Moondru Mugam

Moondru Mugam
Theatrical release poster
Directed byA. Jagannathan
Screenplay byKanaga Shanmugan
P. L. Sundar Rajan
Thamizhazhagan
Radha Veerannan
Story byPeter Selvakumar
Produced byThamizhazhagan
G. Thyagarajan
StarringRajinikanth
Radhika
CinematographyViswam Natarajan
Edited byK. R. Krishnan
Music byShankar–Ganesh
Production
company
Sathya Movies
Release date
  • 1 October 1982 (1982-10-01)
Running time
134 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Moondru Mugam (transl. Three Faces) is a 1982 Indian Tamil-language action film directed by A. Jagannathan. The film stars Rajinikanth in three distinct roles as Alex Pandian, Arun and John. The film was a blockbuster and ran for 250 days in theatres. Rajinikanth won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award Special Prize for Best Actor.[1]

The film was remade in Hindi as John Jani Janardhan (1984) with Rajinikanth reprising his roles,[2] in Telugu as Mugguru Monagallu (1983) and in Kannada as Gedda Maga (1983).[3]

  1. ^ "Superstar Rajinikanth as Minions". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 10 August 2023. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  2. ^ "The Superstar in khakhi: When Rajinikanth dazzled the audience in police uniform". The New Indian Express. 9 April 2019. Archived from the original on 8 August 2022. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
  3. ^ Upadhyaya, Prakash (3 November 2016). "Raghava Lawrence to remake Rajinikanth's Moondru Mugam". International Business Times. Archived from the original on 25 May 2021. Retrieved 29 October 2021.