Bairavi is a 1987 Tamil

Tamil language

Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...

 film directed by M. Bhaskar. It was Rajinikanth's first movie as a hero in Tamil cinema

Tamil cinema

Tamil cinema is the film industry based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, dedicated to the production of films in the Tamil language. It is based in Chennai's Kodambakkam district, where several South Indian film production companies are headquartered...

. He was also given the "Superstar" title through this film by producer Kalaipuli S. Dhanu. The film stars Sripriya

Sripriya

Sripriya is an actress who played leading roles in the 1970s and 1980s in South India. She has acted in Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam films, but her main contribution was in Tamil films, where she has acted in over 200 films.-Personal life:...

 as the female lead and Geetha playing the title role as Rajini's sister. The film also had Manorama, Suruli Rajan

Suruli Rajan

Suruli Rajan was a Tamil film comedian. He was a recipient of Tamil Nadu State Government’s Best Comedian Award for the year 1981-82.-Biography:...

 in other major roles and Sreekanth played the main villain role.

Plot

Mookaiyah (Rajinikanth) and his sister Bairavi (Geetha) are the children of a drunkard, are separated after Bhairavi gets lost in an accident. Year after, Mookaiyah becomes a servant of a local landlord (Sreekanth) and becomes the landlord's faithful servant by doing whatever he orders. The landlord, Rajalingam (Sreekanth) makes Mookaiyah abduct a young girl from a neighboring village Bhagyam (Geetha), and rapes her in the absence of Mookaiyah. Geetha gets herself killed in the process. Maanikam, Bhagyam's adopted brother, vows to take revenge on Mookaiyah as he thinks Mookaiyah is responsible for Bairavi's death. In the meanwhile, Mookaiyah comes to know that Bhagyam is the long-lost sister (Bairavi) of him. How he sets out to kill the landlord in order to take revenge for his sister's death forms the rest of the story. Sripriya

Sripriya

Sripriya is an actress who played leading roles in the 1970s and 1980s in South India. She has acted in Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam films, but her main contribution was in Tamil films, where she has acted in over 200 films.-Personal life:...

 plays the love interest of Mookaiyah.

Cast

• Rajinikanth as Mookaiyah
• Sripriya
  Sripriya
  Sripriya is an actress who played leading roles in the 1970s and 1980s in South India. She has acted in Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam films, but her main contribution was in Tamil films, where she has acted in over 200 films.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Geetha as Bairavi
• Sreekanth as Rajalingam
• Suruli Rajan
  Suruli Rajan
  Suruli Rajan was a Tamil film comedian. He was a recipient of Tamil Nadu State Government’s Best Comedian Award for the year 1981-82.-Biography:...
  
  
• Manorama
• Y. Vijaya

Soundtrack

The soundtrack and background score was composed by Ilaiyaraaja

Ilaiyaraaja

Ilaiyaraaja is an Indian film composer, singer, and lyricist mainly in the Tamil film Industry. He is regarded as one of the finest music composers in India. Ilaiyaraaja is also an instrumentalist, conductor, and a songwriter...

. All lyrics were penned by Kannadasan

Kannadasan

Kannadasan was a Tamil poet and lyricist, heralded as one of the greatest and most important writer in the Tamil language...

.

• Kattapulle — T. M. Soundararajan
• Nandooruthu — T. M. Soundararajan
• Oru Padhiyil — S. Janaki
• Yezhu — S. Janaki
  S. Janaki
  S. Janaki is an Indian female playback singer. Renowned for her voice modulation abilities, she has sung in many Indian languages, most frequently in Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi. Throughout a career spanning more than five decades, she has won four National Film Awards and 35...
  
  

External links

• Bairavi at Bollywoodhungama