A small-time hooligan hired to kill a girl and an aspiring movie actor find themselves in the wrong place due to a mix-up. Now, the gangster who ordered the hit is after all the three of them.
Acting
Arya's chaos agent energy vs. Krishna's earnest doofus.
Direction
Vishnu Varadhan juggles tonal whiplash like a circus act.
Stunts
Over-the-top action that winks at its own absurdity.
Director
Vishnu Varadhan
Arya
'Thoothkudi' Chinna
Krishna Kulasekaran
'Pazhni' Karthik
Deepa Sannidhi
Shwetha
Swathi Reddy
Deepa
Thambi Ramaiah
Thangamani aka 'Sotta' Mani
RJ Balaji
Chandru
Adil Hussain
Selvam/Vetri
Y. G. Mahendran
Harish Uthaman
N. Azhagamperumal
Karthik's Father
Ponvannan
Durai
Stunt Silva
Kailasam
Sentrayan
Mark
Krishnakumar Ramakumar
Logu
Yogi Babu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Yatchan reunited Arya and Vishnu Varadhan after their 2007 hit Pattiyal, but swapped nihilism for full-blown comedy.
The film's 'actor mistaken for killer' premise directly riffs on the Tamil film industry's obsession with aspirational stardom — Karthik's delusional confidence mirrors real struggling actors in Kodambakkam.
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