

They come to terms with reality and stay helpless in jail where they befriend a fellow inmate. But they come in for rude shock when they learn through Kaasi that Somu has been selected for the district chief of party post and is avoiding their contact with the Raichu Break Party. They surrender themselves before the court hoping that Kanugu will bail them out soon. The second half begins with the cops finding out that Paraman and Azhagu have committed the murder with the help of the cycle they left behind. The first half ends here with them running away after the murder leaving a cycle behind.

Azhagu, Paraman and Kaasi hatch a plan and execute the person almost perfectly. He requests them to murder the person who was chosen for district chief of party post ahead of his brother. He makes sure the friends hear about him and come to visit. This leads Kanugu to lock himself up in a lodge and drink all day. Things take a sudden turn just before intermission when Somu is not elected for his party's (Tamil Nadu's ruling party at the time) district chief post and is ridiculed by his wife for being jobless. There are signs of things to come when Somu is not selected in a local temple's committee for a function. Paraman is against his friend developing feelings for a girl and Azhagu, not heeding to his friends thoughts, throws up quite a few funny scenes. In the meantime, Azhagu and Thulasi develop mutual feelings for each other. Every time they are arrested, Kanugu and Somu bail them out immediately. Cops get a call from someone complaining about the friends each time they do something wrong. The five friends, particularly Paraman and Azhagu, often end up in jail due to frequent fighting. Apart from them the family consists of Somu's wife, their three children including Thulasi (Swathi) and Thulasi's other uncle. They pass their time drinking liquor and fooling around on the streets opposite the house of an ex-councilor Somu and his brother Kanugu (Samuthirakani). Sasikumar), Kaasi (Ganja Karuppu), Dopa and Dumka, a polio-stricken physically challenged person, are part of a set of close friends, who are unemployed. The film then moves to 1980 where Azhagar (Jai), Paraman (M. They are shocked about the fact that someone had a grudge on him for 28 years to stab him when he stepped outside prison. The police are baffled at this as the convict had never spoken to anyone in the prison and refused to meet anyone coming to visit him from the outside during his time in prison. A convict is released from prison in 2008 after serving 28 years and is stabbed right outside the prison gates. The story takes place in the Subramaniapuram area of Madurai city.
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Director Anurag Kashyap had revealed twice that this film was the inspiration for his Gangs of Wasseypur series - once in 2010 and once on the 10th anniversary of this film.
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The movie was dubbed into Malayalam under the same name and remade in Kannada in 2012 as Prem Adda.

Shot in 85 days, it became one of the biggest commercial successes of the year. Sasikumar cast then relatively new actors Jai, Swathi, Ganja Karuppu and himself in pivotal roles. The low-budget film received critical acclaim for its original script, expert direction, screenplay, editing, fresh music, accurate sets and costumes to resurrect Madurai from the 1980s. His boon companions too are relatable characters – Vijay Vasanth aspires to set up a computer centre while Bharani playing the lovable but dimwit guy just wants to have a passport to enable him to go abroad.Subramaniapuram is a 2008 Indian Tamil-language action drama film produced, written, and directed by Sasikumar. So he plays the role as a natural but peps it with some witty one liners. In his case it is securing a Government job that will enable him marry his cousin, a childhood sweetheart. Sasikumar plays it to his strengths – there is no larger-than-life character instead he and his friends represent the small world and small dreams that inspire the average youth in the small town. Nadodigal Lead Cast Image Courtesy – Ĭertain elements are constant – we are back to a small town subject (Rajapalayam and Namakkal), the breezy first half features the happy lives of 3 friends – Sasikumar, Vijay Vasanth and Bharani, there is an action packed drama featuring a celebrated elopement sequence and the reverse seamer in the climax is tops. Well he backed it with another winner in 2009 by starring as the lead in Nadodigal. Subramaniapuram was a sleeper hit in 2009 and established M Sasikumar’s credentials in recreating the magic of Madurai in the 80s.
