Nayagan

Nayagan Nayakudu (Telugu)
Official Tamil DVD Cover
Directed by	Mani Ratnam
Produced by	Mani Ratnam G. Venkateswaran
Written by	Mani Ratnam
Starring	Kamal Haasan Saranya Janagaraj Tinnu Anand Delhi Ganesh Nizhalgal Ravi Karthika Nasser Neena
Music by	Ilaiyaraaja
Cinematography	P. C. Sriram
Distributed by	Sujatha Films
Release date(s)	31 July 1987
Running time	145 min
Language	Tamil
Gross revenue	US$3 million

Nayagan (Tamil: நாயகன், a.k.a. Nayakan; English: Leader) is a 1987 Tamil film, written and directed by Mani Ratnam. Upon release, the movie got rave reviews across India. Kamal Hassan's performance in this film earned him a Best Actor award. Maniratnam earned accolades from all over India and became popular overnight. The film also earned National Award for Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction.
Nayagan (which means 'Hero' or 'Leader') is based on the real-life Bombay underworld don Varada or Varadarajan Mudaliar, and sympathetically depicts the struggle of South Indians living in Bombay (now Mumbai). The lead character is played by Kamal Haasan, and the film also stars Saranya, Karthika, Nassar, Delhi Ganesh and Janagaraj. The soundtrack of the film was composed by Ilaiyaraaja.
The film was nominated by India as its entry for the Best Foreign Language Film for the Academy Awards in 1987. In 2005, Time Magazine included Nayagan in its "All-Time 100 Best Films" list.^[1]
The film was remade in Hindi as Dayavan in 1988, with Vinod Khanna playing the part of Saktivelu and with Feroz Khan and Madhuri Dixit playing the roles of Selvam and Neela. A dubbed version of the film was released as Velu Nayakan in 1999.

 Plot

Sakthivelu Nayakar (Kamal Hassan), the protagonist, is born to an anti-government union leader. The child, Velu, is tricked by the police into locating his father, and then witnesses his father's death in a police shootout. Then after doing the final rites for his father, he kills the person who was the cause for his father's death. Orphaned, he escapes to Bombay.
Stranded and homeless in the big city, he is rescued by a kind-hearted Muslim fisherman who takes him into his home in the sprawling suburban slums of Dharavi. His foster-father is also a small-time smuggler known for his generosity in the slum. Upon his running afoul of a senior crime lord, the corrupt local police officer Inspector Kelkar arrests the fisherman on smuggling charges, and is later murdered. Velu Naiker, now a young man who has come into his own, goes in search of the officer and bludgeons him to death.

kamal hassan in NAYAGAN

Kamal Hassan in a scene from the movie

With this act, he is seen at once a saviour and a man to be feared amongst the slum residents. As their godfather and protector, he flourishes by resuming his dead foster-father's local smuggling activities. He marries a destitute school-girl-turned-prostitute (Saranya) and has two children. Conflicts and power struggles occur in the competitive web of the smuggling world, in which Velu's wife becomes a casualty. Velu's kids are sent away to Chennai as a result and return years later to their father's home, as young adults.
The son, Surya (Nizhalgal Ravi), is eager to join his father in his activities, despite his father's reluctance. For his first real test, he is required to eliminate a potential witness against his father; he does this by hiring outside thugs. They succeed in eliminating the witness, but their failure to cover their tracks leads police to him at a petrol bunk and an accident costs him his life. Velu is heartbroken. Velu's daughter (Karthika) is at odds with her father over his form of justice and killings. To this he replies Ellariyum yetha sol, aprom naan yethran. The death of her brother was the last straw for her and she cuts off her relationship with her father and leaves him.
A newly appointed Assistant Police Commissioner (Nassar) starts afresh the hunt to bring Velu Nayakar to justice over his alleged activities and manages to secure an arrest warrant. This Commissioner is unknowingly Velu's son-in-law, as his daughter had secretly married him. After continued pursuit resulting in the beatings by police and self-immolation of slum dwellers, Velu surrenders to the police to spare the lives of the residents of his slum. He is tried in court but is released due to the lack of adequate evidence for his alleged nefarious activities. A supportive and emotional crowd gathers at the courthouse, awaiting Velu's release. Velu emerges to greet the tumultuous crowd but unexpectedly gets shot by Inspector Kelkar's retarded son, whom Velu had adopted, after he learns that Velu had killed his father long ago.

