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Billa is a film of genre Drama with Rajinikanth

Billa (1980)

Billa
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Length 2h55
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Comedy,    Action,    Crime,    Romance
Rating74% 3.736443.736443.736443.736443.73644

Billa is a 1980 Indian Tamil crime film produced by Suresh Balaje and directed by R. Krishnamurthy. The film stars Rajinikanth, K. Balaji, Thengai Srinivasan, Manorama, Sripriya, Reena Roy and Major Sundarrajan. It is extensively based on the Hindi film Don (1978), with changes made in the script to suit the Tamil audience. The film revolves around Billa (Rajinikanth), a feared Mafia don in Madras, who is fatally wounded during an encounter with the police. Wanting to uncover Billa's accomplices, the police commissioner Alexander (K.
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Synopsis

Billa (Rajinikanth) is a powerful mafia lord, who in spite of being one of the most wanted on the list of Interpol, remains elusive to the police. Along with the police, he makes a few other enemies through his merciless approach in running his organisation, especially when he kills one of his own men, Rajesh, when Rajesh decides to leave the business. This introduces Billa to two new enemies, Kamini (Helen), Rajesh’s fiancee, and Priya, (Sripriya) Rajesh’s sister. When Kamini seduces Billa and attempts to have the police arrest him, her plan backfires as Billa outsmarts her and escapes, and in the process Kamini was killed.

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Don film series

Don China Town (1962) Kudiyirundha Koyil (1968) Bhale Thammudu (1969) Don (1978) Yugandhar (1979) Billa (1980) Sobharaj (1986) Don (2006) Billa (2007) Billa (2009) Don 2 (2011) Billa II (2012)

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