

Padayappa, a mechanical engineer whose father gives up his property to his foster brother, and then dies of shock soon after. Neelambari initially loves Padayappa, but plans to humiliate him after his family humiliates her father. The rest of the plot deals with Padayappa overcoming all the obstacles placed by Neelambari.
Ratings
3.5
Cast

Rajinikanth
Padayappa

Sivaji Ganesan
Dharmalingam

Ramya Krishnan
Neelambari

Soundarya
Vasundhara

Lakshmi
Savithri

Sithara
Nandhini

Radha Ravi
Rajarathnam

Nasaar
Surya Prakash

Manivannan
Ramalingam

Senthil
Alagapuri Azhagesan

Abbas
Chandra Prakash

Preetha Vijayakumar
Anitha
Anu Mohan
Chinnarasu

Ramesh Khanna
Murugesan

Vadivukarasi
Kamatchi
Sathyapriya
Sivagami

Mansoor Ali Khan
Krishnaswamy Mudaliar

Prakash Raj
Police Officer

Vasu Vikram
Shanmugavel

Raja Ravindra
Saravanavel

Rajesh Kumar
Sivaraman
Vijay Sarathy
Sarathi

Lavanya
Meena
Anitha
Savitha
Idichapuli Selvaraj
Village man

Ravi Raghavendra
Ravi Chellaiah
Raja Bagadur
Raja Bagadur

Kanal Kannan
Farmer told by Neelambari to kill the snake
Tirupur Ramasamy
Village man
Kovai Senthil
Village man

Mohan Raman
Lawyer Rangarajan

Nellai Siva
Village man

Scissor Manogar
Village man
Savitha Reddy
Vasundhara (voice)

Mahendran
Kid at Anitha's birthday (uncredited)

Robo Shankar
Dancer in the song "En Peru Padayappa" (uncredited)

Aravind Akash
Dancer in the song "En Peru Padayappa" (uncredited)

K. S. Ravikumar
Guest at Anitha's birthday (Cameo Appearence)
Crew
Editor
Director
Original Music Composer
Makeup Artist
Co-Producer
Screenplay
Dialogue
Playback Singer
Lyricist
Art Direction
Still Photographer
Choreographer
Stunt Coordinator
Co-Director
Details
Release Date
1999-04-10
Runtime
172 min
Original Language
Tamil
Languages
Tamil
Production Companies
Arunachala Cine Creations
Countries
India
Genres
Drama
Action