Sattam Oru Vilayaattu


Sattam Oru Vilaiyaattu is a 1987 Tamil action crime film, directed by S. A. Chandrasekhar and produced by Shoba Chandrasekhar. The film stars Vijayakanth, Radha and Ravichandran in lead roles. The film had musical score by M. S. Viswanathan. The movie was a Hit.

Plot

As a boy Raja, he saw his mother and younger brother murdered. He saw too that his police inspector father DCP Needhi Manikkam was powerless to get the murderer convicted as there was no evidence.
As a young man under the name of Vijay, he gets even with the criminal Mathappu Sundaram killing each one of his three sons. One under water, the second from a mountain peak, the third murder is made to look as it were an accident with the car carrying the victim hurtling off the peak. Until he gets to the villain himself in as amber and goonda as made up as dolls.

Cast

The music was composed by M. S. Viswanathan.

Release

Sattam Oru Vilayattu got released on 21 October 1987 alongside another Vijayakanth film Uzhavan Magan. However, both films went on to become super hits at the box office. The Indian Express wrote "The screenplay is utterly contrived and there is nothing new either in M. Karunanidhi's dialogues or S. A. Chandrasekhar's treatment which is as hackneyed as ever"..and faced heavy competition from Nayakan, Manithan, Uzhavan Magan and emerged hit film.