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Enga Oor Raja (1968)

Enga Oor Raja poster
Directed by
P. Madhavan
Genre
drama film
Country
India
Rated
U
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man becomes the moral center of his town, guiding a group of young people who lack adult supervision. He takes them under his wing to teach them right from wrong. This leads to conflict with a local businessman.

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What happens

Enga Oor Raja (transl. The king of our town) is a 1968 Indian Tamil-language drama film, directed and produced by P. Madhavan. The film stars Sivaji Ganesan, Jayalalithaa, Sowcar Janaki and M. N. Nambiar. It was released on 21 October 1968, and ran for more than 100 days at all centers of Tamil Nadu. The film was remade in Telugu as Dharma Daata (1970) and in Hindi as Dil Ka Raja (1972). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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