Ayyanar

<p>Prabha (Aadhi) is the eldest son of his family, who spends all his time with his friends. He is chastised by his father (Jayaprakash) for this. Being a volleyball player comes to his rescue when he finds a part-time job as a volleyball coach at a women’s college. His younger brother, Saravanan (Vishnu Priyan), works for a TV channel, and Prabha is often compared to him by the family, which incurs his wrath. The siblings frequently clash with each other. One day, Saravanan is killed, and Prabha is blamed. He goes on the run and soon joins a gang ( ), working as a henchman for an influential politician (Mahadevan). Prabha starts killing members of the gang one by one. Finally, a flashback reveals that they were responsible for Saravanan’s death. Aadhi suffered a minor injury on his knee, while a fight scene was being picturised on the terrace of an under-construction apartment building, near the Gemini Flyover in Chennai. The fight was to be choreographed in the night effect as per the script. Fight master Super Subbarayan choreographed this stunt featuring the hero (Aadhi) fighting the three villains of the film Ravi Kale, ‘Pithamagan’ Mahadevan and Arpit. Film score and the soundtrack are composed by . “Aathadi Aathadi” received a high response from audience. All lyrics are written by . One month after its release, it was telecasted on Vijay TV during Pongal. The film received mixed reviews. Behindwoods wrote:”Ayyanar stands in the passable league that can gratify the audiences, who are least, bothered about logics”. Sify wrote:”On the whole, Ayyanar is a mass film that is found wanting in tempo and packaging”.</p>