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'''Muthal Mariyathai'''


aka A Matter of Honour aka Prime Honour
1985 161’ col Tamil
d/p/sc P. Bharathirajaa pc Manoj Creations
st/dial R. Selvaraj lyr Vairamuthu c B. Kannan
m Ilaiyaraja
lp Sivaji Ganesan, Radha, Vadivukkarasi,
Ranjini, Sathyaraj, Janakaraj, Deepan,
Veeraswamy, Aruna, Soorya, Ilavarasi,
Ramanathan, Senapati, Muthaiah, Kanchana


A relentless melodrama told in flashback as the
saintly landlord Malaichami (Ganesan) lies
dying. Beset by a shrewish wife, Ponnatha
(Vadivukkarasi), who cannot cook and who
was pregnant by another man (Sathyaraj) when
she married the hero, Malaichami falls in love
with a fisherman’s young daughter, Kuyil
(Radha). She kills Ponnatha’s lover and goes to
jail, emerging under police escort to meet a
dying Malaichami, who clings to life until she
returns. A second tragic love story involves
Malaichami’s evil son-in-law who is a rapist
and a murderer. The ‘matter of honour’ that the
title suggests was however Bharathirajaa’s first
film with Ganesan, and it opens with a
documentary homage to the star.

[[Film]]