Musthaffaa

Musthaffaa is a 1996 Tamil action drama film directed by R. Aravindraj. The film features Napoleon and Ranjitha in the lead roles, with Goundamani, Mansoor Ali Khan, K. Prasanna, Lakshmi, Kazan Khan, Alex, Sooriya, Rajeshkumar, Babloo Prithiveeraj, Ganeshkar and Charmila playing supporting roles. The film, produced by P. G. Shrikanth, had musical score by Vidyasagar and was released on 16 February 1996. The film was later remade into Hindi as Ghulam-E-Mustafa (1997) starring Nana Patekar and Raveena Tandon in the lead roles and was also remade in Bengali as Rehmat Ali (2010) with Mithun Chakraborty.

Musthaffaa (Napoleon) is the trusted henchman of the godfather Periyavar (Sooriya). When politicians need help, they notify Periyavar and Musthaffaa in turn solves the problem with his sidekick Chellappa (Goundamani). Musthaffaa considers Periyavar as his own father and he calls him Vappa (father in Tamil Muslim) whilst he considers Chellappa as his own elder brother.

In the meantime, Sundaresan (K. Prasanna) is appointed as an office worker in a government office and he has persistently refused bribes. Being from a middle class orthodox Brahmin family, Sundaresan lives his sick wife Bhagyalakshmi (Lakshmi), his daughter Lalitha (Charmila) and his son Ramkumar (Ganeshkar). His daughter falls in love with Lakshmanan (Babloo Prithiveeraj) while his son wants to become an engineer. So Lakshmanan's father asks them a huge dowry for the wedding and the engineer school principal asks them a huge amount to enrol their son. Without enough revenue, they refuses both proposals. Knowing their problems, Musthaffaa pressures Sundaresan to sign some contracts without examining them in exchange of bribes but they still refuse.