dying before the marriage and groom's family concealed the truth. This angers Devi and she curses whole male society for being so selfish. Raja was once got admitted in a hospital and some of the sample tests shows that he is a cancer patient and he is counting his days. Devi's brother who is the doctor in that hospital postpones the wedding date citing some horoscope problem. Raja is irritated and angered by this and feels that Devi's brother intentionally does it for some reason. He tells Devi to come to a temple and both can marry. On the day of wedding Raja ejects blood from his mouth and Baby takes him to hospital. After the treatment Baby is informed about Raja's cancer and she is shocked. When she consoles Raja that nothing to worry Raja shocks her by saying there is no treatment for cancer.
Devi waits at the temple for Raja to arrive and she leaves the place when he does not show up. Raja watches her leaving the temple after waiting for a long time. After Devi left the friend of Devi comes to temple in her widowed costume. Raja reminds how Devi got angry when her friend was cheated by her husband's family. Prathap attempts suicide on seeing the wedding invitation of Raja and Devi. Raja overhears Prathap speaking to Devi's brother about his love for Devi. Hence Raja decides to end up the relationship with Devi so that she can start a new life with Prathap. Raja now becomes a full-fledged drunkard and starts to live with the prostitute woman who helped him earlier. Devi is shocked by Raja's act and tries to bring him back to her. She visits the home of the prostitute and demands to send Raja with her. But Raja intervenes that all the engagement and wedding was a fake to take revenge on Devi for insulting him in her friend's wedding.He also pretends to be arrogant that no man in this world other than him will accept Devi as his wife. Devi gets angered on this and she urges her brother to fix marriage with anyone in order to nose cut arrogant Raja. Her brother arranges for wedding with Prathap. The woman with whom Raja is staying with requests Raja to marry as she though a prostitute she would like to be mentioned as someone's wife after her life. Raja marries her and begins his last journey. Devi marries Prathap and she wants to go to Raja to show him. Baby tells about Raja and he behaved for welfare of Devi's life. Devi is shocked and rushes to meet Raja. Raja's parents also come to know about his fate and come to see him. When everybody assemble at his place Raja looks at Devi as a married woman and breathes his last happily. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/65/Vaazhvey_Maayam.jpg |
1,983 | Adutha Varisu | Tamil | S. P. Muthuraman | Rajinikanth, Sridevi, Silk Smitha, S. Varalakshmi, Cho, Manorama | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adutha_Varisu | Rajinikanth plays the role of Kannan, a small-time bounty hunter who is enlisted by the crooked members of a royal zameen to find a girl to impersonate the lost heiress to the throne, so that they can usurp the zameen's wealth. Kannan comes across nomadic girl Valli (Sridevi) and trains her to act appropriately and introduces her as the lost heiress to the zameen's head, Rani Amma Rajalakshmi, who is the grandmother of the lost heiress. However, when he learns from Valli's adopted parents that Valli is truly the lost heiress, he sets out to protect her and Rani Amma from the crooked clan. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/12/Adutha_Varisu.jpg |
1,983 | Malaiyoor Mambattiyan | Tamil | Rajasekhar | Thiagarajan, Saritha, Jaishankar, Silk Smitha, Jayamalini, Goundamani | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaiyoor_Mambattiyan | Malaiyoor Mambattiyan is the story of a group of youngsters in the village headed by Mambattiyan, who lead life in a forest by robbing the rich and distributing the wealth to the poor; thus Mambattiyan becomes the local Robin Hood. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c1/Malaiyoor_Mambattiyan.jpg |
1,983 | Mundhanai Mudichu | Tamil | K. Bhagyaraj | K. Bhagyaraj, Urvashi, Deepa | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundhanai_Mudichu | Parimala (Urvasi) is a mischievous nubile lady who perennially plays pranks on unsuspecting villagers, aided by her gang of preteen children. These often end her and the gang in the panchayat. A widower (K. Bhagyaraj) enters the village with his infant child (Sujitha) to take up the vacant teacher's post in the local school and is immediately pranked by Parimala's gang upon his arrival. Parimala's playful nature transforms into love when she learns that he's a widower. She tries many ways to win the teacher's heart, but fails every time. The teacher believes that a stepmother could not care for his child. As a desperate measure to attain him, Parimala falsely accuses the teacher of molesting her. She even swears upon the teacher's child's life to prove her case at the panchayat. The teacher is then forced to marry her against his wishes. However, he vows never to touch Parimala and to remain forever in celibacy. Parimala relentlessly tries to seduce him by various methods. All her advances are ignored by the husband. Faced with the prospect of never attaining her husband's love, Parimala decides to take the drastic measure of going through a tubal ligation procedure. With this she hopes that her husband will understand that she would never ill treat his son as a stepmother. Shocked upon hearing of Parimala's decision, the husband rushes to the hospital to prevent her from undergoing the procedure. He reaches the hospital to find Parimala unconscious on the bed and assumes she has already undergone treatment. However, the doctor assures him that she has not been operated as he found Parimala to be a virgin and realized that she must have wanted the operation under duress. The story ends with the couple happily united and in the process of planning for another child. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/10/Mundhanai_Mudichu.jpg |
1,983 | Oru Odai Nadhiyagirathu | Tamil | C. V. Sridhar | Raghuvaran, Sumalatha, Manochithra, Prathapachandran | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oru_Odai_Nadhiyagirathu | Raghuvaran visits his friend's place on a tour and one night he happens to see a woman while he was returning from a party. On that rainy night, he rapes her and leaves. He speaks about this incident to his friend and his friend advises him not to search that girl as she would have forgotten it. Haunted by guilty feelings Raghuvaran search for her later, but unable to find her.
Meantime the woman (Sumalatha) becomes pregnant and unable to come in terms with this incident, she leaves that place with her father (Prathapachandran). In a new place, she gives birth to a boy and she tries to search Raghuvaran even though she never recall his face on that dreaded rainy night.
Later Raghuvaran gets married to Manochitra as everyone forces him even though he is still fond of Sumalatha, the woman he raped. Whether Sumalatha finds Raghuvaran and what happens to Manochitra, or whether Raghuvaran identifies his son form the climax. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7a/Oru_Odai_Nadhiyagirathu.jpg |
1,983 | Sivappu Sooriyan | Tamil | V. Srinivasan | Rajinikanth, Saritha, Radha, Y. G. Mahendra, Silk Smitha | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sivappu_Sooriyan | Vijay (Rajinikanth), a merchant navy officer, comes home on leave to meet his sister Selvi (Saritha) and her husband Vishwanthan (Delhi Ganesh) but finds them missing. In his search for them, he bumps into Chitra (Radha) who falls in love with him. With Chitra's help, Vijay is able to find Selvi, but is shocked when he learns that her husband has vanished and she has stopped speaking. Unable to make Selvi speak but determined to resolve her troubles, Vijay with the help of his friend Vidyasagar (Y.G. Mahendran) discovers that Vishwanathan had testified in court against a dangerous criminal and is being held hostage by his associates. Vijay decides to disguise himself as a smuggler and gets into the underworld. Whether he is able to retrieve Vishwanathan and bring normalcy to Selvi's life forms the rest of the story. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/92/Sivappu_Sooriyan.jpg |
1,983 | Thudikkum Karangal | Tamil | C. V. Sridhar | Rajinikanth, Radha, Jaishankar, Sujatha, Vijayakumar, Y. G. Mahendra, Silk Smitha, Vanitha | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thudikkum_Karangal | Rajinikanth is an auto mechanic and brother of Vijayakumar who works in Jaishankar's estate as a clerk. The movie portrays the events dealing with the clash between Rajini and Jaishankar. Radha is the love interest of Rajini and Y.G.Mahendran provides the comic relief. The movie was a big hit at the Box Office. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b3/Thudikkum_Karangal.jpg |
1,984 | 24 Mani Neram | Tamil | Manivannan | Mohan, Jaishankar, Nalini, Sathyaraj, Swapna, Ilavarasi | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_Mani_Neram | Heroine Nalini gets killed by villain Sathyaraj and the hero Mohan takes oath to kill the villain within 24 hours. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c2/24_Mani_Neram.jpg |
1,984 | Anbulla Rajinikanth | Tamil | K. Natraj | Rajinikanth, Ambika, Baby Meena | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anbulla_Rajinikanth | Rosy (Meena), a limb and left arm paralysed girl with weak cardiac health, lives at an orphanage (Karunai Illam) along with other orphans that were dumped by their parents forsaking due to disabilities or having no parents and or for other reasons. The fact that she had been disowned by her parents for untold reasons since her birth and her disability to be like other normal children attributes to her rudeness being uncaring and ignorant towards anyone. She even ill-treats all her caretakers on the orphanage which turmoils to hatefulness towards her by almost all other orphanage workers and orphan children except the kind mother superior who heads the Karunai Illam. Mother Superior is always kind to everyone and tries to tether love and affection to everyone regardless of one's age. It is at the beginning of the movie, that is shown that mother superior consults doctors but for what or for whom or why isn't shown. Lalitha (Ambika) arrives at Karunai Illam as a babysitting caretaking woman. She is assigned to take care of rosy by mother superior. She, unlike any other caretakers, takes care of rosy despite her rudeness and shows extra care for her like a real mother herself, which even surprises mother superior as the older caretakers gave up and sidelined when it came to taking care of rosy owing her arrogance.
It is informed that Rajinikanth, would one day visit the orphanage as a guest to entertain children on a special occasion under the permission of mother superior who thought it would be a good chance to mince change to everyone in the orphanage and would excite the little children. Rajinikanth arrives and gives a speech and distributes sweets to every little children and staff kindly and everyone receives it with pleasure. But when Rajini's turn came to rosy, she, as usual, emulates her hatred, which turns even bizarre when she smashes Rajini's gifts onto his face. While this infuriates everyone around, even children, Rajini imbibes ignominy caused by the little girl rosy's behaviour, since her being a child and still continues being calm and positive around. To rejuvenate happiness around announces he will freely showcase his then released new movie Annai Oru Aalayam. Rosy however not only earned everyone's disgust for her actions but on the inside also feels saddened that she herself did this which even made her more grumpy.
Later that night, rosy was as usual stayed isolated from the movie screening happenings around that was show cast as promised by Rajinikanth. But she, however, got interested in the movie hearing it over the window. After glimpse of watching a few scenes of it from far by her far by window and goes on to watch whole movie wherein the hero of it, Rajini, saves a baby elephant from poachers and re-unites it with its mother elephant displaying parental love which affects rosy in terms of sentiments that makes her want to apologize for her unkind acts. She next day displays a change in her metamorphosis, to everyone's awe. She apologizes to Rajini sir through a letter, saying that this movie was the reason for her to change her perspective towards her nature which Rajini sir swiftly agrees to and replies her back reciprocating his kindness. Having found herself to have become a bigger fan for Rajinikanth, Rosy obsesses about her favourite superstar-uncle as she would love to call her. Mother superior, happy on this change of Rosy requests to Rajini herself to which Rajinikanth kindly obliges.
Rajini again returns one day and sets up a little drama with K. Bhagyaraj obliging for mother superior's request to please the kids. There he and his young little fan, Rosie bond with each other, which extends to limits where Rajini takes Rosie almost every where even to his shoots of new movies considering the little child Rosie's love for him as to reciprocate it. One day, while having fun time with Rosie at the illam, in front of Rajini, Rosie coughs up blood then faints. This panics everyone playing around, and soon the doctor is consulted. The doctor comes to become aware that Rosie has a weak heart and she has just a few days left to live, reveals it - and this shocks Lalitha and Rajinikanth himself. Rajini vows to keep his little fan happy for the rest of her life and takes to approach senior doctors for help. While Ambika confronts mother superior in private regarding this, she reveals she was the real mother of Rosie. She had to dump Rosie due to un-natural reasons because of her family and loss of her husband. She interrogates mother superior as to why she didn't tell her about this. Mother superior reveals she was aware of this condition Rosie has had and consulted doctors (shown earlier in the beginning of the movie) earlier than Rosie was even able to speak as a child, only to know the problem was in deeper sense that could not be eradicated by modern medical amenities that only weakens her heart with time being, but only be cured by god and his grace himself.
Knowing that rosie was reaching the edge of her lifetime, mother superior seeks help of Rosy's idol - Rajnikanth, so that she finds solace in him that she remains happy forself, let alone the fact how long she would survive. Rosie demands Rajni once to come and celebrate christmas in an imposter as santa, such that no one realizes. On christmas eve, Rajni does as rosie's wish soon after which he expsoses himself from being a santa to himself. Overcheered, rosie laughs so hard out of happiness, she once again coughed up blood and faints in front of everyone in the middle of a happy occasion. Realizing that night was her last, everyone gathers around crying, especially rosie's friends, who started to like her ever since the change in her attire (After Rajnikanth's arrival) that they were going to miss her forever. On that sad moment, she also reveals, that she was aware that her denmother was no one but her real mother, which make everyone go in shock.
