Director: Suresh Krishna; Producer: V. Rajammal, V. Tamilalagan; Cinematographer: P.S. Prakash; Editor: Ganesh Kumar; Cast: Rajnikant, Nagma, Raghuvaran, Janakaraj, Devan, Sasi Kumar, Kitty, Vital, Sethu Vinayagam, Satyapriya, Shenbaga, Yuvarani, Dalapathi Dinesh, Mahanadhi Sivashankar, Jayaprakash, Daljit Singh, Krishnan, Dhamu, Rajesh Kumar, Ashok, Arun, Narsing Yadav, Airport Joshkanna, Charanraj, Vijaykumar, Anandraj
Summary: Guest Appearance: Charanraj, Vijaykumar, Anandraj
When the honest autorickshaw driver
Manickam (Rajnikant) falls for Priya (Naghma),
daughter of the diamond smuggler Keshavan,
the father recognises Manickam as the dreaded
Bombay gangster Manik Badshah. In Bombay,
Badsha ran a criminal gang mainly to fight arch
rival Mark Anthony (Raghuvaran), who had
killed his friend Anwar. After Badsha kills
Anthony, he stages his own ‘death’ and finds
himself a new identity. Badsha’s past catches
up with him when his own brother Siva, a
policeman, reopens the old police file, and
further when Keshavan, Anthony’s former
cashier, kills Anthony’s wife and steals his
wealth and his daughter Priya. Badsha
eventually kills Keshavan and marries Priya.
This enormous hit, along with Annamalai
(1992) by the same director, was seen as the
Tamil megastar’s entry into state politics with
numerous rhetorical devices announcing his
opposition to the ruling AIADMK government
(eg. lines like ‘It is not important how we fight,
what is more important is who we fight
against’).
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