Nayakan 1987

Nayakan is a 1987 Indian Tamil costume drama film released on Oct 27, 1987. The film is directed by Mani Ratnam, produced by Mani Ratnam. Sakthivelu Nayakar (Kamal Haasan), the protagonist, is born to an anti-government union leader. The child, Velu, is tricked by the police into locating his father, and then witnesses his father's death in a police shootout. Then after doing the final rites for his father, he kills the person who was the cause for his father's death. Orphaned, he escapes to Bombay. Stranded and homeless in the big city, he is rescued by a kind-hearted Muslim fisherman who takes him into his home in the sprawling suburban slums of Dharavi. His foster-father is also a small-time smuggler known for his generosity in the slum. Upon his running afoul of a senior crime lord, the corrupt local police officer Inspector Kelkar arrests the fisherman on smuggling charges; the fisherman is subsequently murdered. Velu Naiker, now a young man who has come into his own, goes in search of the officer and bludgeons him to death. Check out this page for more updates on Nayakan.