Perarasu (film)

Perarasu (2006) is a Kollywood Tamil film starring Captain Vijayakanth, Debina Bonnerjee, Nassar, Sarath Babu, and Prakash Raj with music composed by Praveen Mani. The film is directed by Udhayan. This movie is a typical unadulterated masala movie with a good-cop-versus-bad-guys story. Perarasu is similar to several earlier films of Vijayakanth, like Vallarasu and Pulan Visaranai. He can be seen in every frame. He plays a dual role as a law enforcer and a terminator. The action scenes are mainly flying kicks with no blood and gory scenes.

It is basically an investigative film as CBI officer Kasi Viswanathan (Vijayakanth) is entrusted to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Judge Sadhasivam (Nassar). The Kasi Viswanathan team comprises junior officer Kesavan Nair (Anandaraj) and a constable Kandhasamy (Pandiarajan).

Soon Kasi finds out that a state minister Ilakkiyan (Prakash Raj) is behind all crimes in the city and he is assisted by three senior cops. Suddenly one by one the bad cops are killed, with needle of suspicion resting on Kasi as a look-alike is behind the murders. It is revealed that it is a revenge killing by Perarasu Pandiyan (Vijayakanth), Kasi’s twin brother.

We are told in a flashback by the family retainer (Chandrasekhar) that Kasi was the long-lost twin brother of Perarasu Ilavarasu Pandiyan and their father, the local chieftain Chakkaravarthi Pandiyan (Sarath Babu), was at one time the king maker of Panchalankurichi. After making Sivapprakasam Mansoor Ali Khan and Ilakkiyan, MLAs he falls out with them and they murder him. Perarasu who has seen this murder now wants to take revenge.

In the end Perarasu fits a bomb on a chair in a meeting on which Ilakkiyan sits. Kasi, desperate to save Ilakkiyan, goes into the room and prefers to die with Ilakkiyan. Perarasu feeling proud for his brother preferring to give up his life for his duty, saves both of them but is shot by Ilakkiyan. Kasi then shoots Ilakkiyan and Perarasu takes the blame before dying. The film ends with Kasi marrying the heroine and returning to to become the next Chieftain of his native village.