Daas is a 2005

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 Indian

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 Tamil

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 romantic film

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, written and directed by newcomer Babu Yogeswaran. The film stars Jayam Ravi

Jayam Ravi

Jayam Ravi is an Indian film actor. Ravi has appeared in films including Jayam, M. Kumaran Son Of Mahalakshmi, Unakkum Enakkum, Santhosh Subramaniam and Thillalangadi all of which have been directed by his brother, M...

, Renuka Menon

Renuka Menon

Renuka Menon is an Indian Malayali film actress, who has appeared in various South Indian films in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada languages.- Career :...

 in lead and Vadivelu

Vadivelu

Vadivelu , often referred to as Vadivel, is a Tamil film actor,comedian and playback singer. Since 2000, he has acted as a comedian in various Tamil films. During his career, Vadivelu has won several Filmfare Awards and Tamil Nadu State Film Awards...

, Livingston

Livingston (actor)

Livingston is a Tamil film actor who usually plays in supporting roles. He is credited in his earlier films by the stage name Ranjan. His first starring role was in Poonthotta Kavalkaran . He started out playing villains and graduated to playing lead roles with Sundara Purushan in 1997...

, Adithya

Adithya

Adithya , is an Indian film actor who appears in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films. He is an atheist.- Filmography:-External links:...

, Shanmugarajan and Monica

Monica (actress)

Monica is an Indian film actress, who predominantly stars in Tamil language films. A child artist in the early 1990s, she mostly appeared in supporting roles, before essaying lead roles from the late 2000s on...

 among others in supporting roles. The film's score and soundtrack are composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja

Yuvan Shankar Raja

Yuvan Shankar Raja is an Indian film score and soundtrack composer, singer and occasional lyricist. He has predominantly scored music for Tamil as well as several Telugu films. His musical career began in 1996, at age 16, as he composed the film score for Aravindhan...

. The film, released in 2005, was an average grosser.

Plot

The movie begins in a small village in Tirunelveli district where a few upper caste men hold a chariot

Temple car

Temple cars are chariots used to carry representations of Hindu gods. The car is usually used on festival days, when many people pull the cart....

 festival. Antony (Jayam Ravi

Jayam Ravi

Jayam Ravi is an Indian film actor. Ravi has appeared in films including Jayam, M. Kumaran Son Of Mahalakshmi, Unakkum Enakkum, Santhosh Subramaniam and Thillalangadi all of which have been directed by his brother, M...

) along with his friends pull the chariot in to their slum and they naturally incur the wrath of a local leader Annachi (Shanmuga Rajan). Meanwhile his daughter Rajeswari (Renuka Menon

Renuka Menon

Renuka Menon is an Indian Malayali film actress, who has appeared in various South Indian films in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada languages.- Career :...

) falls in love with Daas. Her sister (Monica

Monica (actress)

Monica is an Indian film actress, who predominantly stars in Tamil language films. A child artist in the early 1990s, she mostly appeared in supporting roles, before essaying lead roles from the late 2000s on...

) elopes to marry a lower caste boy Guna (Abhinay), a classmate of Daas.

Coming to know about this, Annachi sends his men to bump off the couple. Eventually, Annachi set the couple ablaze in front of Daas. An angry Rajeswari in order to teach her father a lesson elopes with Daas and vows to get married. The couple then seeks refuge in the house of Nasser (Krishna) in Madurai. He promises to get them married. However coming to know about their hideout, Annachi's men reach Madurai to foil their plans.
Nasser's father Vappa (Salil Ghouse) promises to get them united. Enters Sadiq (Adithya

Adithya

Adithya , is an Indian film actor who appears in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films. He is an atheist.- Filmography:-External links:...

), Nasser's brother, who plans to let loose terror in the Madurai town in the name of Jehad.

How Daas emerges triumphant from all the troubles and marries Rajeswari forms the rest of the story.

Cast

• Jayam Ravi
  Jayam Ravi
  Jayam Ravi is an Indian film actor. Ravi has appeared in films including Jayam, M. Kumaran Son Of Mahalakshmi, Unakkum Enakkum, Santhosh Subramaniam and Thillalangadi all of which have been directed by his brother, M...
  
  ...Antony Daas
• Renuka Menon
  Renuka Menon
  Renuka Menon is an Indian Malayali film actress, who has appeared in various South Indian films in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada languages.- Career :...
  
  ...Rajeshwari
• Vadivelu
  Vadivelu
  Vadivelu , often referred to as Vadivel, is a Tamil film actor,comedian and playback singer. Since 2000, he has acted as a comedian in various Tamil films. During his career, Vadivelu has won several Filmfare Awards and Tamil Nadu State Film Awards...
  
  ...
• Shanmugarajan...Annachi
• Adithya
  Adithya
  Adithya , is an Indian film actor who appears in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films. He is an atheist.- Filmography:-External links:...
  
  ...Anwar
• Monica
  Monica (actress)
  Monica is an Indian film actress, who predominantly stars in Tamil language films. A child artist in the early 1990s, she mostly appeared in supporting roles, before essaying lead roles from the late 2000s on...
  
