Padikkadavan (1985 film)

Padikkadavan
Poster
Directed byRajasekhar
Story byKader Khan
Produced byN. Veeraswamy
Ravichandran
StarringSivaji Ganesan
Rajinikanth
Jaishankar
CinematographyV. Ranga
Edited byR. Vittal
S. B. Mohan
Music byIlaiyaraaja
Production
company
Sri Eswari Productions
Release date
  • 11 November 1985 (1985-11-11)
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil
Box officeest. 5.5 crore

Padikkadavan (transl.Uneducated Man) is a 1985 Indian Tamil-language action drama film, starring Sivaji Ganesan, Rajinikanth and Ambika. It is directed by Rajasekhar. The film was produced by Kannada actor Ravichandran along with his father N. Veeraswamy. It is a remake of the Hindi film Khud-Daar (1982).

The story is about a man who strives hard to make his younger brother study. The two brothers are the step-brothers of Rajasekhar. The younger brother of Rajendran after distressing from him finally joins with him. All three of them finally join after certain conviction regarding a death. It was released on 11 November 1985 and became a huge commercial success and blockbuster at the box office and ran 250 days at boxoffice and one of the turning point movie in Rajinikanth career and highest grossing film in 1985 tamil films.