Pandiyan (film)

Pandian
Directed by	SP. Muthuraman
Produced by	SP. Muthuraman
Written by	Panju Arunachalam
Story by	Tiger Prabhakar
Starring	Rajinikanth Khushboo Jayasudha Janagaraj Tiger Prabhakar Charan Raj
Music by	Ilaiyaraaja Karthik Raja
Cinematography	T. S. Vinayagam
Edited by	R. Vittal
Production company	Visaalam Productions
Distributed by	Visaalam Productions
Release date	25 October 1992
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Pandian is a 1992 action Tamil language movie directed by the Tamil director SP. Muthuraman. It stars Rajinikanth, Kushboo, Janagaraj and Jayasudha in the lead roles. It was released on 25 October 1992 as one among Deepavali release. Its music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja. This film was remake of Kannada film Bombay Dada. starring Tiger Prabhakar, Vani Vishwanath, Vajramuni and Lakshmi. Tiger Prabhakar portrayed a negative role in the remake. It was dubbed in Telugu as Secret Police and Hindi as Kanoon Ka Khiladi. The film received mixed to negative reviews and did above average business at the box office.

The film is about Pandian (Rajinikanth) who wants to avenge his sister's (Jaysudha) husband's ( Charan Raj) death. He joins the murderer's gang, and how he takes revenge forms the crux of "Pandian". Then the gang came to known as Pandiyan made undercover operation, Pandiyan was a police officer, then rest of the story deals with how pandiyan caught the culprit, with style approach of Pandiyan (Rajinikanth).

Rajinikanth decide to make a low-budget film with S. P. Muthuraman. Muthuraman turned producer for this film under his production banner "Visalam Productions" named after his mother. In spite of being a producer, Rajini took care of production duties of the film along with AVM Saravanan. Rajini decided to act in the film to contribute for the retirement fund of main crew members of SP Muthuraman team who were regular in most of Muthuraman's films. Rajini acted in the film without taking any fees. This film was huge disaster compared to other Rajinikanth's films. Even though, the film made some money and whatever money grossed were used for the retirement fund of director Muthuraman's crew. This shows that no mater whatever star power a film has got; if there's no story and screenplay the film will fail at the box office. Tragedy struck before release, when Muthuraman's wife died.

Music is composed by Ilayaraja while Ilayaraja's son Karthik Raja composed "Pandianin Rajyathil".