Malaiyoor Mambattiyan (1983)
மலையூர் மம்பட்டியான்
Malaiyoor Mambattiyan is the story of a group of youngsters in the village headed by Mambattiyan, who lead the life in a forest by robbing the rich and distributing the wealth to the poor; thus Mambattiyan becomes the local Robin Hood.
- Date of release
- 1983-01-01
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 2h 15m
- Genres
- Action, Romance, Thriller
- Director
- Rajashekar
Casting
- Thyagarajan — Mambattiyan
- Saritha — Kannaathaa
- Jaishankar — DSP Ranjith
- Silk Smitha — Gypsy
- Senthamarai — Landlord Sundaralingam
- Goundamani — Landlord Chinna Pannai
- Jayamalini — Sornam
- Sangili Murugan — Duplicate Mambatiyan
- Senthil — Bullet
- S. N. Lakshmi
- Vinod Raj — Police Officer
Interesting facts
Malaiyoor Mambattiyan is 1983 Indian Tamil-language vigilante action film directed by Rajasekhar, starring Thiagarajan, Saritha and Silk Smitha. It was released on 1 July 1983. The film became a blockbuster and established Thiagarajan as a star. It was remade in Hindi by the same director as Gangvaa (1984) and in Telugu as Kondaveeti Nagulu (1984). In 2011, Thiagarajan remade the film starring his son Prashanth, titled as Mambattiyan.
Production
Thiagarajan was inspired to make a film on the bandit Malaiyoor Mambattiyan after he heard a folk song praising Mambattiyan for helping the people in Malaiyoor village and hailing him as a real-life Robin Hood.
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