Sigappu Rojakkal (Red Roses) (1978) is a South Indian movie in the Tamil language starring Kamal Haasan and Sridevi.
In an era of over-dramatised acting in Tamil films, Sigappu Rojakkal was one of the notable exceptions. With an anti-hero who is a psychopathic, sexual killer in the lead, the movie was seen as controversial by traditional and orthodox moviegoers in Tamil Nadu.
Dileep (Kamal Haasan) is a successful businessman with a dark side. He ...
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Sigappu Rojakkal (Red Roses) (1978) is a South Indian movie in the Tamil language starring Kamal Haasan and Sridevi.
In an era of over-dramatised acting in Tamil films, Sigappu Rojakkal was one of the notable exceptions. With an anti-hero who is a psychopathic, sexual killer in the lead, the movie was seen as controversial by traditional and orthodox moviegoers in Tamil Nadu.
Dileep (Kamal Haasan) is a successful businessman with a dark side. He preys on nubile girls and rapes and kills them. These proceedings are video-recorded and watched by his adoptive father and mentor, another deranged woman-hater who, as with Dileep, had a disillusioning experience with the female sex in his past. The old man stays holed up in a far corner of Dileep's mansion watching his son carry out what he is too infirm to do. The murdered girls are buried in Dileep's garden and a rosebush is grown above.
Dileep chances upon a undergarments salesgirl, Sarada (Sridevi), and develops an attraction for her....
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