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Directed by | S. P. Muthuraman |
Written by | Panchu Arunachalam |
Produced by | M. Kumaran M. Saravanan M. Balasubramaniam |
Starring | Kamal Haasan Ambika Raveendran Thulasi |
Cinematography | Babu |
Edited by | R. Vittal |
Music by | Ilaiyaraaja |
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Running time | 137 minutes[1] |
Country | India |
Language | Tamil |
Sakalakala Vallavan (transl. Master of all arts) is a 1982 Indian Tamil-language masala film directed by S. P. Muthuraman and written by Panchu Arunachalam. The film stars Kamal Haasan, Ambika, Raveendran and Tulasi. Produced by AVM Productions, it revolves around a villager whose sister is raped by the village head's son when the former refuses to abide by his dictatorship. The villager vows to seek revenge and get his sister married to her rapist.
Sakalakala Vallavan was released on 14 August 1982. The film was a major commercial success and ran for over 175 days in theatres and was the highest-grossing film in Tamil cinema until 1989 when the record was broken by Apoorva Sagodharargal. It also made Haasan, then popular only with the elite, popular among the masses. The film was remade in Hindi as Abhimanyu (1989).[2]