'''Amaidhi Padai'''


1994 ? col Tamil
d/s Manivannan pc M.R. Films Intl. lyr Vali,
Pulamaipithan, Ponnadiyan c D. Shankar
m Ilaiyaraja
lp Sathyaraj, Ranjita, Kasturi, 
Sujatha,R. Sundarrajan, S.S. Chandran, Manivannan


Feudal drama set over two generations.
Thangavelu (Sathyaraj), training to be a police
officer, cannot marry Uchamma (Ranjita)
because his grandparents reveal his past history
as an illegitimate child. His father Nagaraja
Cholan (Sathyaraj again), a Member of the State
legislature, had been supported in his early
career by the rebel political leader Manimaran
(Manivannan), a reference to MDMK leader Vai
Gopalswamy. Having become a successful
politician, Nagaraja abandons the woman he is
to marry, Thayamma (Kasturi), causing her to
commit suicide leaving behind their illegitimate
son. Nagaraja instead marries the princess
Sivakami (Sujatha) who however sees through
his evil designs. Later, the grown up son teams
up with Manimaran and Sivakami, and
eventually kills his father. The film was a major
commercial success, seen as a comment on the
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s tendencies
towards nepotism (cf. DMK Film).

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