Perarasu (film)

CBI officer Kasi Viswanathan is entrusted to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Judge Sadhasivam. The Kasi Viswanathan team comprises junior officer DCP Kesavan Nair IPS and a head constable Kandhasamy.

Soon Kasi finds out that a state minister Ilakkiyan is behind all crimes in the city, and he is assisted by three senior cops. Suddenly, one by one, the bad cops are killed, with needle of suspicion resting on Kasi, as a lookalike is behind the murders. It is revealed that it is a revenge killing by Perarasu Pandiyan, Kasi's twin brother, and that Kasi's birth name is Ilavarasu Pandiyan.

We are told in a flashback by the family retainer Maarimuthu that Kasi was the long-lost twin brother of Perarasu Ilavarasu Pandiyan, and their father, the local chieftain Chakkaravarthi Pandiyan, was at one time the kingmaker of Panchalankurichi. After making Sivapprakasam and Ilakkiyan MLAs, he falls out with them and they murder him. Perarasu, who has seen this murder, now wants to take revenge.

In the end, Perarasu fits a bomb on a chair in a meeting on which Ilakkiyan sits. Kasi, desperate to save Ilakkiyan, goes into the room and prefers to die with Ilakkiyan. Perarasu feeling proud for his brother preferring to give up his life for his duty, saves both of them, but is shot by Ilakkiyan. Kasi then shoots Ilakkiyan, and Perarasu takes the blame before dying. The film ends with Kasi returning to become the next chieftain of his native village.

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• Vijayakanth in a dual role as Ilavarasu Pandiyan (Kasi Viswanathan IPS) and Perarasu Pandiyan
• Debina Bonnerjee as Aishwarya
• Prakash Raj as Ilakkiyan
• Sarath Babu as Chakkaravarthi Pandiyan
• Anandaraj as DCP Kesavan Nair IPS
• Pandiarajan as Kandhasamy
• Nassar as Sadhasivam
• Mansoor Ali Khan as Sivaprakasam
• Chandrasekhar as Marimuthu
• Riyaz Khan as "Vannarapettai" Kabali/ CBI officer Vetriselvan (Fake)
• Ajay Rathnam as Inspector Azhagappan
• O. A. K. Sundar as Inspector Shenbagamoorthy
• Sampath Raj as ACP Chidambaranathan
• Chitti Babu as Ilakkiyan's assistant
• LIC Narasimhan as Shop manager
• Ponnambalam as Bullet Mani
• Mahanadi Shankar as Otteri Shankar
• Ragasya as Jasmine
• S. N. Lakshmi as Aishwarya's grandmother
• T. P. Gajendran as Sathyanathan
• Anjali Devi as Sadhasivam's wife
• Srividya as Sadhasivam's daughter
• Sundari as Chidambaranathan's wife
• Bava Lakshmanan as Constable Ravindran
• Muthukaalai as Ayyam Perumal
• Vijay Ganesh as Man at the bus station
• Kovai Senthil as Party member
• Velmurugan as Party member
• Selvakumar as Party member
• Boys Rajan as Bomb disposal technician
• Kandasamy as Elephant owner
• Nitish Veera as Sudesi's helper
• Sregajesh as Sub-inspector
• Shankar as Aishwarya's friend
• Venba as Aishwarya's friend
• Kabir as Aishwarya's friend
• Chandrahassan Jayaprakash as young Perarasu Pandiyan{{Cite web |date=15 May 2006 |title=Chandrahasan acts in 'Vanjagan' with Suman – Sujibala |url=http://www.cinesouth.com/masala/hotnews/new/15052006-4.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060826131455/http://www.cinesouth.com/masala/hotnews/new/15052006-4.shtml |archive-date=26 August 2006 |access-date=25 October 2023 |website=Cinesouth}}

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The film began production in December 2004.{{Cite web |date=2004-12-16 |title=Vijaykanth- Desperate for a hit? |url=http://sify.com/movies/tamil/fullstory.php?id=13630559 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050122015653/http://sify.com/movies/tamil/fullstory.php?id=13630559 |archive-date=22 January 2005 |access-date=21 December 2023 |website=Sify}} The filming was held at Chennai, Pollachi and Benaras while a fight scene was shot at AVM Studios.{{cite web|url=http://www.chennaionline.com/film/Onlocation/2005/06perarasu.asp|date=13 June 2005|access-date=10 August 2024|title=Perarasu|website=Chennai Online|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070204101540/http://www.chennaionline.com/film/Onlocation/2005/06perarasu.asp|archive-date=4 February 2007}}

The music was composed by Pravin Mani.{{Cn|date=February 2024}}

Chennai Online wrote "It' a fast-paced entertainer that at times trips and stumbles with loose ends, flaws, and quite a few unanswered questions. But what keeps it going, with not a moment to dwell on the flaws and get distracted, is its racy narrative. The debutant director (with years of experience apprenticing under directors like Maharajan) keeps the action moving rapidly with not a lagging moment".{{Cite web |last=Mannath |first=Malini |date=September 26, 2006 |title=Perarasu |url=http://www.chennaionline.com/film/Moviereviews/2006/09perarasu.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070224031642/http://www.chennaionline.com/film/Moviereviews/2006/09perarasu.asp |archive-date=24 February 2007 |access-date=5 November 2022 |website=Chennai Online}} Indiaglitz wrote "Udayan on the whole knows what he has attempted. He has taken ideas from various movies. In the end, the cloth he has stitched looks an agreeable quilt work".{{Cite web |date=September 18, 2006 |title=Perarasu Review |url=https://www.indiaglitz.com/perarasu-review-tamil-movie-7429 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221105054011/https://www.indiaglitz.com/perarasu-review-tamil-movie-7429 |archive-date=5 November 2022 |access-date=5 November 2022 |website=IndiaGlitz}} Now Running wrote "It is a regular entertainer for the Vijaykanth fans with a difference in Vijaykanth himself taking on the two diametrically opposite ways of opposing evil. We are not sure which way the Politician Vijaykanth advocates for the people".{{Cite web |last=Rajaraman.R |date=19 September 2006 |title=Perarasu Tamil Movie |url=https://www.nowrunning.com/movie/2575/tamil/perarasu/873/review.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221105054012/https://www.nowrunning.com/movie/2575/tamil/perarasu/873/review.htm |archive-date=5 November 2022 |access-date=5 November 2022 |website=Nowrunning}} Rediff wrote "Perarasu is probably worth a watch".{{Cite web |last=Balasubramanian |first=Shyam |date=September 18, 2006 |title=Perarasu is worth a watch |url=https://www.rediff.com/movies/2006/sep/18pera.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221105054013/https://www.rediff.com/movies/2006/sep/18pera.htm |archive-date=5 November 2022 |access-date=5 November 2022 |website=Rediff.com}} Lajjavathi of Kalki praised the Vijayakanth film for giving space for other actors too while praising the sharp dialogues but panned for having revenge plot as flashback.{{cite magazine |last=லஜ்ஜாவதி |date=15 October 2006 |title=பேரரசு |url=https://archive.org/details/kalki2006-10-15/page/48/mode/2up |access-date=5 April 2024 |magazine=Kalki |page=48 |language=ta |via=Internet Archive}}

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