Kadalora Kavithaigal (Eng: Poems by the Sea) is a 1986 Indian Tamil language film, starring Satyaraj, Rekha, Raja, Janagaraj and Kamala Kamesh. This was the debut film for Rekha and Raja. The film was a turning point in Actor Sathyaraj’s career. It successfully completed 200 days in theatres.
The film is about transformation of a hero (Satyaraj), who has a prison record and his understanding of love through an elementary education. In that process, he falls in love with the school teacher heroine (Rekha).
Based in a coastal sea village, Chinnappa Das (Satyaraj) is a violent person who has a prison record and returns to his village after serving his prison term. He is persuaded by his maternal uncle’s daughter (Ranjini) to marry him. In one of his encounters at an elementary school, he meets a lady school teacher Jennifer (Rekha) who gives a sound scolding on how ignorant fools behave.
There is an element of purity in Das’s heart which the school teacher could identify, this transforms his life forever. Set in a coastal milieu, the duo often meet on the beach, amidst sunlit sea and splashing waves on the rocks. In a sequence, Das makes the teacher stand alone atop a seaside hillock, Das from down below on the sands announces aloud to her that “you are my God”.
In a related episode when Das visits the teacher at her house, looking at the portrait of the Good Shepherd with a lamb on his lap, he earnestly asks her why He has that lamb on his lap, to which she replies, “that lamb has lost its way and so he has taken it on his lap”. She goes on asking him what will he do if he were the shepherd and what if she was that lamb, thereby subconsciously revealing her desire to be the lamb in the lap of God, in her case to be with Das, thereby both Das and Jennifer find their loved ones.
Through another character, the director introduces the small but important role which is modelled on The Meera.
Directed by Bharathiraja
Produced by Ve Vaduganathan & C. Natesan
Written by R. Selvaraj
Screenplay by Bharathiraja
Story by K. Somasundreshwar
Starring Sathyaraj, Rekha, Raja, Ranjani, Janagaraj, Kamala Kamesh, Ilavarasu
Music by Ilaiyaraaja
Cinematography B. Kannan
Edited by T. Thirunavukkarasu
Production Mookambika Art Creations
Distributed by Mookambika Art Creations
Release date 5 July 1986
Country India
Language Tamil