Cast

• Kamal Haasan, Manikandan (child role) as Shaktivelu / Velu Naiker
• Saranya Ponvannan as Neela
• Janagaraj as Selvam
• Tinnu Anand as Ajith Kelkar
• Delhi Ganesh as Aiyyer
• Nizhalgal Ravi as Surya
• Karthika as Charumati / Charu
• Nasser as Assistant Commissioner / Charu's husband
• Kitty as Shaktivelu's father
• M. V. Vasudeva Rao as Hussain Bai
• Tara as Shyla
• Vijayan

Awards

The film was nominated as India's official entry for the 1988 Academy Awards. However, it was not among the five films shortlisted for the award.
The film won the following awards:
1988 National Film Awards (India)

• Best Actor - Kamal Haasan
• Best Cinematography - P. C. Sriram
• Best Art Direction - Thotta Tharani

Vetri Vizha வெற்றி விழா

Vetri Vizha
DVD cover of Vetri Vizha
Directed by	Pratap Pothan
Produced by	Sivaji Productions
Written by	K.Rajeshwar, Shanmugapriyan
Narrated by	Pratap Pothan
Starring	Kamal Haasan Prabhu Ganesan Amala Kushboo Sasikala
Music by	Ilayaraaja
Cinematography	Ashok Kumar
Release date(s)	November 7 1989
Country	India
Language	Tamil
Preceded by	Apoorva Sagothargal
Followed by	Indhirudu Chandirudu

