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Sattam Oru Vilaiyattu
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Wikipedia article
'Sattam Oru Vilaiyattu' is a 1987 Indian Tamil-language action crime film, directed by S. A. Chandrasekhar and produced by Shoba Chandrasekhar. The film stars Vijayakanth, Radha and Ravichandran. The film had musical score by M. S. Viswanathan.
Plot
As a boy, Raja saw his mother and younger brother murdered. He saw too that his police inspector father DCP Needhi Manikkam was powerless to get the murderer convicted as there was no evidence.
As a young man under the name of Vijay, he gets even with the criminal Mathappu Sundaram killing each one of his three sons. One under water, the second from a mountain peak, the third murder is made to look as it were an accident with the car carrying the victim hurtling off the peak.
Cast
*Vijayakanth as Raja
*Radha as Veni
*Ravichandran as DCP Needhi Manikkam
*Srividya as Amudha
*S. A. Chandrasekhar as Peter
*Senthamarai as Mathappu Sundaram
*S. S. Chandran as Vairavelu
*Senthil as Lingesan
*Kamala Kamesh as Nair's wife
*Vijay as Raja (Child artist as Cameo appearance)
Soundtrack
The music was composed by M. S. Viswanathan.
Release and reception
'Sattam Oru Vilaiyattu' was released on 21 October 1987, alongside another Vijayakanth film 'Uzhavan Magan'. However, both films went on to become super hits at the box office. 'The Indian Express' wrote, "The screenplay is utterly contrived and there is nothing new either in M. Karunanidhi's dialogues [..] or S. A. Chandrasekhar's treatment which is as hackneyed as ever".
References
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