| Avargal | |
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| Directed by | K. Balachander |
| Written by | K. Balachander |
| Produced by | P. R. Govindarajan J. Duraisamy |
| Starring | Sujatha Kamal Haasan Rajinikanth Ravikumar |
| Cinematography | B. S. Lokanath |
| Edited by | N. R. Kittu |
| Music by | M. S. Viswanathan |
Production company | Kalakendra Movies |
Release date |
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Running time | 167 minutes[1] |
| Country | India |
| Language | Tamil |
Avargal (pronounced [aʋaɾɡaɭ] transl. They) is a 1977 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film written and directed by K. Balachander. The film stars Sujatha, Kamal Haasan, Rajinikanth and Ravikumar. A triangular love story, it revolves around a woman who is caught between the man she fell in love with and her former sadistic husband who is supposedly reformed and wants to rejoin her.
Avargal was released on 25 February 1977. Although the film was a commercial failure, Sujatha won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil, and the film qualified for the Indian Panorama. Balachander later remade the film in Telugu as Idi Katha Kaadu (1979), with Haasan reprising his role.[2]
- ^ Rajadhyaksha & Willemen 1998, p. 430.
- ^ "Kamal Haasan and Chiranjeevi worked together in a Telugu film for the first time in Idi Katha Kaadu". The Times of India. 17 May 2020. Archived from the original on 3 December 2021. Retrieved 3 December 2021.