Holding her idol's hand, Rosy dies on Christmas Eve. It is later shown rajnikanth paying tribute to his little fan and he sadly leaves Karunai illam in the memory of the cute little girl that changed because him, Rosie! | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/30/Anbulla_Rajinikanth.jpg |
1,984 | Enakkul Oruvan | Tamil | S. P. Muthuraman | Kamal Haasan, Shobana, Sripriya, Sathyaraj | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enakkul_Oruvan_(1984_film) | Madan (Kamal Haasan) is a dancer by profession who is a dream boy of all young girls. Kalpana (Shobana),a young woman, is irritated by Madan's fame and she badly criticizes his performances which attracts attention of Madan on her. He challenges that he would make her long for him and his love, but he falls in love with her. He tries to win her love in several ways but eventually fails. One night he gets into her house with a face mask which makes Kalpana to misunderstand that he is a thief and screams and alerts her home. Madan is trapped and handed over to the police. Madan, who is a son of pickle businessman Ooruga Ulaganathan (V. K. Ramaswamy) rescues him from Police custody and finds the reason for incident to be his love for Kalpana. Kalpana's father, who is a psychiatrist, finds that Madan is the son of his old friend Ulaganathan. Madan-Kalpana's marriage is approved and fixed then.
Kalpana who is an aspiring BharathaNatyam dancer performs on her first stage. Madan who watches her performance is disturbed by some illusion of a woman performing Bharathanatyam. He could not resist the disturbance and leaves the place. Kalpana's father considers it as a normal disturbance and asks him to go for a vacation to some place. While choosing for a place, he sees some visuals of Darjeeling and understands that some places are very familiar to him with the fact that he has not visited the place before in his lifetime. He opts to go there and leaves with his friend and fiancee Kalpana. In Darjeeling, he feels everything is familiar to him. At a point he stops in front of a monument, where he gets illusions of some Karate competition and a man participating in it. He feels as if he was that man who participated in the competition and won the trophy. Madan screams "Upendra could not be defeated" several times which alarms his friend and Kalpana. Kalpana narrates the incident to her dad. Kalpana's dad advises her to take care of him and make him sleep when his acts go wrong and unresistible.
One day Madan looks at a passerby woman on the road where he could feel some familiarity with her. The woman resembles the illusion he got early and he feels that she must be Devi (Sripriya). He enquires her if she is Devi but the woman denies that she is not. The lady runs away to escape from Madan but he finds her. The woman is actually Devi only but he could not relate his relationship with her. He could feel a deep love for the lady without knowing the reason. On seeing Upendra's (Kamal Haasan) photo at her house he could remind some incidents. Upendra, a businessman of Nepali origin and son of a Tamil woman (Pandari Bai) meets Devi on his birthday during a dance performance as a part of celebration. Upendra attracted by the beauty and nature of Devi and proposes her. But the marriage is objected by her selfish uncle Rajadurai (Satyaraj) at beginning, but later he agrees, on the condition that Devi must inherit half part of Upendra's will. Upendra marries Devi happily. Upendra is loving and affectionate to his wife. On the next day while Upendra is set out for estate accompanied by Rajadurai but returns dead. Madan explains Devi that Upendra has not died by any accident but actually killed by Rajadurai who pushed him from the Cable car. Devi is shocked by the news. But neither she and nor Madan understand how he knows it. Next time when Madan come to meet Devi, he could see her going to a temple and he follows her. At the temple, he could see Devi with her mother-in-law. Devi tells about Upendra's murder to her. Madan meets the lady and he could develop a feeling of motherly love for her. Upendra's mother considers that her son is back again and feels happy. He hears that Rajadurai threatened the mother and attempted to kill her. He also betrayed Devi by charging for a murder. But Devi did not kill anyone.
Madan promises to get back all the property they have lost. In the struggle, Rajadurai kills Upendra's mother. Madan could not bear the death and he performs all the final rituals as her son. Madan understands all the illusions and feelings are because he is the reincarnation of Upendra. Rajadurai falls from the cable car and dies. With all the legal constraints are settled down, Devi gets back all the lost property of her husband. Devi who understands that Madan is her reincarnated husband, feels for a moment but unites Kalpana with Madan. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/08/Enakkul_Oruvan_1984.jpg |
1,984 | Naan Mahaan Alla | Tamil | S. P. Muthuraman | Rajinikanth, Radha, Cho | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naan_Mahaan_Alla_(1984_film) | Viswanath (Rajinikanth), a famous lawyer, stays with his widowed mother (Vijayakumari) and physically handicapped sister (Uma). He sends Jagan, a rich magnate's son (Sathyaraj) and Lokaiya, two criminals to jail on the charge of rape and murder of an innocent girl. Jagan’s father, GMK (M N Nambiar) uses his influence and starts creating trouble in Viswanath’s life. GMK succeeds in getting Viswanath imprisoned on a trumped up charge. His heartbroken mother dies. Once out of jail, Viswanath sets out to punish the culprits when he temporarily loses his eyesight. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d1/Naan_Mahaan_Alla_1984_poster.jpg |
1,984 | Neengal Kettavai | Tamil | Balu Mahendra | Thiagarajan, Bhanu Chander, Archana, Silk Smitha | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neengal_Kettavai | Poornima Jayaram, a widow living in Ooty leads a peaceful life with her two sons. Jaishankar, a tourist who visits the place gets tempted and rapes her. In the act, Pornima dies leaving her two sons who witness the murder. The eldest son (Bhanu Chander) is raised by his maternal uncle while the younger brother (Thiagarajan) joins a blind music teacher as he has great interest in music. Years later he becomes a great singer. Meanwhile, his brother is trained effectively by his uncle learning martial arts with the intention of avenging the death of his mother as he very well remembers the culprit's face. With a turn of events leading to both sons joining together and take revenge for their mother's death forms the rest of the story. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/73/Neengal_Kettavai.jpg |
1,984 | Sirai | Tamil | R. C. Sakthi | Lakshmi, Rajesh, Pandiyan, Ilavarasi | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirai | In an inebriated state, Anthony, a landlord, rapes Bhagirathi, the wife of a Brahmin priest. When her husband rejects her, she moves in with her rapist (after being encouraged by a kind policeman) and eventually develops an attachment for him. Following Anthony's death, she prefers to be known as his widow and refuses to rejoin her husband. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c7/Sirai_%281984%29.jpg |
1,985 | Aan Paavam | Tamil | Pandiarajan | Pandiyan, Pandiarajan, Revathi, Seetha, V. K. Ramasamy, Janagaraj | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aan_Paavam | Pandian and Pandiarajan are two notorious sons of the village cinema owner V. K. Ramasamy. Pandian goes to a neighbouring village to see a girl as arranged by his father towards his marriage and ends up in the wrong house. Coincidentally, those in the wrong house are also expecting a lad to see their daughter on the same time and the same day. Contrary to real time arranged marriages, Pandian goes to see the girl totally un-aided by parents, relatives and friends. Nevertheless, he takes a liking to the girl, Seetha and decides to marry her. Seetha likes the lad and decides to accept the proposal.
Meanwhile, Seetha's marriage broker shows up and clarifies that Pandian was supposed to have gone to see some other girl but ended up in the wrong house. Hearing this, Pandian, Seetha and Seetha's parents seem disappointed. Pandian's father fixes dates for her marriage to the girl originally chosen for him — Revathi, a school teacher's daughter. Pandian's adamance to marry Seetha causes a strange turn of events. Pandiyarajan, the younger brother, finally marries Revathi while Pandian ties the knot with this love Seetha. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7e/Aan_Paavam.jpg |
1,985 | Chinna Veedu | Tamil | K. Bhagyaraj | K. Bhagyaraj, Kalpana, Anu, Jaiganesh, Manorama | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinna_Veedu | Madanagopal is a bachelor who has great dreams about his future wife. He imagines a girl to be his dream girl who has all sorts of beauty right from head to foot. But his parents arrange marriage with a girl Bhagyalakshmi without his consent. Gopal shocks on seeing the photograph of his future wife as she is a fat, ugly and uncultured and not even near to his expectations of his dream girl according to him. On the day of marriage he runs away from the marriage hall and because of which marriage stops. Gopal parents find him and make him to marry her as their daughter needs to marry the brother of bride.
Gopal gets very disappointed about his marriage. On the first night he shouts at his wife that she is no way suited to his personality and he does not want to live with her.Bhagyalakshmi understands his feelings and keeps quiet. Both of them live in the same room but does not live together.Gopal feels that he made a sacrifice of his life by marrying a woman like Bhagyalakshmi and so he does not respect his in-laws. Bhagyam tolerates all of his stupid acts as she loves him very much and also her inferiority complex. Even after his marriage Gopal does not stop dreaming about his dream girl and introduces himself as a bachelor in office of the new Bank job which he got from recommendation of his father-in-law. Chakavarthi brother of Bhagyalakshmi visits his sister's home and finds about Gopal. He keeps on following Gopal and informs his whereabouts to his sister. Bhagyalakshmi asks him to have a mistress for himself to which Gopal denies half-mindedly.Gopal's mother gets angry that her daughter is conceived but Bhagyalakshmi shows no sign of pregnancy and she pricks her a lot. Hence Gopal seduces his wife but reveal he did for her sake as he feels pity on her. This angers Bhagyalakshmi as she wants the love of her husband and not his pity.
Gopal is given a task of collecting the loan amount from a woman named Maragathambal and he goes in search of her. On the way he is stopped by a young woman who calls him to her home. She sells some vessels at her home and pays the loan installment. Gopal feels bad on that and so he gets some time from the bank to repay the amount. The girl introduces herself as Banu an unemployed woman and grand daughter of Maragathambal. Slowly a friendship develops between both of them and he visits her home frequently. One day Gopal becomes emotional while both are alone and seduces Banu. Banu forgives him for his act and asks him to marry her but gets shocked when she knows he is married. Gopal runs away from the place feeling guilty of spoiling a homely girl's life. Actually Banu is not a homely girl but a prostitute who cunningly wants to trap Gopal.Bhagyalakshmi becomes pregnant and Gopal turns his attention towards her to take good care of her because of which he reduces the frequency of his visit to Banu. Banu understands that he slowly escaping from her and blackmails him that she is also pregnant and compels him to marry her. She ties the sacred knot by herself when police come to arrest on brothel case. Gopal accepts to them that he married Banu.
Gopal's family come to know about his relationship with another woman and shout at him. But Bhagyalakshmi keeps quiet and calm and is confident that her husband will come back to her. Meanwhile, Gopal finds the background of Banu and the woman who is not her grandmother but her servant man. He catches her in red hand and warns her that she should not interfere in his life anymore and dumps her. Banu complaints to police that Gopal married her as second wife when his first wife is alive and Gopal is arrested. Bhagyalakshmi meets Banu and tells her to leave away her husband to which Banu does not accept and she threatens that she will face the consequences in court. But Bhayalakshmi shows all evidences of previous cases where Banu trapped men like how she trapped Gopal and so her case will not succeed. Banu gets furious and sets a revenge on pregnant Bhagyalakshmi after Bhagyalakshmi leaves her house. Gopal convinces about Banu to police and struggles to save his wife but Bhagyalakshmi get attacked by the Banu's henchman when she tried to save her husband. She is admitted in hospital and after much serious treatment delivers triplets. Gopal re-unites with his wife and kids and live happily. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/32/Chinna_Veedu.jpg |
1,985 | Japanil Kalyanaraman | Tamil | S. P. Muthuraman | Kamal Haasan, Radha, Sathyaraj, Goundamani, Kovai Sarala, Master Tinku | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanil_Kalyanaraman | Raman (Kamal Haasan) is a journalist who exposes a smuggling and black money racket, which involves the high-profile (Major Sunderarajan) and his son Narendran (Sathyaraj), and is about to go public. The magazine is bought by Narendran overnight.
When Raman reveals that he is about to start his own magazine, he is beaten up by Narendran's men. After surviving miraculously, Raman, his son Arun (Master Tinku) and the spirit of the now-dead Kalyanaraman (also played by Kamal Haasan), travel to Japan to buy printing equipment and to show Arun around.
In the comedy side plot, Mayilsamy (Goundamani) and Kuppaathaa (Kovai Sarala) win a lucky draw to visit Japan, guided by Munusamy (Chitra Lakshmanan).
