Billa

Billa, a feared ganglord wanted by Interpol, manages to escape the police, but after killing one of his own men, Reena and Rajeshs sister Radha seek revenge by infiltrating his gang, leading to a series of events where Billa dies during a pursuit, resulting in DSP Alexander recruiting Billas lookalike Rajappa as a police informant, who later uncovers the true crime boss and proves his innocence. Billa is a 1980 Indian Tamil-language Action Crime movie featuring Rajinikanth, K. Balaji, Ashokan, R.s. Manohar, Aachi Manorama, A.v.m. Rajan and Helen Richardson. The movie is based on Don by Salim Javed. Suresh Arts was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Suresh Balaje. The movie is directed by R. Krishnamurthy. Billa was released on 26th January 1980 and takes a screen time of 175 minutes. Cinematography was done by G. Or. Nathan and editing by V. Chakrapani. The music was composed by M. S. Viswanathan.