Naan Sigappu Manithan (transl. I am a Red Man) is a 1985 Tamil-language action thriller film directed by S. A. Chandrasekhar. The film stars Rajinikanth, Bhagyaraj, Ambika in lead roles with music by Ilaiyaraja.This movie was a commercial success at the box office.The film was dubbed in Hindi as My Dear Shivaji. Published as Echo LP Vinyl Record in Excellent Condition.
Naan Sigappu Manithan movie is a remake of 1984 Hindi movie Aaj Ki Awaaz which itself was loosely based on the 1974 American action film Death Wish which was earlier remade in Telugu as Nyayam Meere Cheppali (where Rajnikanth played the role of the police inspector) and later remade in Kannada as Mahatma. Vijay played a child artist role in this film shortly.
Naan Sigappu Manithan (1985) – The music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja. And DMC Have Excellent LP Vinyl Record.
Plot
Naan Sigappu Manithan – Vijay (Rajinikanth) is a Tamil professor living with his widowed mother and his sister. He is in love with Uma (Ambika), a lawyer. During a visit to his friend Ravi’s (Nizhalgal Ravi) house, he is disgusted by goings-on in his neighborhood. Illicit liquor is being sold at a tea-stall while prostitution is flourishing in another house in the same colony. But his complaints to the police, yield nothing since the policeman is on the villains’ payroll and manages to warn them before making a raid.
When Ravi’s sister is raped and killed and the perpetrator Mohanraj (Sathyaraj) gets off scot-free with help from a minister, Vijay (Rajinikanth)and Ravi take matters into their own hands and clean up the tea-stall and brothel on their own. Wanting to teach Vijay (Rajinikanth) a lesson, Mohanraj and his goondas rape his sister (who then commits suicide) and kill his mother.
Vijay (Rajinikanth)then turns into a vigilante, walking the streets at nights and dealing out his own brand of justice – shoot first and ask questions later – to the rowdies and goondas. He soon becomes known as Robin Hood, helper of the poor and the police sends Singaaram (Bhagyaraj), a CID officer to unmask Robin Hood.
Vijay (Rajinikanth) kills Mohanraj and his uncle. Now Vijay (Rajinikanth)surrenders to Singaram revealing the truth but Singaram mentions that he has already found the truth and decided not to arrest Vijay (Rajinikanth)as he cleans up the society. But Vijay (Rajinikanth)feels guilty for his murders and surrenders to police.
Uma appears in court in favour of Vijay (Rajinikanth)and argues. The day before the judgment, Singaram masks as a criminal and tries to molest the judge’s daughter, seeing which the judge tries to shoot the criminal. Now Singaram reveals his identity and mentions that his intention was to make the judge understand that Vijay was also under similar situation before.
Finally the judge sentences Vijay (Rajinikanth) for lifetime imprisonment but recommends to the president of India for granting a pardon.
Naan Sigappu Manithan (1985) – The music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja. Published as Echo LP Vinyl Record in Excellent Condition. And DMC Have Excellent LP Vinyl Record.
Cast
Naan Sigappu Manithan (1985):
- Rajinikanth as Professor Vijay (Robin Hood)
- K. Bhagyaraj as CID Chinna Salem Singaram
- Ambika as Uma
- Sathyaraj as Mohanraj
- Nizhalgal Ravi as Ravi
- Banerjee as Anburaj (voice dubbed by Shanmugasundaram)
- M. N. Nambiar as Commissioner of police
- Y. Gee. Mahendra as Harichandran
- Thengai Srinivasan as Minister Tambaram Thanga Kannan
- Sumathi as Sumathi
- Senthil as Senthil
- V. Gopalakrishnan as Lawyer
- V. S. Raghavan as Judge
- Venniradai Moorthy as Mohanraj’s henchman
- S. R. Veeraraghavan as Justice Veeraraghavan
- Suryakanth as Henchman of mohanraj
- Babloo Prithiveeraj as Sumathi’s fiancée
- Swaminathan as Student
- Kovai Sarala (Guest appearance)
- Anuradha (Special appearance)
- T. K. S. Natarajan as victim of robbery
- S. N. Surendar as Beggar
- S. A. Chandrasekhar as Hospital Ward Boy
- Vijay as child artist in opening song in pre-credits scene with a social message board
Themes
Naan Sigappu Manithan is based on the American film Death Wish (1974) and its sequel Death Wish II (1982). According to Jump Cut, one factor that differentiates Naan Sigappu Manithan from those films is the “unleashing of nationalist angst in a climactic courtroom drama scene”.
