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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = En Kelvikku Enna Bathil<br />
| image = <br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = Title card<br />
| director = [[P. Madhavan]]<br />
| producer = T. K. Gopinath<br />
| writer = Balamurugan<br />
| starring = [[Rajinikanth]]<br />[[Vijayakumar (Tamil actor)|Vijayakumar]]<br />[[Sripriya]]<br />[[M. N. Nambiar]]<br />
| music = [[M. S. Viswanathan]]<br />
| cinematography = [[P. N. Sundaram]]<br />
| editing = R. Devarajan<br />
| studio = Arun Prasad Movies<br />
| distributor = <br />
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1978|12|9}}<br />
| runtime = 102 minutes<ref name="movie" /><br />
| country = India<br />
| language = Tamil<br />
| budget = <br />
| gross = <br />
}}<br />
'''''En Kelvikku Enna Bathil''''' ({{trans|What is the Answer to My Question?}}) is a 1978 Indian [[Tamil language|Tamil]]-language [[action film]] directed by [[P. Madhavan]] and written by Balamurugan. The film stars [[Rajinikanth]], [[Vijayakumar (Tamil actor)|Vijayakumar]], [[Sripriya]], [[M. N. Nambiar]] and [[Manorama (Tamil actress)|Manorama]].<br />
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== Plot ==<br />
Saravana and Muruga are brothers whose father was duped by their uncle Sivaraman, who borrowed a large sum of money but failed to return it after his business flourished. Their father is left in a miserable condition and the brothers are separated with Muruga growing up to become a coward and Saravana, a criminal who is arrested. When Saravana is released after some years, he is determined to avenge his father's dignity and reunite with his brother.<br />
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== Cast ==<br />
* [[Rajinikanth]] as Saravana alias Solomon<ref name="movie">{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywi0NrmQg-s |title=En Kelvikku Enna Bathil |type=motion picture |language=ta |publisher=Arun Prasad Movies |year=1978 |time=0:00 to 2:42 |time-caption=Opening credits, from}}</ref><br />
* [[Vijayakumar (Tamil actor)|Vijayakumar]] as Muruga<ref name="movie" /><br />
* [[Sripriya]]<ref name="Indian Films">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AckHAQAAIAAJ&q=Nobady |title=Indian Films |publisher=[[Allied Publishers]] |year=1978 |pages=316}}</ref> as Rosy and Alamelu<br />
* [[M. N. Nambiar]] as Sivaraman<ref name="movie" /><br />
* [[Manorama (Tamil actress)|Manorama]]<ref name="Indian Films" /> as Chinthamani<br />
*[[Y. G. Mahendra]] as servant of sivaraman<br />
*[[C. K. Saraswathi]] as Muruga's aunt<br />
*T. M . Samikannu as Samikannu<br />
*Peelisivam as Nallasivam<br />
*[[V. S. Raghavan]] as Muruga's uncle<br />
*[[Suruli Rajan]] as Chinthamani's love interest<br />
*[[Ceylon Manohar|Cylone Manohar]] as Raja<br />
*Veeraraghavan as Alamelu's step father<br />
*Vijayachandrika as school headmistress<br />
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== Production ==<br />
''En Kelvikku Enna Bathil'' was directed by [[P. Madhavan]], written by Balamurugan and produced by T. K. Gopinath under Arun Prasad Movies. Cinematography was handled by [[P. N. Sundaram]], and the editing by R. Devarajan.<ref name="movie" /><br />
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== Themes ==<br />
''En Kelvikku Enna Bathil'', like many Rajinikanth films of the late 1970s and 1980s, had metamorphosis and vengeance as its dominant narrative.<ref name="ejumpcut">{{Cite journal |last=Maderya |first=Kumuthan |date=2010 |title=Rage against the state: historicizing the "angry young man" in Tamil cinema |url=https://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc52.2010/Tamil/text.html |url-status=live |journal=[[Jump Cut (journal)|Jump Cut]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20181030134355/https://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc52.2010/Tamil/text.html |archive-date=30 October 2018 |access-date=30 October 2018}}</ref><br />
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== Soundtrack ==<br />
All songs were written by [[Kannadasan]] and Muthulingam. The soundtrack was composed by [[M. S. Viswanathan]].<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|+<br />
!No<br />
!Title<br />
!Singer(S)<br />
!Length<br />
|-<br />
|1<br />
|"Oottavandi Mavarsa"<br />
|[[L. R. Eswari]]<br />
|4:28<br />
|-<br />
|2<br />
|"Ennave Murugappa"<br />
|[[T. M. Soundararajan]], L. R. Eswari<br />
|4:14<br />
|-<br />
|3<br />
|"My Name Is Nobody"<br />
|[[S. P. Balasubrahmanyam]]<br />
|4:19<br />
|-<br />
|4<br />
|"Ore Vaanam"<br />
|B. S Sasirekha, T. K. Kala<br />
|4:30<br />
|}<br />
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== Release and reception ==<br />
''En Kelvikku Enna Bathil'' was released on 9 December 1978.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K2xIAQAAIAAJ&q=The+Name+Is+Rajinikanth |title=The Name Is Rajinikanth |last=Sreekanth |first=Gayathri |publisher=Om Books International |year=2008 |isbn=978-81-87108-44-3 |pages=369 }}</ref> The film was a commercial success, and with that Rajinikanth "carved out for himself a niche in vendetta roles".<ref name="ejumpcut" /><br />
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== References ==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{IMDb title|0364326}}<br />
{{P. Madhavan}}<br />
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[[Category:Indian films]]<br />
[[Category:Indian action drama films]]<br />
[[Category:Films scored by M. S. Viswanathan]]<br />
[[Category:Indian films about revenge]]<br />
[[Category:1970s action drama films]]<br />
[[Category:1970s Tamil-language films]]</div>>JJMC89 bot III