Angela, a civil advocate interviewing inmates at the Madras Central Prison for a documentary on the death penalty meets Virumaandi and Kothaala, who are sentenced to death and life respectively for their roles in perpetrating the massacre of 24 people during a brutal clash between feuding villages. As tensions mount within the prison walls, she listens to their conflicting accounts of the same story.
Cast
Kamal Haasan
Virumaandi Thevar
Pasupathy
Kothaala Thevar
Napoleon
Nallama Nayakkar
Abhirami
Annalakshmi
Rohini
Dr. Angela Kaathamuthu
Nassar
Chief Jailer Jayanth
Shanmugarajan
Deputy Jailer Paykkaman Thevar
S. N. Lakshmi
Supputhai
Ganthimathi
Unknown
Bala Singh
Rasu Kalai Thevar
O. A. K. Sundar
Kottaisamy Thevar
Rajesh
Chennai Police Commissioner
Sujatha Sivakumar
Pechi Thevar
Periya Karuppu Thevar
Temple Priest
Dhiwakar
Pedarasu Nayakkar
Pyramid Natarajan
Advocate Vaidyanathan Iyer
Thennavan
Kondarasu Nayakkar
G. Gnanasambandam
Jallikattu commentator
Karate Raja
Virumandi's Friend
Kadhal Sukumar
Virumandi's Friend
Kottachi
Virumandi's Friend
Boxer Dheena
Jail Warden
Vikram Dharma
Gopal (Jail Warden)
V. R. Krishna Iyerr
Himself
Bagla
Oomayan
Crew
Kamal Haasan
Director, Writer, Editor, Producer, Lyricist, Playback Singer
Ram Sudharsan
Editor
Keshav Prakash
Director of Photography
Chandrahasan
Producer
Ramnath Shetty
Second Unit Director of Photography
Ilaiyaraaja
Original Music Composer, Lyricist, Playback Singer
Muthulingam
Lyricist
Vikram Dharma
Stunt Coordinator
Shreya Ghoshal
Playback Singer
Karthik Raja
Playback Singer
S. N. Surendar
Playback Singer
Tippu
Playback Singer
Periya Karuppu Thevar
Playback Singer
Theni Kunjarammal
Playback Singer
M. Prabhaharan
Art Direction
