Mariyadhai

Father Annamalai and son Raja aka Pichai (both played by Vijayakanth), mother (Ambika), a pretty sister and a rather chubby Chandra (Meera Jasmine), a radio jockey who arrives to stay with them because her parents have left for the US. In the midst of all this, Chandra falls in love with Raja, a dutiful son who has been brought up differently by his father but he does not return her love. He’s too busy running his tractor and earning money. A flashback tells us that Raja was once in love with Radha (Meena, in a delightful role) but it went sour. The music was composed by . wrote that “Mariyadhai is full of stock situations and trite dialogues but can satisfy Vijayakanth’s fans”. wrote, “Director Vikraman deserves to be lauded for making a Vijayakanth film with no political innuendos, and without deifying the hero”. wrote, “Overall, Vikraman has chosen a boring subject and told it with a pathetic script. The movie is so dull that it would be a futile and painful exercise to go in to detail”.