Annamalai (film)

Annamalai
Poster
Directed by	Suresh Krissna
Produced by	Pushpa Kandaswamy
Written by	Suresh Krissna Shanmugasundaram
Story by	Rakesh Roshan
Starring	Rajinikanth Kushboo Sarath Babu Radha Ravi Manorama Janagaraj Nizhalgal Ravi
Music by	Deva
Cinematography	P. S. Prakash
Edited by	Ganesh Kumar
Production company	Kavithalayaa Productions
Distributed by	Kavithalayaa Productions
Release date	27 June 1992
Running time	164 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Annamalai is a 1992 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by Suresh Krishna and produced by Rajam Balachander and Pushpa Kandasamy under Kavithalaya Productions. A remake of 1987 the Hindi film Khudgarz, the film stars Rajinikanth, Kushboo and Sarath Babu in the lead roles with Radha Ravi, Nizhalgal Ravi and Manorama playing supporting roles. The film revolves around a poor milkman who befriends the son of the businessman. The latter's father who hates their friendship drives a wedge between them by bulldozing the house. Annamalai challenges his friend that he will become a successful businessman. Rest of the film shows whether they are united or not.

The production began with Vasanth being selected as director who later opted out due to personal reasons. Suresh Krishna replaced him to direct thus marked his first collaboration with Rajinikanth. Principal photography of the film began at AVM Studios and the filming held at various places. The score and soundtrack was composed by Deva and lyrics for all songs were written by Vairamuthu. The cinematography was handled by P. S. Prakash and editing was handled by the duo Ganesh Kumar. The dialogues for the film were written by Shanmugasundaram.

It was remade into Telugu in 1993 as Kondapalli Raja with Venkatesh, Suman and Nagma, and into Kannada in 2003 as Gokarna starring Upendra, Rakshita and Madhu Bangarappa. The film was released on 27 June 1992 became a blockbuster at box-office and was the highest-grossing film in Rajinikanth's career until 1995 when the record was broken by Baashha.

Annamalai (Rajinikanth) is a milkman, while Ashok (Sarath Babu) is the owner of a five star hotel in Chennai. They both are very close friends from childhood days. But Ashok’s father (Radha Ravi) does not like his son’s friendship with a poor milkman. Annamalai is kind-hearted and is innocent. He falls in love with Subbu (Kushboo). Ashok falls in love with a poor girl Shanthi (Rekha) and Annamalai arranges Ashok and Shanthi’s wedding. This angers Ashok's father as he thinks Shanthi does not have the status to become his daughter in law.