Ayya

Ayya is a 2005 Indian Tamil-language drama film written and directed by Hari, presented by K. Balachander and produced by Pushpa Kandasamy under banner Kavithalayaa Productions. The film stars Sarath Kumar in a dual role, along with Nayanthara and Napoleon, while Vadivelu, Prakash Raj, Lakshmi, Rohini, and Charle play the supporting roles. The music was composed by Bharadwaj. Ayya released on 14 January 2005 coinciding Pongal and turned out to be a critical and commercial success Plot The movie starts during the times of Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, where there is a heavy drought in the southern districts of Tamil Nadu. Ayyadurai and Madasamy are close friends and landlords of different castes presumably from the Mukkulathor and Nadar communities respectively in Tenkasi town in Tirunelveli district, and they try hard to help people and save them from dying during the drought. The Tenkasi's MLA, also a relative of Madasamy, smuggles rice given by the Government of Tamil Nadu, and people protest upon knowing about this. The MLA denies knowing anything about the sanctioned rice. That night, he starts to smuggle the rice via Karaiyar instead of the usual route via Sengottai, but the lorries are waylaid and ransacked by the people led by Madasamy. The MLA comes there and starts shooting towards people's legs and back. Ayyadurai sees the MLA aiming for Madasamy's head and pushes him. Then, Ayyadurai beats the MLA using the hilt of the gun, following which he dies. The local people support Ayyadurai and save him from police and also urge him to contest in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly by-elections. Now the movie comes to the present i.e., in the year 2004, where Ayyadurai has been the unopposed MLA of Tenkasi for more than 35 years. He returns from Chennai, the state capital of Tamil Nadu on the Pothigai Superfast Express, after resigning his post because the state department did not sanction his request to renovate the lakes in his constituency. He is welcomed by the people along with his son Chelladurai and friend Madasamy in Tenkasi Junction railway station. His son Chelladurai, a civil engineer, runs their business and helps his father for the people's welfare. Selvi is Madasamy's teenage daughter who deliberately fails her 12th standard exam as she loves Chelladurai and wants to marry him. Meanwhile, Karuppusamy is the son of the MLA killed by Ayyadurai and wants to take revenge by either defeating or killing Ayyadurai.