Per Sollum Pillai

Per Sollum Pillai (English: The child who says the name) is a 1987 Tamil-language Indian feature film directed by SP. Muthuraman, starring Kamal Haasan, Radhika, Manorama, K.R.Vijaya and Raveendran. The movie completed 100 days and was a hit at the box office. The movie is a remake of Padikkadha Medhai of the same writer.

Per Sollum Pillai has Kamal Haasan as an orphan, who is adopted by a wealthy family. He gets adopted into the family when he saves the entire family from being deliberately poisoned by a miscreant. K.R.Vijaya, the mother of the family, raises him as one of the family even though others outside the family see him as a servant. Kamal helps to run the family smoothly and looks after his step-parents, brothers and sisters like his own. He remains faithful and grateful to his step-parents for adopting him, an orphan, as their own son. Except for his step-parents and his sister, the other members of his family are jealous of the position his mother gives him in the family. Kamal's step-brothers are pleasure-seeking and lazy and want to live an easy life surviving on their mother's earnings. They also try to exploit a female worker in their house Radhika, whose mother Manorama is the cook of the house.

Kamal intervenes whenever his step-brothers attempt to commit mischief in the family and thwarts all their plans. He tries to advise them to be resourceful but they hate him for that. They also cannot stand it when their mother sides their step-brother in all her decisions. Kamal also saves his step-sister Ramya Krishnan from being exploited by a rich smuggler's son. Due to his carnal nature, the smuggler's son expresses his wish to marry Kamal's step-sister to his father. So the smuggler Malaysia Vasudevan comes to K.R.Vijaya's house seeking her daughter's hand in marriage for his son. The smuggler feels jaded when Kamal convinces his step-mother to refuse her daughter's hand in marriage to his son. The smuggler becomes an enemy to the family and swears to take revenge for being insulted by K.R.Vijaya. So he hatches a plot in conjunction with Kamal's brother-in-law, a corrupt government official Goundamani to destroy Kamal's family.