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Credits and facts
Movie details
- Release date
- 09 May 1996
- Runtime
- 184 minutes
- Country
- India
- Languages
- Tamil
- Genres
- Drama, Action, Thriller
- Director
- S. Shankar
- Cast
- Kamal Haasan, Manisha Koirala, Urmila Matondkar, Sukanya
- Production company
- Sri Surya Movies
Spoiler-free synopsis
An elderly freedom fighter becomes a vigilante against corruption, creating a moral and personal conflict when his own son is implicated.
For families
Editorial guidance
Context for discussing the story and deciding whether it fits your household.
Positive messages
Constructive themes or examples.The film can support constructive discussion about responsibility, empathy, honesty and the consequences of choices. Parents can ask how characters respond to pressure, relationships, authority and family expectations, whether other people’s boundaries and dignity are respected, and what healthier alternatives might have reduced conflict. It can also prompt comparison between older social assumptions and present-day expectations around fairness, accountability and respectful communication.
Negative behaviours
Conduct that may need context.Content needing context includes vigilante killings, corruption, martial-arts violence, deaths and a painful father-son moral conflict. Some behaviour may involve poor judgement, deception, aggression, coercion, prejudice, unhealthy relationship choices or other conduct that benefits from adult discussion. Older filmmaking styles can make serious themes feel less graphic than modern productions, but that does not remove their emotional impact. Where dependable scene-level documentation was unavailable, this review intentionally avoids inventing incidents, frequency or intensity.
Topics to discuss
Conversation starters after viewing.Useful family discussion topics include whether characters respect other people’s choices, how family or social pressure affects decisions, what alternatives were available, and whether consequences fit the behaviour shown. Parents can also discuss how the film reflects the period in which it was made and which attitudes or actions would be viewed differently today.
Final recommendation
Our family-viewing take
Suggested minimum age: 16+. The film is best approached with the main concerns in mind: vigilante killings, corruption, martial-arts violence, deaths and a painful father-son moral conflict. Children below the suggested age may find parts confusing, upsetting or inappropriate, while teenagers are more likely to understand the context when an adult can discuss difficult material alongside them. Shared family viewing is reasonable when adults are comfortable discussing the themes. This is an editorial family-viewing recommendation, not an official Indian CBFC classification.
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