

Acting
Baby-faced Dhanush selling feral desperation.
Stunts
Pre-wirework brawls with actual physicality.

Director
Ramana
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Dhanush's fifth film and his first real 'mass' hero attempt after Thulluvadho Ilamai's romance and Kaadhal Kondein's psychological thriller.
Pasupathy's Soori became a template for rural Tamil villains—mixing menace with weird humor that dominated 2000s cinema.