Pathinaru Vayathinile

aka 16 Vayathiniley aka Sweet 16 1977 139’ col Tamil d/s Bharathirajaa pc Shri Amman Creations p S.A. Rajakannu dial P. Kalaimani lyr Kannadasan, Alangudi Somu, Gangai Amaran c P.S. Niwas m Ilaiyaraja lp Kamalahasan, Rajnikant, Shabir Ahmed, Raghunath, Goundamani, Isaac Senapathi, S.V. Subbaiah, Balagiri, Sridevi, Kanthimathi, Gemini Rajeshwari

Sometimes considered the second film (after Annakkili, 1976) to take the Tamil cinema out of the studio, Bharathirajaa’s debut is a love story in which a young maiden, Mayil (Sridevi), has fantasies about marrying a fashionable urban youth. Her dreams are shattered when the village idiot Sappani (Kamalahasan) she marries rescues her from the local bully Parattayan (Rajnikant). Unfortunately he kills the bully and has to go to jail but she will wait for him. The musical established Sridevi as a major Tamil star.

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