Billa (1980 film)
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| Billa | |
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| Directed by | R. Krishnamurthy |
| Produced by | K.Balaji |
| Starring | Rajnikanth Balaji Sripriya Major Sundarrajan R.S.Manohar Thengai Srinivasan S.A. Asokan |
| Music by | M.S.Viswanathan |
| Release date(s) |  January 26, 1980 |
| Running time | 175 mins |
| Country | India |
| Language | Tamil |
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Billa is an Indian Tamil film released in 1980. The movie was produced by K.Balaji and directed by R.Krishnamurthy. The film stars Rajnikanth, Balaji, Thengaai Srinivasan, Manorama , Sripriya and Major Sundarajan.
[edit] Synopsis
Billa (RajniKanth) is the leader of an underworld gang. The Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) is tracking down Billa and in one of their confrontations the DSP wounds Billa, resulting in his death. The DSP then secretly holds a burying of Billa. After which the DSP remembers a person who looks like Billa, he then tracks that person down. The DSP requests Raju to impersonates Billa so that the DSP can take down the rest of Billa's gang, Raju requests that the DSP promises him that he will give a proper education to the children that he is looking after. But in an unexpected turn of events the DSP dies. The DSP is the only one who knows the truth about our impersonator who now finds himself in a life-threatening situation - hunted by both the cops and the real Billa's henchmen and to make matters worse, he then finds out that Interpol Officer is a crook and has taken the place of the real person. He is the one responsible for the DSP's murder. It's now a race to retrieve a the DSP's diary in which the DSP has documented his substitution of the real Billa.
[edit] Trivia
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- This movie is a remake of Don (1978)
- This is one of the movies that helped Rajinikanth receive a star status.
- This movie ran for 25 weeks in Chennai and is one of the biggest hits of that year.
- The song "My name is Billa" was a big hit across tamil nadu and people of all age group were mesmerised by this song for a long time.[citation needed]
- The song "Vethalya Potendi" was also a very big hit at that time.
- Billa is a big hit.
- The movie though remake was not a scene to scene remake and changes were made in the script to suit Tamil audience.
- A remake of this film starring Ajith in the role of Rajini was released in 2007.
