Piragu

<p>Sathya ( ) is a director in his village who lives with his father Ramaiah ( ), a respected artist, and his mother ( ). The village belle Thulasi ( ), Sathya’s relative, is in love with him since her childhood. Sathya comes to Chennai with hopes of becoming a cinema director one day. In , he lost his luggage and contact addresses. He is now left penniless and has nowhere to go. Sofia ( ), a small mechanic shop owner, gives him food to eat and accommodates him in her mechanic shop. In turn, Sathya helps her repair besides looking for a film producer. Afterwards, Sofia falls in love with Sathya. At last, impressed by Sathya’s story, a film producer accepts to producer his film. The same day, Sathya saves David ( ) from being killed by local rowdies. The gang leader Antony ( ) commends Sathya for saving his brother from the rival gang rowdies and offers him to join his gang. Sathya declines Antony’s proposal and speaks ill of his activity. Thereafter, Sathya’s parents and Thulasi arrive in Chennai; they are accommodated by Sofia in her house. In the meantime, Antony and the rival gang leader Annapoorani (Emey) make peace and want to kill Sathya. What transpires next forms the rest of the story. The film score and the soundtrack were composed by . The soundtrack, released in 2007, features 6 tracks with lyrics written by , , Devakumar, Muthumagan and . Gana Bala, credited as Anathai Bala made his debut as singer and lyricist with this film in the song “Pathinoru Aattam” and also appeared in the song. The film critic Malini Mannath wrote, “A lackluster script and slipshod narration reveal the amateurishness of a debutant director who seems not quite able to translate his ideas on to the screen”, and that, “The saving grace of the film is Hamsavardhan (son of yesteryear hero Ravichandran), who bravely strides on through all the inadequacies of the script and his lacklustre role”. Laya of called Vadivelu’s comedy as relief and noted Srikanth Deva’s music as average, called both story and screenplay as uncompelling.</p>