Raman meets Radha (Radha) who is a waitress in a restaurant and they gradually fall in love, with the efforts of Kalyanaraman and Arun. Meanwhile, Narendran also travels to Japan to get rid of Raman before he arrives back in India.
The movie ends with Raman helping to arrest Narendran and getting back together with Radha and Arun. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/17/Japanil_Kalyanaraman.jpg |
1,985 | Kaakki Sattai | Tamil | Rajasekhar | Kamal Haasan, Ambika, Madhavi, Sathyaraj | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaakki_Sattai | Kaakki Sattai has Murali (Kamal Haasan), a young man who trains very hard to become a police officer. Uma (Ambika) is his neighbour and they fall in love with each other while Uma supports Murali to achieve his goal but he is rejected after the physical test due to not having influence or money.
Angered by the rejection, Murali turns into a local rowdy. He causes trouble in his district and comes to the attention of a notorious smuggler and murderer, Vicky (Sathyaraj) and his partner Anand (Rajeev). After initial conflict between the two, Vicky recruits rowdy Murali into his gang. Murali becomes his most trusted member. He grows intimate with a girl, Anita (Madhavi), who is looking for personal revenge against Anand.
But soon Vicky's activities time and again, are foiled by the police and he finds out that they have a mole in his gang. Uma spots the changed Murali with Anita and becomes furious and breaks up with him. Then Murali reveals the truth to her. He was not rejected by the police but was recruited by a senior officer to bring down Vicky and Anand's gang. He became a rowdy to get into the gang and is acting as a mole to bring the gang down. They patch things up but Vicky finds out the truth too. In the climax, Anita kills Anand. Vicky kidnaps Uma after killing Anita and when police arrive to arrest him and blackmails Murali to help him escape. After initially helping his escape, Murali rescues Uma and Vicky is killed in the blast. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/Kaakki_Sattai_poster.jpg |
1,985 | Kanni Rasi | Tamil | Pandiarajan | Prabhu, Revathi, Goundamani, Sumithra, Janagaraj, Senthil | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanni_Rasi | Lakshmipathi (Prabhu) is a carefree youth who searches a job. His sister Kasthuri (Sumithra) sends him a letter from the city to rejoin her and the villagers compel him to leave the village, he leaves the village to rejoin his sister. His brother-in-law (Goundamani) finds a job as watchman for him. There, Dhanalakshmi (Revathi), his sister's young daughter, and him fall in love with each other. Kasthuri decides to meet some astrologers and they say that if Lakshmipathi marries Dhanalakshmi, he will certainly die. Kasthuri evicts him from her house and Sivaraman (Janagaraj), who is also in love with Dhanalakshmi, accommodates him without knowing his identity. Kasthuri convinces her daughter to forget him and later, Dhanalakshmi criticizes Lakshmipathi that he was not a well-educated. Sivaraman promises Dhanalakshmi that he will get them together. Meanwhile, Lakshmipathi returns to his village. Dhanalakshmi sends a letter, mentioning that she will marry another man. Lakshmipathi stops her marriage, convinces his sister and marry her but she dies immediately because she had taken poison by then. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0a/Kanni_Rasi_poster.jpg |
1,985 | Kunguma Chimil | Tamil | R. Sundarrajan | Mohan, Revathi, Ilavarasi, Chandrasekhar | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunguma_Chimil | From Coimbatore to Chennai, via Kargudi, in 1985 ...
Two provincial orphans, companions, for each other in their misfortune (without money, unemployed and without place of residence), from the beginning of their first one and picturesque meeting (in the bus which brought them towards the Tamil capital), Ravi (Mogan) and Philomena (Ilavarasi) eventually fell, one thing leading to another, very loving.
He warms him his heart, with his harmonica, of a very beautiful small melody, Nilavu Thoongum Neram ...
She, practising catholic and nurse, was mistreated then threatened with death by her fatal foster home, because she surprised the man who raised her, spirit to swindle his partner in the affairs, very good and generous David (V.Gopalakrishnan). The businessman was vulnerable, deprived for a moment of his view, further to an operation.
He was warned in time by Philomena who paid a very high price for her honesty, because in reprisals, her family decided to eliminate her. It is at this very moment that Philomena fled, so escaping her murderer and came to take refuge with the bus where was already Ravi.
Together, thus, upon their arrival in Madras, they squat successively in an old railway goods wagon, hunted by the railroad authorities, they shelter in an immense ruined and neglected building.
Ravi, although awarded a diploma, find no employment in the big city. He resigns to become a driver of rickshaw...
One day, Philomena comes face to face on Ravi. She finds degrading that he is reduced to this job, for her, while he possesses all the qualities to obtain a more gratifying job and as high as his ambitions.
It is then, contrary to all expectations, that supervisor's post releases itself in the forest region of Kargudi, but it is subjected to a condition : the deposit of a strong sum of money (10 000 rupees), by Ravi and he has only, for it, of 72 hours. Ravi is distraught.
In the meantime, the hunger torments them again...
Ravi improvises in being discreetly embedded in a marriage of neighborhood, for the free food. Accompanied with Philomena, together, they are surprised and thrown manu militari by the guests.
This sad and distressing experience makes them the terrible precariousness of their situation understand. Philomena which feels guilty, decides to part from Ravi, during six months, considering herself, a burden, a dead weight for his beloved, the time when he finds serenely a decent job. She promises to him to return to him after this wholesome lapse of time, in the letter which she sent him before leaving him.
While being at it, Philomena, wanting to save a little girl, is knocked down by the biggest of the fates, by David's vehicle.
Whereas Ravi, aboard a bus, finds an enormous sum of money. After careful consideration, he decides to use the money found to pay the guarantee of his future work.
And there, committed, here he is left for Kargudi.
Upon his arrival, he gets acquainted with a strange character, Manikkum (Delhi Ganesh) which forces to him to take the hand of his daughter.
The man is mentally disturbed since the marriage of his unique daughter, Rukumani (Révathi) (also called Ruku) broke off, for lack of not having been able to honor the dowry, the sum of which it lost in a bus, recently.
It turns out that Ruku works for Ravi, as housewife of her house. She turns out to be very naive but especially to very awkward, causing enormous concerns to Ravi, who reprimands her severely every time.
In the capital, Philomena tells its setbacks to David. Together, they go to meet Ravi, but on the spot, they realize that the young man is not there anymore.
To Kargudi, Ruku, who is a kleptomaniac also, steals the harmonica of Ravi, which afterward, remembers itself, in the solitude of the forest, with tenderness and sadness, his beloved Philomena, who does the same from her part, through their song, Nilavu Thoongum Neram...
David has to leave to Kargudi for his business and leave only Philomena...
The fate wants that Ravi works in the David's forest domain. Both men meet and appreciate mutually. In the passage, David recommends expressly to Ravi to take back Ruku to his service department. Indeed, she was dismissed, some times previously, by Ravi, exceeded, by her clumsiness.
She who came to put back to Ravi, his wallet lost a little earlier, just catches up her, while she was seriously going to flop. The young woman succumbs to her rescuer.
Sekhar, (Chandrasekhar), son of big family, who passed by Kargudi, breaks down with its car. While he looks for some water, he meets Ruku and is in love with her in the first look. He went to the girl's chosen by his parents, whom he gives up definitively. On his return, he quarrels with his father who wants to disinherit him because of the refusal of the arranged marriage, Sekhar outstrips him by abandoning everything, for the beautiful eyes of Ruku and leave his cosy nest.
Following a new thoughtlessness of Ruku, Ravi the slap in front of his father, Manikkum. This one made sick of life, explains him his failures, in particular another time, when he lost an enormous sum of money in a bus, among others ...
Ravi makes the link with the sum which he found formerly, and deducts that he is bound to the misfortunes of Ruku and his father. He regrets bitterly his attitude past with them, in the point to express it to his boss, David.
The latter makes understand to Ravi, that he is not there, accidentally and that he could get married to Ruku, in repair, damages ...
But Ravi answers to him that another woman waits for him (by thinking of Philomena, of course!).
A little later, Ruku saves in turn Ravi, of the attack of an elephant. Chased by wild animal, they take refuge at the top of a watchtower, planned for that purpose, for a whole night. It is in the early hours that the pachyderm goes away.
Regrettably, the wrong languages already make good progress in the village further to this episode, to the point that Ravi has to get married to Ruku, avoid him the dishonor, as well as to his poor father, again.
Thus the preparations for the marriage are thrown ...
Sekhar sends to Rukku the congratulations of circumstances, with a lot of bitterness.
From his part, Ravi understands, almost too late, also, that the person that he conversed regularly by the telephone, was not other than its Philomena, thanks to words which she, only, usually pronounced: ... Oru Bhagavad Gita-laiyo, oru Quran-laiyo, oru Bible-laiyo, ippadithan oru sambavam nadakanuna adhu maaththu yaaraalum mudiyathu! ...
He warns immediately David who quite returned it, upset.
But Ravi is always anxious to get married to Ruku, but without the presence of Philomena (who was invited at the request of David, before the rich man knows about all the affair). Regrettably, Ruku who was there, hears everything.
And David who had to prevent Philomena from attending the marriage, is already heading for Kargudi, his plane lands in a few hours. In the car which returns her instead of the ceremony, she finds on the seat a file, forgotten the day before, by Ravi. She understands while the bridegroom is other than his Ravi.
Terrified, she asks to the driver to accelerate so that he arrives in time, so that she can prevent this union between Ravi and Ruku. Once there, it is with surprise that she notices that Ravi waited for her.
Indeed, Ruku decided otherwise and decided by mutual agreement, to get married, with the man who left quite behind him, for her, by love, Sekhar.
Whereas now married, also, for ever, Ravi and Philomena savors every second of their common existence...
... Oru Bhagavad Gita-laiyo, oru Quran-laiyo, oru Bible-laiyo, ippadithan oru sambavam nadakanuna adhu maaththu yaaraalum mudiyathu! ...
(...Whether in the Bhagavad Gita, whether in the Quran, whether in the Bible, if a situation of this kind has to take place, nobody can change it !...) | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/66/Kunguma_Chimil.jpg |
1,985 | Mangamma Sapatham | Tamil | K. Vijayan | Kamal Haasan, Madhavi, Sujatha, Sathyaraj, Manorama | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangamma_Sapatham_(1985_film) | Ashok (Kamalhassan) is raised to be a stuttering, frightened coward by his cruel uncle Bhoopathy (Satyaraj). When Mangamma (Sujatha) and her cohorts learn that he is unmarried, she works her way into his mother's heart and marries him. But when she learns about his ill-treatment at the hands of his uncle, his plight changes her heart and she decides to stay on. But Bhoopathy reveals her initial plan of absconding with the money and drives her out. When Ashok runs to join her, Bhoopathy kills him. Mangamma is thought to be dead but she survives and raises her son Raja (Kamal again) to be a fearless young man well-versed in fighting, dancing, etc. Once he learns the story, he, along with his girlfriend Radha (Madhavi), settles scores with Bhoopathy and his son Jaipal (Nalinikanth). | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/21/Mangamma_Sabadham_1985_poster.jpg |
1,985 | Muthal Mariyathai | Tamil | P. Bharathiraja | Sivaji Ganesan, Radha, Vadivukkarasi | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muthal_Mariyathai | The film commences with friends and family of an ailing village head, Malaichami (Sivaji Ganesan), gathered around him on his death bed. The plot then moves along in a series of flashbacks, featuring significant episodes of the dying man's life. These include the presence of a boatman's young daughter Kuyil (Radha) in his village. The protagonist is unhappily married to a shrewish wife by the name of Ponnatha (Vadivukkarasi), and seeks comfort and solace in a friendship with Kuyil. The friendship raises eyebrows, and is socially awkward and complicated for both Malaichami and Kuyil. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/de/Muthal_Mariyathai.jpg |
1,985 | Naan Sigappu Manithan | Tamil | S. A. Chandrasekhar | Rajinikanth, K. Bhagyaraj, Ambika, Sathyaraj | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naan_Sigappu_Manithan_(1985_film) | Vijay (Rajinikanth) is a Tamil professor living with his widowed mother and his sister. He is in love with Uma (Ambika), a lawyer. During a visit to his friend Ravi's (Nizhalgal Ravi) house, he is disgusted by goings-on in his neighborhood. Illicit liquor is being sold at a tea-stall while prostitution is flourishing in another house in the same colony. But his complaints to the police, yield nothing since the policeman is on the villains' payroll and manages to warn them before making a raid. When Ravi's sister is raped and killed and the perpetrator Mohanraj (Sathyaraj) gets off scot-free with help from a minister, Vijay and Ravi take matters into their own hands and clean up the tea-stall and brothel on their own. Wanting to teach Vijay a lesson, Mohanraj and his goondas rape his sister (who then commits suicide) and kill his mother. Vijay then turns into a vigilante, walking the streets at nights and dealing out his own brand of justice - shoot first and ask questions later - to the rowdies and goondas. He soon becomes known as Robinhood, helper of the poor and the police sends Singaaram (Bhagyaraj), a CID officer to unmask Robinhood. Vijay kills Mohanraj and his uncle. Now Vijay surrenders to Singaram revealing the truth but Singaram mentions that he has already found the truth and decided not to arrest Vijay as he cleans up the society. But Vijay feels guilty for his murders and surrenders to police. Uma appears in court in favour of Vijay and argues. The day before the judgment, Singaram masks as a criminal and tries to molest the judge’s daughter, seeing which the judge tries to shoot the criminal. Now Singaram reveals his identity and mentions that his intention was to make the judge understand the Vijay was also under similar situation before. Finally the judge sentences Vijay for lifetime imprisonment but recommends to the president of India for granting pardon. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/de/Naan_Sigappu_Manithan_1985_poster.jpg |
1,985 | Nalla Thambi | Tamil | S. P. Muthuraman | Karthik, Radha, Moulee, Manorama, Anuradha | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalla_Thambi | Raja(Karthik) is a handsome, young man who has completed his MBA from the United States. On returning home, he discovers that all the young women in the city are eagerly waiting in his house, for him to marry one among them. However, though all the girls fail to impress Raja, Seetha (Anuradha)manages to win the heart of his father, Chandrashekhar(T. S. B. K. Moulee), who promises her in marriage to him. Overjoyed, Seetha gears up for the wedding, but has crooked plans in her heart. Raja discovers that she isn't really an admirable person, but is forced to marry her because of his father's coercing.
