Kuppathu Raja is a 1979 Tamil-language Musical Drama movie written by A. L. Narayanan and directed by Tr Ramanna and T. R. Ramanna and produced by S. Aarumugalakshmi and T. R. Nalini under the banner of Surya Lakshmi Pictures. Kuppathu raja stars Rajnikanth, Manjula Vijayakumar, Padmapriya, Asokan, Venniradai Moorthy, Ramakrishnan and Rajinikanth. The music was composed by M. S. Viswanathan. Cinematography was done by J. G. Vijayam, and V. Suresh and editing by K. Narayanan. The film has a running time of 134 Minutes. It was released on 12th January 1979.