வெற்றி விழா is a 1989 Tamil language film starring Kamal Haasan in the lead role of the protagonist. Prabhu Ganesan, Amala, Sasikala and Kushboo played supporting roles. The story was of an amnesiac who struggles to find his past after memory loss.
The Movie opens with a Man (Kamal Hasan) being chased by heavily armed men. He takes out a couple of them with his superior skills but is shot down from a hanging ladder in the helicopter trying to rescue him. He washes up on the shore of Goa unconscious and is rescued by (Sasikala) who brings him to her doctor aunt (Sowcar Janaki).
When he wakes up, he realizes that he is suffering from Amnesia and has a few flashes of a sculptures, karate class etc. but doesn’t recognize them. Meanwhile, the local rowdy has been harassing the doctor and her niece. Kamal and Sasikala are again harassed by the rowdy but kamal manages to thwart the attack easily which makes him believe that he might be trained in martial arts. Since kamal has enraged the rowdy, the doctor pleads with him to marry her niece for her own protection. He does so and thwarts another attack from the rowdy during their wedding.
Right after, he decides to leave for Chennai to find his identity with his new wife in tow. Soon they find out that the earlier flashes he had are of the sculptures in Connemara Hotel and he used to be a regular there. After getting the bank account number he has used previously in the Hotel, he visits the bank and is once again surprised to find out that he was a regular to the bank too and has a locker with a large amount of money, multiple passports of him and a hand gun.
While leaving the bank, he is attacked by an unknown assailant in the elevator but he once again successfully maims the assailant and escapes but leaves a shocked witness. His bank locker contents along with his martial arts skills make him believe that he might have been involved in gangs before and decides to surrender to police but is talked out it by his wife.
We are then introduced to Vijay (Prabhu Ganesan) and Khushboo who are part of a wedding band. Kamal decides to uncover another one of his image flashes and tries to locate the karate class. In One such class, the instructor recognizes him but guides him towards a singer Disco Shanti and tells his that he might be in danger. Another group of assailants attack him and Vijay and his wife are caught in the chaos. Believing Vijay to be helping Kamal, they kidnap his wife and demand the surrender of Kamal but Vijay and Kamal team up to rescue Vijay’s wife which makes Vijay pledge to help Kamal in his quest.
Kamal, then goes to talk to the singer but is soon recognized and is shot at. Shanti helps him escape and gives him a phone number to contact but is fatally wounded. He contacts the number and barely escapes another attempt on his life but manages to meet the person Shanti referred who happens to be the Police commissioner.
He finally learns of his true identity. His name is Vetri and that he was a happily married, to Lalitha (Amala), Police officer who teamed up with the commissioner to bring down a notorious hitman Zinda (Salim Ghouse).Unable to find any information about Zinda’s whereabouts, they device a plan to make Vetri go undercover and make him a bigger and more dangerous hitman than Zinda, hoping Zinda would get in touch with his fiercest competitor. The plan works and soon Zinda and Vetri become friends. But soon, Zinda learns about an undercover police officer in his gang thro’ a spy and kidnap Lalitha to oust the spy. Vetri breaks his cover to protect Lalitha but she is shot and killed in the shooting that ensues and Vetri is chased (this is the opening in the movie) but escapes barely.
Vetri put the pieces back together and uncovers a plot by Zinda to assassinate a very popular priest, when he went to visit the singer. Vijay and Vetri thwart the plot but Zinda still manages to escape. In order to avenge this Zinda kidnaps both Vijays and Vetris wives and send them a photographic evidence of the kidnap. But Vetri and Vijay soon find the location with the background signboard in the photo and rescue their wives and arrest Zinda.
Awaiting Zindas presence in the courtroom for his trial, they are surprised to see an unknown man being presented in the trial as Zinda. This makes them think that the commissioner may be the spy who swapped Zinda out and rushes to his house to confront him but finds him murdered in the arms of his crying wife. Suspicions still exist and Vetri and Vijay finds that the real spy is the commissioners wife and confront her. She shows them a lot of cash and asks them to let her go. Vijay, sees this and shoots and kill Vetri for the money and asks her to give his the money and leave. She, believing that Vetri is finally dead rushes back to Zinda. But Vetri is alive and this was a plan to make her lead them to Zindas location. Vetri and Vijay follow her to a Ship docked on the port and goes in to arrest Zinda. Zinda and his men are soon overpowered by the 2 man fighting machine but before he dies he arms a bomb in the ship. Vetri and Vijay collaborate once again to disarm the bomb.

Related

1. This film is later dubbed into Telugu as Vijethalu. The film is heavily inspired by The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum, though the story deviates from Ludlum's plot in the second half of the movie.
2. The film completed 100th day in 1990.
3. Many artistes made cameos in the film :

• Sowcar Janaki(Extended cameo, in the beginning of the film)
• Amala (Extended cameo, plus a song sequence)
• Disco Shanti (Extended cameo, plus a song sequence)
• V.K Ramasamy (Cameo)
• Palaivana Solai Thyagu (Cameo)
• S.S Santhiran (Extended Cameo)
• Janakaraj (Extended Cameo),
• Vikram Dharma (Elevator Fight Sequence)
• Chinni Jayanth (Cameo)
• Mayilsamy (Cameo)and
• Ponnampalam (Cameo)

4. Hindi actor Salim Ghouse debuted as villain Jindha and dubbed his own voice. He later became famous through Vijaykanth's Cinna Gounder
5. Vetri Vizha is first of 2 Tamil film made in 70mm format, the other was Amaran (1992).
6. The climax fight sequence in which Vetrivel (Kamal) Kills Jindha (Salim) is exact copy of Arnold Schwarzenegger's 1985 film Commando's climax scene.
7. Kamal Haasan wore a false moustache throughout the film since he was filming Indhiruddu Chandiruddu (Telugu) and Chanakyan (Malayalam) at the same time, in which both film required non-moustached roles

