Rajinikanth catches forest animals through traps and sells them. Rajni's mother will tell him to stop his business, but he will not listen. Later he traps a elephant calf and the mother elephant comes in search of its calf.

Pattinathar is 1962 Tamil biographical film was directed by K. Somu and produced by Film center with distribution by J. R. Productions. The film script was written by Thanjai Ramaiah Doss and Akilan.

Chellappa (Jayaram), an orphan, runs a photo studio in deficit with his friends (Chinni Jayanth and Vadivelu). Mary (Bhanupriya) comes to his village to learn singing to a guru (Kalyan Kumar) and she helps her guru's family in many ways. Kannan (Arjun Sarja), her guru's son, is supposed to be in the city. Chellappa falls in love with Mary and he proposes to marry her. Mary reveals that she was married and she tells him her past. Her real name was Gayatri, she was a rich girl and she was in love with Kannan. Kannan had lot of responsibility and had to help his poor family. Gayatri's guardian (Jaishankar) accepted for their marriage but Vasanth (S. N. Vasanth), his son, also wanted to marry her and sent henchmen to kill him. Kannan died at Gayatri's birthday party where her guardian had arranged for their engagement after Gayatri promised to help his family. Vasanth's father sent his son to jail and he apologized to Gayatri. She went to her friend Mary's village instead of her.

Sundaram, a hotel employee, dreams of becoming an actor. He meets Vijaya, who admires his innocence and sincerity, and falls in love with her. But Raghavan, Sundaram's best friend, hides the fact that he is engaged to Vijaya.

1964 Indian Tamil-language biographical film

Swami Ayyappan is a 1975 Indian bilingual film. Directed and produced by P Subramaniam, it was simultaneously shot in Malayalam and Tamil languages. The film met with critical acclaim and became a box office success. It won four Kerala State Film Awards.

A man, who goes from rags to riches, forgets his humble past. However, his daughter's loyalty towards her poor and sick husband proves an eye-opener for him.