Ghilli

Velu plays kabaddi and lives in Chennai. He goes to Madurai for a tournament. He sees a girl at a temple there and she asks him for help. Dhanalakshmi is running. The man after her is Muthupandi; the strongest man in the district, and he has decided to marry her. There is nobody to stand against him for her family; he takes what he wants and anyone who objects disappears. Velu takes the girl to Chennai. Muthupandi comes after them. Velu also has a semi final and his team is waiting. Dharani directs. Vijay plays Velu, Trisha Krishnan plays Dhanalakshmi and Prakash Raj plays Muthupandi. The language is Tamil. The film is a remake of the 2003 Telugu film Okkadu. The character Prakash Raj plays became one of the most remembered villains in Tamil cinema. The film broke box office records in Tamil cinema on release and drew interest again when it was re-released years later. The matter it treats is a girl's consent; the narrative says so directly, though it works inside the shape of the genre. Kabaddi is functional inside the narrative; the sport scenes are built into the chase. The narrative keeps its comic sections separate and the changes of register are abrupt. The music is by Vidyasagar and the songs are part of why the film stayed popular. Its limit is structure; the narrative is long, the comic sections stop it, and the ending conventional. Who it is for: viewers who like Tamil action cinema and Vijay's films. Who it is not for: it is long, conventional, and the ending where expected.