An underprivileged hairdresser becomes the game changer in a local body election in a village where caste politics rules the roost. Will he be able to bring some changes to people's lives?
Writing
Dialogue that cuts deeper than any knife
Acting
Yogi Babu's transformation from comic relief to soul
Direction
Ashwin balances farce and fury with surgical precision
Director
Madonne Ashwin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film's title deliberately weaponizes South Africa's liberation icon against Tamil Nadu's caste machinery—naming as radical reclamation.
Yogi Babu, Tamil cinema's comic mainstay, was reportedly paid scale wages despite lead status; the irony of underpaying an actor in a film about exploited laborers apparently lost on producers.
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