Naan Sigappu Manithan (1985) – music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja. Published as Echo LP Vinyl Record in Excellent Condition. And DMC Have Excellent LP Vinyl Record.
Soundtrack
Naan Sigappu Manithan – The music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja.
- “Ellarumey Thirudangathan” – Singer : Ilaiyaraja – Lyric: Vaali
- “Gandhi Desamey” – Singer :S. P. Balasubrahmanyam – Lyric: Vairamuthu
- “Kungumathu Meni”- Singer : S. Janaki – Lyric: Gangai Amaran
- “Penn Maaney” – Singer : S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, S. Janaki – Lyric: Mu. Metha
- “Venmegam Vinnil” – Singer : S. P. Balasubrahmanyam – Lyric: Pulamaipithan
- Released by Echo Lp Vinyl Record.
- Naan Sigappu Manithan (1985) – The music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja. Published as Echo LP Vinyl Record in Excellent Condition. And DMC Have Excellent LP Vinyl Record.
About Ilaiyaraja:
- Gnanathesikan (born 2 June 1943), known as Ilaiyaraaja, is an Indian film composer, singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, orchestrator, conductor-arranger and lyricist who works in the Indian film industry, predominantly in Tamil and Telugu. He has also worked in Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi and Hindi films. Widely regarded as one of the greatest Indian music composers of all time, he is credited with introducing Western musical sensibilities in the Indian film musical mainstream.
- The Movie – Naan Sigappu Manithan (1985) – The music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja. Published as Echo LP Vinyl Record in Excellent Condition. And DMC Have Excellent LP Vinyl Record.
- Reputed to be the world’s most prolific composer, he has composed more than 7,000 songs, provided film scores for more than 1,000 movies and performed in more than 20,000 concerts. Being the first Asian to compose a full symphony, Ilaiyaraaja is known to have written the entire symphony in less than a month.
- Ilaiyaraaja is nicknamed “Isaignani” (musical genius) and is often referred to as “maestro”, amongst others by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London.[1]He is known for integrating Indian folk music and traditional Indian instrumentation with western classical music techniques. Composed by Ilaiyaraaja, the critically acclaimed Thiruvasagam in Symphony (2006) is the first Indian oratorio. He is a gold medalist in classical guitar from Trinity College of Music, London, Distance Learning Channel. His scores are often performed by the Budapest Symphony Orchestra.
- Ilaiyaraaja is a recipient of five National Film Awards—three for Best Music Direction and two for Best Background Score. In 2012, he received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, the highest Indian recognition given to practising artists, for his creative and experimental works in the music field. In 2010, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian honour in India and the Padma Vibhushan in 2018, the second-highest civilian award by the government of India.
- In a 2013 poll conducted by CNN-IBN celebrating 100 years of Indian cinema, Ilaiyaraaja was voted as the all-time greatest film-music director of India. American world cinema portal “Taste of Cinema” placed him at the 9th position in its list of 25 greatest film composers in the history of cinema, the only Indian in the list.
- In 2003, according to an international poll conducted by BBC of more than half-a million people from 165 countries, his composition “Rakkamma Kaiya Thattu” from the 1991 film Thalapathi was voted fourth in the top 10 most popular songs of all time. One of his compositions was part of the playlist for the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics.According to Achille Forler, board member of the Indian Performing Right Society, the kind of stellar body of work that Ilaiyaraaja has created in the last 40 years should have placed him among the world’s top 10 richest composers, somewhere between Andrew Lloyd Webber ($1.2 billion) and Mick Jagger (over $300 million). The music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja.
- Ilaiyaraaja was born as Gnanathesikan in 1943 in Pannaipuram, Theni district, Tamil Nadu, India. When he joined school his father changed his name to “Rajaiya”, but his village people used to call him “Raasayya”. Ilaiyaraaja joined Dhanraj Master as a student to learn musical instruments and the master renamed and called him just “Raaja”.
