Mappillai (1989 film)

Mappillai
Film poster
Directed by	Rajasekhar
Produced by	Allu Aravind
Written by	Panju Arunachalam
Screenplay by	Panju Arunachalam
Story by	Geetha Arts Story Department
Starring	Rajinikanth Amala Srividya Nizhalgal Ravi S. S. Chandran Vinu Chakravarthy
Music by	Ilaiyaraaja
Cinematography	V. Ranga
Edited by	M. Vellaisamy
Production company	Geetha Arts
Distributed by	Pyramid Movies
Release date	28 October 1989
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Mappillai (English: Son-in-law) is a 1989 Tamil action comedy film directed by Rajasekhar starring Rajinikanth and Amala in lead roles. It is a remake of Telugu film Athaku Yamudu Ammayiki Mogudu, the Tamil version was produced by Geetha Arts, and Chiranjeevi who played the lead role in the original Telugu version made a special appearance in this film. The film opened to positive response from the public and ran for 200 days.^[1] The film was remade again in Tamil with the same title, after 22 years in 2011.

Plot

Aarumugam makes a blazing entrance, gatecrashing a marriage to abduct the bride. Geetha, the bride's friend, gets him arrested but then learns that he had rescued the girl from a forced marriage. Further revelations about him that he is a gold medalist and has a good heart make her fall in love with him. After some convincing, Aarumugam reciprocates too. Meanwhile, Aarumugam's sister is in love with the son of a rich woman Rajarajeswari. When Rajarajeswari learns of this, she foists a false case on her and puts her in jail. It is then that Aarumugam has his first encounter with Rajarajeswari. He then learns that she is none other than Geetha's mother. He also invites Geetha's mother Rajarajeswari to his marriage. At that time he calls his friend (played by Chiranjeevi) and tells him that during his marriage there are goons who will try to stop it. He requests Chiranjeevi to look after the rowdies and he comes, fights off the goons, attends the marriage and goes. Since Aarumugam has married Geetha against her mother's wishes, Rajarajeswari vows to separate them while Aarumugam vows to prevent that and make Rajarajeswari understand that love and affection are more important than money.

Cast

• Rajinikanth as Arumugam
• Amala as Geetha
• Jaishankar as Srividya husband
• Nizhalgal Ravi as Ravi
• Vinu Chakravarthy
• S. S. Chandran
• Dubbing Janaki
• Srividya as Rajarajeswari
• Dilip
• Raja
• Chiranjeevi in a special appearance
• Srihari as one of the henchmen

Production

Initially the pivotal role of Rajinikanth's mother-in-law was offered to Vyjayanthimala. But she refused the role after which it was offered to Srividya.^[2]

Soundtrack

The music composed by Ilaiyaraaja.^[3]

References