Rasigan

Rasigan
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Directed by	S. A. Chandrasekhar
Screenplay by	S. A. Chandrasekhar
Story by	Shoba Chandrasekhar
Produced by	B. Vimal
Starring	Vijay Sanghavi Srividya Vijayakumar
Cinematography	Ravishankar
Edited by	P. R. Gautham Raj
Music by	Deva
Production company	B. V. Combines
Distributed by	B. V. Combines
Release date	8 July 1994 (1994-07-08)
Running time	140 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Rasigan () (transl. Fan) is a 1994 Indian Tamil-language action romantic film, written and directed by S. A. Chandrasekhar. The film stars his son Vijay and Sanghavi in the lead roles. This was the first movie where Vijay sported the "Ilaiya Thalapathy" title along with his name. Vijay also made his singing debut through the song "Bombay City Sukka Rotti" for this movie. The film was an Hit at the box office and ran for 100 days.

Plot

Vijay (Vijay) is the grandson of Manorama, while Anitha (Sanghavi) is the daughter of Raghavan (Vijayakumar) and Bhagyalakshmi (Sri Vidya). Anitha's family rents one of Manorama's houses. Vijay and Anitha pretend to hate each other, while they actually are in love. But later Anitha's father comes to know of the love matter and he requests a transfer to Chennai. Before going, Anitha leaves her new address on several envelopes and she says that those are love letters given by Vijay, Anitha's father gets angry and takes the letters and went to Vijay's house and tells him to take his useless love letters. After that, Vijay takes it and as he looks at it he knows that those aren't love letters, they're all Anitha's new address in Chennai.

Vijay tries to find her. One day Vijay goes to a restaurant in Chennai to eat and he asks the server where the washroom is. The server tells him that there are two washrooms, one on the upstairs and another on the current ground floor. The server tells him to not go upstairs because it's dangerous. Vijay goes upstairs to the bathroom to expose himself to the Chennai people, but there, he finds an illegal sex film shoot happening.

By this, they blame Vijay for the death of the restaurant owner (who tripped) and Vijay just has to escape. This news reaches Anitha's father who is a police officer. He tries to capture Vijay. But at last, Raghavan understands Vijay's innocence and unites Anitha with him. Finally, Vijay kills the villain also, who was really responsible for the restaurant owner's death. Hence the film ends on a happy note.

Cast

• Vijay as Vijay
• Sanghavi as Anitha Raghavan
• Srividya as Bhagyalakshmi
• Vijayakumar as Raghavan
• Manorama as Parvathi
• Goundamani as Ekamabram
• Senthil as Kapooram
• S. P. Rajkumar
• Vichitra as Rani
• S. A. Chandrasekhar in a special appearance in the song "Thambi Konjam"

Soundtrack

Rasigan
Soundtrack album by Deva
Released	1994
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Label	Lucky Audio

The music composed by Deva, while lyrics written by Vaali and P. R. C. Balu. Vijay made his singing debut through the song "Bombay City Sukka Rotti".

Track-List

No.	Title	Performer(s)	Length
1.	"Silena Silena"	S. N. Surendar, Swarnalatha	4:43
2.	"Auto Rani"	Mano, Swarnalatha	5:10
3.	"Beechoram"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, K. S. Chithra	5:02
4.	"Love Love Mama"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Shoba Chandrasekar	4:51
5.	"Bombay City"	Vijay, K. S. Chithra	4:53
6.	"Thambi Konjam"	Deva	4:48

Production

Rasigan was the first film in which Vijay was credited with the prefix "Ilaya Thalapathy" (young commander-in-chief), an epithet by which he would be credited in the remainder of his films till Bairavaa (2017), following which it was shortened to 'Thalapathy' in Mersal.

Critical reception

The Indian Express wrote "The director's script and treatment seems to be geared to suit the tastes of frontbenchers."

External links

• Rasigan on Facebook
• Rasigan at IMDb