Natpukkaga

Natpukaaga (Tamil: நட்புக்காக English: For Friendship) is a 1998 Tamil language film directed by K. S. Ravikumar. It starred Sarath Kumar and Simran in the lead roles. It became a blockbuster upon release.

It was remade into Telugu as Sneham Kosam which starred Chiranjeevi with K. S. Ravikumar directing the version. Later remade in Kannada as Diggajaru (2000).

Chinnayya (Sarath Kumar) works for a rich man Vijayakumar in a village. Despite being a labour, Chinnayya has great respect and affection towards Vijayakumar. Vijayakumar too takes care of Chinnayya with great affection and looks after him as his own son. Vijayakumar hates his first daughter Sitara and her husband Mansoor Ali Khan. Prabhavathy (Simran) is Vijayakumar’s younger daughter and she arrives to the village after completing her education from the US. Prabhavathy loves Chinnayya but Chinnayya does not reciprocate thinking this would be a betrayal of Vijayakumar’s trust on him. Later Chinnayya too understands Prabhavathy’s true love and accepts it.

One day, suddenly Prabhavathy accuses that Chinnayya tried to rape her. This angers Vijayakumar and he beats and sends Chinnayya out of his home. At this time, Muthayya (also Sarath Kumar), Chinnayya’s father releases from jail and comes to meet Vijayakumar. Muthaya also worked under Vijayakumar before and has won Vijayakumar’s trust so much. But Prabhavathy gets angry on seeing Muthayya and asks him to leave the house because Muthayya has been sent to jail for murdering Vijayakumar’s wife Sujatha a few years back. Prabhavathy also reveals the truth that she staged a drama to send Chinnayya away from her father. Vijayakumar gets shocked knowing the truth and feels bad that he has misunderstood Chinnayya, believing his daughter’s false words.

Chinnayya also hates his father Muthayya from childhood days as he was accused of killing Sujatha. The story moves to a flashback. Muthayya was a loyal servant in Vijayakumar’s home. Mansoor Ali Khan is the brother of Sujatha and his wedding is arranged with Sitara. On the day of marriage, Sujatha gets to know about Mansoor Ali Khan’s plans to rob Vijayakumar's properties and decides to cancel the wedding. But Mansoor Ali Khan injures Sujatha badly and hides her in a room and the marriage is done. But Muthayya finds Sujatha and gets to know all the truth about Mansoor Ali Khan. Before he could go and stop the marriage, it is already done and so he does not want Mansoor Ali Khan to go to jail as that would impact Sitara’s life. Sujatha is dead and Muthayya accepts that he has murdered Sujatha for money and gets arrested by police. This makes Sitara and Prabhavathy to hate him and his family.