| 1 | '''Indira''' |
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| 4 | 1995 143’ col Tamil |
| 5 | d/co-s Suhasini pc G.V. Films co-s Mani |
| 6 | Rathnam lyr Vairamuthu c Santosh Sivan |
| 7 | m A.R. Rehman |
| 8 | lp Aravind Swamy, Anuradha Hasan, Ashwini, |
| 9 | Nasser, Radha Ravi |
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| 12 | Tamil star Suhasini’s directorial debut, scripted |
| 13 | by her husband Mani Rathnam. Set in still |
| 14 | feudal Southern Tamil Nadu, the film tells of |
| 15 | the feud between the evil landlord |
| 16 | Kotamarayar (Ravi) and the villagers of |
| 17 | Maranur, whom he drives to a less fertile area |
| 18 | across a river. The villagers are led by |
| 19 | Sethupathy (Nasser), married to the villain’s |
| 20 | sister and excommunicated for that reason. |
| 21 | When Setupathy is killed by the landlord, his |
| 22 | daughter Indira (Hasan) takes over the |
| 23 | leadership of the village, with the |
| 24 | encouragement of her urban lover (Swamy). In |
| 25 | the film’s climax, when a flood threatens the |
| 26 | portion of the village occupied by the uppercaste |
| 27 | sections, Indira succeeds in establishing a |
| 28 | humanitarian relationship transcending caste |
| 29 | differences and set to the chant Inni achcham |
| 30 | achcham illai, inni adimai ennam illai (There |
| 31 | is no more fear, there is no thought of slavery). |