Nayakan

Nayakan

1987 · 156 min · TA · 7.6 (62 votes)
Dir. Mani Ratnam · Starring Kamal Haasan, Saranya Ponvannan, Karthika, Janagaraj, Delhi Ganesh, Nizhalgal Ravi · Music Ilaiyaraaja

Are you a good man or a bad man?

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Velu Naicker, who witnesses the brutal murder of his father, kills a corrupt policeman and escapes to Mumbai, only to become a gangster.

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A sprawling, somber epic of a man's descent into the Mumbai underworld. It's a gritty, intense, and ultimately melancholic journey through a corrupt system, exploring the tragic rise of a reluctant gangster.

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