Iraniyan

Vattakudi Iraniyan is a home-coming military man who becomes a rebel after witnessing caste discrimination and brutal killings by a landlord over lower caste people. Iraniyan escapes execution and returns to his village, where he finds that the poor are being oppressed by the landlord. He then sets out to exact punishment on the oppressors. The film was originally titled . A legal suit was filed against the makers regarding this, and subsequently the prefix was removed. The music was composed by . Malini Mannath of noted “this is worth a watch. Murali performs with intensity and conviction.” Aurangazeb of praised the film for its realistic approach and cast. Malathi Rangarajan of wrote, “Despite the abrupt ending of certain scenes and dialogues coming out in spurts in many places thus giving the impression that it is more of miming than clear dialogue delivery, appeals – at least the first half surely does. The flaws seem to be due to the cuts in scenes and dialogues”. K. N. Vijiyan of described the camerawork and art direction as plus points, and also said the story was “easy to follow”, but wished more exploits of the real Iraniyan were shown. lauded Murali’s performance and the efforts taken to create the period look, but felt the film occasionally drags.