Vellai Roja

Vellai Roja

Poster
Directed by A. Jagannathan
Produced by V. Viswanathan
Screenplay by A. L. Narayanan
Story by Dr Pavithran
Starring Sivaji Ganesan
Ambika
Prabhu
Radha
Music by Ilaiyaraaja
Cinematography P. Ganesapandiyan
Edited by R. Devarajan
Production
company
Filmco
Release date
  • 4 November 1983 (1983-11-04)
Country India
Language Tamil

Vellai Roja (English: White Rose) is a 1983 Indian Tamil-language film, directed by A. Jagannathan and produced by V. Viswanathan. The film stars Sivaji Ganesan, Ambika, Prabhu and Radha in lead roles. The film had musical score by Ilayaraja.[1][2][3][4] It is a remake of the Malayalam film Post Mortem. It was remade in Kannada as Dharmathma in 1988 with Tiger Prabhakar reprising the role of Sivaji Ganesan and Shankar Nag reprising the role of Prabhu]. This film was later made in Hindi as Tahqiqaat in 1993 with Jeetendra in the lead.

Plot

Father James (Sivaji Ganesan) is a well-respected Catholic Priest by the entire town. Parisutham (Calcutta Viswanathan) is a multimillionaire and head of the town, Peter (Prabhu) an angry young man, who always fights for justice and anti to rich people, who is a son of a coffin maker Savaerimuthu(G. Srinivasan). Peter's sister Mary (Radha), Parisutham's son Johny (Suresh) are in love. Mary becomes pregnant, at that time Johny have to leave the country for few days, so she takes Father's help to arrange her marriage with Johny because both Parisutham and Peter respect his words. But Peter misunderstands that the Father and Mary were involved in a relationship and he blames the Father for this and assaults him. Peter gets arrested but he escapes. Next Day Mary is found hanging dead from a tree branch. Everyone thinks that she has committed suicide and she is buried without a postmortem. But the Father has a doubt about Mary's death, so he asks his twin brother David (again Sivaji Ganesan), Superintendent of Police, to have the body exhumed in order to perform a postmortem. The next day when S.P. David exhumes Mary's coffin he finds Father James' dead body in it. Everyone suspects Peter was the culprit, S.P. David immediately begins an investigation to solve the mystery behind Mary's missing dead body and Father's death.

Cast

Crew

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja.[5]

No. Song Singers Lyrics Length (m:ss)
1 Solai Poovil Malai Thenral S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Janaki Muthulingam 04:38
2 Oh Maanae Maana S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Janaki N. Kama Rajan 04:20
3 Devanin Kovil Malaysia Vasudevan Vaali 04:15
4 Naagoor Pakkathile Ilaiyaraaja, Malaysia Vasudevan, S. P. Sailaja Gangai Amaran 04:43
5 Vaadi Enn Gangai Amaran, Janaki Gangai Amaran 04:25

References

  1. ↑ "Vellai Roja". OneIndia. Retrieved 2014-08-13.
  2. ↑ "Vellai Roja". spicyonion.com. Retrieved 2014-08-13.
  3. ↑ "Vellai Roja". gomolo.com. Retrieved 2014-08-13.
  4. ↑ "Vellai Roja". nadigarthilagam.com. Retrieved 2014-08-13.
  5. ↑ "Vellai Roja Songs". raaga.com. Retrieved 2014-08-13.
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