Raja, an atheist, is constantly at a war of wits with his brother who is a firm devotee of a god man. When tragedy strikes, disturbing facts are revealed, leaving everyone shocked.
Acting
Cho Ramaswamy's god man—oily, magnetic, deeply unsettling.
Direction
Muthuraman balances sermon and spectacle without tipping over.
Writing
The atheist hero who actually argues his case—rare for 1981.
Director
S. P. Muthuraman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during peak god man fever in Tamil Nadu, Cho Ramaswamy's casting was deliberate political commentary—he was already a famous satirist targeting religious fraud.
Rajinikanth's Raja was reportedly his last explicitly atheist protagonist; afterward, his characters increasingly accommodated spiritual themes as his real-life political ambitions grew.
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