• Story - K.Rajeshwar and Shanmugapriyan
• Direction and screen play - Pratap Pothan
• Music - Illayaraja
• Cinematography - Ashok Kumar
• Choreography - Master Sundaram. Both Raju Sundaram and Prabu Deva served as uncredited dance assistants for the film

Saagar

Saagar
Official DVD Cover
Directed by	Ramesh Sippy
Produced by	G.P. Sippy
Written by	Javed Akhtar
Starring	Rishi Kapoor Kamal Hassan Dimple Kapadia Nadira Saeed Jaffrey Satish Kaushik
Music by	R.D. Burman
Cinematography	S.M. Anwar
Editing by	M.S. Shinde
Distributed by	Sippy Films
Release date(s)	9 August 1985
Running time	187 mins
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Saagar (Hindi: सागर, Urdu: ساگر) is a 1985 Bollywood film directed by Ramesh Sippy. The film starred Rishi Kapoor and Dimple Kapadia, (who were both first seen together in the hit film Bobby) along with Kamal Hassan.
Saagar was a comeback film for Kapadia, and contained a fleeting topless shot of Dimple. Also, Saagar was the Indian entry to Oscar for the year 1985 under the Best Foreign Film Category.
This movie is a triangular love story. Mona (Dimple Kapadia) runs a small restaurant in Goa, Raja (Kamal Hassan) lives close by and is a good friend. Raja is in love with her but is unable to admit his feelings.
Meanwhile Ravi (Rishi Kapoor) is from a rich industrialist family and moves to Goa from the US. Mona and Ravi fall in love. But Raja doesn't know about it. Ravi's grandmother is opposed to their love because of class differences.

Cast

• Rishi Kapoor as Ravi
• Kamal Haasan as Raja
• Dimple Kapadia as Mona D'Silva
• Nadira as Miss Joseph
• Saeed Jaffrey as Mr. D'Silva
• Madhur Jaffrey as Kamladevi
• A.K. Hangal as Baba
• Shafi Inamdar as Vikram
• Satish Kaushik as Batuk Laal
• Kiran Vairale as Maria
• Lilliput as Cheena
• Goga Kapoor as Thekedaar..

Soundtrack

• Jaane Do Naa Asha Bhosle, Shailendra Singh
• O Maria Asha Bhosle, S. P. Balasubramaniam
• Saagar Jaisi Aankhonwali Kishore Kumar
• Saagar Kinare (duet) Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar
• Saagar Kinare (female) Lata Mangeshkar
• Sach Mere Yaar Hai S. P. Balasubramaniam
• Yoon Hi Gaate Raho S. P. Balasubramaniam, Kishore Kumar

Awards

The film has won the following awards since its release:
1986 Filmfare Awards (India)

• Won - Filmfare Award - Best Actor - Kamal Hassan
• Won - Filmfare Award - Best Actress - Dimple Kapadia
• Won - Filmfare Award - Best Cinematography - S.M. Anwar
• Won - Filmfare Award - Best Male Playback Singer - Kishore Kumar (for 'Saagar Kinare')

Thoongadhey Thambi Thoongadhey

Thoongadhey Thambi Thoongadhey
Directed by	S.P.Muthuraman
Produced by	AVM Productions
Written by	Panju Arunachalam
Starring	Kamal Haasan Radha Suloachana Jamuna V.K.Ramasaamy Vinuchakravarthy Goundamani Senthamarai Janagaraj Bindhukos Dilip
Music by	Ilayaraaja
Release date(s)	1983
Country	India
Language	Tamil
Gross revenue	$3 million

