
175 minutes
1/14/2004
Angela, a civil advocate interviewing inmates at the Madras Central Prison for a documentary on the death penalty meets Virumaandi and Kothaala, who are sentenced to death and life respectively for their roles in perpetrating the massacre of 24 people during a brutal clash between feuding villages. As tensions mount within the prison walls, she listens to their conflicting accounts of the same story.

Kamal Haasan
as Virumaandi Thevar

Pasupathy
as Kothaala Thevar

Napoleon
as Nallama Nayakkar

Abhirami
as Annalakshmi

Rohini
as Dr. Angela Kaathamuthu

Nassar
as Chief Jailer Jayanth

Shanmugarajan
as Deputy Jailer Paykkaman Thevar

S. N. Lakshmi
as Supputhai

Ganthimathi

Bala Singh
as Rasu Kalai Thevar

O. A. K. Sundar
as Kottaisamy Thevar

Rajesh
as Chennai Police Commissioner

Sujatha Sivakumar
as Pechi Thevar

Periya Karuppu Thevar
as Temple Priest
Dhiwakar
as Pedarasu Nayakkar

Pyramid Natarajan
as Advocate Vaidyanathan Iyer

Thennavan
as Kondarasu Nayakkar

G. Gnanasambandam
as Jallikattu commentator

Karate Raja
as Virumandi's Friend

Kadhal Sukumar
as Virumandi's Friend

Kottachi
as Virumandi's Friend

Boxer Dheena
as Jail Warden
Vikram Dharma
as Gopal (Jail Warden)
V. R. Krishna Iyerr
as Himself
Bagla
as Oomayan