Captain Magal

Khushbu is the daughter of a retired army officer who once saved the Prime Minister (PM). She falls in love with a musician Raja who has heart disease. They get married and go to a guest house in a hill area. Two terrorists enter their guest house, and they keep Khushbu and Raja under house arrest. One more local horse rider (who taught Khushbu to ride horse) is the main terrorist who also joins them in the house as he is injured. They plan to kill the PM using an automated missile while he is flying on the plane above their guest house. Finally, Khushbu and Raja manage to kill the three terrorists and save the PM without anyone's knowledge.

• Raja (voice dubbed by Nizhalgal Ravi)
• Khushbu
• Livingston
• Napoleon
• G. M. Kumar
• Janagaraj
• Sangita

According to Selvaraj, who wrote the film's story, the title was named after The Captain's Daughter, a novel by the Russian novelist Alexander Pushkin.{{Cite web |date=24 June 2017 |title=கடல் தொடாத நதி - 23 - குஷ்பு கேட்ட டைட்டில்! |url=https://www.vikatan.com/literature/arts/132245-cinema-history-of-annakili-rselvaraj |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230310044732/https://www.vikatan.com/literature/arts/132245-cinema-history-of-annakili-rselvaraj |archive-date=10 March 2023 |access-date=24 June 2024 |website=Junior Vikatan |language=ta}} The film was partly shot at Ooty.{{Cite web |date=12 July 2020 |title=Remembering K Balachander: Khushbu reminisces about the gutsy visionary |url=https://www.cinemaexpress.com/stories/columns/2020/jul/12/remembering-k-balachander-khushbu-reminisces-about-the-gutsy-visionary-19316.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210731080144/https://www.cinemaexpress.com/stories/columns/2020/jul/12/remembering-k-balachander-khushbu-reminisces-about-the-gutsy-visionary-19316.html |archive-date=31 July 2021 |access-date=31 July 2021 |website=Cinema Express}} The sets of windmill and farmhouse were built there.

The music was composed by Hamsalekha and lyrics were written by Vairamuthu.{{Cite web |title=Captain Magal (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – EP |url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/captain-magal-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-ep/1161467778 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210731080143/https://music.apple.com/us/album/captain-magal-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-ep/1161467778 |archive-date=31 July 2021 |access-date=31 July 2021 |website=Apple Music}} The song "Endha Pennilum Illadha" attained popularity.{{cite web |date=29 September 2017 |title=குஷ்பு என்னும் துணிச்சல் நாயகி! #HBDKhushbu |url=https://cinema.vikatan.com/kollywood/103666-actress-khushbu-birthday-special-article |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240625021643/https://cinema.vikatan.com/kollywood/103666-actress-khushbu-birthday-special-article |archive-date=25 June 2024 |access-date=24 June 2024 |work=Cinema Vikatan |language=ta}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Track listing

| extra_column = Singer(s)

| title1 = Endha Pennilum

| extra1 = S. P. Balasubrahmanyam

| length1 = 5:09

| title2 = Nandhavanam Pookkal

| extra2 = S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, K. S. Chithra

| length2 = 5:08

| title3 = Kadhal Raja

| extra3 = Sujatha Mohan

| length3 = 5:08

| title4 = Yarumillai

| extra4 = Minmini

| length4 = 5:09

| title5 = Vaanambadi

| extra5 = Unni Menon, Sujatha

| length5 = 5:05

| total_length = 25:39

}}

Captain Magal was released on 14 January 1993, Pongal day.{{Cite web |last=Sundaram |first=Nandhu |date=27 June 2018 |title=From 'Gentleman' to 'Amaravathi' : Revisiting popular films which released 25 years ago |url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/gentleman-amaravathi-revisiting-popular-films-which-released-25-years-ago-83756 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201228073451/https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/gentleman-amaravathi-revisiting-popular-films-which-released-25-years-ago-83756 |archive-date=28 December 2020 |access-date=31 July 2021 |website=The News Minute}} Malini Mannath of The Indian Express likened it to "a C-grade English thriller, a pathetic attempt at making an action film. It has disjointed scenes, jerky narration and a loosely etched screenplay that seems more of a hotch-potch of various English films".{{Cite news |last=Mannath |first=Malini |date=17 January 1993 |title=Pathetic |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-4llAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nJ4NAAAAIBAJ&pg=1218%2C1464080 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240417051335/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-4llAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nJ4NAAAAIBAJ&pg=1218%2C1464080 |archive-date=17 April 2024 |access-date=17 April 2024 |work=The Indian Express |pages=7 |via=Google News Archive}} Kalki wrote that frame by frame throughout the film, one could see the director using his own techniques; when the story unfolds the techniques that is supposed to derail the story becomes like the mammoth elephant hiding in the tree.{{Cite magazine |date=31 January 1993 |title=கேப்டன் மகள் |url=https://archive.org/details/kalki1993-01-31/page/n33/mode/2up |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230227041740/https://archive.org/details/kalki1993-01-31/page/n33/mode/2up |archive-date=27 February 2023 |access-date=23 December 2022 |magazine=Kalki |page=32 |language=Ta |via=Internet Archive}}

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