Pandiyan (film)

Pandian is a 1992 action Tamil language movie directed by the Tamil director SP. Muthuraman. It stars Rajinikanth, Kushboo, Janagaraj and Jayasudha in the lead roles. It was released onOctober 1992 as one among Deepavali release. Its music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja. The film was a remake of the Kannada film Bombay Dada. starring Tiger Prabhakar, Vani Vishwanath, Vajramuni and Lakshmi. Prabhakar, the director and hero of the Kannada film, portrayed the negative role in the Tamil version. The film was dubbed in Hindi in 1998 as Kanoon Ka Khiladi. The film received predominantly negative reviews and performed average at the box office. It got a huge competition from Kamalhaasans Devar Magan and managed to run 100 days.

Rajinikanth decide to make a lowbudget film with S. P. Muthuraman. Muthuraman turned producer for this film under his production banner Visalam Productions named after his mother. In spite of being a producer, Rajini took care of production duties of the film along with AVM Saravanan. Rajini decided to act in the film to contribute for the retirement fund of main crew members of SP Muthuraman team who were regular in most of Muthuramans films. Rajini acted in the film without taking any fees. This film was huge disaster compared to other Rajinikanths films. Even though, the film made some money and whatever money grossed were used for the retirement fund of director Muthuramans crew. This shows that no mater whatever star power a film has got if theres no story and screenplay the film will fail at the box office. Tragedy struck before release, when Muthuramans wife died.

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