''Enne Petha Raasa'' is a 1989 Indian

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-language

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directed by Siraj and produced by

Rajkiran Mohideen Abdul Khadar, known by his stage name Rajkiran, is an Indian actor, producer and director, who has acted in more than 30 Tamil films. He won one Filmfare Award South and four Tamil Nadu State Film Awards in his career. Early life R ...

who is also credited for the story. The film stars

Ramarajan Kumaresan Ramaiyya better knows as Ramarajan (born 18 October 1960) is an Indian film director, screenwriter, actor and politician. He is referred as Makkal Nayagan for acting and directing films on village-based subjects. Career Ramarajan sta ...

Rupini Komal Mahuvakar, better known by her stage name Rupini, is an Indian former actress who has appeared in Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Telugu language films during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Early life Mahuvakar was born in Mumbai i ...

Srividya Srividya (24 July 1953 – 19 October 2006), was an Indian actress best known for her work predominantly in Malayalam and Tamil films, along with few Telugu, Kannada and Hindi films. In a career spanning for 40 years, she had acted in more t ...

and

Vinu Chakravarthy Vinu Chakravarthy (15 December 1945 – 27 April 2017) was an Indian actor, screenwriter and director who is known for acting in more than 1000 movies predominately in Tamil films mostly as a comedian, supporting actor or in a villainous role. ...

. It was released on 27 January 1989. Plot Ramarajan killed a woman and escaped. On the day of marriage, he was arrested. Then in prison, he again escaped and killed Rubini. Then he will be arrested and put in jail and hanged.

Cast

Soundtrack

The music was composed by

Ilaiyaraaja Ilaiyaraaja (born R. Gnanathesikan) is an Indian musician, composer, arranger, conductor, orchestrator, multi-instrumentalist, lyricist and playback singer popular for his works in Indian cinema, predominately in Tamil cinema, Tamil in addition ...

. The song "Petha Manasu" is set to the raga

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Reception

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'' wrote, "''Ennai Peththa Raja'' has an unmistakable rural flavour which despite its filmi turns keeps things going for it". The film was also reviewed by ''

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''.

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* * {{Rotten Tomatoes 1980s Indian films 1980s Tamil-language films 1989 drama films 1989 films Films directed by Siraj (director) Films scored by Ilaiyaraaja Indian drama films Tamil-language drama films Tamil-language Indian films