Sundarapandian

Sundarapandian
Tamil	சுந்தரபாண்டியன்
Directed by	S. R. Prabhakaran
Produced by	M. Sasikumar
Written by	S. R. Prabhakaran
Story by	S. R. Prabhakaran
Starring	M. Sasikumar Lakshmi Menon Vijay Sethupathi Soori Inigo Prabhakaran Soundararaja
Music by	N. R. Raghunanthan
Cinematography	Premkumar
Production company	Company Production
Release date	14 September 2012 (2012-09-14)
Country	India
Language	Tamil
Budget	₹ 5.5 crore
Box office	₹ 44 crore

Sundarapandian is a 2012 Indian Tamil-language comedy drama film directed by debutant S. R. Prabhakaran. Sasikumar played the title character, besides producing the film, while Lakshmi Menon, Vijay Sethupathi, Soori, Inigo Prabhakaran and Soundararaja appeared in supporting roles. Music was composed by N. R. Raghunanthan, while cinematography was handled by Premkumar. The film released on 14 September 2012 to overall positive reviews. Following its commercial success, the film was remade in Kannada as Raja Huli and in Telugu as Speedunnodu.

Sundarapandian (Sasi Kumar) is the only son of a rich land lord Raghupathi (Aadukalam Naren) who lives in Usilampatti near Madurai. Murugesan (Soori) and Arivazhagan (Inigo Prabhakaran) are his close friends from the same town. Arivazhagan falls in love with Archana (Laksmi Menon) who lives in the nearby village but is scared to propose his love and decides to get the help of Sundarapandian in expressing the love.

Sundarapandian, Murugesan and Arivazhagan board the route bus daily in which Archana travels to her college. Bhuvaneswaran (Appukutty) also loves Archana and travels in the same bus trying to propose her. One day, Archana suddenly proposes Sundarapandian which shocks everyone. A small flashback is shown where Sundarapandian has followed Archana trying to woo her during school days. As she did not respond, Sundarapandian stopped following her. But Archana likes Sundarapandian and was waiting to meet him to convey her love towards him.

But Archana’s parents wanted her to get married to their relative Jegan (Vijay Sethupathi) although she is not interested. Paranjothi (Soundararaja) is Sundarapandian’s collegemate and is also a friend of Bhuvaneshwaran. Sundarapandian asks Bhuvaneswaran to stop following Archana for which he does not agree. One day, clash erupts between Sundarapandian and Bhuvaneswaran while travelling in bus and suddenly Bhuvaneswaran is pushed out of the moving bus which leads to his death. Sundarapandian is arrested. Sundarapandian gets released from the case as it was termed as an accident and his father agrees to take care of Bhuvaneswaran’s ailing parents and give money for his sister’s marriage. But some of the friends of Bhuvaneswaran wait for the right time to take revenge on Sundarapandian. Paranjothi is also angry on Sundarapandian but does not express it instead behaves normally and waits for the revenge.