Ini Oru Sudhanthiram

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Sundaramoorthy is an Indian liberal leader. He tries to obtain his pension money, but all his attempts are futile. His daughter Kannamma gets cheated by a collector and she gives birth to a baby but the collector avoids that baby. The collector is killed by Sundaramoorthy, who is sentenced to death. How the lives of such a leader and his family changes due to circumstances, forms the crux of the story.

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• Sivakumar as Sundaramoorthy
• Chandrasekhar as Muthukaalai
• Pandiyan as Pandiyan
• Raja as Raja, the collector
• Janagaraj
• Senthil
• Vinu Chakravarthy
• Nalini
• Rekha as Kannamma
• Jeevitha as Thayamma
• Kovai Sarala
• Sulakshana
• Chitra Lakshmanan
• Thyagu
• Sathyaraj as an IPS officer

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Ini Oru Sudhanthiram, directed by Manivannan,{{Cite news |last=Rao |first=Subha J. |date=11 May 2013 |title=Fifty and counting |url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/fifty-and-counting/article4706162.ece |archive-url=https://archive.today/20191107073619/https://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/fifty-and-counting/article4706162.ece |archive-date=7 November 2019 |access-date=13 November 2019 |work=The Hindu}} was Sivakumar's 154th film as an actor.{{Cite news |date=30 May 2021 |title=நெஞ்சை நெகிழ வைத்த சிவாஜியின் சந்திப்பு |url=https://cinema.maalaimalar.com/cinema/cinehistory/2021/05/30021701/2685994/cinima-history-sivaji.vpf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210607043454/https://cinema.maalaimalar.com/cinema/cinehistory/2021/05/30021701/2685994/cinima-history-sivaji.vpf |archive-date=7 June 2021 |access-date=7 June 2021 |work=Maalai Malar |language=Tamil}} Raja played a character with negative shades, in contrast to the softer roles he was known for at the time.{{Cite news |last=S |first=Srivatsan |date=6 November 2019 |title=From 'Kadalora Kavithaigal' to 'Adithya Varma': Tamil cinema's quintessential 'soft-spoken hero' Raja returns after a 20-year exile |url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/the-raja-profilefrom-kadalora-kavithaigal-to-adithya-varma-tamil-cinemas-quintessential-soft-spoken-hero-raja-returns-after-a-20-year-exile/article29900048.ece |archive-url=https://archive.today/20191107062826/https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/the-raja-profile/article29900048.ece |archive-date=7 November 2019 |access-date=12 November 2019 |work=The Hindu}}{{Cite web |last=சரோஜினி |date=24 January 2018 |title=கடலோரக் கவிதைகள் 'ராஜா' எங்கே போனார்?! |url=https://www.dinamani.com/cinema/special/2018/jan/24/kadalora-kavidhaigal-raja-2850526.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230105074146/https://www.dinamani.com/cinema/special/2018/jan/24/kadalora-kavidhaigal-raja-2850526.html |archive-date=5 January 2023 |access-date=5 January 2023 |website=Dinamani |language=ta}}

The soundtrack was composed by Gangai Amaran, who also wrote the lyrics. His sons Venkat Prabhu and Premgi Amaren contributed as singers, using the names "Prabhu Gangai Amaran" and "Prem Gangai Amaran", respectively.{{Cite web |title=Ini Oru Sudhanthiram 1986 Tamil Vinyl LP |url=https://www.bollywoodvinyl.in/products/ini-oru-sudhanthiram-1986-tamil-vinyl-l-p |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191107072946/https://www.bollywoodvinyl.in/products/ini-oru-sudhanthiram-1986-tamil-vinyl-l-p |archive-date=7 November 2019 |access-date=12 July 2021 |website=Bollywoodvinyl.in}}{{Cite news |last=Menon |first=Vishal |last2=M |first2=Ramakrishnan |date=10 December 2016 |title=Brand of brothers |url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/Brand-of-brothers/article16789293.ece |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161215032003/http://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/Brand-of-brothers/article16789293.ece |archive-date=15 December 2016 |access-date=7 November 2019 |work=The Hindu}}

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| headline = Track listing

| extra_column = Singer(s)

| title1 = Pallikoodam

| extra1 = Prabhu Gangai Amaran, Prem Gangai Amaran

| length1 =

| lyrics1 = Gangai Amaran

| title2 = Enru Thaniyum

| extra2 = K. J. Yesudas

| length2 =

| lyrics2 = Bharathiyar

| title3 = Solla Vallayo

| extra3 = S. P. Sailaja, K. S. Chithra

| length3 =

| lyrics3 = Bharathiyar

| title4 = Kaigalile Valuvirukku

| extra4 = Malaysia Vasudevan, K. S. Chithra

| length4 =

| lyrics4 = Jeeva Bharathi

| title5 = Mogathai Konruvidu

| extra5 = K. J. Yesudas, K. S. Chithra

| length5 =

| lyrics5 = Bharathiyar

| title6 = Partha Pasikuthadi

| extra6 = P. Jayachandran, S. Janaki

| length6 =

| lyrics6 = Gangai Amaran

| title7 = Sonthangale

| extra7 = M. S. Viswanathan

| length7 =

| lyrics7 = Gangai Amaran

| title8 = Pattini

| extra8 = Malaysia Vasudevan

| length8 =

| lyrics8 = Nagai Swaminathan

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