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8.3/10   562 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Mani Ratnam (screenplay)
Mani Ratnam (story)
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Release Date:
25 November 1991 (India) more
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Plot:
Surya (Rajnikanth) is an orphan raised in a slum. He finds a friend in the local Godfather (Mamooty)... more | add synopsis
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One of the best Indian movies ever more (6 total)

Cast

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Rajnikanth ... Surya
Mammootty ... Devaraj
Shobana ... Subbulaxmi
Arvind Swamy ... Arjun
Srividya ... Kalyani, Surya's mom
Bhanupriya ... Padma

Amrish Puri ... Kalivardhan
Jai Sankar ... Arjun's Dad
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Geetha ... Devaraj's Wife
Charu Haasan ... Subbulaxmi's Father
Manoj K. Jayan ... Manoharan
Nagesh
Sonu Walia ... Dancer (special appearance)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Dal-pati (The Leader) (India: Hindi title)
The Commander (India: English title)
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Featured in Sphadikam (1995) more

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3 out of 5 people found the following review useful.
One of the best Indian movies ever, 17 April 2005
10/10
Author: Poetic_Ammo from Malaysia

This film is about 15 years old. i watched it quite a few times and it never fails to impress me. As said earlier it is a modern version of the Mahabharata, with Rajni as Karna.

Its starts with a 14 year old mother forced to abandon her son and the son grows up in the city slums far away..he befriends a underworld don and swears loyalty to death for him Meanwhile the mother gets married and has a son who becomes a top government official. Nobody knows of her earlier son except for her husband. Thing come to head as her younger son is posted to where the elder(who the mother doesn't know is her son) is dominating.

Watch the movie to see what happens. The mother-son scenes are amazingly touching

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