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Director
  
P. Bharathiraja

Country
  
India

8/10
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Music director
  
Ilayaraja

Language
  
Tamil

Movie poster of Kadalora, a 1986 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film directed by Bharathiraja starring Sathyaraj as Das and Rekha as Jenifer in lead roles.

Release date
  
5 July 1986

Songs
  
Adi Aathadi (Sad)

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Kodiyilae malliyappoo kadalora kavithaigal 1986


Kadalora Kavithaigal (English: Poems by the Sea) is a 1986 Indian Tamil language film starring Satyaraj, Rekha, Raja, Janagaraj and Kamala Kamesh. The film was remade into Telugu as Aradhana with Chiranjeevi and Suhasini and in Kannada as Kaurava with B C Patil and Prema. This was début film for Rekha, Raja and Ranjani.

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Movie poster of Kadalora, a 1986 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film starring Sathyaraj and Rekha in lead roles with Raja, Janagaraj, and Kamala Kamesh in supporting roles.

The film was a turning point in Actor Sathyaraj's career. It successfully completed 200 days in theatres.

Movie poster of Kadalora (1986 film) featuring Sathyaraj, Rekha, and Kamala Kamesh.

Plot

Sathyaraj as Das and Rekha as Jenifer in a movie scene from Kadalora (1986 film).

The Film is about transformation of a Hero (Satyaraj) who has a prison record and his understanding of Love through an elementary education. In that process he falls in love with the school teacher Heroine (Rekha).

Rekha as Jenifer on the beach in a movie scene from Kadalora (1986 film).

Based in a coastal sea village, Chinnappa Das (Satyaraj) is a violent person who has prison records and returns to his village after serving his prison term. He is pursed by his Maternal uncle's daughter (Ranjini) to marry him. In one of his encounters at an elementary school he meets a lady school teacher Jennifer (Rekha) who gives a sound scolding on how ignorant fools behave.

There is an element of purity in Das's heart which the school teacher could identify, this transforms his life for ever. Set in a coastal milieu, the duo often meet on the beach, amidst sunlit sea and splashing waves on the rocks. In a sequence, Das makes the teacher stand alone atop a seaside hillock, Das from down below on the sands announces aloud to her that "you are my God".

In a related episode when Das visits the teacher at her house, looking at the portrait of the Good Shepherd with a lamb in his lap, he earnestly asks her why He is lapping up that lamb for which she replies, "that lamb has lost its way and so he has lapped it up". She goes on asking him what will he do if he were the shepherd and wat if she was that lamb, there by subconsciously revealing her desire to be the lamb in the lap of God, in her case to be with Das, thereby both Das and Jennifer find their loved ones.

Through another character, the director introduces the small but important role which is modelled on The Meera.

Cast

  • Sathyaraj as Das
  • Rekha as Jenifer
  • Raja
  • Ranjani
  • Janagaraj
  • Kamala Kamesh
  • Anuradha Vasudev
  • Lalitha Sharma
  • Soundtrack

    The music composed by Ilaiyaraaja.

    Reception

    Behindwoods said, "A simple love triangle but the situations are woven beautifully and the performances are realistic", and added that "Satyaraj broke his image of an action hero and came up with a rollicking performance. He is the real star of the film".

    References

    Kadalora Kavithaigal Wikipedia
    Kadalora Kavithaigal IMDb