Appu Raja 1990 – Dramatic Movie | Kamal Haasan, Gautami, Rupini, Manorama.

Director: Srinivasa Rao Singeetham
Producer: Kamal Haasan
Music: Illayaraja
Main Cast: Kamal Haasan, Gautami, Rupini, Manorama.
Genre: Drama
Banner: Rajkamal Films Intl.
Release: 1990

Synopsis: Sethupathy (Kamalhassan) is an honest and upright police officer. When he arrests four bigwigs Dharmaraj (Nagesh), Francis Anbarasu (‘Delhi’ Ganesh), Nallasivam (Nasser) and Satyamoorthy (Jaishankar), they escape justice easily and return to take revenge. They kill him and poison his wife (Srividya). She escapes and gives birth to twins with the help of another woman (Manorama) but the babies are separated and each woman believes that the other is dead. Raja (Kamalhassan) grows up as a mechanic with Manorama while Appu (Kamalhassan), a dwarf, grows up in the circus with Srividya.Appu falls in love with the daughter of the circus owner mistakenly thinking that she was asking him to elope with her. But she had asked him to be witness to her marriage with her fiancé, which was not approved by her father. Heartbroken over this and insecurity over his height, he tries to commit suicide but is prevented by his mother, who then reveals the reason that he is born as a dwarf might have been because of the poison force fed to her when she was pregnant with the twins. This leads appu to learn about his father’s murder and he decides to avenge by killing the four murderers.