Vazhvey Maayam
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| Directed by | R. Krishnamoorthy |
| Produced by | Suresh Balaje |
| Written by | A. L. Narayanan (dialogues) |
| Story by | Dasari Narayana Rao |
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| Music by | Gangai Amaran |
| Cinematography | N. Balakrishnan |
| Edited by | V. Chakrapani |
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Suresh Arts
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| Distributed by | Suresh Arts |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Tamil |
Vazhvey Maayam [English - Life is an illusion] is a 1982 Tamil drama film starring Kamal Haasan in the lead role of the protagonist Rajasekaran. It is a remake of Telugu film Premabhishekam. With a critically acclaimed music by Gangai Amaren and lyrics by Vaali, the film was a blockbuster and completed 200-day run at the box office. This film was dubbed into Malayalam in the same title as that of its original.
Rajasekaran is happy-go-lucky and spoilt brat from rich family background. He always take advantage of the affection showered by his mother on him and this irritates his father. He is a member of flight club and does many aerial stunts in his plane. He looks at a group of air-hostesses and gets attracted to one of them named Devi who is also an arrogant. When Raja tried to chat with her she insults him. Raja decides to impress her in one way or other. He finds that Devi is familiar to his friend Prathap. Raja hears from Prathap that he knows Devi from her childhood and her elder brother is a good friend of him. Prathap actually wants to marry Devi and he is yet to propose her. Raja is very happy that since Prathap is a friend of Devi Raja himself is her friend as Prathap is his friend. Prathap does not like this and unwillingly accepts this. Raja makes many attempts to impress Devi and follows her to wherever she goes. Raja visits the home of Devi and tries to attract all of her family members except Devi and her elder brother. Raja befriends Devi's friend,a senior air-hostess Baby who is a spinster. Baby likes Raja and his mischief and she helps him to win the love of Devi. She proposes a plan of annoying Devi by moving closely with another woman. She seeks the help of old air-hostess turned prostitute friend whose life turned disaster when she was deceived and raped by a man. Raja pretends to move closely with that woman but the plan did not turned fruitful and earned more aversion of Devi. Raja then pretends to have injured and broken his legs for sake of Devi. Devi at first believes him and moves close with him. But when she finds the truth she leaves him.
Raja's parents finds a bride for him much against Raja's protest. Raja's mother persuade him to come and have a formal meet for his father's sake and she would take care of the rejection of the proposal. Raja meets the girl but he sees her as Devi and accepts for marriage. The next day when the girl comes to meet him he wonders that he did not accept her to marry but Devi. This hurts the girl and she decides to end up her life. Raja stops her and say if it is going to be her decision then he would marry her and apologizes for his actions. Raja promises that until she gets married he would not think of his marriage. Soon after the girl comes up with her wedding invitation to Raja. The girl is also friend of Devi and she invites her for the marriage. On the day of wedding Devi gets angry on Raja and shouts at him for his acts and Raja is hurted on it. Raja's friends sue Devi for being so arrogant and Raja is continuously flying and this scares them. They call her to stop him. Devi who is already feeling for her behaviour rushes to Raja and accepts his love.
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