The story revolves around Chakravarthy (Older Rajini) who is a successful textile businessman in Coimbatore. He is a great womaniser (perhaps his only weakness) and picks up any women he wants. He has wife Meenakshi (Lakshmi), his son Santosh (also Rajini) and his daughter Sangeetha (Vijayashanthi). It doesn't take long for Santosh to find his father's provocative behavior and tries to mend his father's ways. Radha (Saritha) gets introduced as a candidate for PRO (Public Relations Officer) interview and eventually gets selected and is sent to Hong Kong for training. Chakravarthy unable to tolerate his son's growing menace also sets off to Hong Kong for a vacation. Here he meets Radha and at one point ends up raping her. Chakravarthy flies back to India where he is met with a number of changes which all points out to the new General Manager.
Acting
Rajini's dual performance: charming son, repulsive father.
Direction
SP Muthuraman's bold staging of uncomfortable subject matter.
Director
S. P. Muthuraman
Rajinikanth
Chakravarthy/Santhosh
Lakshmi
Meenakshi (Chakravarthy's wife)
Saritha
Radha (the girl who is raped by Chakravarthy)
Menaka Suresh
Menaka (Santhosh's girlfriend)
Vijayashanti
Sangeetha (Chakravarthy's daughter/Santhosh's sister)
Sarath Babu
Yuvaraj (Guest appearance)
Thengai Srinivasan
(Guest appearance)
Goundamani
Singaram (Chakravarthy's driver)
Visu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Netrikan arrived as Rajinikanth was transitioning from villain roles to hero stardom; playing both in one film was a commercial gamble that paid off despite the dark content.
The Hong Kong location shoot was rare for Tamil cinema then, and the film's title translates to 'The Third Eye'—ironically suggesting moral vision while its protagonist lacks any.
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