However his mother(Manorama) secretly helps him elope from home and eventually the wedding is called off. He then runs into Chithra(Radha), a free-spirited girl who is being pressurized by her three freakish "suitor" relatives to marry one among them. She requests Raja to act as her boyfriend so that her quirky suitors will back off in their pointless endeavor. Raja agrees and stays in her house, much to the dismay of her suitors. How they really fall in love and unite despite the hilarious obstacles that come their way, is what makes the movie an out-in-out comedy entertainer. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/87/Nalla_Thambi_DVD_cover.jpg |
1,985 | Pagal Nilavu | Tamil | Mani Ratnam | Murali, Revathi, Raadhika, Sarath Babu, Sathyaraj | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagal_Nilavu | Selvam is an aimless youth in Muttam, Kanyakumari. Out of a sense of deep gratitude, he ends up joining the gang of Devaraj aka Periyavar and complications arise when he falls in love with Jyothi, the sister of Peter Manohar, an honest and committed police inspector who is newly posted to the town. Periyavar pretty much runs the town and though he helps people in need, he is a diabolical kingpin who will not compromise on his hold of the town for anything. He wins Selvam’s undying loyalty when he helps him with money and power at a critical juncture to save his mother.
In this backdrop Peter takes charge and moves into the town with his sister and daughter. Being uncompromising in his morals, Peter is automatically drawn into a game of one-upmanship with Periyavar and his gang. He also consequentially cannot stand Periyavar’s chief henchman Selvam, and is consequentially drawn into continuous verbal and physical duels with him. Selvam meanwhile falls hook line and sinker to Jyothi and tries every trick in the book to woo her and eventually wins. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cd/Pagal_Nilavu.jpg |
1,985 | Raman Sreeraman | Tamil | T. K. Prasad | Vijayakanth, Jyothi, Vanitha, Goundamani, Anuradha | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raman_Sreeraman | Vijay is a well-known good samaritan businessman. One the day after his wedding, he is stopped by his wife ex-lover (Sathyaraj) Shankar and wishes them in sarcastic manner. Soon Shankar starts black-mailing Vidya often. Vidya (Jyothi) denies that they were ex-college-mates and kept quiet because of Shankar is brother of Vidya friend, Saradha. However, Vijay do not believe Shankar stories and believes his wife Vidya. He also employees Shankar in his company as assistant manager and inform Vidya that Shankar will not disturb them again. One day Vijay receives phone call while playing tennis with his Judge Friend (SriKanth). He receives a news that his cashier was murdered by Shankar. Shankar denies the accusation and confess that it was Vijay that actually commit the murder.
Vidya who later decide to help her friend Saradha, meet Shankar in the prison. Shankar tells Vidya that he changed into good person the moment after Vijay offers him a job. However, since he see Vijay murdered the cashier by Shankar himself and escapes with this motorcycle plate number TMC 7979, he denies Vidya ideas that Vijay is a good person. After Vidya returns home, Vijay inform, that his motorcycle number plate TMC 7979 missing. Soon Vidya start suspecting Vijay, her husband. One night, Vijay shown to be drunkard and having affair with Saradha. Saradha took this opportunity to take revenge towards Vijay. Later, Vidya receives call from the hotel, that VIjay is heavily drunken and ask to pick him. However, once Vidya reach the hotel, she is informed that Vijay went back with his wife. This further confused Vidya.
What happen next? Is Vijay is the true murder? Is he pretend to be good person or is it Shankar who commit the murder?
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1,985 | Sri Raghavendrar | Tamil | S. P. Muthuraman | Rajinikanth, K. R. Vijaya, Lakshmi, Ambika, Vishnuvardhan, Sathyaraj, Nizhalgal Ravi | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Raghavendrar | This film is the life of Sri Raghavendra. From Birth till his Mahasamadhi has been portrayed by Rajinikanth. The film highlights some of the miracles Sri Raghavendra performed. The film has Lakshmi as his wife and guest appearances by Vishnuvardhan, Mohan and Sathyaraj. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ad/Sri_Raghavendrar.jpg |
1,985 | Thendrale Ennai Thodu | Tamil | C. V. Sridhar | Mohan, Jayashree, Y. G. Mahendra | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thendrale_Ennai_Thodu | In the middle of the 80s, in Madras.
While her car, (one Volkswagen Beetle, typify like Walt Disney's "Herbie") breaks down (frequently), Mâlu (Jayashree), a beautiful young graduate, very independent, stemming from the Tamil bourgeoisie, attends, dumbfounded enough, not far from it, in the terrible correction that Raghunath (alias Raghu) (Mogan) to a pickpocket administers. The young man who went to an interview, misses his bus. Having got acquainted with Mâlu and having repaired his vehicle, this one leads him to its meeting. She informs him on the spot, that post, is already taken, what puts Raghu, beside himself. During his interview, he lets burst his anger, he becomes enraged in the face of his future employers, among which one, Rajasekhar (A. R. S.), who is other than the father of Mâlu, who finally, appreciates the frankness of Raghu and commits it on fields. Raghu then gets acquainted with his new office colleagues, the old man Bâlu (Thengaï Srinivasan) and the young person Râmu (Y.G.Magendran), the merry revellers. The first one is married, the second, the single man. Both accomplices receive regularly, on their workplace, the visit of Râmaiya (Typist Gopu), a small procurer who arranges them meetings, with the harlots, for their good pleasure. Râmu who rents a room at Bâlu and joined by Raghu, as the second tenant. Later, Raghu finds Mâlu and announces her the good news of its new work. Both young people eventually love itself, to fall madly in love. Mâlu who is very a player, persuades, for a moment, Raghu, that she is already committed, betrothed to certain Shankar. Destabilized, Raghu understands nothing more. The young woman eventually reveals him the truth. Happier than never, they are love's young dream. Rajasekhar grave on a series of photos, where he sees his only daughter together with Raghu. Mâlu confirms to his father, the decision to get married to Raghu. The father does not oppose it and approves the choice of his daughter, but warns her all the same on the difference of their social class, very briefly. It is then, at this moment, that a disruptive comes to seize up this beautiful love story... Rather, two grains, that is, both accomplices, without knowing their free will. Indeed, they invite Raghu in one of their pleasure party, as spectator, sensitive to nervous, in a luxurious hotel with restaurant, where came down exactly Mâlu with her uncle (Veera Raghavan) and her aunt. It is there that the mistake settles down... Actually, the girl committed by both accomplices, complains in the direction of the hotel, their uncalled-for, even exaggerated behavior. An explanation with the person in charge, little convinced, in front of Mâlu follows who went that way by chance, but without being spotted of the trio. The doubt forms in Mâlu, she wants to have a clear mind about it, to clear up. She speaks to Raghu, apparently very embarrassed and lies deliberately. To test his honesty, Mâlu tent a trap, by making an appointment with him at the same hotel, being been thought of as a prostitute. Accompanied by both accomplices, Raghu goes there, reluctantly and fall in the trap of Mâlu. In spite of the explanations even the pleas of Raghu, Mâlu decides to break, to put an end with him. (They put themselves some distance between them). Disappointed, having failed to get him to listen to reason, Raghu throws in the towel. He resigns from his post and leaves in his native campaign of Tanjore, where is its mother (S.N.Parvathi), to find a little of serenity. Whereas Ramu tries to convince again, Mâlu, on the honesty of its friend Raghu. Mâlu eventually leaves (eventually is allowed, eventually lets) move. This is when the old man Bâlu obtains a promotion, he is transferred to Bangalore, with his wife, Sundari (Gandhimathi). He makes come by his side, Raghu, by proposing him a very interesting post. He finds to work with the paternal uncle of Mâlu, which moreover, came to see him to change the ideas. She comes face to face with Raghu. She tries vainly to retie the contact with him. Raghu suggests to Bâlu come ask, that the page is turned, between him and Mâlu, while it is not the case in reality. Both young people burn with love always, for both, but without being able to say it to himself, admitting him really. Another problem settles. There, where lives Raghu, in a building where everybody knows, the young man enjoys a very robust reputation. All the girls of the district desire him and particularly, Meena (Anubama), the niece of Bâlu, on both sides, Râni, the girl of an owner of taxi (Venniradai Moorthy).
It is a competition between both women, that Raghu takes advantage, wants to pull part to return jealous person Mâlu ... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/77/Thendrale_Ennai_Thodu.jpg |
1,985 | Udaya Geetham | Tamil | K. Rangaraj | Mohan, Lakshmi, Revathi, Anand Babu, Goundamani, Senthil | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udaya_Geetham | Arun, a prominent singer is in jail with a death sentence looming over his head. He meets Shanthi, a fan, during one of his concerts and is followed by her on many occasions into the jail and outside too. He shows nothing but animosity towards her behaviour, and keeps pushing her out of sight. But Shanthi is persistent and does not give up either. Maari, an inmate, attempts to escape from jail, but is stopped by Arun. Maari later tells Arun about his sick daughter, and his inability to pay for her operation. Arun sympathises with him, and promises to raise funds for the sick child through his next concert, which he also plans shall be his final one.
Leela Chowdhry, the newly appointed Superintendent of Police for the Madras Central Jail, is merciless. Shanthi, with her smartness, talks Leela into getting her married to Arun. Arun also agrees to it after a lot of thought and deliberation. Leela arranges for the wedding to take place in her home. During their first night, Shanthi stabs Arun's stomach and reveals herself as the sister of Anand, whom Arun was accused of killing. Arun and Anand sang and danced for a music troupe before Anand's murder. Arun claims he was wrongfully accused and arrested. Shanthi, realising her mistake, now starts to set things right.
Leela allows Shanthi and Arun to go to a nearby temple, but sends policemen along with them to prevent Arun from escaping. Shanthi outsmarts them and takes Arun to her home where she imprisons him, much to his dislike. She makes it impossible for him to escape, until she is able to prove his innocence. Leela is later punished for having let Arun "escape", and simultaneously realises that Arun is her long lost son, becoming heartbroken. However, she remains bound to her duty of capturing Arun, and a manhunt for him begins.
