The story revolves around the relationship of a mother and her son, set in Kodaikanal. The movie commences with Rama Krishna (Jeeva) and his mother Saradha (Saranya), a school teacher, lying in a pool of blood; The police find Raam is still alive and arrest him on charges of murdering his mother. Police inspector Umar (Rahman) works on the case. The story is narrated in flashback.
Rama Krishna is an apparently mentally affected teenager (later diagnosed as autistic), living dependent on his mother Saradha (Saranya). His overcompulsive adoration for his mother lands her in various problems. Raam is provoked easily and tolerates little wrongdoing around him. Next door lives Karthika (Gajala), daughter of a Police Sub-Inspector Malaichamy (Murali). She falls for Raam, but upon tellng him how she feels, gets a blunt response from him.
One day, Saradha is found brutally murdered. Umar, interrogating various personalities for the case, grills each and every person possibly connected to Raam and the teacher. Every possible motive that Raam might have for murdering his mother is explored. Furthermore Raam's neighbours, the sub-inspector Malaichamy and his children are summoned by Umar for interrogation, much to their irritation. The police eventually find out who was responsible for the crime.
This story had a unique style of treatment to it, where the crime due to a sudden aggression was highlighted.
Jeeva as Raam
Gajala as Karthikayini
Rahman as Inspector Umar
Murali as SI Malaisamy
Saranya as Sharada
Sakthi as SI’s Son
Karuppu as Vazhavanthan
Prof Ramasamy as Swamiji
Story/Screenplay/Dialogue/Direction – Ameer
Music – Yuvan Shankar Raja
Cinematography – Ramji
Edited by – Raja Mohammed
Art – AC Pillai
Lyrics – Snehan
Production Executive – Rajan NS
Production Designer – Udayakumar
PRO – VK Sundar
Stunt – Anal Arasu
Choreography – Dinesh
Stills – Balu
Co-Produced - M. Kumar
Produced – Ameer
The story is set in a rural area around Madurai. The village is called Parithiyur where Paruthiveeran lives with his doting uncle -- father's brother, (Saravanan). The name paruthiveeran literally means "the hero of paruthi", derived from the fact that the village where he lives (and the movie is set) is called Paruthi or Paruthiyur. Parithi means sun in Tamil. The village in reality is quite famous for the sun temple in south India.
He probably is referred to as the hero of Paruthi village as he heroically saves the life of the young Muthazhagu. He shapes up as a brutal bully and leads a care-free life. Muthazhagu (Priyamani) loves him more than her life, but he remains unmoved and keeps her at bay. At times he is violent too. When he understands her true love for him and decides to marry her, the feud between the two families comes in the way. Determined as he is to possess her, he warns her against marrying anyone else on the insistence of her father or mother. He even threatens to cut her into pieces. Undeterred by his threats, her parents press ahead with the preparations for her marriage with a man of their choice. Finally they decide to elope together. They are found by her Father and they eventually die at the end of the movie.
The Director visualizes the inter-caste problems aroused by the villagers and especially Muthazagu's Father wants to make sure that his daughter should not marry Paruthiveeran, because he is from a low-caste. He even decides to kill his daughter and Paruthiveeran for this but then by another twist in the circumstances, his love, Muthazagu, gets gang-raped and killed by some truck drivers, and Paruthiveeran gets killed by her Father's men. The director has shown the reason why Criminal Tribes Act of 1871 came into constitution and how these communal problem still affects remote villages in India.
Karthi as Paruthiveeran
Priyamani as Muthazhagu
Saravanan as Sevvazhai
Ponvannan as Kazhuva Thevar
Sujatha as Thevar’s wife
Panjavarnam as Mangayee
Sampath Kumar as Marudhu
Ammulu as Kuratthi
Writer and Director – Ameer
Producer - Teamwork Production House
Director of Photography – Ramji
Associate Director – AP Rajan
Editor – Raja Mohammed
Art Director – Jaxon
Music Director – Yuvan Shankar Raja
Actiond Director – Raja Sekar
Choreographer – Dinesh
Sound Engineers – MR Gandhi, Balaji
Publicity Design – Mitrra Media