Kaakki Sattai
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| Directed by | Rajasekhar |
| Starring | Kamal Haasan Madhavi Ambika Sathyaraj Rajeev Bob Christo Thengai Srinivasan |
| Music by | Ilayaraaja |
| Release date(s) |  14 March 1985 |
| Country | India |
| Language | Tamil |
Kaakki Sattai is a 1985 Tamil-language Indian feature film directed by Rajasekhar, starring Kamal Haasan, Madhavi, Ambika, Sathyaraj, Rajeev and Thengai Srinivasan. The movie is one of all time cult blockbusters for Kamal. Sathyaraj and Rajeev played the villains. The film has Kamal Haasan playing an undercover cop, which later inspired movies like Rajanikanth' s Pandiyan, Vijay' s Pokkiri and Kamal' s own Vetri Vizha where the hero played undercover cop[citation needed].
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[edit] Plot
Kaakki Sattai has Murali (Kamal Haasan), a young man who trains very hard to become a police officer. Kanmani / Suma (Ambika) is his neighbour and they fall in love with each other while Ambika supports Kamal to achieve his goal but he is rejected after the physical test.
Angered out of rejection Kamal turns into a local rowdy. He causes trouble in his district and comes to the attention of a notorious smuggler and murderer, Vicky (Sathyaraj) and his partner Anand (Rajeev). After initial conflict between the two, Vicky recruits rowdy Murali into his gang. Murali becomes his most trusted member of the gang. He gets intimate with a girl, Anita (Madhavi), who is looking for personl revenge against Anand.
But soon Vicky's activities time and again, get foiled by the police and he finds out that they have a mole in his gang. Kanmani spots the changed Murali with Anita and gets furious and breaks up with him. Then Murali reveals the truth to her. He wasn’t rejected by the police but was recruited by a senior officer to bring down Vicky and Anand's gang. He became a rowdy to get into the gang and is acting as a mole to bring the gang down. They patch up things but Vicky finds out the truth too.
Vicky kidnaps Kanmani when police arrives to arrest him and blackmails Murali to help him escape. After initially helping his escape, Murali rescues Kanmani and Vicky gets killed in blast.
[edit] Cast
- Kamal Haasan - Murali
- Madhavi - Anita
- Ambika - Kanmani / Suma
- Sathyaraj - Vicky
- Rajeev - Anand
- Thengai Srinivasan
- Bob Christo
[edit] Remake
Kaakki Sattai was remade in Hindi as Guru starring Mithun Chakraborty and Sridevi in double role, followed the same success path in Bollywood too. It is also rumored that the veteran malayalam director Shaji Kailas is planning to remake kaakki Sattai with Narain in the lead role and is slated to start filming on 2012.
[edit] Soundtrack
The highly successful soundtrack was composed by Maestro Illayaraja[1]
| # | Track | Singer(s) | Picturised On |
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| 1 | Kanmaniyae | S. P. Balasubramaniam, S. Janaki | Kamal Hassan, Ambika |
| 2 | Nama Singaari Saraku | S. P. Balasubramaniam | Kamal Hassan, |
| 3 | Poo Potta Dhavani | S. P. Balasubramaniam, S. Janaki | Kamal Hassan, Madhavi |
| 4 | Vaanile Thenila | S. P. Balasubramaniam, S. Janaki | Kamal Hassan, Ambika |
| 5 | Pattu Kannam | S. P. Balasubramaniam, P. Suseela | Kamal Hassan, Ambika |
[edit] References
- ^ Kaakki Sattai, Oosai, http://www.oosai.com/tamilsongs/kaaki_sattai_songs.cfm, retrieved 2008-10-28
