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Along with Murattu Kaalai (1980), it was responsible for establishing Rajinikanth as a full-fledged action hero. The film became a commercial success, running for over 100 days in theatres. Pokkiri Raja was released on 14 January 1982, Pongal day. Viswanathan, with lyrics by Kannadasan and Gangai Amaran. The crew brought in a dubbing artist to imitate his voice. It was Muthuraman's final film as actor and he portrayed a negative role. The film was colourised using Eastmancolor. Saravanan called Visu who, after watching the film, said it could be remade well with minor changes and further developed Raadhika's character. Rajinikanth refused to act in the film as he was unimpressed with the Telugu film and character but later relented after Saravanan requested him to act. Saravanan of AVM Productions expressed a desire to remake it in Tamil he wanted Rajinikanth to play the male lead. Pokkiri Raja is a remake of the Telugu film Chuttalunnaru Jagratha (1980), and was Rajinikanth's first film opposite Raadhika. Ramesh eventually attains bail, courtesy Vanaja.Ĭhandran later reveals himself and Venkatachalam as the murderers of Paranthaman, but Raja records the entire statement on tape after Ramesh and Raja subdue Chandran and Venkatachalam's thugs, the tape is played in the court, and both killers are arrested. At the end of three days, he returns to prison and switches places with Raja, who reunites with Rakkayi and tells her about Ramesh taking his place. Ramesh marries Vanaja at his mother's request. Venkatachalam and Chandran suspect Vanaja. Ramesh rescues Vanaja from her forced marriage, tells her about Raja, how she and her father mistook him for Ramesh, and keeps her safe at his mother's house. Venkatachalam approaches "Raja", not knowing it is Ramesh, and tells him about Vanaja's impending marriage to Chandran. Venkatachalam initially attempts to have him arrested for escaping, but fails after Raja's lover Rakkayi identifies him as Raja, and takes him. With Raja's permission, Ramesh masquerades as him for three days. Together, Ramesh and Raja plan to bring the culprits to book. Raja is a petty thief who had been arrested for breaking into Paranthaman's house, and was mistaken by Vanaja to be Ramesh. A month into prison, Ramesh meets Raja, a soon-to-be-released convict who looks exactly like him. Ramesh is dragged to court and, based on Vanaja's testimony, declared guilty and arrested, though he realises she was threatened into committing perjury. Paranthaman is murdered and Vanaja also sees Ramesh in her house that same night.

Paranthaman is happy about this development until he sees Ramesh cheating on his daughter. Ramesh and Vanaja (Paranthaman's daughter) initially find themselves at loggerheads, but eventually fall in love with each other. Ramesh finds the culprit and keeps a tight leash on everything happening in the office, thereby earning the wrath of the industrialist's relatives. Paranthaman strongly suspects his relatives to be looting him. Ramesh is the manager of the office of Paranthaman, an industrialist. ( January 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) You can provide one by editing this article. This article needs an improved plot summary.