Velaikaran

<p>Ragupathy was brought up by his paternal grandfather, Valayapathy. He decides to go to the city in search of a new job and life. In the city he meets Vaiyapuri, who guides him into an interview in a 5-star hotel owned by Rajkumar. While in the hotel, Ragupathy meets Kowsalya and falls in love with her, and Rajkumar falls in love with Nisha. During this time, many attempts are made to kill Rajkumar by his uncle and son Pounraj. The blame for this murder attaches to Rajkumar’s mother Savithri, who is actually Ragupathy’s mother. Realising all this, Ragupathy takes an oath that he will not let harm come to Rajkumar. Rajinikanth acted without taking any remuneration, due to the losses the producers suffered from (1985). Since the film had scenes revolving in a hotel, those scenes were shot in Chola Hotel at Madras (now Chennai) and also at other hotels in Delhi, Kashmir and Agra. For the song “Mamanukku”, Muthuraman who was in search of an old couple made the song’s dance choreographer Puliyur Saroja and the film’s associate director S. L. Narayanan dance for the song. In his memoir , Muthuraman said the song “Vaa Vaa” was shot at Shimla. However, in his column for , , he said it was shot at Srinagar. The soundtrack was composed by , with lyrics by . This is the first film where sang for Rajinikanth. The song “Vaa Vaa Kanna” is set in raga. was released on 7 March 1987. called it “pretty run of the mill stuff”. of criticised the story. The film became a box office success, and Rajinikanth won the Sunflash Award for Best Actor.</p>