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Mappillai (1989)
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Add to a movie listDirected by Rajasekhar
Rating66%
Mappillai (English: Son-in-law) is a 1989 Tamil action comedy film directed by Rajasekhar starring Rajinikanth and Amala in lead roles. A remake of the Telugu film Athaku Yamudu Ammayiki Mogudu, the Tamil version was produced by Geetha Arts, and Chiranjeevi who played the lead role in the original version made a special appearance. Initially the pivotal role of Rajinikanth's mother-in-law was offered to Vyjayanthimala. But she refused the role after which it was offered to Srividya. The film opened to positive response from the public and was a Mega hit Blockbuster movie ran 200 days at the Box-office history of Tamil cinema 890 shows were houseful, all the credits once again goes to superb mass style acting approach of Superstar Rajinikanth. The film was remade again in Tamil under the same name.
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Aarumugam makes a blazing entrance, gatecrashing a marriage to abduct the bride. Geetha, the bride's friend, gets him arrested but then learns that he had rescued the girl from a forced marriage. Further revelations about him that he is a gold medalist, has a good heart, make her fall in love with him. After some convincing, Aarumugam reciprocates too. Meanwhile, Aarumugam's sister is in love with the son of a rich woman Rajarajeswari. When Rajarajeswari learns of this, she foists a false case on her and puts her in jail. It is then that Aarumugam has his first encounter with Rajarajeswari. He then learns that she is none other than Geetha's mother. He also invites Geetha's mother Rajarajeswari to his marriage. At that time he calls his friend (played by Chiranjeevi) and tells him that during his marriage there are goons to stop this marriage, he requests him to look after the rowdies and Chiranjeevi comes and fights off the goons and attends the marriage and he goes. He marries Geetha against her mother's wishes. Rajarajeswari vows to separate Geetha from him while he vows to prevent that and make Rajarajeswari understand that love and affection are more important than money.Which is an important message delivered to the audience.Actors
Rajinikanth
(Arumugam)
Amala Akkineni
(Geetha)
Nizhalgal Ravi
(Ravi)
Sreevidya
(Rajarajeswari)
Jaishankar
(Ramanathan)
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