Mangai Oru Gangai

<p>Radha Ranganathan, an advocate, becomes cynical after failing to get a criminal convicted for the murder of her brother-in-law. was directed by and produced by of Motherland Pictures. Hariharan also wrote the screenplay, based on a story by Motherland Pictures’ Story Department, and the dialogue was written by . Cinematography was handled by U. Rajagopal, and editing by M. S. Money. The soundtrack was composed by the duo . was released on 24 July 1987. On 7 August, N. Krishnaswamy of wrote, “I was pleased that the makers of the film had done their homework on the script and had here something that was intellectually simulating”, and praised the performances of Saritha, Charan Raj, Nadhiya and Viswanathan. of , however, reviewed the film more negatively, feeling the court scenes were excessively stretched and inducing uncontrollable yawn.</p>