''Garjanai'' () is a 1981 Indian

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-language film directed by

C. V. Rajendran C. V. Rajendran (12 March 1937 – 1 April 2018) was an Indian film director and producer who worked in the Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi film industries. He was a cousin of famous director C. V. Sridhar. Film career He worked ...

starring

Rajinikanth Shivaji Rao Gaikwad (born 12 December 1950), known professionally as Rajinikanth, is an Indian actor, producer and screenwriter. In a career spanning over five decades, he has done 160 films that includes films in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Kannad ...

and Madhavi . Music was scored by

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. The film was simultaneously shot in

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as ''Garjanam'' and in

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as ''Garjane''. All three versions of the film failed in the box office. ''Garjanai'' ran for 52 days in Chennai making it one of Rajinikanth's films which had the shortest run in theatres.

Plot

''This is about the Tamil version only''. Dr. Vijay is an honest doctor who faces off against a dangerous, diabolical gang led by Dr. Mithra and Parasuram that contaminates common food items with lethal substances and then makes profits by supplying antidotes. Geetha is Vijay's love interest, while Rekha is his sister.

Cast

Production

All three versions were filmed simultaneously.

Jayan Krishnan Nair (25 July 1939 – 16 November 1980), better known by his stage name Jayan, was an Indian actor, naval officer, stunt performer and cultural icon of the 1970s and 1980s. He starred in over 150 Malayalam films. During his film caree ...

was the original lead actor of ''Garjanam'', the Malayalam version. While half the film was shot, he met with an accident while shooting for another film ''

Kolilakkam ''Kolilakkam'' () is a 1981 Malayalam-language action thriller film, written and directed by P. N. Sundaram, and starring Jayan. The film was a box office hit. The movie was a remake of the 1965 Hindi film '' Waqt''. Premise Three brothers, ...

'' and succumbed to his injuries. After that, ''Garjanam'' was completed with Rajinikanth playing the same character. Some shots of Jayan were added to the film's opening reel before the credits at screenings in Kerala. During the filming of another fight sequence, a stuntman suffered a gash after punching glass, leading to hospitalisation.

Soundtrack

Reception

Sindhu and Jeeva, negatively reviewing the film for ''Kalki'', called it a meow rather than the roar that the film's title translates to.

References

External links

* {{C. V. Rajendran 1980s Kannada-language films 1980s Malayalam-language films 1980s Tamil-language films 1981 films 1981 multilingual films Films directed by C. V. Rajendran Films scored by Ilaiyaraaja Indian multilingual films