Captain Prabhakaran

Captain Prabhakaran (Vijayakanth) is an IFS officer (Indian Forest Service) sent to Sathyamangalam to nab Veerabhadran (Mansoor Ali Khan) who tortures the people of that place. Prabhakaran is not only going to nab Veerabhadran, but also avenge the death of his friend Rajaraman IFS (R. Sarathkumar) who was a forest officer killed by Veerabhadran. The police commissioner and the district collector are corrupt and also support Veerabhadran. In the climax, Veerabhadran kidnaps Prabhakaran's wife and son. Prabhakaran arrives at the right time and saves his wife and son. He then nabs Veerabhadran. Poongudi (Ramya Krishnan) was Rajaraman's lover. She dies while giving birth to his child. Veerabhadran is shot dead by the corrupt inspector and collector. Prabhakaran kills both of them. He is then dragged to court for killing the police inspector and the collector. Prabhakaran tells the truth that they were corrupt, and the film ends with Prabhakaran being released from the court.

• Vijayakanth as Captain Prabhakaran IFS, District forest officer
• Sarath Kumar as Rajaraman IFS
• M.N. Nambiar as Police Officer in charge of Special Task Force
• Rupini as Gayathri
• Ramya Krishnan as Poongudi
• Mansoor Ali Khan as Veerabhadran
• Livingston as Krishnamurthy/Kitti
• Peeli Sivam as Raja
• Ganthimathi as Prabhakaran's Mother
• Yuvasri as Rajaraman's Sister
• Krishnamoorthy as Poongudi's Brother
• Ponnambalam as Sub Inspector (uncredited)
• LIC Narasimhan as Police officer
• Karikalan as Mansoor ali khan's henchman (uncredited)
• Kalabhavan Mani (Junior artist)

After the success of Pulan Visaranai, Rowther decided to make another project with Vijayakanth and Selvamani titled Captain Prabhakaran, the plotline of the film was based on the forest brigand Veerappan. The film also was the 100th project of Vijayakanth. The filming was held at Chalakudy for 60 days.[8][9] The film had Mansoor Ali Khan in his first major role.[10] During the shoot, a rope to which Vijayakanth was bound snapped and his shoulder got dislocated. With both his hands tied he screamed in pain, but this was mistaken for acting, and as a result, there was a delay in getting medical assistance.[11]

The soundtrack has only two songs composed by Ilaiyaraaja while the lyrics were written by Gangai Amaran and Piraisoodan. The song "Aattama Therottama" is set in the Carnatic raga known as Sindhu Bhairavi.[12][13] It was later remixed by Prasanna Sekhar in Singakutty (2008).[14]

The Indian Express wrote "The strength of the film is its visual vibrancy and the narrative line too has a great measure of cohesion, despie it being an action film all the way."[15]