Villain (2002 film)

Infobox_Film
name = Villain


director = K.S. Ravikumar
writer =
starring = Ajith
Kiran Rathod
Meena
Karunaas
Ramesh Khanna
producer = Chakarvarthy
music = Vidyasagar
distributor =
released = 2002
runtime =
language = Tamil
budget =

"Villain" (2002) ( _ta. வில்லன்) is a Tamil film directed by K.S. Ravikumar. The film stars Ajith, Kiran Rathod, Meena, Karunaas, and Ramesh Khanna. The film's score and soundtrack were composed by Vidyasagar.

Plot

One of the twins is a bus conductor and the other is handicapped. The elder one, Shiva, overhears his parents' plot to kill his mildly retarded brother, Vishnu. He runs away to another city, with his adorable brother, and strives hard to look after Vishnu.

As a result of an incident when 'dada' Sundara Moorthy, who runs a beggar trade beats Vishnu brutally, Vishnu becomes handicapped for life. Shiva leaves Vishnu in a home run by a social worker (Sujatha). During the day, Shiva works as a bus conductor, and at the same time, poses as the handicapped Vishnu: to play Robin Hood and steal from the rich and corrupt. A gang including Meena, Ramesh Kanna and others assist him in these operations.

He is never suspected, and so, with the stolen money, he takes care of not only Vishnu but also 800 people in other institutions for the physically handicapped.

A college student Lavanya (Kiran) falls in love with Shiva, but Shiva later comes to know that she is the sister-in-law of the 'dada' who handicapped Vishnu. Matters worsen when Sundara Moorthy becomes the chairman of the institute for the physically handicapped. How Shiva deals with the situation forms the rest of the story.

Cast

oundtrack

The soundtrack features 6 songs composed by Vidyasagar.

*Pathinettu Vayathil - Udit Narayan, Sadhana Sargam
*Orae Manam - Hariharan, Sandhana Bala
*Adicha Nethi Adi - Karthik, Swarnalatha
*Aadiyil Kaathadicha - SP Balasubramanyam
*Hello Hello - Tippu, Sadhana Sargam
*Thappu Thanda - Shankar Mahadevan, Sujatha

Box Office

*The film opened in 195 screens throughout Tamil Nadu.
*It grossed Rs.100 million in the first week of release.
*It went onto become a blockbuster and collected almost Rs.90 million.
*The film was the biggest hit in Ajith's career until the release of Varalaru in 2006.
*The film was later remade in Telugu as "Villain" by Dr.Rajasekar.