| Starring | Kamal Haasan , Abhirmai , Pasupathy , Napoleon , Rohini , |
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| Music | Illayaraja |
| Director | Kamal Haasan |
| Producer | Chandra Hassan & Kamal Haasan |
| Year | 2004 |
Villages are unfailingly romanticised in our films, with the focus willingly on their dew-touched innocence and essential simplicity. But this is a carefully constructed facade, and in Kamal Haasan's Virumandi it is ripped apart as he lays bares its true face in all its brutal glory. But even while exposing its soft underbelly he reaches for your heart --- making a bold case for doing away with capital punishment. The film also makes a strong statement on the situation in…