They team up and go to the circus where the women are held captive.
Appu escapes, helps Raja evade the police, and tells him everything. Nonetheless, he kidnaps both Muniyamma and Kaveri, and threatens to kill them unless Raja surrenders to him. He is shocked to see Kaveri, whom he believed to be dead.
Together they realise that the murders were committed by Appu, and that Raja has been mistaken for Appu, who overhears their conversation.ĭharmaraj believes that it is Raja avenging his father's death and that he is the next target. Kaveri realises that Raja is her first son and seeks out Muniyamma. When the crowd backs down, he releases Kaveri and flees. When he is spotted in a market, Raja takes a woman hostage and threatens to kill her, not knowing that the woman is his mother Kaveri. Janaki faints when she sees her father dead, and the inspector now believes that Raja shot Satyamoorthy. Appu escapes, but Raja and Janaki enter Satyamoorthy's room, having heard the gunshot a few moments before the inspector arrived. While Raja is talking to her, Appu tricks Satyamoorthy into killing himself with a circus handgun that shoots backwards. Raja goes to Janaki's house to reconcile, with the inspector following him covertly. Raja is released from custody as the postmortem examination has revealed real tiger wounds. Janaki becomes enraged when she learns that Raja is suspected of killing her father's friends and breaks up with him. This leads the inspector to Raja again, who, coincidentally, is wearing a tiger costume while performing a song at a festival in the street.
The inspector in charge of the case traces the car number given by the lorry driver and comes to suspect Raja of the murder.Īppu kills Nallasivam in a golf course using a tiger from his circus, but Nallasivam's caddie sees Appu's face, and the tiger's tail from afar. The lorry driver discovers the corpse when he reaches his destination and calls the police. Raja and Janaki have car trouble and hitchhike a ride in the same lorry, oblivious to the corpse. As Raja resembles Sethupathi, Satyamoorthy and his three accomplices become interested in him.Īppu uses two of his circus Indian Spitz puppies to lure Francis to an abandoned building, and kills him using a Rube Goldberg machine Francis's corpse falls into a lorry covered with hay. Meanwhile, Raja falls in love with a woman named Janaki, who happens to be Satyamoorthy's daughter. This leads Appu to learn about his father's murder and decides to avenge him. Heartbroken and insecure about his height, he attempts suicide, but is stopped by his mother, who then reveals that his dwarfism might have been because of the poison force-fed to her when she was pregnant. One of the twins, Raja, grows up as a mechanic with Muniyamma, while the other, Appu, a dwarf, grows up in the circus with his mother.Īppu falls in love with Mano, the daughter of the circus owner, mistakenly thinking that she was asking him to elope with her, but she actually had asked him to be a witness to her marriage, which was not approved by her father. She gives birth to twins with the help of a woman named Muniyamma, but the babies are separated due to circumstances. They kill him and poison his pregnant wife Kaveri. When he arrests four bigwigs – Dharmaraj, Francis Anbarasu, Nallasivam and Satyamoorthy – they escape justice easily and return to take revenge. Sethupathi is an honest and upright police officer. It won the Filmfare Award for Best Film – Tamil, and two Tamil Nadu State Film Awards: Best Actor (Haasan) and Best Lyricist (Vaali). The film was theatrically released on 14 April 1989 and was a box office success, completing a 200-day run in theatres. The music for the film was composed by Ilaiyaraaja, with lyrics by Vaali.Īpoorva Sagodharargal premiered at the International Film Festival of India. The film was written by Panchu Arunachalam, while Haasan and Crazy Mohan wrote the screenplay and dialogues, respectively. The plot centers on the twins Raju and Appu, who were separated during childhood, and Appu's quest for revenge against the criminals who killed his father.Īpoorva Sagodharargal was produced by Haasan under the production company Raaj Kamal Films International. The film features an ensemble cast including Kamal Haasan, Jaishankar, Nagesh, Gautami, Rupini, Manorama, Srividya, Janagaraj, Moulee, Delhi Ganesh and Nassar. Unique Brothers) is a 1989 Indian Tamil-language masala film directed by Singeetam Srinivasa Rao.