Vellai Roja

White Rose) is a 1983 Indian Tamil-language thriller film, directed by A. Jagannathan and written and A. L. Narayanan.

Peter who is the son of coffin maker Savaerimuthu is an angry young man, who always fights for justice and is against rich people.

But Father James has a suspicion about Mary's death, so he asks his twin brother Arul, Superintendent of Police, to have the body exhumed to perform a postmortem.

Everyone suspects Peter was the culprit, Arul immediately begins an investigation to solve the mystery behind Mary's missing dead body and Father James' death.

Who is the culprit for Father James' murder, the motive, was Mary killed or did she commit suicide, why was her body missing and where is Johnny, forms the rest of the story.