Rajini Murugan

Rajini Murugan
Tamil	ரஜினிமுருகன்
Directed by	Ponram
Produced by	N. Linguswamy N. Subash Chandra Bose Dhaval Jayantilal Gada
Written by	Ponram
Starring	Sivakarthikeyan Soori Keerthy Suresh Rajkiran Samuthirakani
Music by	D. Imman
Cinematography	Balasubramaniem
Edited by	Vivek Harshan
Production company	Thirrupathi Brothers Film Media Pen Movies
Distributed by	Pen Movies
Release date	14 January 2016 (2016-01-14)
Running time	159 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Rajini Murugan is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language comedy film written and directed by Ponram, in his second venture after Varuthapadatha Valibar Sangam (2013). The film has Sivakarthikeyan and Soori in the lead roles, while Keerthi Suresh, Rajkiran and Samuthirakani play supporting roles. The film, produced by Thirrupathi Brothers, features music composed by D. Imman and cinematography by Balasubramaniem. Having gone through significant production delays, the film released on 14 January 2016. The film was remade in Kannada Raaj Vishnu starring Sharan.

Rajini Murugan (Sivakarthikeyan) is an unemployed youth from Madurai who spends his days roaming around with his best friend Thotathree (Soori) and supplying food to his grandfather Ayyankalai (Rajkiran), a highly respected gentleman who has large properties of land. Ayyankalai wants to divide all his properties among his children and grandchildren, but except Rajini Murugan and his father Malligarajan (G. Gnanasambandam), who is the headmaster of the local school, the rest of the family is settled abroad and never visit Madurai.

Meanwhile, following the advice of an astrologer (who claimed that Rajini Murugan will get married and be rich within three months), Rajini Murugan starts wooing his childhood sweetheart Karthika Devi (Keerthy Suresh). Karthika's father Neelakandan (Achyuth Kumar), an ardent fan of Rajinikanth, was the best friend of Malligarajan and had given Rajini Murugan his name when he was born, but fell out with Malligarajan and his family due to a misunderstanding involving Rajini Murugan and Karthika when they were children. Since then, Rajini Murugan and Karthika are not on speaking terms, and Neelakandan forbids any sort of contact between the two. Nevertheless, Rajini Murugan opens a tea stall outside Karthika's house to stay close to her and follows her day and night. The stall is later destroyed by a customer who pulls down the shop in the process of taking a banana. Later, he and Thothathree start a real estate company. A gangster "Ezhrai" Mookan (Samuthirakani), whose only work is to extort ₹100,000 from businessmen, tries to swindle the same amount from Rajini Murugan, but fails and ends up paying ₹100,000 to him.