Kalaignan

Kalaignan
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Directed by	G. B. Vijay
Produced by	Ramkumar Ganesan
Written by	Rajaram Raghunath (Dialogues)
Screenplay by	G. B Vijay
Story by	G. B Vijay
Based on	Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square by Arthur La Bern and Frenzy Alfred Hitchcock
Starring	Kamal Haasan Bindiya Chi. Guru Dutt
Music by	Ilaiyaraaja
Cinematography	Jayanan Vincent
Edited by	R. Mohanraj
Production company	Sivaji Productions
Distributed by	Sivaji Productions
Release date	14 April 1993 (1993-04-14)
Running time	143 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Kalaignan (Tamil:கலைஞன்; English: Artist) is a 1993 Tamil-language thriller film directed by G. B. Vijay and produced by Ramkumar Ganesan. The film features Kamal Haasan and Bindiya in the lead roles while Sivaranjani, Sindhuja, Nirmalamma and Chi. Guru Dutt play supporting roles. The film opened in April 1993. This Story was inspired by Arthur La Bern's novel Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square, which was adapted into a film by Alfred Hitchcock titled Frenzy (1972)

The movie revolves around a Tamil pop singer Inderjeet based in Bangalore who has a large female following. The movie opens with the death of a back-up dancer, Sandhya, in Inderjeet's group and soon a police detective is put in charge of the investigation. Although the police suspect Inderjeet as he is very short-tempered, they have no evidence linking him to the crime. Meanwhile, Divya, Sandhya's elder sister, arrives at her aunt, Dr. Prabhavathy’s (their dad's elder sister) house to find out the truth about Sandhya's death. She goes to meet Inderjeet but is put off by his arrogance. She also talks to his manager, Dr. Harichandra Prasad, and other musicians who all have differing opinions about Sandhya.

While investigating about Sandhya, Divya is attacked in a bar but coincidentally Inderjeet saves her and takes her to his concert. During the concert, Inderjeet gets flashes of his parents' and sister's deaths in an accident in his childhood and breaks down into tears. At the end of the concert, a girl, Jennifer, gets on stage and kisses him to the bemusement of all. That night, Jennifer is killed by someone wearing Inderjeet’s coat. Still with no concrete evidence, the police begin to keep a closer eye on Inderjeet and find that Divya seems to have an interest in him. To warn her, the police detective reveals to Divya that Inderjeet is the possible suspect in Sandhya's death.

Divya plans to outwit Inderjeet with the help of Sandhya’s friends, who attacked her earlier in the bar mistakenly. She feigns to have fallen for Inderjeet and she stages a kidnapping to test Inderjeet’s skill with the knife (all the girls murdered were skilfully cut by the murderer). He turns out to be quite good with the knife. But the next day, Inderjeet sees Divya with the bandaged kidnapper walking out of the hospital and manages to determine that she was faking her love.