- In his first movie Annakili, Tamil film producer Panchu Arunachalam added “Ilaiya” (Ilaiya means younger in Tamil language) as a prefix in his name Raaja, and he named him as “Ilaiyaraaja”, because in the 1970s there was one more music director A. M. Rajah.Ilaiyaraaja was married to Jeeva and the couple has three children—Karthik Raja, Yuvan Shankar Raja and Bhavatharini—all film composers and singers.His wife Jeeva died on 31 October 2011.
- Ilaiyaraaja has a brother; Gangai Amaran, who is also a music director and lyricist in the Tamil film industry.Ilaiyaraaja grew up in a rural area, exposed to a range of Tamil folk music. At the age of 14, he joined a travelling musical troupe called “Pavalar Brothers” headed by his elder brother Pavalar Varadarajan, and spent the next decade performing throughout South India.
- While working with the troupe, he penned his first composition, a musical adaptation of an elegy written by the Tamil poet laureate Kannadasan for Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister. In 1968, Ilaiyaraaja began a music course with Professor Dhanraj in Madras (now Chennai) which included an overview of Western classical music, compositional training in techniques such as counterpoint, and study in instrumental performance.
- Ilaiyaraaja is a gold medalist in classical guitar after completing the course through distance learning channel from Trinity College of Music, London. He learnt carnatic music from T.V.Gopalakrishnan.
Ilaiyaraaja receives the Padma Vibhushan from the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind.
Ilaiyaraaja is nicknamed “Isaignani” (the musical genius), a title conferred by Kalaignar Karunanidhi. He is often referred to as “maestro”, the prestigious title conferred by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London.
- He was one of the earliest Indian film composers to use Western classical music harmonies and string arrangements in Indian film music. This allowed him to craft a rich tapestry of sounds for films, and his themes and background score gained notice and appreciation among Indian film audiences. The range of expressive possibilities in Indian film music was broadened by Ilaiyaraaja’s methodical approach to arranging, recording technique, and his drawing of ideas from a diversity of musical styles.Ilaiyaraaja is known to have written the entire symphony in less than a month, and is the first Asian to compose a full symphony.
- He is reputed to be the world’s most prolific composer having composed more than 7,000 songs, provided film scores for more than 1,000 movies and performed in more than 20,000 concerts. Composed by Ilaiyaraaja, the critically acclaimed Thiruvasagam in Symphony (2006) is the first Indian oratorio.According to musicologist P. Greene, Ilaiyaraaja’s “deep understanding of so many different styles of music allowed him to create syncretic pieces of music combining very different musical idioms in unified, coherent musical statements”.
- Ilaiyaraaja has composed Indian film songs that amalgamated elements of genres such as Afro-tribal, bossa nova, dance music (e.g., disco), doo-wop, flamenco, acoustic guitar-propelled Western folk, funk, Indian classical, Indian folk/traditional, jazz, march, pathos, pop, psychedelia and rock and roll.By virtue of this variety and his intermingling of Western, Indian folk and Carnatic elements, Ilaiyaraaja’s compositions appeal to the Indian rural dweller for its rhythmic folk qualities, the Indian classical music enthusiast for the employment of Carnatic Ragas, and the urbanite for its modern, Western-music sound. The Movie – Naan Sigappu Manithan (1985) – The music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja. Published as Echo LP Vinyl Record in Excellent Condition. And DMC Have Excellent LP Vinyl Record.
- Ilaiyaraaja’s sense of visualization for composing music is always to match up with the story line of the running movie and possibly by doing so, he creates the best experience for the audience to feel the emotions flavored through his musical score. He mastered this art of blending music to the narration, which very few others managed to adapt themselves over a longer time. Although Ilaiyaraaja uses a range of complex compositional techniques, he often sketches out the basic melodic ideas for films in a very spontaneous fashion.According to Achille Forler, board member of the Indian Performing Right Society, the kind of stellar body of work that Ilaiyaraaja has created in the last 40 years should have placed him among the world’s top 10 richest composers, somewhere between Andrew Lloyd Webber ($1.2 billion) and Mick Jagger (over $300 million).
- This Vinyl regarding the movie Naan Sigappu Manithan (1985) was composed by Ilaiyaraaja. Published as Echo LP Vinyl Record in Excellent Condition. And DMC Have Excellent LP Vinyl Record.