 Thoongadhey Thambi Thoongadhey is a Tamil language film starring Kamal Haasan in the lead role of the protagonist. In this film Kamal Haasan has done a "dual" role. One as an unemployed guy from a middle class society and other as a guy of a rich society return from abroad after his father's death. In order to get the total property of the Kamal Haasan (rich-one), Vinuchakravarthy with his mob guys assaults him and makes him to undergo as a drug addict by repeated injections of some harmful sedative. Radha's father V.K. Ramasmy who is a family friend of the rich-one's father with Radha who is also a lover of the another Kamal comes as an excursion. Due to her curiousness she sees the rich-one and finds out that he is in a very dangerous state of his health due to the drug addiction. With the help of the house's servant Radha replaces the other Kamal to this house and saves him and his properties from the bad guys Vinuchakravarthy and Senthamarai.
- The highlight of the movie is the grand climax scenes which is cross edited carefully from a Hindi film by editor Vittas. - Stunt Director Judo Rathnam repeated the tea stall fight in 1985 Hindi film Geraftaar, also starring Kamal Haasan.

Cast

• Kamal Haasan
• Radha
• Suloachana
• Jamuna
• V.K.Ramasaamy
• Vinuchakravarthy
• Goundamani
• Senthamarai
• Janagaraj
• Bindhukos
• Dilip

Box office

• The film grossed $3 million at the box office and was graded as one of the All-Time Blockbuster of Kamal Haasan's career.

• The film created huge Mass hysteria and lived upto its hype doing sensational business all over South India.

• The film was dubbed into malayalam as Vasantholsavam

• The film has the Evergreen song " Naanaka Naanillai Thaayae.. Nalvaazhvu Thanthayae Neeyae..."

Moondram Pirai

Moondram Pirai
Official DVD Box Cover
Directed by	Balu Mahendra
Produced by	G. Thyagarajan
Written by	Balu Mahendra(screenplay)
Starring	Kamal Haasan Sridevi Kapoor Silk Smitha Poornam Vishwanathan
Music by	Ilaiyaraaja
Cinematography	Balu Mahendra
Editing by	D. Vasu
Release date(s)	19 February 1982
Running time	139 min
Country	India
Language	Tamil

 Moondram Pirai (Tamil: மூன்றாம் பிறை) is a 1982 Indian Tamil language film starring Sridevi, Kamal Haasan, Poornam Vishwanathan and Silk Smitha^.
The film was dubbed in Telugu language and was released on the same day (19 February 1982) with the title "Vasantha Kokila"The film was remade the following year as Sadma, with much of the cast and crew from the original reprising their roles.
 The movie begins with a young girl Bhagyalakshmi (Sridevi) who meets with an accident thus succumbing to amnesia. This condition makes her lose her memory of her entire teenage and adulthood leaving her as a physically grown up woman but with the memory and intelligence of a seven year old. Circumstances cheat her into Prostitution, where in the brothel, she meets Srinivas (Kamal Haasan) who understands that she has been tricked into the trade. He rescues her to take her to his home in Ooty and begins to lead life with her taking care of her like his own. Bhagyalakshmi, who is now being called as Viji, which was the pseudonym given for her at the brothel, also reciprocates to Srinivas's care as they spend several months together sharing an amazing and innocent relationship that thrives on the tender line between affection and love. The sub plot of the film follows a series of parallel romances between the wife of Srinivas' boss and Srinivas. Although Srinivas doesn't reciprocate her feelings, it depicts how the outside world succumbs to human emotions of lust and desire which are totally devoid in the life led between Srinivas and Viji. However, their happiness is short lived as Srinivas takes Viji to a village medical practitioner who cures her of her mental illness and brings her back to sanity as she recovers her memory up to the point of her accident a few months back. But when Srinivas comes to meet Viji later that day, she is now not able to identify him or remember him. Despite all his efforts to make her understand that he was the one who had taken care of her for several months, she is indifferent to him and leaves Ooty to go back to her hometown, thus abandoning Srinivas and the life and relationship that she once had with him.

