Bharathan (1992 film)

Bharathan is a 1992 Tamil action drama film directed by Sabapathy Dekshinamurthy. The film features Vijayakanth and Bhanupriya in lead roles. The film, produced by A. S. Ibrahim Rowther, had musical score by Ilaiyaraaja and was released on 16 April 1992. The film is a remake of Hindi film Ghayal featuring Sunny Deol and Meenakshi Seshadri. The film completed a 100-day run.^[1][2]

Plot

Bharath (Vijayakanth) is sent to jail for a murder and he is sentenced to the death penalty.

In the past, Bharath was in love with Indhu (Bhanupriya). He had a brother Ramkumar (S. P. Balasubrahmanyam) and a sister-in-law Janaki (Sumitra). His brother dreamt to see him as a government official, but Bharath preferred to be a kickboxing champion.

One day, Ramkumar disappeared and Bharath began to look for him. Finally, Ramkumar's labourer (Chandrasekhar) explained to Bharath what happened to his brother. Gangadharan (Anandaraj), a powerful businessman, helped Ramkumar in his business. Ramkumar was grateful to him, and Gangadharan took some advantages and began to smuggle alcohol illegally in Ramkumar's company. When Ramkumar decided to denounce it to the police, he was kidnapped by Gangadharan. Gangadharan killed Ramkumar and the innocent Bharath is arrested for the murder. Bharath appointed his family friend Viswanathan as the advocate but Viswanathan, ally with Gangadharan, betrayed him, and Bharath was sentenced to the capital punishment. Thereafter, his sister-in-law Janaki committed suicide.

In jail, Bharath makes friends with his cellmates and they escape from the jail to punish Gangadharan. Johnson (Napoleon), an honest C.I.D officer, is appointed to protect Gangadharan. Bharath first kills the traitor Viswanathan. He then threatens the commissioner and his family to kill more easily Gangadharan.

In the meantime, Indhu is kidnapped by Gangadharan's henchmen and Bharath saves her on time. Shameful to protect a criminal and worried to punish an innocent, the commissioner and Johnson try to stop Bharath. In the end, Bharath kills Gangadharan and he is sent to jail.

Cast

• Vijayakanth as Bharathan a.k.a. Bharath
• Bhanupriya as Indhu
• S. P. Balasubrahmanyam as Ramkumar
• Anandaraj as Gangadharan
• Napoleon as C.I.D. Johnson
• Sangeetha as Janaki
• Chandrasekhar as Ramkumar's laborer
• Vasu Vikram as Bharath's cellmate
• R. Sundarrajan as Gangadharan's man
• Srividya as Lakshmi
• Ponnambalam as Gangadharan's right hand
• Srihari as Uttam Singh (guest appearance)
• Prabhu Deva in a special appearance

Soundtrack

The film score and the soundtrack were composed by film composer Ilaiyaraaja. The soundtrack, released in 1992, 5 features tracks.

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