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Director: Hari
Cast: Prashant, Simran, Urvashi, Manorama, Vadivelu, Nasser, Ashish
Vidyarthi.
 Debutant director Hari reveals commendable confidence, in his very first venture, crafting his screenplay intelligently, with well defined characters, engaging incidents & a racy narrative style. In short he has a firm grip on the medium, the script having not many rough edges.
The performances have been well coordinated. In a well etched role that gives him scope to perform, Prashant brings out convincingly the moral
dilemma and the mental trauma of an innocent youth forced to take to a life of crime. It's the actor's career best to date. Simran sporting thick glasses doesn't need glamour to leave her mark. Urvashi and Vadivelu add the lighter touch, Livingston plays the concerned elder brother with feeling, Manorama and Nasser impress. Ashish Vidyarthi tries to create variety in his 'villainy' by adopting a suitable body language and look for the character of the ageing don.
 Thamizh's
cozy, protected world with his mother, his sister-in-law, her two kids and a brother who works in Dubai, is shattered by some untoward incidents. A passive onlooker, with his aspirations set to follow his brother to Dubai, Thamizh soon finds himself drawn into a confrontation with the local don 'Periyavar'. Realising that he is a marked man, Thamizh, to protect his family and his own life, has no other go, but to join the rival gang of Rathnam who soon becomes his mentor. This is the scenario which Tamizh's brother witnesses, to his shock, when he makes a trip from Dubai, planning to take Thamizh back with him. But using his money power and persuasion, he gets Thamizh out of the clutches of the police and Rathnam, and prepares to take off. The
suspense is well maintained in the final scene, where Thamizh on his way to the airport is kept ignorant of his mother's murder by 'Periyavar'. But the best laid plans go awry, and Thamizh forces a final confrontation with 'Periyavar', the concluding scene a fitting finale to the whole affair.
Malini Mannath
published on 19th April 2002
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