''Pudhiya Sagaptham'' () is a 1985 Indian

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drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

written and directed by

Visu Meenakshisundaram Ramasamy Viswanathan (1 July 1945 – 22 March 2020), best known by his stage name Visu, was an Indian screenwriter, film director, stage, film and television actor and talk-show host. Visu initially worked as an assistant to ...

. The film stars

Vijayakanth Vijayaraj Alagarswami (25 August 1952 – 28 December 2023), known by his stage name Vijayakanth, was an Indian actor, filmmaker, philanthropist and politician. He worked in Tamil cinema in a career spanning four decades. He ventured into politi ...

, Ambika and Visu. It was released on 25 May 1985, and failed commercially.

Plot

Uma finds a job in a college library after she impressed Vijay, a college student, who becomes the school leader. Uma's father kills her stepmother and commits suicide, leaving her and his three children alone. Ramadasaradan joins the college for a mysterious reason which only Uma knows. Ramadasaradan links secretly Vijay and Uma by writing the wrong relationship between them, so Uma is fired. When Vijay goes to her house, he sees a photo of Uma with her husband. The college watchman tells Vijay the truth and Vijay asks Ramadasaradan why he did it. Visu tells him that her husband is dead and he was her father-in-law. His son Deepak, a heart patient married Uma. Deepak died at his wedding night, Uma became a widow and she quit his house, but Ramadasaradan challenged her to find a husband. Ramadasaradan and Vijay try to make her accept the marriage in many ways. Finally, she marries Vijay.

Cast

as Vijay * Ambika as Uma *

as Ramadasaradan * Karthik as Deepak (guest appearance) *

Vinodhini Vinodhini, also known by her stage name, Shweta is an Indian actress, who has appeared in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada films and Tamil serials. Beginning her acting career as a child artist, she went on to become one of the popular actress of ...

as Shanthi * Kishmu as Achuthan Nair *

Sivachandran Narayanan, better known by his stage name Sivachandran, is an Indian actor, director, and writer who was active in Tamil cinema mostly in the 1980s. Career Sivachandran was originally offered to act in ''Kizhakke Pogum Rail'' (1978), but decl ...

as Manager Chandran * T. P. Gajendran as Gajendran

Soundtrack

The music was composed by

Gangai Amaran Gangai Amaran (born Amar Singh) is an Indian composer, playback singer, lyricist, actor, film director and a screenwriter in Tamil films. Personal life Gangai Amaran was born in Pannaipuram in Theni district, Tamil Nadu in December 1947, as ...

, with lyrics written by himself,

Pulamaipithan Pulavar Pulamaipithan (6 October 1935 – 8 September 2021) was an Indian scholar, poet and lyricist who got recognition through the song "Naan yaar nee yaar" which was featured in the Tamil film '' Kudiyirundha Koyil'' in 1968. He briefly serv ...

, Na. Kamarasan and Idhayachandra.

References

External links

* {{Visu 1980s Indian films 1980s Tamil-language films 1985 drama films 1985 films Films directed by Visu Films scored by Gangai Amaran Films with screenplays by Visu Indian drama films Tamil-language drama films Tamil-language Indian films