''Makkal En Pakkam'' () is a 1987 Indian Tamil-language

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directed by Karthik Raghunath. The film stars

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, and

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. It is a remake of the 1986

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film ''

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''. The film was blockbuster at box office and completed 150 days run in theaters.

Plot

Samraj and Rajmohan are good friends who become enemies due to a false theft accusation on Samraj. Rajmohan becomes a great political leader whereas Samraj becomes a great smuggler. With Rajmohan's political influence, Samraj smuggling business was affected. Radha, Rajmohan's girlfriend, works as a junior assistant for his friend who hands an important file to her. It contains details on Samraj's illegal business. Knowing this, Samraj tries to retrieve the file, only to get Radha in trouble. When Samraj realises that she is in trouble he tries to help and consecutively falls in love with her. Radha lets Samraj know that she has a child by Rajmohan and that affair was unofficial. Police officials respond to the order of Rajmohan and try to arrest Samraj. He escapes most occasions and continues to be king of smugglers. Finally when Rajmohan attempts to revenge Samraj, Samraj close friends Michael and Ramesh get killed. Samraj becomes extremely ferocious and chases Rajmohan at his residence with firearms, kills plenty of his party men, but hesitates to kill Rajmohan as Radha intercepts. This movie has two ends. One in which a police officer kills Samraj and another in which Radha kills Rajmohan after Samraj is dead. Both climaxes were well received by the audience.

Cast

as Samraj *

as Radha *

as Rajmohan *

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as Chari *

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as Michael *

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as Ramesh *Master Srikanth *

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as Rajmohan rowdy *

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as Kidnapper *

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* Manorama as Vasanthamala *

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* V.Gopalakrishnan

Production

In the 1970s,

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was due to star in a film titled ''Makkal En Pakkam'', but the project was dropped after he quit the film industry to enter politics. In early 1987, producer

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launched a film with the same name starring

, which was a remake of the

film ''

'' (1986), itself inspired by

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's novel ''

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'' (1980).

, who appeared as a student leader in the Malayalam film, reprised his role in the Tamil remake. Sathyaraj said he accepted to act in the film because it was a remake of a successful film, and was guaranteed to do well. ''Makkal En Pakkam'', like a previous Sathyaraj film ''

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'' (1986), was made with political overtones.

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Chandrabose, with lyrics by

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Release and reception

''Makkal En Pakkam'' was released on 14 April 1987. The following week, N. Krishnaswamy of ''

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'' wrote, "The film has enough 'dhum' to keep lay viewers happy" and praised the performances of Sathyaraj and Rajesh. Jayamanmadhan of ''

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'' criticised the film for its inconsistent tone.

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 2776382 1980s Tamil-language films 1987 films Films scored by Chandrabose (composer) Indian action films Indian political films Indian gangster films Tamil remakes of Malayalam films