Ram's friends hire Maggie, a call girl, to help him get over his wife, who mistakenly believes him to be a philanderer. However, they get in trouble when Maggie ends up dead.
Acting
Kamal Haasan's manic desperation carries every scene
Writing
Ratcheting misunderstandings that never let you breathe
Direction
K.S. Ravikumar's clockwork chaos construction
Director
K. S. Ravikumar
Kamal Haasan
'Ram' Ramachandramurthy
Jayaram
Ayyappan Nair
Ramesh Aravind
Ganesh Hegde
Sriman
Hanumanth Reddy
Yugi Sethu
'Vedham' Vedhantham Iyer
Simran
Mythili Ramachandramurthy
Ramya Krishnan
'Maggie' Maragathavalli
Urvashi
Ammini Ayyappan Nair
Aishwarya Bhaskar
Janaki Vedhantham Iyer
Sanghavi
Chamundi Ganesh Hegde
Devayani
Nirmala
Nagesh
Parthasarathy
Vijayakumar
Mythili's Father
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The five friends are named after the Panchatantra's core characters—Ramachandra, Iyappan, Ganesh, Hanumanth, and Vedhantham.
This cemented the 'Kamal + five comedians' template that dominated Tamil comedy for a decade.
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