Cast

• Kamal Haasan - Srinivas
• Sridevi - Bhagyalaksmi/Viji
• Silk Smitha - Headmaster's Wife
• Poornam Vishwanathan - Headmaster
• Y.G.Mahendran - Srinivas's friend

Awards and nominations

National Film Awards

Winners:

• Silver Lotus Award - Best Actor - Kamal Haasan
• Silver Lotus Award - Best Cinematography - Balu Mahendra

Ek Duje Ke Liye

Ek Duuje Ke Liye
Video CD Cover
Directed by	K. Balachander
Produced by	L.V. Prasad
Written by	K. Balachander
Starring	Kamal Haasan, Rati Agnihotri, Madhavi
Music by	Laxmikant Pyarelal
Release date(s)	5 June 1981
Running time	163 min.
Language	Hindi

Ek Duuje Ke Liye (1981) is a Hindi movie directed by K. Balachander, starring Kamal Haasan, Rati Agnihotri. It was a remake of the Telugu movie Maro Charithra. The film was a "blockbuster" at the box office in 1981, earning a total of 10 crore (US$ 2.27 million) in box office receipts.
The movie is about the love between a Tamil man, Vasu (Kamal Haasan) and a North-Indian woman, Sapna (Rati Agnihotri), who are neighbours in (Goa). They come from totally different backgrounds and can hardly speak each other's language. Their parents despise each other and there are regular skirmishes for various reasons. When Vasu and Sapna admit their love there is chaos in their homes and their parents totally reject the idea.
As a ploy to separate the lovers, their parents impose a condition that Vasu and Sapna should stay away from each other for a year, and after such a period if they still want to get together they can get married. Also, during the period there should be no contact between them whatsoever. Vasu and Sapna agree to the condition and decide to separate.
Vasu moves to Hyderabad, and they both initially suffer a lot being unable to tolerate the separation. Vasu then meets Sandhya (Madhavi), a widow who teaches him Hindi. Meanwhile, Sapna's mother brings a family friend's son, Chakram (Rakesh Bedi) to Goa to distract Sapna from her devotion to Vasu, but she is not impressed. At a chance meeting in Mangalore, Chakram lies to Vasu that Sapna has agreed to marry him. Vasu gets upset and decides to marry Sandhya on the rebound. However, Sandhya comes to know of Vasu's real love and goes to Goa to clear the misunderstanding between the lovers.
Vasu then returns to Goa and impresses Sapna's parents with his Hindi skills. When Vasu goes to meet Sapna he is attacked by an assassin hired by Sandhya's brother (Raza Murad). Meanwhile, Sapna gets raped at a temple and is left to die. The movie ends tragically when they both commit suicide by jumping off a cliff.

Cast

Character's name	Played by
Vasudev	Kamal Haasan
Sapna	Rati Agnihotri
Sandhya	Madhavi
Chakram	Rakesh Bedi
Sapna's mother	Shuba Khote

Release	1981 (1981)
Language	Hindi

The music was composed by Laxmikant Pyarelal and the lyrics were written by Anand Bakshi.

• "Tere Mere Beech Mein" - Lata Mangeshkar, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
• "Hum Tum Dono Jab Mil Jayen" - Lata Mangeshkar, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
• "Mere Jeevan Saathi" - S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Anuradha Paudwal
• "Hum Bane Tum Bane" - Lata Mangeshkar, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
• "Tere Mere Beech Mein (Sad)" - S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
• "Solah Baras Ki Bali Umar" - by Lata Mangeshkar, Anup Jalota

Awards and nominations

• National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer - S.P. Balasubramaniam
• Filmfare Best Editing Award - K.R. Kitoo
• Filmfare Best Lyricist Award - Anand Bakshi for the song "Tere Mere Beech"
• Filmfare Nomination for Best Film
• Filmfare Nomination for Best Director-K. Balachander
• Filmfare Nomination for Best Actor - Kamal Haasan
• Filmfare Nomination for Best Actress - Rati Agnihotri
• Filmfare Nomination for Best Supporting Actress - Madhavi
• Filmfare Nomination for Best Performance in a Comic Role - Asrani
• Filmfare Nomination for Best Story - K. Balachander
• Filmfare Nomination for Best Lyricist - Anand Bakshi for the song "Solah Baras Ki Bali Umar"
• Filmfare Nomination for Best Male Playback Singer - S.P. Balasubramaniam for the song "Tere Mere Beech"

Trivia

• Balachander was advised to change the ending, but he stuck to his original story.

