Azhagesan

<p>Azhagesan ( ), a mentally ill man, is in love with his cousin Nandini ( ), a college student. Neelakandan ( ) is the village landlord who is a cunning man who grabbed all the wealth from Nandini’s father a few years back. Neelakandan has a son Sekhar ( ), who is a womanizer. Nandini and her college professor fall in love, he proposes to marry her, and she accepts. Sekhar, who has an eye on Nandini, is humiliated and slapped by Nandini while he tries to misbehave with her. As a means of revenge, Sekhar kicks Nandini and her grandmother ( ) out of their house. Nandini’s marriage is immediately stopped, and her grandmother falls ill. Azhagesan accommodates them in his small house. Later, Nandini’s fall seriously ill, and Nandini is raped by Sekhar in exchange for getting her grandmother to the town hospital. But the grandmother dies on the way to the hospital, and Nandini is devastated. Nandini gets pregnant but aborts with Neelakandan’s daughter’s support. Neelakandan wants to take Nandini to his house and marry Sekhar, but she refuses, and Azhagesan humiliates Neelakandan. Sekhar decides to kill Azhagesan. First, he kills Azhagesan’s family friend Govinda ( ). In the meantime, Neelakandan dies because of his illness. Sekhar’s henchmen beat Azhagesan, and Nandini kills Sekhar. A few years later, Nandini is released from jail and lives happily with Azhagesan. After a stint of shooting at AVM Studios, the unit moved on to locations in Ootty, Conoor, Kothagiri, Singara Estate and Vandicholai among other places. The film score and the soundtrack were composed by . The soundtrack, released in 2004, features 5 tracks with lyrics written by Kalidasan and Kalaikumar. B. Balaji rated the film 1.5 out of 5 stating that: “Azhagesan, which although a remake of Malayalam film Karumadikuttan, seems more like a rip-off of the classic 16 Vayadhinile”. said that: “The film is an unmitigated endurance test for the audience” and concluded that: “the film is an amateurish attempt and is strictly avoidable”. wrote “The backdrop to the story is the lush ambience of a hillstation. But apart from the lushness of its ambience, there’s very little going for the film. It’s a role Satyaraj should have done earlier in his career, his performance very affected here”.</p>