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Starring superstar Rajnikanth and Rati, this movie is a typical 70s, 80s hero centred and oriented masala movie for 2 hours.
Movie opens with a father teaching his 2 sons to shoot. This was probably one of the stupidest fathers I have ever encountered in a movie. He is teaching his sons to shoot by placing an apple on the other son. So son 1 practises when son 2 is having the fruit balanced on his head. Who teaches shooting with apples on the head? Even the professionals don't do that! What was even more hilarious was that, when the younger son gets injured because the elder son mis-shot, the dad is enraged and says he would never teach the elder one to shoot (God!).
Now the younger son takes charge and helps his elder brother learn shooting. Because of interruptions by the quality of the tape, the scene skips to the part when someone hiding in the nearby bushes gets shot. This was the pinnacle of masala. The younger son - Rajni's boy character - starts talking like he is some huge don with killings and stuff like that and the physical size of the boy wasn't even 5 feet tall and the shot guy was a huge bag of rice. So the younger son - Gopi - sends the elder son away saying he will take care of everything and starts to pull the corpse when a hand grabs him by the shoulder.
Now the scene pans to the hideout of 2 criminals who are discussing what to do with this brilliant boy who shoots so well. They use the reason of the dead body as a blackmail to hold onto this young boy who does criminal stuff for them. As years go by, the boy grows up to be (Rajnikanth and) a professional thief (but with the good heart - a typical sentiment in superstar's movies).
Luck throws him in the house of some kidnappers during a robbery. He saves the child from the bad guys and takes him home. The child is the son of an inspector. Gopi gets away from the house.
After a few days, he escapes into a train. He meets an inspector in one of compartments (the same one as before), ends up fighting and killing him. As he reaches the end of the trip, the visitors at the station mistake him for the inspector who is newly transferred to their location. Now Gopi lives as an inspector and does much good to the village, defying the vile chieftain (all villages used to have a chieftain to take care of them, even though government establishments were present).
Not receiving any correspondence from her husband, the inspector's wife comes over to the village. Gopi receives a surprise as this is the family of the same child that he had rescued from the kidnappers. He feels remorseful for killing the inspector but hangs on.
His old gang friends now drop by the village to claim the share of the loot but the now-good Gopi refuses to budge. When the inspector's wife sees a scar on his shoulder, she suspects that Gopi might be the long lost brother of her husband and it ends up being true (here is where you have to remember the starting story!!).
The gang friends create a public defamation for the inspector's wife and Gopi is forced to tell the truth about her dead husband. After some serious fighting between Gopi and local chieftain and the bad guys, the inspectors arrive to arrest (they are routinely and periodically late!). Gopi surrenders, but the inspector hugs him as a brother and then, arrests him. After a light sentence, Gopi is released and they live happily ever after.
Usually I try not to mention the climax of the movie so that I don't spoil the story, but for this movie, I didn't even have to try. It was definitely one of the bland, tasteless movie. Rubbing salt on the wound, was the fact that the songs were horrible and were not at all of any class. I just fastforwarded every song to preserve my sanity. Rati didn't have much of a role. It was weird to see veteran comedian Nagesh in the beginning of the movie, but there was no sighting of him after. Perhaps a tolerable movie for die hard fans of Rajnikanth (although there are better), but really worthless for the rest of the population.