After graduating, Gautham is appointed as Assistant Commissioner in the same city. Gautham meets the Commissioner's daughter Anjali, and they slowly become lovers. Both Ashok and Gautham inappropriately take out their anger at their father on others, and they display open antipathy towards each other. Vishwanath has another son, a trainee IPS officer Gautham, whose mother is Vishwanath's first wife, Susheela.
In Madras, Ashok is the son of a senior government official Vishwanath IAS and his second wife, Kamala. It became a trendsetter in Tamil cinema for its setting of a new standard in the use of lighting, and was remade in Hindi as Vansh (1992). The film won two Filmfare Awards South, three Tamil Nadu State Film Awards, and five Cinema Express Awards. Vijayan.Īgni Natchathiram was released on 15 April 1988, the week of Puthandu, and became a box office success, running for over 200 days in theatres. The film was produced by Ratnam's brother G. Despite shooting some scenes during a break from that film, production on Agni Natchathiram was stalled for nearly a year and resumed only after Nayakan 's release in Diwali 1987. Ratnam intended for Agni Natchathiram to be his next film after Mouna Ragam (1986) and completed the script, but chose to prioritise Nayakan. It revolves around two half-brothers who come into conflict with each other in their claim for legitimacy as sons of a common father. The film stars Prabhu, Karthik, Amala and newcomer Nirosha, with Vijayakumar, Jayachitra, Sumithra, Tara, S. Scorching Star) is a 1988 Indian Tamil-language masala film written and directed by Mani Ratnam.