| Thee | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | R. Krishnamurthy |
| Starring | Rajnikanth Suman Sripriya Sowcar Janaki Manorama |
| Music by | M. S. Viswanathan |
| Release date(s) | 26 January 1981 |
| Country | India |
| Language | Tamil |
Thee (English: Fire) is a 1981 Tamil film directed R. Krishnamurthy. Rajnikanth plays the lead role and Suman plays the role of his brother. It is a remake of the classic Hindi film Deewar starring Amitabh Bachchan and Shashi Kapoor and directed by Yash Chopra.
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After a labour leader (AVM Rajan) is framed by a mill-owner and publicly dishonored, he leaves his wife Sita (Sowcar Janaki) and children to face the wrath of angry mill workers. His elder son Rajasekhar a.k.a Raja (Rajnikanth) is badly affected by a (then) Mason (R. S. Manohar). The hard childhood, drops him out of school and becomes an atheist and grows up to be a low level labourer at the harbor. He later joins with violent mafia don Jagdish (K.Balaji). Meanwhile Raja becomes a star and matures into another leader in Jagdish's gang and raises himself to #2 wanted by the law. He buys an exotic bungalow, telling his family that he earned the money through business.
Meanwhile Raja meets his childhood enemy the Mason who also has grown up as another big don in the city & develops enmity towards him and waits for an opportunity to kill him. He develops a relationship with a call girl, Anita, who was forced into this business. She becomes pregnant to Raja.
The younger son Ravi (Suman), sheltered by his brother and Mother, goes through school and college and ends up with a job in the police force with the advice from his girlfriend, Radha (Sripriya) and her father (Major Sundarrajan). Suman is given the responsibility by his seniors in the police department to bring down Jagdish's gang that Raja is a part of. Ravi later realizes that his own brother, Raja, is a part of the gang, on confronting this along with their mother for self confession, Raja refuses for confession which leads Ravi & their mother to get away from their Porsch house.
Though Sita is with Ravi she always loved Raja more than Ravi because she knew the difficulties that he'd undergone as a child to make up the family. Meanwhile Ravi manages to gun down many members of the gang, tries to arrest Raja, who runs away. The sentimental point of the movie is that, when Sita becomes unconscious because she being missing her elder son, Raja, he goes to the temple for the first time in his life and prays to God to make his mother alright.
When Raja comes to know that Anita (Shobha) is pregnant, he decides to marry her and asks his mother to come to the same temple at night. However, Raja's enemy don, finds Anita and kills her when she refuses to divulge where Raja is. Raja gets a clue who killed Anita from the cigar that was lying around in Anita's house and hunts him down, erasing his entire gang in the subsequent killing spree. Ravi learns of Raja's whereabouts and decides to arrest him. However, Raja is on the run towards the temple to see his mother. Ravi then shoots Raja, who dies in the lap of his Mother. Ravi receives an award for his brave act and he is accompanied by his mother who is happy as well as sad.