''Inaindha Kaigal'' () is a 1990 Indian

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-language

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directed by N. K. Viswanathan. It stars

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and

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, with

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, Murali Kumar and Prabhakaran playing supporting roles. The film, produced by

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who also wrote the story and lyrics, was released on 2 August 1990.

Plot

A Disgraced traitor army doctor Chandralekha, also a grieving mother, asks an orphan ex-army man named David Kumar to rescue her son Gunasekaran, who is locked up in an enemy military prison across the border. David is in love with Julie, an orphan herself, and she is pregnant. He takes up the mission more out of patriotism and leaves for it. At the same time, the hideous criminal P. K. Roy appoints a clever, cunning and industrious criminal Pratap to bring the same Gunasekharan from prison. Both leave for their missions respectively often trying to out-do each other. Pratap falls in love with a girl while he is on mission. At one point in the mission, when Pratap's life is in danger, David risks his own to save him and they join hands (hence the title) agree to work together considering the level of danger in the mission.They go on to become blood brothers unaware that the purpose they are bringing back Gunasekaran to their mission head are at loggerheads. It is later revealed that P.K. Roy was involved in supplying sub standard medicines for the Indian Army. Hence to cover his tracks, he killed the Army officer and Gunaskaran had accidentally photographed the entire ordeal in his camera. Roy was after Gunasekaran so that he could destroy the evidence. Unfortunately Gunasekharan was caught across the border and was lodged into a military prison. In the end, Roy is shown to be evil, and David takes the shot and dies to while attempting to save Pratap and Gunasekaran. Both Julie and David die together hearing the vagitus of their new born baby.Pratap later chases and reveals that the helicopter pilot who died during the crash was his father and holds P.K.Roy as reason for him turning to crime. He then kills P.K. Roy.He asks his lover to take care of David's child as their own till he comes back from prison.He is then arrested.

Cast

Production

Art director GK revealed that, to show snow covered lake, the team went to

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. Since there was no snow, they emptied a load of salt in the place to make it look like snow and shot the scene. This was the debut film of Sindhu.

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Gyan Varma, with lyrics written by

Reception

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'' called it "ambitious and vast, brash, blatantly loud, empty and diffuse". A group of people reviewed the film for ''

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'', praising the fight sequence and locations but felt there were too many songs.

Legacy

The film had an extraordinary opening and such that it created stampedes in Shanti theatre in Coimbatore, killing two persons. This led to the theatre's licence being cancelled until the theatre owner "toiled" to regain it. In the 2013 Tamil film ''

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'', the lead heroes of that film Balaji and Venkatesh appear as fans of Ramki and Arun Pandian. In one scene, Balaji utters the film's title referring to their collaboration on a mission.

References

External links

* {{IMDb title 1990 action films 1990 films 1990s Indian films 1990s Tamil-language films Fictional portrayals of the Tamil Nadu Police Films directed by N. K. Viswanathan Films shot in Ooty Films with screenplays by Aabavanan Indian action films Indian Army in films Tamil-language Indian films