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Manithanin Marupakkam is a 1986 Indian Tamil-language crime thriller film, directed by K. Rangaraj and produced by T. G. Thyagarajan and G. Saravanan of Sathya Jyothi Films. The film stars Sivakumar, Radha, Jayashree and Jai Jagadish. A remake of the Malayalam film Nirakkoottu, it revolves around Ravi Varma (Sivakumar), who is sentenced to death for murdering his wife Kala (Radha), telling his story to his wife's sister Sujatha (Jayashree), a news reporter, about the true story of what happened. The film was released on 25 July 1986. The film's producer and director simultaneously made a Kannada remake of this film titled Sathya Jyothi in the same year.