Pudhea Paadhai

Pudhea Paadhai
Poster
Directed byR. Parthiban
Written byR. Parthiban
Produced byA. Sundaram
StarringR. Parthiban
Seetha
CinematographyA. Rajpreet
Edited byM. N. Raja
Music byChandrabose
Production
company
Vivekchitra
Release date
  • 14 April 1989 (1989-04-14)
Running time
116 minutes[1]
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil
Budget3.8 million[2]

Pudhea Paadhai (transl. New Path) is a 1989 Indian Tamil-language drama film written and directed by R. Parthiban in his directorial debut. The film stars Parthiban as an inhumane ruffian who gets reformed by his rape victim (Seetha), while V. K. Ramasamy, Manorama, Nassar, Sridhar, Kuyili and Sathyapriya appear in supporting roles.

Pudhea Paadhai was released on 14 April 1989 and emerged a box-office success, while also winning several accolades including two National Film Awards, and two Tamil Nadu State Film Awards. It was remade in Kannada in 1990 as Hosa Jeevana, in Hindi in 1991 as Benaam Badsha, in 1991 in Telugu as Rowdy Gaari Pellam and in 1996 in Malayalam as Swarnakireedam.

  1. ^ Dhananjayan 2014, p. 302.
  2. ^ Dhananjayan 2014, p. 303.