Sigappu Rojakkal

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Sigappu Rojakkal
Directed by	Bharathi Raja
Produced by	J Padmavathi
Starring	Kamal Haasan Sridevi
Music by	Ilaiyaraaja
Language	Tamil

Sigappu Rojakkal (Red Roses) (1978) is a South Indian movie in the Tamil language starring Kamal Haasan and Sridevi.

In an era of over-dramatised acting in Tamil films, Sigappu Rojakkal was one of the notable exceptions. With an anti-hero who is a psychopathic, sexual killer in the lead, the movie was seen as controversial by traditional and orthodox moviegoers in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

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Dileep (Kamal Haasan) is a successful businessman with a dark side. He preys on nubile girls and rapes and kills them. These proceedings are video-recorded and watched by his adoptive father and mentor, another deranged woman-hater who, as with Dileep, had a disillusioning experience with the female sex in his past. The old man stays holed up in a far corner of Dileep's mansion watching his son carry out what he is too infirm to do. The murdered girls are buried in Dileep's garden and a rosebush is grown above.

Dileep chances upon saree salesgirl, Sarada (Sridevi), and develops an attraction for her. Sarada, a conservative woman, insists that Dileep must marry her if he wants to have his way with her. The romance proceeds, and appears to be Dileep's salvation before things begin to collapse for him. On his marriage day, Sarada stumbles upon a diary containing details of his deranged life and, and names of the girls he had killed scribbled on the walls of one of the rooms in his large house.

Sarada immediately becomes aware of the possible trouble she would be in and attempts to leave Dileep's house. As she prepares to leave, her husband returns after killing a club waiter (Bhagyaraj), who was a witness who would have identified him as the culprit in the murder of a woman.

In the ensuing chase, Dileep is caught by the police.