Raja goes over to Janaki's house to smooth things over with the inspector following him covertly. Raja is released from custody as the postmortem examination has revealed real tiger wounds that could not be inflicted by Raja's costume. Janaki becomes enraged when she learns that Raja has killed her father's friends and breaks up with him. This leads the inspector to Raja again, who, coincidentally, is wearing a tiger costume while performing a song at a festival in the street. The inspector in charge of the case suspects Raja by tracing the car number given by the lorry driver.Īppu kills Nallasivam in a golf course using a tiger from his circus, but Nallasivam's caddie sees Appu's face, and the tiger's tail from afar.
The lorry driver discovers the corpse when he reaches his destination and calls the police. Raja and Janaki have car trouble and hitchhike a ride in the same lorry, oblivious to the corpse.
As Raja resembles Sethupathi, Satyamoorthy and his three friends gain interest in him.Īppu uses two of his circus Indian Spitz puppies to lure Francis to an abandoned building, and kills him using a Rube Goldbergian contraption Francis's corpse falls into a lorry covered with hay. Meanwhile, Raja falls in love with Janaki, who happens to be Satyamoorthy's daughter. This leads Appu to learn about his father's murder and decides to avenge him. Heartbroken over this and insecure about his height, he attempts suicide but is prevented by his mother, who then reveals that his dwarfism might have been because of the poison force-fed to her when she was pregnant. One of the twins, Raja, grows up as a mechanic with Muniyamma, while the other, Appu, a dwarf, grows up in the circus with his mother.Īppu falls in love with Mano, the daughter of the circus owner, mistakenly thinking that she was asking him to elope with her, but she actually had asked him to be a witness to her marriage with her fiancé, which was not approved by her father. She gives birth to twins with the help of a woman named Muniyamma, but the babies are separated due to circumstances. They kill him and poison his pregnant wife Kaveri. When he arrests four bigwigs – Dharmaraj, Francis Anbarasu, Nallasivam and Satyamoorthy – they escape justice easily and return to take revenge. Sethupathi is an honest and upright police officer. It won the Filmfare Award for Best Film – Tamil, and two Tamil Nadu State Film Awards: Best Actor (Haasan) and Best Lyricist (Vaali). The film was theatrically released on 14 April 1989 and was a box office success, completing a 200-day run in theatres. The music for the film was composed by Ilaiyaraaja, with lyrics written by Vaali.Īpoorva Sagodharargal premiered at the International Film Festival of India.
Vijayan handled editing respectively, while the cinematography was handled by P. The film's story was written by Panchu Arunachalam, while Haasan and Crazy Mohan wrote the screenplay and dialogues respectively. It revolves around twins Raju and Appu who were separated during childhood and grew up in different localities, and Appu's quest for revenge upon learning that his father was killed by four criminals.Īpoorva Sagodharargal was produced by Haasan under the production company Raaj Kamal Films International. The film features an ensemble cast including Kamal Haasan, Jaishankar, Nagesh, Gautami, Rupini, Manorama, Srividya, Janagaraj, Moulee, Delhi Ganesh and Nassar. Rare Brothers) is a 1989 Indian Tamil-language masala film directed by Singeetam Srinivasa Rao.