Director: R. Aravindraj; Writer: Aabavanan; Producer: Aabavanan; Cinematographer: A. Rameshkumar; Cast: Vijayakanth, Jaishankar, Karthik, Chandrasekhar, Arunpandian, Kokila, Saritha, Ilavarasi, Srividya
Summary: An exploitative expose film by a group of film
students using hand-held camera, emphatic
lighting and location sound techniques. A man
with good political and criminal connections
kills women who come and picnic near his
mansion. After much bloodletting, the villains
are eliminated by an honest cop and a fearless
newspaper editor (Jaishankar) as the cop
pumps his bullets, in slow motion, into the
slasher’s body. The gory film is leavened with
song and dance numbers and references to
violent incidents of Tamil Nadu political life:
e.g. the storming of the newspaper office. A
song, sung by the editor, later became famous
as it was used at political and trade union
demonstrations, and later became the theme
song for the Tamil Eelam. The film’s major
impact however was to introduce alumni of the
Madras Film Institute into the mainstream Tamil
film industry.
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