''Thai Veedu'' () is a 1983 Indian

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-language film directed by R. Thyagarajan, 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

Anita Raj Anita Raj Khurana (born 1962 or 1963) is an Indian actress and daughter of Jagdish Raj, whose notable roles include Films Prem Geet (1981), Ghulami (1985), Kusum in ''Zara Si Zindagi'' (1983), Anita in ''Zameen Aasman'' (1984) and Shobha in ...

. The film, released on 14 April 1983, was simultaneously in

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as ''

Jeet Hamaari ''Jeet Hamaari'' () is a 1983 Indian Hindi-language film directed by R. Thyagarajan and written by Ram Govind, starring Rajinikanth, Rakesh Roshan, Ranjeeta and Anita Raj. It was simultaneously shot in Tamil as ''Thai Veedu'', with Rajinikanth ...

'' with Rajinikanth returning.

Plot

Rajasekaran (Major Sundarrajan) is a rich man who is in possession of an antique sword that holds the key to a treasure. Nagalingam (Thengai Srinivasan), a criminal, makes several unsuccessful attempts to steal the sword from Rajasekaran. On one such attempts Anand (Jaishankar) saves Rajasekaran and becomes his trusted guy to protect the sword. Raju ( Rajnikanth), an orphan who is being raised by an alcoholic, ex-thief Rajasingam (M. N. Nambiar), is an expert in boosting cars and Anita (Anita Raj) is his love interest. Several years back, Rajasingam had stolen a car owned by Nagalingam with a child inside without knowing that the car and the child (Raju) actually belonged to Rajasekaran. One day Rajasingam spots Nagalingam in a shopping complex and believing that Raju is the son of Nagalingam, he hands Raju to him as his own son. Nagalingam deceitfully accepts Raju as his son and cleverly employs him to steal the sword from Rajasekaran, his real father. While Raju attempts to steal the sword, Anand keeps thwarting him. Despite Anand's efforts Raju manages to loot the sword, but then discovers that he's actually the son of Rajasekaran and he himself had been instrumental in stealing his own family treasure for the wrong men. With the help of Anand, Raju fights with Nagalingam's gang to successfully retrieve their family treasure and reunites with his family.

Cast

as Raju/Mohan *

as Anitha *

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as Anand * Vijayakumar as Vijay *

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as Rajasingam *

Thengai Srinivasan Thengai Srinivasan (21 October 1937 – 9 November 1987) was an Indian actor who appeared in Tamil language, Tamil-language films and plays from the 1960s to the 1980s. He was given the prefix ''Thengai'' (coconut) after his role as a coco ...

as Nagalingam *

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as Rajasekaran * Suhasini Maniratnam as Geetha *

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as Nirmala * Silk Smitha as Vijay's love interest *

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as Gowtham (Guest appearance) * Rajesh as Geetha's love interest (Guest appearance) * A. R. S as Police Commissioner *

Idichapuli Selvaraj Idichapuli Selvaraj ( – 30 January 2012) was a veteran Tamil comedy actor. He acted in more than five hundred films. He acted along with lot of actors. He also worked as an assistant director for the M. G. Ramachandran films like ''Idhayakkani ...

*Bayilvan Ranganathan

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Shankar–Ganesh, with lyrics by Vaali. The highlight of the album was the

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song "Unnai Azhaithathu".

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, tt1411968 1980s masala films 1980s Tamil-language films 1983 films Films directed by R. Thyagarajan