Shanthi later meets Shankar, the real killer of Anand. He admits to the murder, but states that did so because he witnessed Anand sleeping with his wife. Shanthi, knowing that Shankar's wife is unfaithful to her husband (it was she who seduced the reluctant Anand), takes him to her and Shankar is angered on seeing his wife with another man in bed. He kills her, but not before she mortally wounds him. Arun, having escaped from custody, is confronted by Leela who he realises is his mother. She allows him to perform his final concert which he had earlier planned to raise funds for Maari's sick daughter, but has to have him hanged to death him after that. Right after he finishes his concert he is arrested, but Shanthi and Shankar finally arrive and tell the truth about Anand's death, after which Shankar succumbs. Arun's death sentence is revoked, and he returns to his normal life. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/16/Udaya_Geetham.jpg |
1,986 | Amman Kovil Kizhakale | Tamil | R. Sundarrajan | Vijayakanth, Radha, Ravichandran, Srividya, Senthil | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amman_Kovil_Kizhakale | Chinnamani (Vijayakanth) lives in a village along with his father and his friends. Chinnamani sings well and always performs during the village temple festivals. Kanmani (Radha) is a wealthy girl, and the only daughter of the village panchayat board president (Ravichandran) who is arrogant. Kanmani who boasts being rich enters into clashes with Chinnamani and she decides to take revenge on Chinnamani as Chinnamani does not respect her. She decides to learn music from Chinnamani and also pretends loving him and embarrasses him in front of everyone which angers Chinnamani and he breaks Kanmani’s car. Kanmani beats Chinnamani with whip as it was decided by the panchayat for punishing Chinnamani. Angered Chinnamani marries Kanmani immediately without her consent. Kanmani’s mother (Sri Vidya) tells the truth to Kanmani about Chinnamani.
Actually Chinnamani is the son of Sri vidya’s elder brother Vinu Chakravarthy who is a wealthy man. Ravichandran worked under Vinu Chakravarthy and Sri Vidya loved him. But Ravichandran takes all the properties from Vinu Chakravarthy after marrying his sister and sends him out of town. Also Kanmani is the daughter of Ravichandran’s illegitimate relationship with their house maid and Sri Vidya raised her as her own daughter.
Hearing this, Kanmani realizes her mistake and decides to live together with Chinnamani but he does not believe her. Ravichandran decides to kill Chinnamani and sends a few thugs. Finally Kanmani kills them and goes to jail. She returns after a few years where she finds Chinnamani as mentally disturbed person searching for Kanmani always. She unites with Chinnamani in the end. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/91/Amman_Kovil_Kizhakale_poster.jpg |
1,986 | Aruvadai Naal | Tamil | G. M. Kumar | Prabhu, Pallavi, Ramkumar, Vadivukkarasi, Raasi | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aruvadai_Naal | Nirmala (Pallavi), an orphan Christian girl, lives in a convent and she wants to become a nun. She is sent to a village for becoming a nun. She joins, the church's father, Vincent Parker Soosai (Ramkumar Ganesan) and she works as a doctor until she becomes a nun.
She meets Muthuvel (Prabhu), an innocent youth, and they fall in love with each other. Rathnavel (R. P. Viswam) brings up his son Muthuvel without any affections and treats him like his worker, only his mother Vadivu (Vadivukkarasi) loves him. When Rathnavel arranges Muthuvel's marriage with his niece, Muthuvel and Nirmala reveal their love, Aranmanai accepts finally for their marriage with Soosai's help. Nirmala is eager for her wedding and leaves the village for taking with her the convent's sisters.
Rathnavel prepares the puberty ceremony of Rajalakshmi (Raasi), Muthuvel's niece, and manages to hide a Thaali inside a flower garland. Muthuvel, as an uncle, puts the flower garland around Rajalakshmi's neck and he gets married with her without knowing. Soosai complains against Rathnavel for arranging a child marriage but the complaint is withdrawn. The rest of the story is what happens to Muthuvel and Nirmala. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/78/Aruvadai_Naal.jpg |
1,986 | Kadalora Kavithaigal | Tamil | P. Bharathiraja | Sathyaraj, Rekha, Raja, Ranjini, Janagaraj | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadalora_Kavithaigal | The Film is about transformation of a Hero (Satyaraj) who has a prison record and his understanding of Love through an elementary education. In that process he falls in love with the school teacher Heroine (Rekha).
Based in a coastal sea village, Chinnappa Das (Satyaraj) is a violent person who has prison records and returns to his village after serving his prison term. He is pursed by his Maternal uncle's daughter (Ranjini) to marry him. In one of his encounters at an elementary school he meets a lady school teacher Jennifer (Rekha) who gives a sound scolding on how ignorant fools behave.
There is an element of purity in Das's heart which the school teacher could identify, this transforms his life for ever. Set in a coastal milieu, the duo often meet on the beach, amidst sunlit sea and splashing waves on the rocks. In a sequence, Das makes the teacher stand alone atop a seaside hillock, Das from down below on the sands announces aloud to her that "you are my God".
In a related episode when Das visits the teacher at her house, looking at the portrait of the Good Shepherd with a lamb in his lap, he earnestly asks her why He is lapping up that lamb for which she replies, "that lamb has lost its way and so he has lapped it up". She goes on asking him what will he do if he were the shepherd and wat if she was that lamb, there by subconsciously revealing her desire to be the lamb in the lap of God, in her case to be with Das, thereby both Das and Jennifer find their loved ones.
Through another character, the director introduces the small but important role which is modelled on The Meera. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a4/Kadalora_Kavithaigal.jpg |
1,986 | Mandhira Punnagai | Tamil | V. Thamizhalagan | Sathyaraj, Nadhiya, Raghuvaran, Baby Sujitha, Jai Jagadish, Senthil | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandhira_Punnagai_(1986_film) | The film has an intuitive story line with Sathyaraj enacting dual role for the first time in his career. The Doctor Sathyaraj appeared with moustache while the Police Office Sathyaraj appeared without moustache.Nadhiya also Played dual role on this movie, one is young college girl geetha and another is Daniel Miranda (Raghuvaran) wife sheela. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/45/Manthira_Punnagai_1986_poster.jpg |
1,986 | Manithanin Marupakkam | Tamil | K. Rangaraj | Sivakumar, Radha, Jayashree, Jai Jagadish, Rajyalakshmi | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manithanin_Marupakkam | Sujatha (Jayashree) joins as a news reporter in a Tamil Nadu daily named Dhinakkural, which is owned by (V. K. Ramasamy). Sujatha stays with her friend, Dr. Saradha (Rajya Lakshmi). Sujatha is assigned to interview Ravi Varma (Sivakumar), who is sentenced to death for the murder of his wife Kala (Radha), who is also Sujatha's sister. Supreme court had sentenced Ravi to death and president also rejected Ravi's appeal. Sujatha covers and publishes the story of Ravi Varma and is well acclaimed and appreciated by owner, her boss, during the official meeting. They were also surprised on a feedback letter that had reached Dhinakkural office regarding the published article.
Ravi Varma is a wealthy man and the owner of an advertising agency. Kala was employed as a clerk in a firm, and is a classical dancer too. Ravi had met Kala during a dance program hosted at the club. He had then proposed with an offer for Kala join his advertising agency as a model, which Kala rejects instantly. However, on losing her job as a clerk and her family (consisting of an ill ridden father, a younger sister and brother) being dependent on her income, she is forced to join Ravi's advertising agency. The advertising agency flourishes well with the utilization of Kala's modelling skills. A carrier oriented Ravi, in order to make Kala stay with his firm always, proposes to Kala and they get register married. After a week long honeymoon, Ravi force his wife to pose for modelling with a half-dressed costume, which Kala couldn't accept. This leads to indifference in their family life. Once Ravi comes to know that his wife is pregnant, argument begins again regarding the fatherhood of the conceived child, and Ravi asks his wife to move out of his house. Kala then takes shelter in her friend, Dr Saradha's house. Divorce was filed by Ravi, and it was granted with the verdict that Ravi needs to compensate his wife and child on a monthly basis until the child becomes youth. A frustrated Ravi visits Kala and tells her that he will pay all the compensation for a single time and brutally murders her with the knife he brought with him.
A day before his scheduled execution, Ravi Varma escapes prison, and accidentally meets Sujatha. He learns that Sujatha & Kala are sisters and informs the truth. Ravi loved Kala a lot and never pressurised her for any modelling assignments. Aruju(Jai Jagadish) used to blackmail Kala, by showing Kala's nude photographs which he had clicked. Fearing social stigma Kala divorces Ravi unwillingly. Arjun later tries to molest Kala, kills her and flees away. Since Ravi was on the murder spot he is taken into custody by the police.
To avenge the same Ravi escapes from the prison and kills Arujun. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a6/Manithanin_Marupakkam.jpg |
1,986 | Mouna Ragam | Tamil | Mani Ratnam | Mohan, Revathi, Karthik | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouna_Ragam | Divya is a free-spirited college student from a conservative family whose strict father, Chandramouli, works for the government. She learns that her parents are eagerly awaiting a marriage proposal for her. Unwilling to get married, and hoping that the groom's family will reject her, she deliberately arrives home late, only to find Chandrakumar (the groom) and his family patiently waiting for her. She talks arrogantly to Chandrakumar to make him dislike her but, undeterred, he says that he likes her and agrees to the marriage. Divya initially refuses, but when her father has a heart attack her family begs her to accept the proposal to aid his recovery. Succumbing to the pressure, Divya marries Chandrakumar.
After their marriage Chandrakumar takes Divya to Delhi, but she cannot accept him as her husband and ignores him. When he asks her what she would like as a wedding gift, she asks him for a divorce. Startled, Chandrakumar asks her why; in a flashback, Divya remembers when she was in love with Manohar, whom she met as a college student. Manohar and his gang assault and rob the son of Thamizhmani, an MP. Divya reports Manohar to the police, and he is arrested. She later learns that Thamizhmani's son had run over a girl with his car, and Manohar stole the money to pay for the girl's medical treatment. Divya feels guilty, and bails him out.
Manohar falls in love with Divya, and tries to win her love; although she initially rejects him, eventually she returns his feelings. Manohar is a member of a revolutionary group who plan to hold an illegal rally. Divya does not approve, and asks him not to attend; he agrees if she will marry him. On their wedding day, Manohar is falsely accused of participating in the rally and arrested. He escapes, and runs to the marriage registrar's office where Divya is waiting for him. A policeman accidentally shoots him, and he dies in front of Divya.
Although Chandrakumar is ready to forget Divya's past, she cannot accept another man in her life. They consult a lawyer who tells them that according to the Hindu Marriage Act of 1955, since they are newly married they must wait one year to file for divorce and they must live with each other for a year.
Chandrakumar is attacked by his company's labourers because he had suspended their union leader. Divya brings him to a nearby hospital, where he survives after receiving treatment. After he is discharged from the hospital, Divya takes care of him and realises that she has fallen in love with him. She tries to show it by wearing the anklets Chandrakumar gave her shortly after their marriage but, irritated by what he sees as Divya's immaturity, Chandrakumar asks her to return to her parents home and books her trip. At the railway station, Chandrakumar gives Divya the divorce papers that she had requested as a wedding gift. Divya breaks down, telling Chandrakumar that she loves him, and they reconcile. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/87/Mouna_Ragam_poster.jpg |
1,986 | Vidinja Kalyanam | Tamil | Manivannan | Sathyaraj, Raveendran, VIjayakumar, Sujatha, Jayashree, Senthil | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidinja_Kalyanam | A death sentence inmate escapes prison and seeks asylum in a rich widow's house where she is living with her only daughter. Whether the marriage of her daughter will happen as planned forms the crux of the story. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/30/Vidinja_Kalyanam.jpg |
1,986 | Vikram | Tamil | Rajasekhar | Kamal Haasan, Dimple Kapadia, Lizzy, Ambika, Sathyaraj, Amjad Khan, Janagaraj | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikram_(1986_Tamil_film) | On 15 March 1984, Ashraf Hussain, Francis Adaikalaraj, RD Bohra are convicted for 20 years imprisonment for their involvement in various anti-national activities. Being unremorseful, the convicts play Chinese Chequers whilst the judge sentences them. Approaching the escort van, one of the convicts boisterously rebukes at press of becoming free soon.
The very next day, a nuclear-capable ICBM, AgniPutra is being dispatched from an unknown location to Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota only to be stolen en route by Sugirtharaja (Sathyaraj) and his henchmen. Back in Headquarters (HQ), a visibly distraught panel of ministers and military top brass led by Rao (Charu Hasan) mulls over the dangerous prospects of the missile falling into terrorists' hands and finally pick Commander Arun Kumar Vikram (Kamal Haasan), to locate the AgniPutra with some resentment. Secretary (T. S. Raghavendra), eavesdrop and passes informs Sugirtharaja about Vikram, who sends a henchmen (Vikram Dharma) to kill Vikram. The plan fails as Vikram's three-month old pregnant wife (Ambika), accidentally get shot point blank. Enraged Vikram returns and rebukes Rao for the costly leak and deftly exposes the mole, the secretary. After torturing, Thangaraj names Sugirtharaja as the mastermind in front of the panel, and jumps to his death without giving any further details.
