Captain Prabhakaran

<p>Captain Prabhakaran is an sent to to nab Veerabhadran, who tortures the people of that place. Prabhakaran is not only going to nab Veerabhadran, but also avenge the death of his friend Rajaraman , who was a forest officer killed by Veerabhadran. The police commissioner and the district collector are corrupt and also support Veerabhadran. In the climax, Veerabhadran kidnaps Prabhakaran’s wife and son. Prabhakaran arrives at the right time and saves his wife and son. He then nabs Veerabhadran. Poongkodi was Rajaraman’s lover. She dies while giving birth to his child. Veerabhadran is shot dead by the corrupt inspector and collector. Prabhakaran kills both of them. He is then dragged to court for killing the police inspector and the collector. Prabhakaran tells the truth that they were corrupt, and the film ends with Prabhakaran being released from the court. After the success of , Rowther decided to make another project with and titled , the plotline of the film was based on the forest brigand . The film also was the 100th project of Vijayakanth. The filming was held at for 60 days. Many scenes were also filmed at . The film had in his first major role, for which Karikalan was the initial choice. During the shoot, a rope to which Vijayakanth was bound snapped and his shoulder got dislocated. With both his hands tied he screamed in pain, but this was mistaken for acting, and as a result, there was a delay in getting medical assistance. was originally cast as Poongudi, but left the film as the role was glamorous; the role went to . The soundtrack has only two songs, both composed by while the lyrics were written by and . The song “Aattama Therottama” is set in the known as . It was later remixed by Prasanna Sekhar in (2008). On 19 April 1991, wrote, “The strength of the film is its visual vibrancy and the narrative line too has a great measure of cohesion, despite it being an action film all the way”. On 26 April, wrote, “Vijayakanth doing his rough stuff with his known felicity, particularly the fights on top of the moving train, the horse riding horde of Veerabadran’s men in fashion trying to stop him”. Unlike other Tamil actors who did not face success with their 100th film, Vijayakanth was considered by N. Kesavan of to have broken that jinx. Rajarajan won the Cinema Express Award for Best Cameraman.</p>