A girl falls for a violent man, who keeps taking law in his hands and beats people up. She wants to marry to him and eventually even he says yes, but her father has a condition that he should control his anger and work with him in his factory.
Acting
Sushmita Sen's debut holds surprising grace amid chaos.
Score
A.R. Rahman's soundtrack elevates mediocre moments to opera.
Practical Effects
Factory brawl choreography hits different in grimy industrial spaces.
Director
Praveen Gandhi
Nagarjuna Akkineni
Ajay Padmanabhan
Sushmita Sen
Sonia Sriram
S. P. Balasubramaniam
Padmanabhan
Raghuvaran
Gnaneshwar
Girish Karnad
Sriram
Vadivelu
Ajay's Friend
Sukumari
Sonia's Grandmother
Subhalekha Sudhakar
Manager
Ajay Rathnam
Gnaneshwar's Henchman
Thalapathi Dinesh
Gnaneshwar's Henchman
Mahanadhi Shankar
Gnaneshwar's Henchman
Abu Salim
Abu Salim
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sushmita Sen learned Telugu phonetically for this role, her only Tamil film despite the language barrier.
Ratchagan epitomizes late-90s South Indian cinema's obsession with 'taming the violent hero'—a template that aged like milk left in Chennai humidity.
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