While travelling to a new job location, Sita is attacked, and saved by a man who kills the offender. Later, she realises that her boss is the killer from the past and is warned against reporting him.
Acting
Rajinikanth's smoldering ambiguity — hero or villain? The film refuses to choose.
Direction
Muktha Srinivasan's tightrope walk between exploitation thriller and social critique.
Director
Muktha Srinivasan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Rajinikanth's 'angry young man' transition, this film captures Tamil cinema wrestling with its own hero worship — before he became Thalaivar, he could still be terrifying.
Lakshmi's performance as Seetha was controversial; critics split on whether her character's paralysis was psychological realism or 1980s misogyny wearing progressive clothes.