Desperate to find the missile, which is designed to auto-ignite within 10 days, Rao introduces Vikram to a computer expert Preethi (Lizy), who knows the design of AgniPutra's on-board computer and its functions. Initially annoyed with Vikram's brutal ways, she mellows down eventually. Sugirtharaja's henchmen (Vikram Dharma) destroys all evidences at Thangaraj's home, before Vikram and Preethi arrives in. The ensuing chase ends at cinema theatre, playing a documentary news reel about India-Salamia friendship, where Vikram spots Sugirtharaja. Upon investigation, Vikram realises that Kingdom of Salamia discourages intel-sharing with India. With the diplomatic route ruled out, Vikram and Preethi imposing as folk artists embark along with a troupe to Salamia, ruled by Sultan (Amjad Khan).
Being saved from Snakebite by Vikram, Inimaasi (Dimple Kapadia) falls head-over-heels for him. Though Preethi is constantly put off by Vikram’s arrogance, she falls for him too. Vikram identifies the location where the missile is, also discovers that the High Priest is a mere puppet under Sugirtharaja's directions, who secretly reprograms the missile, while Preethi being caught by the guards. Preethi then siding with Sugirtharaja, pretending to be cheated by Vikram passes information to Vikram unbeknownst to Sugirtharaja. While trying to reprogram the on-board computer, he loses the information and inadvertently forays into a spa where he meets Inimaasi. His attempts to expose the priest's treason are met with sheer dissent. The sultan catches the couple, suspecting fornication and sentences Vikram to be decapitated in public. Escaping execution and vikram flees towards desert where a gun-toting Sugirtharaja and royal sentries chases him until he gives in to dehydration and left to dead, when Vikram is bitten by a black cobra.
Back at the Royal Palace, the High priest stages a coup and holds the Sultan at gunpoint. Meanwhile, Inimaasi manages to escape and finds the delirious Vikram in the desert, and nurses him. The couple then return to the palace and fight off the armed sentries while the Sultan impales the high priest. Sugirtharaja, oblivious to the fact that AgniPutra's on-board computer has been tweaked, launches of hoping to decimate New Delhi. At HQ, the Indian officials observe in despair as their computer screen shows a 2D animation of AgniPutra slowly descending upon New Delhi, only later it drifts and plunges into the Bay of Bengal, disarming automatically. Back in Salamia, the royal guards sabotage the siege and restore order.
A disillusioned Sugirtharaja forces Preethi into a glider plane and takes off. Vikram manages to board the plane using lasso through skids. While scuffling and pummeling Sugirtharaja, sets-off bomb and jumps with the only parachute backpack available strapped-on. As the plane explodes, Vikram and Preethi jump off in a free fall and reach out Sugirtharaja and grabs his parachute, leaving him dead. Vikram and Preethi romance mid-air and as they touch the ground the princess arrives calling out to Vikram, as Preethi too is in a dilemma Vikram frivolously runs away from both. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/64/Vikram_1986_Tamil_poster.jpg |
1,987 | Chinna Poove Mella Pesu | Tamil | Robert - Rajasekhar | Prabhu, Ramki, Narmadha, Shubha, Sudha Chandran, Sabitha Anand, Chinni Jayanth | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinna_Poove_Mella_Pesu | Raja (Ramki), a clever student, challenges Rekha (Narmadha), a rich and arrogant girl, to become the number one student. Rekha is the daughter of Michael (Senthamarai). She loses but she falls in love with Raja.
David (Prabhu), a former student, is now an alcoholic. During his college days, he fell in love with Esther (Sabitha Anand) but Shanthi was in love with David. Michael, Esther's father, was against their love. He beat David to death and Esther committed suicide but David survived.
David tries to help the young lovers against Michael. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/59/Chinna_Poove_Mella_Pesu_poster.jpg |
1,987 | Chinna Thambi Periya Thambi | Tamil | Manivannan | Sathyaraj, Prabhu, Nadhiya, Nizhalgal Ravi, Sudha Chandran | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinna_Thambi_Periya_Thambi | Chinna thambi (Prabhu) and Periya thambi (Sathyaraj) are brothers who work in a spinning mill in Booluvampatii, on the outskirts of Coimbatore district. They live with their grandmother. Though the brothers quarrel often, they are always together and love each other. Suddenly,their mother's younger brother visits them after 20 years. Both brothers fall in love with their uncle's daughter Kavitha (Nadia) and try to woo her. But Kavitha's parents deny the alliance as the brothers are neither rich nor educated. Kavitha and her family are sent out of the village by the grandmother due to this refusal. She also prohibits the brothers to visit her son on any personal cause.
Kavitha is initially arranged to marry a wealthy man, who happens to be the only son of the mill owner, where the brothers work. hence both of them go to chennai to work in the wedding. On the wedding day, Kavitha's parents die in a car accident while on the way to the marriage hall.On his deathbed, Kavitha's father mentions about the debts in his in and passes away. All of her properties are sold off to repay the debt and the wedding is called off due to her being poor. The brothers take kavitha back to coimbatore and she begins to appreciate their simple life style, and starts to live with her uncles and grandmother. Both brothers again try to woo kavitha. Periya thambi even cuts sandalwood to buy some luxuries for kavitha, which she rejects. Then Periya thambi is arrested by the police and their grandmother dies due to heart-attack. Periya thambi serves a 3 month term and is released. Eventually kavitha falls in love with chinna thambi,meanwhile Periya thambi happens to rescue a widow Thayamma from dire straits, and falls for her.
The mill owner tries to get kavitha as his concubine and is beaten black and blue by the brothers. Both of them are fired and chinna thambi is jailed for 1 month as penalty. Periya thambi arranges for their wedding, and also thayamma's family accept for her remarriage. But on the day of wedding, kavitha is kidnapped by mill owner's son and the local landlord. Periya thambi goes to rescue her and see the owner's son attempting to rape kavitha. Hence he beats all of them and kills both the mill owner's son and the local landlord. This is not revealed to kavitha and chinna thambi and their wedding goes on successfully. Police come to arrest Periya thambi and he marries thayamma and immediately surrenders to police. He is given a 10 year sentence and he completes the term. after he returns, he sees his house developed and his wife waiting. As he starts to consummate his marriage, he hears a sound and finds that only then, his brother has also decided to consummate his marriage with kavitha only then. All is well. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/Chinna_Thambi_Periya_Thambi.jpg |
1,987 | Kadamai Kanniyam Kattupaadu | Tamil | Santhana Bharathi | Sathyaraj, Nalini, Jeevitha, Geetha | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadamai_Kanniyam_Kattupaadu | The film revolves around the story of an honest and straightforward Tamil Nadu police officer and his life. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1d/Kadamai_Kanniyam_Kattupaadu.jpg |
1,987 | Kadhal Parisu | Tamil | A. Jagannathan | Kamal Haasan, Ambika, Radha, Jaishankar, Janagaraj, Kovai Sarala | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadhal_Parisu | The movie starts with Mohan (Kamal) getting released from prison after serving a sentence on a rape charge. Malini (Ambika) and Chitra (Radha) are sisters and heirs to a wealthy business. Malini looks after the business after their parents died while Chitra is a student. Mohan meets Chitra and soon they fall in love while Malini has sworn off all men. Jaishankar is their uncle who is after their wealth.
When Chitra brings Mohan home to meet her sister, Mohan and Malini have a big fight which ends is Malini forbidding Chitra from seeing Mohan. Malini then reveals the reason behind the fight. Years earlier, Mohan and Malini were classmates: Malini had a crush on him which Mohan never reciprocated. While on a class trip, Malini gives a note to Mohan that asks him to meet her in his room. Malini claims that, that night, Mohan entered her room and they had consensual sex, but Mohan denied it and refused to marry her. So she bought up rape charges against him and sent him to prison.
The truth comes out. During the class trip, Mohan never received the note which fell on Jaishankar’s son, Raj Kumar, who was their classmate. Raj, lusting after Malini, uses this opportunity to enter Malini’s room on the pretext of being Mohan and has sex with her. Since Raj disconnected electricity in her room and the room was very dark, Malini didn’t know the difference.
Mohan forgives Malini and gets back with Chitra while the bad guys are punished. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b5/Kadhal_Parisu.jpg |
1,987 | Manathil Uruthi Vendum | Tamil | K. Balachandar | Suhasini, Sridhar, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Ramesh Aravind | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manathil_Uruthi_Vendum | This is the story of Nandini, a nurse, played by Suhasini. She is the sole bread winner of her huge family including six siblings and unemployed parents, and she faces many hurdles in her life including a divorce, loss of a brother, an eloped sister, a failed second romance and an organ donation. She handles them with dignity and wins the hearts of one and all including her suspicious ex-husband when she donates him her kidney. S. P. Balasubrahmanyam plays the role of a dedicated Doctor, who inspires Nandini to take the ultimate decision in life to continue serving her patients. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/14/Manathil_Urudhi_Vendum.jpg |
1,987 | Nayakan | Tamil | Mani Ratnam | Kamal Haasan, Saranya, Karthika, Janagaraj, Nassar, Nizhalgal Ravi, Thara | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayakan | An anti-government union leader's only son Sakthivel is arrested by the police to find his whereabouts. They trick Sakthivel into believing them as his well-wishers and release him. When Sakthivel meets his father, the police kill the latter. Feeling betrayed, Sakthivel stabs the police inspector and runs away to Bombay, where he is raised by Hussain, a kind-hearted smuggler living in the Dharavi slums.
One day, when Hussain is ill, Sakthivel, now a young man, decides to carry out the smuggling activity on behalf of Hussain. His demand for a bigger commission from the smugglers makes them furious and they involve a police inspector Kelkar to arrest Hussain and kill him in jail. When they close the case as suicide, Sakthivel is angered knowing the truth and murders Kelkar. He later takes care of Kelkar's family which consists of his wife and a mentally retarded son Ajit. Kelkar's wife knew that her husband's immorality resulted in his death.
Sakthivel meets Neela, a schoolgirl forced into prostitution who has interests to pursue her education. Her innocence impresses Sakthivel who marries her. They have two children: Surya and Charumathi. Sakthivel's power and command gradually increases in Dharavi as he voices out in support of local people which gains him huge popularity among the masses. His rival smugglers in Bombay try to murder Sakthivel in an attack but Neela is killed instead. Sakthivel sends his children to Chennai to safeguard them.
Meanwhile, Sakthivel's power further increases in Bombay and is fondly called "Velu Naicker" by everyone. Surya and Charumathi return to Bombay as adults after education. Surya follows Sakthivel's footsteps which makes him feel proud. But when Surya is killed by a gang during a clash, Charumathi blames Sakthivel for the deaths of Neela and Surya. She wants Sakthivel to leave Bombay and start life afresh, which he refuses to do.
Charumathi leaves her father and walks away. After some years, a new assistant commissioner of police is deputed in Bombay to eliminate the gangsters and his first target is Sakthivel. He collects all the evidence needed for the arrest of Sakthivel. When Sakthivel comes to meet him, he learns that Charumathi is married to him and they have a son. The assistant commissioner too learns that his wife is Sakthivel's daughter and suspects that she might help her father to flee from the police.
Sakthivel absconds and his allies are arrested. He decides to surrender to the police to save them from undergoing torture in the police station. Through Charumathi, Sakthivel informs her husband about his hide out place and is arrested. The assistant commissioner is shocked due to lack of proper evidence against Sakthivel as none comes forward from the public as witness against the crimes committed by him.
The assistant commissioner meets Kelkar's wife and the now grown-up Ajit and requests to disclose the truth behind her husband's death in the court. She refuses and defends Sakthivel's acts. But Ajit is shocked after learning the truth. Sakthivel is produced in the court and is exonerated due to lack of valid and strong evidence. Sakthivel steps out of the court amid big cheer from his supporters, until Ajit shoots him to avenge his father's death; Sakthivel dies on the spot. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d0/Nayakan_poster.jpg |
1,987 | Oorkavalan | Tamil | Manobala | Rajinikanth, Raadhika, Pandiyan, Y. G. Mahendra, Chithra | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oorkavalan | The story describes the struggle of a young villager Kangeyan (played by Rajinikanth) to receive justice for his brother's murder. Manickam falls in love with Mallika, the daughter of Pannaiar. Mallika's marriage is arranged with Dorai (played by Raghuvaran) but refuses and declares her love for Mannikam. Kangeyan gets them married in the village. The priest pretends to have divine powers and uses superstitious belief of the villagers to kill Manickam. Kangeyan, not wanting to see Mallika as a widow, decides to her married again to Pandian, a cart driver who was her childhood friend. Dorai intervenes again proceeding to use superstition again and Kangeyan learns about truth behind his brother death exposing the priest and Dorai losing his lover in the process.
