Pandian

<p>The film centers around Pandian, who wants to revenge his brother-in-law’s death. He joins the murderer’s gang and seeks vengeance. The gang discovers that Pandian is performing an undercover operation, since Pandian is a police officer. Despite this, Pandian eventually captures the culprit. Rajinikanth decided to make a low-budget film with director S. P. Muthuraman. Muthuraman produced the film under his production banner Visaalam Productions, named after his mother. Although not being a producer, Rajinikanth took care of production duties of the film along with . Rajinikanth decided to act in the film to contribute to the retirement fund of main crew members of the Muthuraman team who were regulars in most of the latter’s films. The film title was initially titled ( ) before being retitled to . It was Muthuraman’s penultimate film as director, and remade from the 1991 film . , who acted as that film’s protagonist, portrayed a different role in , the antagonist. Rajinikanth acted in the film without taking any remuneration. This would be the last film in Rajinikanth portrayed a police officer until the release of (2020). The soundtrack was composed by , while his son composed “Pandianin Rajyathil”, his first song. was released on 25 October 1992, day. Though Muthuraman’s wife died 10 days before, he refused the crew’s suggestion to postpone the release. The film opened up against other Diwali releases such as , , and . Due to facing competition from , failed at the box office. Even though it made some money, the money grossed was used for the retirement fund of Muthuraman’s crew. Malini Mannath of called it “a typical Rajini film; a mishmash of all ingredients formulated to please his fans”. K. Vijiyan of wrote, “This 135-minute movie is only for hard-core Rajini fans”. C. R. K. of praised Muthuraman for taking a simple knot and making it interesting for seventeen reels which clearly shows his experience.</p>