Vellai Roja

Vellai Roja
Poster
Directed by A. Jagannathan
Produced by V. Viswanathan
Screenplay by A. L. Narayanan
Story by Dr Pavithran
Starring Sivaji Ganesan
Ambika
Prabhu
Radha
Music by Ilaiyaraaja
Cinematography P. Ganesapandiyan
Edited by R. Devarajan
Production
company
Filmco
Release date
  • 4 November 1983 (1983-11-04)
Country India
Language Tamil

Vellai Roja (English: White Rose) is a 1983 Indian Tamil-language film, directed by A. Jagannathan and produced by V. Viswanathan. The film stars Sivaji Ganesan, Ambika, Prabhu and Radha in lead roles. The film had musical score by Ilayaraja.[1][2][3][4] It is a remake of the Malayalam film Post Mortem. It was remade in Kannada as Dharmathma in 1988 with Tiger Prabhakar reprising the role of Sivaji Ganesan and Shankar Nag reprising the role of Prabhu]. This film was later made in Hindi as Tahqiqaat in 1993 with Jeetendra in the lead.

Plot

Father James (Sivaji Ganesan) is a well-respected Catholic Priest by the entire town. Parisutham (Calcutta Viswanathan) is a multimillionaire and head of the town, Peter (Prabhu) an angry young man, who always fights for justice and anti to rich people, who is a son of a coffin maker Savaerimuthu(G. Srinivasan). Peter's sister Mary (Radha) and Parisutham's son Johnny (Suresh) are in love. Mary becomes pregnant and at that time Johnny has to leave the country for few days on business, so she asks the Father James' help to arrange her marriage with Johnny because both Parisutham and Peter respect his words. But Peter's girlfriend Lakshmi (Ambika), overhears part of a conversation between Father James and Mary on her pregnancy and misunderstands that the Father and Mary were involved in a taboo relationship, and she tells Peter. Next Day Mary is found hanging dead from a tree. Peter, in a fit of rage assaults Father James and gets arrested, but he escapes. Everyone thinks that Mary has committed suicide and she is buried without a postmortem. But Father James has a doubt about Mary's death, so he asks his twin brother Arul (again Sivaji Ganesan), Superintendent of Police, to have the body exhumed in order to perform a postmortem. The next day when S.P. Arul exhumes Mary's coffin he finds Father James murdered and his dead body in it, with Mary's corpse missing. Everyone suspects Peter was the culprit, S.P. Arul immediately begins an investigation to solve the mystery behind Mary's missing dead body and Father James' death. Who is the culprit for Father James' murder, the motive, was Mary killed or did she commit suicide, why was her body missing, where is Johnny, forms the rest of the story.

Cast

Crew

  • Art = Mohan - Rajendran
  • Stills = Thiruchi K. Arunachalam
  • Design = Deenadhayal
  • Publicity = Elegant
  • Processing = Gemini Colour Lab
  • Audiography (dialogue) = M. G. Rajan by Prasad Dubbing Center
  • Recording = N. Pandurangan
  • Re - Recording = N. Pandurangan
  • Choreography = Raghu and Thara
  • Stunt = A. D. Venkatesh
  • Production Manager = M. Gabhar Khan
  • Outdoor = Filmco and Sujatha International

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja.[5]

No.SongSingersLyricsLength (m:ss)
1Solai Poovil Malai ThenralS. P. Balasubrahmanyam, JanakiMuthulingam04:38
2Oh Maanae MaanaS. P. Balasubrahmanyam, JanakiN. Kama Rajan04:20
3Devanin KovilMalaysia VasudevanVaali04:15
4Naagoor PakkathileIlaiyaraaja, Malaysia Vasudevan, S. P. SailajaGangai Amaran04:43
5Vaadi EnnGangai Amaran, JanakiGangai Amaran04:25

References

  1. ↑ "Vellai Roja". OneIndia. Retrieved 2014-08-13.
  2. ↑ "Vellai Roja". spicyonion.com. Retrieved 2014-08-13.
  3. ↑ "Vellai Roja". gomolo.com. Retrieved 2014-08-13.
  4. ↑ "Vellai Roja". nadigarthilagam.com. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  5. ↑ "Vellai Roja Songs". raaga.com. Retrieved 2014-08-13.
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