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Soora Samhaaram
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Wikipedia article
'Soora Samhaaram' is a 1988 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film directed by Chithra Lakshmanan and written by Vietnam Veedu Sundaram. The film stars Kamal Haasan in the role of police officer, ACP Athi Veerapandiyan. The film was later dubbed in Telugu as 'Police Diary' and released on 16 September 1988. Both the Tamil and Telugu versions were box office hits.
Plot
Athi Veerapandiyan and Arun are police officers. Divya is a drug addict who cannot stop her habit even though her brother Arun pleads. One day Arun locks her up, but she dies from withdrawal. Devastated, Arun decides to take revenge on Mohandas, the kingpin of the drug mafia, but Mohandas kills him in an airport restroom. Sudha's young brother happens to watch this murder but is terrified to make this public. Pandian, who is in-charge of this case, zeroes in Sudha and her brother as witnesses, but she refuses. But when Madhuri pleads for her help, she decides to help Pandian, but now Pandian is abducted by Mohandas's men and forcefully turn him into a drug addict. The climax reveals whether Pandian nabs the drug lord and complete the revenge of his friend Arun.
Cast
*Kamal Haasan as ACP Athi Veerapandiyan
*Nirosha as Sudha
*Nizhalgal Ravi as Arun
*Pallavi as Divya
*Madhuri as Arun's wife
*Kitty as Mohandas
*Janagaraj as Jana
*Captain Raju as Chakkaravarthy (Voice Dubbed by Delhi Ganesh)
*Rajyalakshmi as Chakkaravarthy's Daughter
*Venniradai Moorthy as Mohandas's Labour
*Veeraraghavan
*Thakkali Srinivasan as Dileep
*Master Meenuraj as Sudha's Brother
*Kuyli (Special Appearance in the song 'Vedhalam Vanthiruku')
Soundtrack
The music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja.
Reception
N. Krishnaswamy of 'The Indian Express' wrote, "'Soora Samharam' is destined to be somewhat muffled in its explosive impact with the entertaining vein and progressively thinning". The film ran over 100 days in many centres. Sivaji Ganesan presided over the 100-day success celebration which was held on Haasan's birthday Ilaiyaraaja won the Cinema Express Award for Best Music Director. On 6 December 2021, in his YouTube channel, Touring Talkies, Chithra Lakshmanan said the Telugu-dubbed version 'Police Diary', which had one additional song, ran for 185 days in Andhra Pradesh.
References
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