This movie was revolutionary in its message showing how fake godmen and the rich use superstitious belief of the common man to get their ends while showing women in a good light with the hero fighting for their equality told in an entertaining manner. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/87/Oorkavalan_poster.jpg |
1,987 | Per Sollum Pillai | Tamil | S. P. Muthuraman | Kamal Haasan, Raadhika, K. R. Vijaya, Goundamani, Manorama, Raveendran, Ramya Krishnan | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Sollum_Pillai | Per Sollum Pillai has Kamal Haasan as an orphan, who is adopted by a wealthy family. He gets adopted into the family when he saves the entire family from being deliberately poisoned by a miscreant. K.R.Vijaya, the mother of the family, raises him as one of the family even though others outside the family see him as a servant. Kamal helps to run the family smoothly and looks after his step-parents, brothers and sisters like his own. He remains faithful and grateful to his step-parents for adopting him, an orphan, as their own son. Except for his step-parents and his sister, the other members of his family are jealous of the position his mother gives him in the family. Kamal's step-brothers are pleasure-seeking and lazy and want to live an easy life surviving on their mother's earnings. They also try to exploit a female worker in their house Radhika, whose mother Manorama is the cook of the house.
Kamal intervenes whenever his step-brothers attempt to commit mischief in the family and thwarts all their plans. He tries to advise them to be resourceful but they hate him for that. They also cannot stand it when their mother sides their step-brother in all her decisions. Kamal also saves his step-sister Ramya Krishnan from being exploited by a rich smuggler's son. Due to his carnal nature, the smuggler's son expresses his wish to marry Kamal's step-sister to his father. So the smuggler Malaysia Vasudevan comes to K.R.Vijaya's house seeking her daughter's hand in marriage for his son. The smuggler feels jaded when Kamal convinces his step-mother to refuse her daughter's hand in marriage to his son. The smuggler becomes an enemy to the family and swears to take revenge for being insulted by K.R.Vijaya. So he hatches a plot in conjunction with Kamal's brother-in-law, a corrupt government official Goundamani to destroy Kamal's family.
The smuggler plants illegal explosives in K.R.Vijaya's fireworks factory to humiliate her,to get her arrested by the police, but Kamal comes to her rescue and takes the crime upon himself and goes to jail in her place. He later looks after her when she falls sick when her own sons don't care about her and waste their money in gambling.Instigated by a plot hatched by their brother-in-law, Kamal's step-brothers revolt and take over the factory that their mother controls. They then force Kamal out of the house. Meanwhile, Radhika falls in love with Kamal due to his truthful nature. Kamal's step-brothers make poor business decisions and ruin the prosperous business that their mother had struggled to build. Kamal meanwhile, through his hard-work and resourcefulness builds his own fireworks factory. He comes to the rescue of his mother again when his step-brothers try to forcible marry their only sister to the enemy's son to cover up their losses. He pays for the losses his brothers had incurred and saves his step-sister and step-parents. He then adopts his step-mother as his own mother and makes her the proprietor of his factory.
In the final scene, the smuggler tries to forcibly get his son married to Vijaya's daughter and also murder her sons and Kamal. Kamal again comes to their rescue and saves the day. But Vijaya is fatally wounded by the smuggler and dies in Kamal's arms.
The movie ends with Kamal's daughter ( whom Kamal considers as his own mother that he lost but is now re-born as his daughter, and names her after his mother) celebrating her birthday with the entire family re-united with Kamal as the head of the family. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a1/Per_Sollum_Pillai.JPG |
1,987 | Poovizhi Vasalile | Tamil | Fazil | Sathyaraj, Karthika, Baby Sujitha | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poovizhi_Vasalile | A deaf-mute boy, Benny (Sujitha) and his mother (Rajyalakshmi) witnessed a man getting killed by two men (Raghuvaran and Babu Antony). So the killers also killed the mother but the boy manages to escape from them.
Jeeva (Sathyaraj) is an alcoholic who is not able to recover from the tragic death of his family. Jeeva finds the boy when he is sleeping in the trash and adopts him as Raja naming him after his son. Soon, he meets Yamuna (Karthika) and become close friends without knowing that she is Raja's aunt. Raja recognizes his mother's murderer in a bar along with their boss.
First, the police arrests Jeeva for kidnapping Raja and for hiding his mother Stella, but the police discovers the body of Stella with Raja's help and Yamuna understands the boy is none other than her sister's son Benny. Thereafter, Anand and Ranjith kidnap Raja, from Yamuna, so Jeeva kills the murderers and goes to jail. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a8/Poovizhi_Vasalile.jpg |
1,987 | Vedham Pudhithu | Tamil | P. Bharathiraja | Sathyaraj, Amala, Saritha, Raja, Janagaraj | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedham_Pudhithu | Balu Thevar (Sathyaraj) and Saritha live in a village and belong to a land-owning warrior caste (Thevar), held lower in the Vedic caste system hierarchy than Brahmins. Balu Thevar though, is an atheist and speaks openly against the caste system, but is nevertheless tolerated by the villagers because he is generous in helping others in need. Their son, Raja, has just returned from the city having completed his education. He meets Vaidehi (Amala Akkineni) , who is the daughter of a Brahmin Sastri (Priest), and they fall in love. Both of their parents discover their love and Vaidehi's father tries to marry her off to another man in a neighboring village. On the way, Vaidehi fakes her suicide to escape the marriage, and hides in a house (Nizhalgal Ravi's) that she happens to pass by. In the meantime, thinking that Vaidehi is really dead, Vaidehi's father confronts Raja and accuses him of causing her death. During the discussion, they slip and fall into the waterfall and both men die.
At this point, Vaidehi's younger brother (named Sankara - a play on Adi Sankaracarya, the founder of the Monistic system of Hindu Vedic Philosophy called Advaita Vedanta), who is devoutly studying the Vedas and passing through the student phase of his Brahmin life, is left an orphan. Being considered inauspicious, since his mother, father, and sister are all dead, no one from the Brahmin community wants to take care of him. He thus wanders the streets begging for food. Balu Thevar is bothered by this, and having lost his own son, he takes him home to raise him as his own son. They give up eating meat, so as not to offend the boy. However, since the boy has been eating in a lower caste home, he is rejected by his community from learning the Vedas. Sarita (the wife) is enraged, and promises to educate the boy instead in an English medium school. Balu Thevar makes fun of the boy telling him that it is not important to learn Vedas and worry about caste. At this point, the boy points out Balu Thevar's hypocrisy, at his preference for using his caste name (Thevar), while at the same time professing against the caste system. Sathyaraj sees the merit in this argument, and immediately after this abandons all his weapons (symbols of his warrior Thevar caste) by immersing them in a river, and stops referring to himself by his caste name, going only by "Balu".
Vaidehi, not knowing of Raja and her own father's death, tells Nizhalgal Ravi about her love, after which he promises to reunite them. There's a beautiful and sad song here where she imagines her happy future. Nizhalgal Ravi comes to the village and finds out what has happened and informs Vaidehi. Vaidehi, then sadly returns to her village, and informs Saritha (the wife) to take care of her younger brother for the rest of his life and prepares to leave.
Meanwhile, Janakaraj, a Brahmin who had wanted to marry Vaidehi, but was rebuked publicly by her, sees Amala return. He riles up the villagers with news of Vaidehi's return and states that it's extremely inauspicious for the village, since her last death rites have already been performed. He also states that it is not proper for Brahmins to live in a non-Brahmin house. He then sets some hay on fire and tells the villages it's the god's disapproval of these two crimes. He assembles a parade of villagers towards Balu (Sathyaraj)'s house with weapons, and they demand that Balu kick out Vaidehi from his home. Balu refuses, a fight breaks out, and in the ensuing scuffle, he is stabbed and dies. His final request is for the villagers to live in unity, and not let caste divide them. In the poignant and controversial closing scene, Sankara the young boy, who has now lost two fathers, is seen alone in the twilight hour of the holy Sandhya ritual, removing his Brahminical sacred thread (invested only upon the upper castes) and immersing it in a nearby stream, disgusted with, and in open defiance of the hypocrisies of strict Brahminical casteist beliefs, while performing the last funeral rites of Balu Thevar as though he were Thevar's own son. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5d/Vedham_Pudhithu.jpg |
1,988 | Agni Natchathiram | Tamil | Mani Ratnam | Prabhu, Karthik, Amala, Nirosha, Vijayakumar, Jayachitra, Sumithra, V. K. Ramasamy, Janagaraj, Thara | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agni_Natchathiram | Ashok (Karthik Muthuraman) attends a job interview in which the interviewer turns out to be his father, Vishwanath's (Vijayakumar), high school friend. The interviewer asks personal questions and it is revealed that Ashok is Vishwanath’s second wife Kamala's (Jayachitra), son. More personal questions anger Ashok and he beats the interviewer and storms out.
Gautham (Prabhu Ganesan) is a police academy trainee and during a routine boxing match, he goes overboard and beats up his opponent even after the referee has stopped the fight. The police commissioner reprimands Gautham and asks him not to take out his anger towards his father, Vishwanath, on someone else.
Ashok returns home to his mother, sister Mallika (Tara) and his inebriated father. His mother asks him to take his father to his first wife Susheela (Sumitra) home. Ashok initially protests but relents to take him home. After the ride, Gautham comes to the door and helps his father into home. There is a brief moment of animosity between Gautham and Ashok and it is clear that both the half-brothers hate each other.
During a party at the Police Commissioner’s house, Gautham meets the Commissioner’s daughter, Anjali (Amala) when he covers for her smoking. One day, when Ashok is just hanging out with his friends, a girl Anitha (Nirosha), looks at him, shouts "I love you" and drives away. A stunned Ashok tries to follow her but loses her in the traffic. Vishwanath is appointed the head of an inquiry commission to probe a chemical factory, owned by Chidambaram (G. Umapathy), believed to sell chemicals to terrorists.
Gautham graduates from the academy & is appointed as an Assistant Commissioner and Anjali and him fall in love with each other. Ashok runs into Anitha again but this time he memorizes her car number. He traces her address by bribing a transport officer, goes to her home and says "I love you" to a surprised Anitha.
Ashok and his friends run into Gautham and Anjali which prompts one of Ashok's friends to tease Gautham. Gautham soon stops Ashok's friend while he is riding his motorbike and asks for his license. When he shows it, Gautham throws it away and arrests him for driving without a license but instructs his constables to release him after a couple of hours. A peeved Ashok goes to Gautham's place and stones it causing an accidental injury to Gautham's mother Susheela.
The next day, Gautham tries to arrest Ashok but Ashok teases him that he doesn't have a warrant and cannot be arrested. Gautham accuses Ashok's parentage which causes Ashok to lose his cool and tries to assault Gautham. Gautham then arrests Ashok on charges of assaulting an officer of the law. Since Vishwanath is out of town, Susheela helps Kamala bailout Ashok.
Chidambaram visits Vishwanath at his office and later at both his homes and tries to bribe him but each time Vishwanath rebuffs him. An irked Chidambaram warns to put a hit on Vishwanath if he still continues with his investigation.
On the day when Ashok's sister is to be asked for her hand in marriage, Vishwanath fails to turn up which causes the groom's family to question the marriage between Kamala and Vishwanath. An angry Ashok goes to Vishwanath's home and creates a ruckus only to realize that his grandmother, Vishwanath's mother Rajamma (S. N. Lakshmi) has died. Gautham, angered by the scene caused by Ashok, throws him out.
Anitha visits Ashok at his home uninvited and falsely tells him that she is pregnant with his child in front of his mother to get him in trouble. Ashok finds her having lunch with her father and enquires about her pregnancy to scare her. But he stops once he learns that Anitha too comes from a broken home.
One day, when Ashok's sister is travelling by train she runs into Gautham and Anjali, so Gautham gets into the next train car. After he leaves, Chidambaram's men harass and threaten the sister. She runs away and tells Gautham and Gautham saves her. While dropping her off at her home, Ashok throws Gautham out of his house.
Another altercation occurs at a wedding in which both exchange words. The next day, Ashok finds Gautham and both get into a huge brawl, which Vishwanath witnesses. Vishwanath berates both of them and gives up hope on both of them ever getting along with each other. While Vishwanath is leaving his office, he gets run over by a truck driven by one of Chidambaram's thugs.
