Netrikkann
Netrikann is a 1981 Tamil film directed by S. P. Muthuraman and was produced by Kavithalaya Productions. The film features Rajinikanth, in double role as father and son with Saritha and Menaka in lead roles while Goundamani, Lakshmi and Sarath Babu play supporting roles. The soundtrack and score were composed by Ilayaraja while the lyrics for the tracks were written by Kannadasan. The films story and dialogues was written by Visu and the screenplay was written by K. Balachander. Babu and R. Vittal handled cinematography and editing respectively.
The story revolves around Chakravarthy Older Rajini who is a successful textile businessman in Coimbatore. He is a great womaniser perhaps his only weakness and picks up any women he wants. He has wife Meenakshi Lakshmi, his son Santosh also Rajini and his daughter Sangeetha Vijayashanthi. It doesnt take long for Santosh to find his fathers provocative behaviour and tries to mend his fathers ways. Radha Saritha gets introduced as a candidate for PRO Public Relations Officer interview and eventually gets selected and is sent to Hong Kong for training. Chakravarthy unable to tolerate his sons growing menace also sets off to Hong Kong for a holiday. Here he meets Radha and at one point ends up raping her. Chakravarthy flies back to India where he is met with a number of changes which all points out to the new General Manager. This person turns out be Radha who has joined with Santosh to teach Chakravarthy a lesson for lifetime. How the duo succeed in changing Chakravarthys behaviour forms the crux of the story.Netrikann had Rajini playing the roles of father and son. Unlike other films where the fathers character is portrayed as a positive person and the son is a bit of a wastrel, in this film it is the father who is lecherous and the son is the good guy. Balachander produced the film as he felt that the concept had a lot of scope for Rajini to perform. Muthuraman was initially hesitant to direct the film but Balachander encouraged him to direct. Cameraman Babu introduced the mask shots through this film, the film had 90 mask shots. ........
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