

Chithan starts to reciprocate to Sakthi's kindness with the only way he knows: by being as loyal as a dog. He meets Chithan in prison and starts protecting him out of sympathy and pity. Sakthi gets sent to jail thanks to Manju's detective work.

He gets into trouble when he cons a woman named Manju into losing all her personal effects in a game of dice. Chithan is caught during a drug raid and is arrested. She sees his ability to be loyal and enrolls him into the service of her employer, a large scale ganja producer. He is rescued by Gomathi, a petty ganja seller. He ventures into a town in search of food and gets into trouble as he does not understand the concept of money. He growls like a puppy, runs like a one legged man, but seems to understand loyalty and is (despite his circumstance) a social animal. Chithan grows up among corpses with minimal human contact and is perhaps autistic. Her child, Chithan, is found and raised by the caretaker of the graveyard. It was also dubbed and released in Hindi in 2020 with the same title by B4U Movies.Īn anonymous woman dies while giving birth in a graveyard. The film was also remade in Kannada as Anatharu (2007). Owing to the success, the film was dubbed into Telugu and released as Siva Putrudu ( transl.

Upon release, the film met with critical acclaim and Vikram won the National Film Award for Best Actor for his role as Chithan. The film plot is based on Jayakanthan's Nandhavanathil Oru Andi, the story of an undertaker.

The film's score and soundtrack are composed by Ilayaraaja. Muthukumar, dance has been choreographed by Brindha, editing by Suresh Urs, fights by Stun Siva and art direction by A. Durai, the film has cinematography by Balasubramaniem, lyrics are by Vaali, Pazhani Bharathi and Na. The film stars Vikram, Suriya, Sangeetha and Laila in main roles. Rakshasa) is a 2003 Indian Tamil-language action drama film written and directed by Bala.
