Puthiya Vaarpugal
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Country India | Director P. Bharathiraja | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 14 April 1979 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Puthiya vaarpugal bhagyaraj rati agnihotri bharathiraja movies ilaiyaraja hits
Puthiya Vaarpugal is a 1979 Tamil language feature film directed by P. Bharathiraja. K. Bhagyaraj and Rati Agnihotri played the lead roles in this film along with Goundamani and G.Srinivasan. The music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja
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- Puthiya vaarpugal bhagyaraj rati agnihotri bharathiraja movies ilaiyaraja hits
- Idhayam poguthey bhagyaraj rathi agnihotri bharathiraja movies puthiya vaarpugal
- Plot
- Soundtrack
- References
The film marked the debut of Bhagyaraj as a lead actor. The film was remade in Telugu as Kotha Jeevithalu. The movie was shot in picturesque locations in the Theni area of Tamil Nadu.
Idhayam poguthey bhagyaraj rathi agnihotri bharathiraja movies puthiya vaarpugal
Plot
Shanmugakani (K. Bhagyaraj) arrives in the village of Thaayamangalam as the new school teacher and soon falls in love with a local damsel Jothi (Rati Agnihotri). The village head called as "Periyavar" (played by G.Srinivasan) is a lecherous and sinister man who has a lustful eye on Jothi. Amavasai(Goundamani) is Periyavar's stooge who also has a long-standing desire to marry Jothi. Periyavar frames Shanmugakani for the rape and murder of a woman social activist and gets him evicted from the village and gets Jothi married by deceit to Amavasai. He asks Amavasai and Jothi to stay with him in order to satiate his lust with Jothi. What happens afterwards forms the rest of the story.
Soundtrack
The music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja.