283:. Thus Malayappan forms a political party after seeing his growing popularity. According to the survey, Malayappan has a good probability to become the new Chief Minister. Veerabhadran and Tamizharasan's party members then join Malayappan's party. In the end, the brigand cum politician Malayappan wins the election by a huge margin and becomes the new Chief Minister. In the meantime, Malayappan marries his lover Ponni (Anamika). Unlike the former Chief Ministers, Malayappan wants to help the people and starts his fight against corruption. What transpires next forms the crux of the story.
267:) in any case is glad that his arch-political rival and leader of the opposition has been kidnapped by Malayappan. Veerabhadran declares to the media that he will not negotiate with Malayappan and he will not give a single penny to the brigand. Malayappan realizes that he made a mistake by kidnapping the wrong person. Therefore, the cunning Tamizharasan suggests that Malayappan kidnap Veerabhadran's daughter and Malayappan follows his advice. Veerabhadran, who now wants to save his daughter at any cost, sends the popular news reporter Muthuvel (
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dismissed the current state government and
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said, " a disappointing venture as screenplay and direction goes haywire as the dialogue writer and director does far too much political pontification" and labelled the film as avoidable. Indiaglitz wrote, "that is tantamount to practising for the
Olympics marathon by jogging in the park. Satire
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Anamika and editing and concluded saying avoid if you care about logic or if you want to enjoy without worries, you can watch it.
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needs punch and power. But that is sadly missing in this. Padhavi
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565:"Arasiyale"
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365:Chelladurai
357:Nellai Siva
323:as Muthuvel
321:Vasu Vikram
269:Vasu Vikram
221:Vasu Vikram
159:135 minutes
112:Gandhidasan
64:Produced by
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838:Categories
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384:Production
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333:Raj Kapoor
315:Manivannan
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229:Raj Kapoor
217:Manivannan
143:2005-06-03
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37:Written by
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598:Reception
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99:Edited by
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367:as Swamy
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582:"Rendu"
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504:Kabilan
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102:Mohan
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