• Ek Duuje Ke Liye marked the debut of two stars from South India in Hindi films: Leading lady Rati Agnihotri and playback singer S.P. Balasubramaniam. Both received Filmfare nominations becoming top stars in Hindi films later.

• The only person that was missing in the Hindi remake that was present in the original Telugu hit Maro Charithra (1979) was leading lady Saritha, as her role was now played by Rati Agnihotri. Director K. Balachander, Kamal Haasan, Madhavi, and S.P. Balasubramaniam all repeated their artistry in the Hindi hit.

• Kamal Hassan and Rati Agnihotri were paired together again in a Hindi film titled Dekha Pyar Tumhara (1985), but the film wasn't a hit, and they were never paired together again.

Sigappu Rojakkal

Sigappu Rojakkal

Directed by                      Bharathi Raja
Cinemotography =            P.S.Nivas
Produced by                      K.R.G. Productions
Written by                        Bharathi Raja
                                         Bhagyaraj
Starring                            Kamal Haasan
                                         Sridevi
                                         Bhagyaraj
Music by                          Ilayaraja
Release date(s)         1978
Language                         Tamil
sigappu Rojakkal (Tamil: சிகப்பு ரோஜாக்கள்) (English: Red Roses) is a 1978 Tamil movie starring Kamal Haasan and Sridevi. In an era of over-dramatised acting in Tamil films, Sigappu Rojakkal was one of the notable exceptions. With an anti-hero who is a psychopathic, sexual killer in the lead, the movie was seen as controversial by traditional and orthodox moviegoers in Tamil Nadu. ileep (Kamal Haasan) is a successful businessman with a dark side. He preys on nubile girls and rapes and kills them. These proceedings are video-recorded and watched by his adoptive father and mentor, another deranged woman-hater who, as with Dileep, had a disillusioning experience with the female sex in his past. The old man stays holed up in a far corner of Dileep's mansion watching his son carry out what he is too infirm to do. The murdered girls are buried in Dileep's garden and a rosebush is grown above. Dileep chances upon an undergarments salesgirl, Sarada (Sridevi), and develops an attraction for her. Sarada, a conservative woman, insists that Dileep must marry her if he wants to have his way with her. The romance proceeds, and appears to be Dileep's salvation before things begin to collapse for him. On his marriage day, Sarada stumbles upon a diary containing details of his deranged life and, and names of the girls he had killed scribbled on the walls of one of the rooms in his large house. Sarada, meanwhile stumbles upon Dileep's father, whom Dileep had told her was retarded and was not to be disturbed, and gets the shock of her life. She somehow manages to shut him in and tries to run out but Dileep returns before she gets a chance to leave the house. Sarada puts on an agonising mask of normalcy and bides her time to escape. Dileep gets called away on business that night and she packs up her luggage and leaves the house, but is dramatically intercepted by Dileep who gets word of her flight through his watchman. A tense chase ensues, which ends in a graveyard in the dead of night, with Dileep stumbling and falling on a cross which pierces him. Sarada immediately becomes aware of the possible trouble she would be in and attempts to leave Dileep's house. As she prepares to leave, her husband returns after killing a club waiter (Bhagyaraj), who was a witness and would have identified him as the culprit in the murder of a woman. In the ensuing chase, Dileep is caught by the police. He is subsequently jailed but gets mentally retarded and loses his bloodthirsty ways. He keeps repeating Sarada's name, as it is his only coherent thought, and all other memories have been erased from his mind.

Remake

Sigappu Rojakkal was remade in Japanese as Red Roses, in Hindi as Red Rose and in Telugu as Erra gulabilu.