Director: Manivannan
Summary: 1987 145’(124’) col Tamil
d/sc/dial Manivannan pc Chamba Creations
st Shanmughapriyam lyr Vairamuthu, Gangai
Amaran, Sivakumar c A. Sabhapathy m Gangai
Amaran
lp Sathyaraj, Prabhu, Nadia, Sudha Chandran,
Nizhalgal Ravi, Vijayan, V.M. John, Thirupur
Ishwar, S. Varalakshmi
Melodrama about good and evil in a country/
city conflict. The brothers (Prabhu and Satyaraj)
live in a village. They are deliberately insulted
by their haughty urban cousin Kavitha (Nadia)
who is to marry the villain, a rich, Americareturned
millionaire. When Kavitha’s parents
die, creditors take all her wealth and her fiance
now refuses to marry her. She is forced to find
a job in the factory of the villain (Ravi) who
tries to make her his mistress. Both brothers
love their cousin (by Indian convention, one of
them should have married her) and try to court
her. When one of the twins is charged with
theft by the villain, the other kills him and goes
to jail, from where he emerges white-haired to
see the other twin married to the cousin. The
film reiterates, in the words of a Deep Focus
review, the conventional commitment to
relationships of a ‘familiar and communal
nature as against secular relationships between
individuals’.
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