Pokkiri Raja () : This was a remake of a Telugu film. Vijayakumar and Manjula played the lead roles while Rajini played the supporting role. Kuppathu Raja () : This was a remake of the 1972 Hindi film Do Yaar. Let’s look at Rajini’s Pongal releases.ġ. It was a different film, but the audience really didn't understand it". Muthuraman is quoted as saying "We bought a bus and created a caravan that became a character in the film. In the book Rajinikanth: The Definitive Biography, director S.
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Mahendran who played a supporting character, mentioned that the movie flopped as the theme was ahead of its time. In a 2020 interview with a YouTube channel, Y. Over the years, Kazhugu has gained popularity among movie lovers. The movie was declared a flop and ran for less than fifty days in Chennai. It opened to mixed reviews as the offbeat theme was not appreciated by fans of Rajinikanth. Police finally arrest Rajarishi and his men for their illegal crimes. Finally Raja gets into a great struggle with Rajarishi's men and reveals the truth to everybody. Raja is followed by the whole village and Raja escapes in his bus. When Rajarishi is about to behead her Raja rescues her and runs away from the place. Raja follows the Rajarishi's men and finds his niece in an unconscious state obeying whatever Rajarishi say. But the girl has not died and made to believe that she has died as she is wanted by Rajarishi for a human sacrificial ritual. Satyamoorthy's daughter Radha is declared dead by a snake bite. Raja finds that Rajarishi is not a saint but a grand looter and head of the robbery gang who make wealthy people handover the property to him by giving a sacred drink called 'Anandha Rasam' which is actually alcohol mixed stuff. Raja meets his brother and his father-in-law on their to visit of Rajarishi and Raja goes with them. Raja gets into deep investigation and end up at a place of a Rajarishi ( Sangili Murugan) who is believed to be great saint. Raja's men were further tortured by those men and Raja loses one of his friend. On police investigation, Raja is shocked to hear there was no evidence of the existence of the girl Vasanthi. Next day Raja goes to police station and gives complaint of the incident.
They were chased by the men and Raja escapes with his group from them. Raja screams on seeing Vasanthi being beheaded and alerts the men. Raja and his friend follows the sound which ends in a sacrificial ground and sacrifice of Vasanthi by a group of people. Fews days later at a night Raja's group hears a drum sound. They get help and assistance from an innocent village girl Vasanthi ( Vanitha Krishnachandran), a vegetable seller. After some days, Raja and his crew set a camp in a place near a small village. Raja and Hema set for their honeymoon with Raja's friends. This brings Raja and Hema together and both fall in love and marry.Īs their marriage gift, Satyamoorthy gifts his brother a recreational vehicle for his honeymoon. Understanding Hema's situation Raja tells the truth to Sivaraman. Hema explains that once a man came into the ladies toilet and tried to rape her and that is the reason for the behaviour with him that day.
Hema gets angry and goes to Raja to reveal the truth to her father. Sivaraman believes him and stops all of the Hema's outing. Raja wants to revenge for her behaviour with him and goes to her father Sivaraman and lies that he is the lover of his daughter Hemavathy ( Rati Agnihotri) aka Hema.
Raja once enters a ladies toilet by mistake and is caught by a girl who screams that Raja has come to misbehave. Raja's repeated attempts to prove that the priest is fake goes vain as Satyamoorthy believes strongly that Raja protected the wealth only because of the divine power of the sacred sheet. As Raja suspected, the priest sends the robbers at night to loot the wealth but Raja wakes up and fights with them and restores the looted property. The fake priest pretends to give a sacred sheet and instructs to place it inside the locker which shall protect the stuffs. Satyamoorthy takes him to his treasury room where he had stored his huge wealth and tells him the secret of unlocking his lockers. Satyamoorthy once invites a priest to his home to perform rituals to drive away all evil surrounding his house not knowing that the priest is a fake and member of a robber gang. Satyamoorthy is a great devotee of saints and priests trusting all of them to be genuine whereas Raja is a happy go lucky guy just opposite to his brother who does not trust any of them. Satyamoorthy is a wealthy diamond business man and a widower living with his younger brother Raja ( Rajinikanth) and two daughters Radha and Chitra.