Pokkiri Raja (1982 film)

Rogue King) is a 1982 Indian Tamil-language action comedy film directed by S. P. Muthuraman and written by Panchu Arunachalam.

Ramesh finds the culprit and keeps a tight leash on everything happening in the office, thereby earning the wrath of the industrialist's relatives Venkatachalam and Chandran.

Ramesh is dragged to court and, based on Vanaja's testimony, declared guilty and arrested, though he realises she was threatened into committing perjury.

Venkatachalam approaches "Raja", not knowing it is Ramesh, and tells him about Vanaja's impending marriage to his son Chandran.

[2] M. Saravanan of AVM Productions expressed a desire to remake it in Tamil; he wanted Rajinikanth to play the male lead.

[3] Rajinikanth initially refused as he was unimpressed with the Telugu film and character but later relented after Saravanan requested him to act.

[4][5] Saravanan called Visu who, after watching the film, said it could be remade well with minor changes and further developed Radhika's character.

[14] Nalini Sastry of Kalki wrote S. P. Muthuraman has prepared the story as an old-fashioned masala pitch with the intention of drawing the match.