| 1 | '''Apoova Sahodarargal''' |
| 2 | |
| 3 | |
| 4 | aka Appu Raja |
| 5 | 1989 157’ col Tamil |
| 6 | d Singeetham Srinivasa Rao pc Rajkamal |
| 7 | International p/sc Kamalahasan st Panchu |
| 8 | Arunachalam dial ‘Crazy’ Mohan c P.C. Sriram |
| 9 | lyr Valim Ilaiyaraja |
| 10 | lp Kamalahasan, Jaishankar, Nagesh, Nasser, |
| 11 | Delhi Ganesh, Janakaraj, Mouli, Roopini, |
| 12 | Gauthami, Manorama, Srividya |
| 13 | |
| 14 | |
| 15 | A successful remake of the familiar story with |
| 16 | Kamalahasan in a sensational triple role |
| 17 | following in Lon Chaney’s footsteps as he |
| 18 | physically transforms himself into a dwarf. In a |
| 19 | prelude shot in an Italo-Western style |
| 20 | reminiscent of Sholay’s (1975, Inspector |
| 21 | Sedupathi (Kamalahasan) captures and |
| 22 | publicly humiliates four villains. On their |
| 23 | release, they murder Sedupathi and try to |
| 24 | poison his pregnant wife, who manages to |
| 25 | escape with the twins she eventually bears. |
| 26 | Chased by the villains, the mother and a female |
| 27 | friend escape with one child each, believing |
| 28 | the others to have been killed. The real mother |
| 29 | and her son Appu, a dwarf (Kamalahasan), join |
| 30 | a circus where he has a Chaplinesque romance |
| 31 | with the manager’s daughter. Learning the truth |
| 32 | about his past, Appu tracks down the four |
| 33 | villains and kills three of them. The killings are |
| 34 | attributed to a certain Raja (Kamalahasan |
| 35 | again) who turns out to be the missing twin |
| 36 | now working as a garage mechanic and the |
| 37 | lover of the remaining villain’s daughter. Raja, |
| 38 | pursued by the police, is rescued by Appu and |
| 39 | happy ending consists of the twins murdering |
| 40 | the last villain. |
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| 43 | [[Film]] |