Prabhakaran travels all the way from Tamil Nadu to Kolkata for a purpose. He takes up a job in a college and meets Aishwarya. He also comes across Paro in Kolkata and they end up falling head over heels in love with each other. Meanwhile, there is a group in the look out for Prabhakaran at the behest of Eswara Pandian and his son. The ensuing sequence of events results in Prabhakaran revealing his true face through a flashback and there begin the twists and turns, which also unravels a sibling story with underworld background.
Direction
Prabhu Deva's kinetic framing makes every punch feel choreographed.
Stunts
Kolkata chase sequences that defy physics and common sense gloriously.
Acting
Vishal's split-screen performance as two brothers with zero subtlety.
Director
Prabhu Deva
Vishal Krishna
Prabhakaran / Balu
Sameera Reddy
Paaru
Sayaji Shinde
Easwaramoorthy
Sriman
Cheemachu alias Sreenivasan
Poonam Kaur
Aishwarya
Vivek
Varun Sandhesh
Urvashi
Doctor Radha Jeyachandran
Uma Padmanabhan
Parvathy's Mother
Devi Sri Prasad
Special Appearance
Sophiya Chaudhary
Special Appearance in "Bombay Ponnu" Song
Cell Murugan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Prabhu Deva's second Tamil directorial after the blockbuster Pokkiri, and he reportedly shot the Kolkata portions in actual college locations without permits.
The film's North Chennai slang and Kolkata setting created a unique linguistic mashup that Tamil audiences found novel, though critics called the geography nonsensical.
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