Rasigan is a 1994 Indian Tamil-language actionromantic film, written and directed by S. A. Chandrasekhar. The film stars his son Vijay and Sanghavi in the lead roles. This was the first movie where Vijay sported the "Ilaiya Thalapathy" title along with his name. Vijay also made his singing debut through the song "Bombay City Sukka Rotti" for this movie. The film was an Hit at the box office and ran for 100 days.
Plot
Vijay is the grandson of Manorama, while Anitha is the daughter of Raghavan and Bhagyalakshmi. Anitha's family rents one of Manorama's houses. Vijay and Anitha pretend to hate each other, while they actually are in love. But later Anitha's father comes to know of the love matter and he requests a transfer to Chennai. Before going, Anitha leaves her new address on several envelopes and she says that those are love letters given by Vijay, Anitha's father gets angry and takes the letters and went to Vijay's house and tells him to take his useless love letters. After that, Vijay takes it and as he looks at it he knows that those aren't love letters, they're all Anitha's new address in Chennai. Vijay tries to find her. One day Vijay goes to a restaurant in Chennai to eat and he asks the server where the washroom is. The server tells him that there are two washrooms, one on the upstairs and another on the current ground floor. The server tells him to not go upstairs because it's dangerous. Vijay goes upstairs to the bathroom to expose himself to the Chennai people, but there, he finds an illegal sex film shoot happening. By this, they blame Vijay for the death of the restaurant owner and Vijay just has to escape. This news reaches Anitha's father who is a police officer. He tries to capture Vijay. But at last, Raghavan understands Vijay's innocence and unites Anitha with him. Finally, Vijay kills the villain also, who was really responsible for the restaurant owner's death. Hence the film ends on a happy note.
The music composed by Deva, while lyrics written by Vaali and P. R. C. Balu. Vijay made his singing debut through the song "Bombay City Sukka Rotti".
Production
Rasigan was the first film in which Vijay was credited with the prefix "Ilaya Thalapathy", an epithet by which he would be credited in the remainder of his films till Bairavaa, following which it was shortened to 'Thalapathy' in Mersal.
Critical reception
The Indian Express wrote "The director's script and treatment seems to be geared to suit the tastes of frontbenchers."