Vishwanath survives with severe injuries and goes into a coma. Mutual fear between the families brings them closer as both Susheela and Kamala wait by his bedside. Ashok threatens Chidambaram with dire consequences if his father dies. Gautham tracks down the truck driver and arrests him. Unhappy that Vishwanath survived, Chidambaram arranges for his murder in the hospital. He uses his connections to remove the police security from the hospital and gets the truck driver out on bail. Vishwanath comes out of the coma and asks both his sons to help keep him alive till he presents his evidence against Chidambaram to the commission the next day. When Chidambaram's thugs attack the hospital, the brothers work together to stop the assassination attempt by switching the ambulance in which Vishwanath was in.
The next day, a bandaged Vishwanath is brought into the commission's office by the brothers and Vishwanath submits evidence proving Chidambaram's illegal activities. The movie ends with Gautham arresting Chidambaram and both the brothers embracing each other.
The film has a parallel comedy track which focuses on a rich man (V. K. Ramaswamy) and his chauffeur’s (Janakaraj) quest to ditch their wives and to sleep with a pretty call girl. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e2/Agni_Natchathiram_poster.jpg |
1,988 | En Thangachi Padichava | Tamil | P. Vasu | Prabhu, Rupini, Chithra, Sudha | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_Thangachi_Padichava | Dhanakodi (Nassar), an honest police officer, is transferred to a small village. In this village, Karunakaran (Kitty), a rich landlords, spreads terror among the villagers and threatens them to give their lands. After spending five years in jail for a murder, Periasamy (Prabhu) is back to his village. Dhanakodi wants to trap the heartless Karunakaran at any cost.
In the past, Periasamy was an orphan who lived with his only sister Lakshmi. Lakshmi, after finishing her studies in the city, came back to her village. Periasamy and Valli (Rupini) were in love. She still against Karunakaran's conspiracy. Lakshmi and Karunakaran's son Chinnaiah fell in love each other and got married with Periasamy's support. Chinnaiah went missing while Lakshmi became pregnant. Lakshmi found out that Chinnaiah was in his father's house and it was Karunakaran's master plan. Periasamy went there but he was humiliated by Karunakaran. In the meantime, Chinnaiah stabbed Lakshmi but Lakshmi gave birth before dying. The angry Periasamy killed Chinnaiah. What transpires later forms the crux of the story. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fb/En_Thangachi_Padichava.jpg |
1,988 | En Thangai Kalyani | Tamil | T. Rajendar | T. Rajendar, Srividya, Vigdass, Sudha, S. S. Chandran, Venniradai Moorthy, Renuka, Silambarasan | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_Thangai_Kalyani | Senthamarai deserts Srividhya & his two children Rajendar & Sudha, to live with his concubine. He marries her and lives with her without taking care of his wife & children. Rajendar grows up with hatred to his father. He loves his sister Kalyani (Sudha) very much & buys everything for her. He sends her to college, but she falls in love with her co-student against the wishes of her brother & mother.
The guy to whom she was in love with is a fraudulent & does anything for money. Rajendar tries to warn kalyani, but she elopes with him & marries him. Months later Rajendar finds out that kalyani is ill treated by her husband,who is now living with a dancer. He is ready to do anything for the dancer.
Kalyani becomes pregnant & Srividhya meets her secretly without the knowledge of her son. Soon a son is born to Kalyani. Rajendar is so affectionate to his son-in-law but he does not show it outside. But he did not speak to Kalyani & says he will never forget her.
Senthamarai was ill treated by his concubine who is now his wife. She kept him alive only for his property. She sleeps with another person & Senthamarai finds it. He confronts her & she with the help of her men, beat him to death & force him to sign the stamp paper thereby getting hold of all his property & kicks him out of the home.
He comes to visit Srividhya who invites him with pleasure & provides him food. When Rajendar finds about it he became furious & ask him to leave. Srividhya unwilling to let her husband go alone leaves along with him.
Kalyani's husband's friend comes to her home & expresses his desire to sleep with her. She beats him with broomstick. He in turn ask her husband to leave the dancer's home. But he agrees for his desire saying that living with the dancer means everything to him. He tricks Kalyani & take her to his club were their men try to rape her.
Rajendar comes for her rescue. He manages to shoot one of them & spares her husband. But only to be shot by the dying guy whom he shot earlier. He dies & Kalyani also dies immediately. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b6/En_Thangai_Kalyani.jpg |
1,988 | Guru Sishyan | Tamil | S. P. Muthuraman | Rajinikanth, Prabhu, Gouthami, Seetha, Pandiyan, Cho, Manorama | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Sishyan_(1988_film) | Guru (Rajinikanth) and Sishya (Prabhu) are two friends and petty criminals. They end up in jail and come across an innocent man Manohar (Pandiyan) who tells them that his sister was raped by Muthuraaj (Radha Ravi) and who had killed a taxi driver (witness) with the help of foolish corrupt police officer Nallasivam (Vinu Chakravarthy) and pinned the murder on Manohar. Manohar is sentenced to death row for the killing by the court. Guru and Sishya believe in Manohar's story and decide to find the truth and prove his innocence once they get out of jail. Guru fractures Manohar's hand so that his death sentence would be delayed, until it heals, under law. Guru and Sishya get released from prison and set in motion an elaborate plan to find out the real killers. Along the way, Guru, who believed that his parents were murdered, finds out that they are in fact being held captive by Muthuraaj's brother Rajamanickam (Ravichandran), who is trying to find the map to a treasure. The location of the map is known only to Guru's father who is suffering from memory loss and is tortured to make him remember it. Babu finds out that his parents were murdered by Rajamanickam. Guru and Sishya help them find the treasure to free Guru's parents and Guru finds out that Manohar is his own brother. The ensuing fight at the treasure location, ends up with Muthuraaj and his brother arrested by the police after Guru and Babu beat them up and the treasure cave collapses after Guru, his family, and Sishya escape from it. Sishya marries Muthuraj's niece Chitra (Seetha) while Guru marries Nallasivam's daughter Geetha (Gautami) and they live happily ever after. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d2/Guru_Sishyan_1988_poster.jpg |
1,988 | Idhu Namma Aalu | Tamil | Balakumaran | K. Bhagyaraj, Shobana, J. V. Somayajulu, Manorama, Kumarimuthu | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idhu_Namma_Aalu_(1988_film) | Gopalsamy, a poor graduate of Bachelor of Arts, travels to the city in order to financially provide for his mother's eye surgery. Being unable to meet both ends meet, he encounters a Brahmin priest and food seller that employs young men forging their identity in order to deceive his customers. The priest obliges Gopal to impersonate a Brahmin and sell food in the neighboring agraharam. Being a non-Brahmin Gopal finds it morally reprehensible to wear the sacred thread. Being forced in the circumstances to put on the Brahman identity, he sets off to perform Ganapati homam with three other priests.
Srinivasa Sastri is an orthodox Brahmin priest who will preserve his Brahmin regulations mentioned in the Vedas. Though he helps non-Brahmin low caste people, he cannot tolerate them touching his clothes. Gopal comes to Srinivasa Sastri's home for the Ganapathy homam and meets Banu. Srinivasa Sastri figures out that Gopal does not know any sacred chants but understands that Gopal is an educated Brahmin who is looking for a job. He offers him a job as a clerk in a temple and lets him stay in his out-house. Gopal's innocence attracts Banu and she falls for him. Gopal keeps away from her to not encourage a relationship, causing a fight. Srinivasa Sastri gives money for Gopal's mother's operation and Gopal is loyal to him. Banu's mother wants Gopal to marry her daughter, but Gopal falsely insists that he has a bride waiting for him. Banu finds that Gopal loves her. She kisses him in front of her parents, Srinivasa Sastri accepts their relationship and arranges for marriage. Gopal reveals that he is not a Brahmin, but Banu does not believe him and both marry in Brahmin's traditions. Gopal's parents (Kumarimuthu and Manorama) come to marriage without their son's knowledge and they are shocked by the wedding. They reveal themselves to a priest, Srinivasa Sastri, and ask him to convey their blessings. On knowing the truth, he furiously tells Gopal to swear that he does not live as husband to his daughter to which Gopal promises as a punishment.
Srinivasa Sastri is disappointed on his daughter's marriage. Gopal's parents seeks for apology for their son's act and requests him to unite Gopal and Banu, which Sastri does not accept. Gopal is strong to keep up the promise given to his father-in-law and declines to live as husband and wife. Banu goes to meet her husband which angers Sastri and he tells her to get out of his house. Banu goes back to Gopal and Gopal does not let her enter his home hence Banu starts to live opposite to his home. She tries to provoke Gopal and seduces him, but Gopal does not co-operate. Gopal attempts to make Sastri accept non-Brahmins. Gopal's father gets frustrated on Banu being a virgin after marriage due to the promise and compels Gopal to marry again as he wanted to see grand children. Banu seeks lawful permission from her father to permit second marriage of her husband or accept him as his son-in-law and take back the promise. Sastri is now in dilemma whether to protect his orthodox or to protect his daughter's life. His staunch orthodox makes him sign the legal document permitting Gopal's second marriage. Gopal does not want to marry again as he is the reason for Banu being a virgin. The compulsion of his father finally make him break the promise and unite with Banu.
Srinivasa Sastri understands that he has spoiled his daughter's life and decides to kill himself by setting fire so that his daughter's life will be happy, but Gopal saves him. Gopal reveals that he broke the promise for Banu's sake and they have united. Srinivasa Sastri realises his mistake which he had done in the name of orthodox and accepts Gopal as his son-in-law.
The film explores the meaning of being a Brahmin in context of being principled, honest and keeping one's word under any circumstance separating it from rituals. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/Idhu_Namma_Aalu_1988.jpg |
1,988 | Kaliyugam | Tamil | K. Subash | Prabhu, Raghuvaran, Amala, Geetha, Janagaraj | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliyugam_(1988_film) | Kaliyugam is the story of an honest police officer and a lawyer who often had to take the route of action to help the poor from the rich and powerful.[1] | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/08/Kaliyugam_1988_poster.jpg |
1,988 | Manamagale Vaa | Tamil | Panchu Arunachalam | Prabhu, Raadhika, Goundamani, V. K. Ramasamy, S. S. Chandran, Kovai Sarala, Disco Shanti | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manamagale_Vaa | Balu (Prabhu) is an eligible bachelor, looking for a wife. With a picture perfect woman in mind, he insults and rejects many women. Meanwhile, Chitra (Radhika) is looking for a way to reconcile her sister Geetha's marriage with her husband. Geetha has been sent to her parent's home for no fault of hers. Chitra figures that the most appropriate way to settle scores with her sister's in-laws is by marrying Balu, as Geetha is married to Balu's brother. She disguises herself as a village belle, Rajathi and enters Balu's life. After marriage, Balu is traumatised by her ignorance, but Rajathi (Chitra) falls in love with him. Meanwhile, Rajathi's suitor from the village hatches a plan to bring her back from her husband and marry her forcibly. Balu, on the other hand, decides to divorce Rajathi. Chitra decides to unveil her mask now, but will her plan succeed or boomerang. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b8/Manamagale_Vaa.jpg |
1,988 | Manasukkul Mathappu | Tamil | Robert-Rajasekhar | Prabhu, Saranya, Lizy, Sarath Babu, Janagaraj, Sachu | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manasukkul_Mathappu | Shekar (Prabhu) becomes mentally ill after his girlfriend Anita (Lizy) dies because of an electric short circuiting accident during a rock concert. Shekar is admitted into an institution managed by Nagaraj (Senthamarai).
With the help of a young doctor Geetha (Saranya Ponvannan), who is Nagaraj's daughter, and an old friend Raja (Sarath Babu), Shekar slowly regains his memory and mental equilibrium. He and Geetha soon fall in love. But Nagaraj has already arranged Geetha's marriage with someone else, so he opposes the lovers.
When Nagaraj finds that Geetha and Shekar are adamant, he performs a surgery (lobotomy) on Shekar that puts him into a state of coma. Raja feels that death would be preferable to vegetative life and kills Shekar. He confronts Nagaraj and confesses to the euthanasia. He then tries to kill Nagaraj for ruining Shekar's life, but Geetha suddenly kills her father before Raja can, and she loses her mental equilibrium. She is admitted into the same institution as a patient. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e4/Manasukkul_Mathappu.jpg |
1,988 | Nallavan | Tamil | S. P. Muthuraman | Vijayakanth, Raadhika, M. N. Nambiar, S. S. Chandran, Janagaraj, Vani Viswanath, Disco Shanti | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nallavan_(1988_film) | Guru and Raja are twin brothers. Guru is set to marry a collector. On the day of the marriage, Raja is kidnapped and shown a photo where he is stabbing a girl. Raja realises it is Guru in the photo. What transpires later forms the crux of the story. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9e/Nallavan_%281988_film%29.jpg |