''Amara Kaaviyam'' () is a 1981 Indian

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-language film directed by Amirtham and written by A. L. Narayanan. The film stars

Sivaji Ganesan Villupuram Chinnaiya Manrayar Ganesamoorthy, better known by his stage name Sivaji Ganesan, (1 October 1928 – 21 July 2001) was an Indian actor and producer. He was active in Tamil cinema during the latter half of the 20th century. Sivaji Ga ...

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and Madhavi. It is a remake of the 1978

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film '' Muqaddar Ka Sikandar''. The film was released on 24 April 1981.

Plot

A young orphan gets a job working for Ramanathan (

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) and quickly develops a strong attachment to his boss' daughter, Aruna ( Madhavi). Ramanathan is displeased with this and fires the young boy. Saraswathi (

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) meets the young boy, adopts him and names him Raja (

). She also happens to work for Ramanathan and Raja is thrilled to meet Aruna again. At Aruna's birthday party, he's falsely accused of theft and Saraswathi is fired from her job. She dies of a heart ailment soon after but Raja promises to look after his adopted sister Lalitha (J. Lalitha). Fifteen years later, Raja is now a rich man having amassed wealth by catching smugglers and collecting the rewards out on them. Ramanathan, on the other hand, is struggling financially. Aruna still believes that Raja is a thief and wants nothing to do with him. Heartbroken over this, Raja drinks excessively and finds solace in his friendship with dancer Kanchana (

). Aruna sees his drunken behaviour as more proof of his bad character. Kanchana falls in love with Raja but realises he will always hold a torch for Aruna. Raja meets and befriends the unemployed lawyer Ananth ( Jaiganesh) and they quickly become inseparable. Ramanathan and Aruna learn that Raja has been secretly helping the family financially and grow closer to him. in light of this new closeness, Raja sets up a job for Ananth with Ramanathan. He also gains the confidence to plan to confess his love to Aruna and turns to Ananth to write the love letter as he is illiterate. Aruna misinterprets it as a love letter to her from Ananth and falls for him. Ananth, unaware of the identity of Raja's love, also falls for Aruna. Chinnadurai (

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), a criminal with a soft spot for Kanchana, hears rumours of her closeness with Raja and sets out to kill him. Lalitha's wedding is also threatened when her future in-laws learn of Raja's closeness to Kanchana. The film culminates as Raja must deal with all of his various problems at once.

Cast

as Raja *

as Kanchana * Madhavi as Aruna *

Nagesh Nagesh (born Cheyur Krishnarao Nageshwaran; (27 September 1933 – 31 January 2009) was an Indian actor, mostly remembered for his roles as a comedian in Tamil films during the 1960s. Nagesh was born in Dharapuram. He acted in over 1,000 film ...

as Devdas * Jaiganesh as Ananth *

as Ramanathan *

as Saraswathi *

Pushpalatha Pushpalatha is an Indian actress, who has worked predominantly in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam language films. She has acted as heroine and character roles in more than 100 films. Her debut film was '' Sengottai Singam'', released in 1958. When ...

as Ananth's mother *

as Chinnadurai *J. Lalitha as Lalitha

Production

''Amara Kaaviyam'' is a remake of the 1978

film '' Muqaddar Ka Sikandar''.

was chosen to reprise the role originally played by

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, while his son

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was to have reprised the role originally played by Amjad Khan, in what would have been his debut film. Because friends of Ganesan felt the bloodshed between these two characters would not be appreciated by the audience, Prabhu could not play the role.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was composed by

M. S. Viswanathan Manayangath Subramanian Viswanathan (24 June 1928 – 14 July 2015), also known as M.S.V., was an Indian music director, singer and actor who predominantly worked in Tamil film industry. He was popularly known as ''Mellisai Mannar''. He compose ...

, while the lyrics were penned by

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and Vaali.

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, id=1435448 1980s Tamil-language films 1981 films Films scored by M. S. Viswanathan Tamil remakes of Hindi films