Overview
Padayappa, a mechanical engineer whose father gives up his property to his foster brother, and then dies of shock soon after. Neelambari initially loves Padayappa, but plans to humiliate him after his family humiliates her father. The rest of the plot deals with Padayappa overcoming all the obstacles placed by Neelambari.
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Music
Music by A. R. Rahman
Details
- Director
- Writer
- K. S. RavikumarScreenplay
- Original title
- படையப்பா
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- April 10, 1999
- Original language
- Tamil
- Countries
- India
Production
Cast
Sivaji GanesanDharmalingam
RajinikanthPadayappa
Ramya KrishnanNeelambari
SoundaryaVasundhara
LakshmiSavithri
SitharaNandhini
Radha RaviRajarathnam
NassarSurya Prakash
ManivannanRamalingam
SenthilAlagapuri Azhagesan
AbbasChandra Prakash
Preetha VijayakumarAnitha
Anu MohanChinnarasu
Ramesh KhannaMurugesan
VadivukarasiKamatchi
SathyapriyaSivagami
Mansoor Ali KhanKrishnaswamy Mudaliar
Prakash RajPolice Officer
Vasu VikramShanmugavel
Raja RavindraSaravanavel
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