Nayakan (1987) Poster

(1987)

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Sex & Nudity

  • A man and a woman make love. Not much detail is shown. Just a close-up shot of a man. They are interrupted.

Violence & Gore

  • There is strong violence throughout that includes blood and brutality.
  • A man is tortured by the police. He is beaten up with lathis, and has bloody bruises on his face.
  • A man has a bottle smashed on his head. He is later almost beaten to death and killed with another man beating him with a mallet with blood on it.
  • A man is shot by a police officer. Very little blood spurt out. He is later burnt.
  • A girl is implied to be throwing up blood for two days.
  • A boy stabs a man. No blood shown.
  • A boy gets slapped by a policeman. He has bruises around his eye and small blood on the outside of his mouth.
  • A man's house is gunned down. He and his children duck down. He gets shot in the arm, but the wound is not shown.
  • A man gets pushed away from police.
  • A policeman slaps a child for asking who killed The Inspector.
  • A bunch of men break into a house. A man rips off a chandelier and throws it on the floor. From there, all the men break all the property. Some instances where huge furniture are thrown from a few floors above.
  • A boy asks his father "What do you want?" and his father chases him around. The boy says he was joking. Meant for laughs.
  • A man says something about a baby having high fever.
  • When a group of men break in, one of them pulls a big blade. He slices the man, but it immediately cuts away to the next scene.
  • A man gets strangled with a thin wire. His foot breaks the windshield. His head is shown with some blood.
  • A man shoots a man through the key hole of a door. Blood splatters from the inside on the wall. He is shot through the eye. He is then shot twice as he falls through a window. Blood is included.
  • A group of men catch a man and beat him up at a car park. One of them bashes his arm through a car door. He screams in pain as blood is shown on his arm.
  • A woman slaps a man. His friend slaps her back repeatedly and stops.
  • A mass shooting happens at a court house. People are seen running and screaming. The shooter escapes.
  • A car explodes at a petrol station. The entire station explodes.
  • A policeman shoot an old man off-screen.
  • A woman is set on fire.
  • A bunch of men use fire torches to blow up a car.
  • At the very end, a huge crowd run and surround Velu whilst police keep pushing them away.

Profanity

  • There is some cussing in Tamil.
  • A man says something about a boy who is born "mentally retarded".
  • Mild profanity.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A man is shown smuggling drugs.
  • A man is briefly shown to drink with a woman.
  • No drugs are present throughout the film.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A man gets tortured.
  • There are shocking scenes of violence throughout.
  • A family gets their house gunned down.
  • A whole village is water hosed by the police throughout.
  • A group of men invade a house and destroy everything.
  • At the beginning, a boy loses his father in front of his eyes.
  • The film is very intense throughout. Everything Velu goes through turns to hell.

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Violence & Gore

  • Neela is shot to death. Blood spurts out of her every time she is shot, and she falls from a bedroom window as Velu catches her saree. The scene and aftermath is really bloody. It is perhaps the most bloody scene in the film.
  • Velu is shot by a man in front of a large crowd at the very end of the film.
  • Velu's step-father has been hung in a prison cell. The visuals show him rotating, but no face shown.
  • A group of men plan to kill Velu and his family.
  • Surya dies off-screen. His dead body is surrounded by the village people with a white sheet to cover his dead body.
  • It is implied that Surya was burnt to death from the car explosion.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Velu cries hard over Surya's death.
  • Velu loses Neela during a shootout.

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