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Apoorva Sagodharargal is a film of genre Comedy directed by Srinivasa Rao Singeetham with Gautami
Apoorva Sagodharargal (1989)
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Add to a movie listApoorva Sagodharargal (English: Rare Brothers) is a 1989 Indian Tamil comedy-drama film directed by Singeetam Srinivasa Rao. The film stars Kamal Haasan in three roles, as a mechanic, a circus clown who is a dwarf and a police officer, along with Gouthami and Rupini playing lead roles with Srividya, Manorama, Nagesh, Jaishankar, Nassar and Delhi Ganesh playing supporting roles. The music for the film was composed by Ilaiyaraaja with lyrics written by Vaali. The film was produced by Kamal Haasan and his brother Chandra Haasan under the production company Raajkamal Films International.
The film tells the story of twins who were separated during childhood grows up in different localities with one of them Appu being a midget working for circus. Appu comes to know that his father was an honest police officer who was killed by four criminals. Rest of the film shows how Appu succeeds in avenging the death of his father and how Raja proves his innocence as he is blamed for the murders committed by Appu.
The film's story was written by Panchu Arunachalam while Kamal Haasan and Crazy Mohan wrote screenplay and dialogues respectively. B. Lenin and VT Vijayan handled editing respectively while the cinematography was handled by P. C. Sriram. The film was remiered at the International Film Festival of India, The film was released on 14 April 1989 was a box office success and completed 200-day run. It was dubbed into Telugu as Vichithra Sodarulu and into Hindi as Appu Raja in 1990. Appu Raja released in 50 screens in North India netting ₹50 lakh at the box office.
Synopsis
Sethupathy (Kamal Haasan) is an honest and upright police officer. When he arrests four bigwigs Dharmaraj (Nagesh), Francis Anbarasu (Delhi Ganesh), Nallasivam (Nasser) and Satyamoorthy (Jaishankar), they escape justice easily and return to take revenge. They kill him and poison his wife (Srividya). She escapes and gives birth to twins with the help of another woman Muniyamma (Manorama) but the babies are separated and each woman believes that the other is dead because of the events happening next to birth. One of the twins, Raja (Kamal Haasan) grows up as a mechanic with Muniyamma, while the other twin, Appu (Kamal Haasan), a dwarf, grows up in the circus with his mother.Actors
Gautami
(Raja's Girlfriend)
Kamal Haasan
(Raghupathy / Appu / Raja)
Sreevidya
(Kaveri)
Rupini
(Appu's girlfriend)
Nagesh
(Dharmaraj)
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