  ...Punitha (Rajeshwari's sister)
• Abhiney...Guna
• Salim Ghouse
  Salim Ghouse
  Salim Ghouse is a film, television and theater actor, theater director and martial artist. He has acted in several Indian languages including Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam....
  
  ...Vappa
• Krishna...Naseer
• Livingston
  Livingston (actor)
  Livingston is a Tamil film actor who usually plays in supporting roles. He is credited in his earlier films by the stage name Ranjan. His first starring role was in Poonthotta Kavalkaran . He started out playing villains and graduated to playing lead roles with Sundara Purushan in 1997...
  
  ...Nasser's relative
• Seetha
  Seetha (actress)
  Seetha is a Tamil film actress. When she began her career in the 1980s, she would usually act in lead roles of films. She was also the wife of actor Parthiban and mother of P. S. Keerthana. She divorced Parthiban for unknown reasons and is now acting in Television Serials and in supporting...
  
  ...Rajeshwari's mother
• FEFSI Vijayan...police officer
• Mahadevan...the minister
• Tharika
  Tharika
  Tharika is an Indian Tamil actress. She has appeared in a few Kollywood films, but her main priority is in television serials.Recently she appeared on Jodi Number One-Films:* 2004 - Appa Amma Chellam...
  
  ...Maimun
• Nirosha...Kala

Crew

• Story, Screenplay, Direction: Babu Yogeswaran
• Production: K. Muralitharan, V. Swaminathan & G. Venugopal
• Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja
  Yuvan Shankar Raja
  Yuvan Shankar Raja is an Indian film score and soundtrack composer, singer and occasional lyricist. He has predominantly scored music for Tamil as well as several Telugu films. His musical career began in 1996, at age 16, as he composed the film score for Aravindhan...
  
  
• Cinematography: Vijay K. Chakravarthy & Srinivias Devamsam
• Editing: Anthony
  Anthony (film editor)
  Anthony is a Tamil film editor. He has worked in over twenty Tamil, Malayalam, and Telugu language films. This makes him one of the few editors to have worked for all the 3 biggest film industries in India.-Personal life:Anthony studied BA Lit in Madras Christian College, Tambaram, Chennai...
  
  
• Art direction: G. K.
• Stunts: 'Rocky' Rajesh
• Choreography: Siva Shankar, Raju Sundaram
  Raju Sundaram
  Raju Sundaram is a Kollywood cine artiste who acts, directs, and choreographs for films. He is an eldest son of dance master Mugur Sundar, and elder brother to Prabhu Deva and Nagendra Prasad.-Birth:...
  
  , Kalyan, Dinesh & Ashok Raja
• Lyrics: Pa. Vijay, Viveka & Yugabharathi
• Banner: Lakshmi Movie Makers

Soundtrack

The musical score as well as the soundtrack were composed by noted music composer Yuvan Shankar Raja

Yuvan Shankar Raja

Yuvan Shankar Raja is an Indian film score and soundtrack composer, singer and occasional lyricist. He has predominantly scored music for Tamil as well as several Telugu films. His musical career began in 1996, at age 16, as he composed the film score for Aravindhan...

. The soundtrack, released on April 21, 2005, features 6 songs, the lyrics for which are written by Pa. Vijay, Viveka and Yugabharathi.

Track	Song	Singer(s)	Duration	Notes
1	'Yennoda Raasi'	Venkat Prabhu Venkat Prabhu Venkat Kumar Gangai Amaren , better known by his stage name Venkat Prabhu is an Indian filmmaker, who has worked as an actor, director and playback singer in the Tamil film industry...	4:28
2	'Saami Kittay '	Hariharan Hariharan (singer) Hariharan , born 3 April 1955) is an Indian playback singer in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Bhojpuri and Telugu movies, an established ghazal singer, and one of the pioneers of Indian fusion music. His melody is strongly appreciated by the film fraternity... , Shreya Ghoshal	4:47
3	'Nee Enthan'	Karthik Karthik (singer) Karthik is an Indian playback singer.Karthik started his professional singing career as a backing vocalist and has since been a playback singer in Tamil cinema while also single in other Indian languages for various composers...	4:55
4	'Shaheeba Shaheeba '	Hariharan, Sujatha Mohan Sujatha Mohan Sujatha Mohan , usually credited as Sujatha, is an award-winning Indian playback singer who is popular for singing in Malayalam and Tamil movies. She has also sung for Telugu, Kannada and Hindi movies. She is widely popular for her evergreen melodies and her sweet voice is considered to be her...	3:58
5	'Vaa Vaa'	Shankar Mahadevan Shankar Mahadevan Shankar Mahadevan is an Indian music composer and singer. He is a part of the Shankar Ehsaan Loy trio team that composes for Indian films and a playback singer.-Early life:... , Mahalakshmi Iyer Mahalakshmi Iyer Mahalakshmi Iyer is an Indian playback singer, best known for her Hindi and Tamil songs. She has sung over a thousand songs in many Indian languages, including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Assamese, Kannada and Malayalam.-Career:Mahalakshmi made her singing debut with Dus,...	5:22
6	'Sakka Podu'	K. K., Sadhana Sargam Sadhana Sargam Sadhana Sargam is an acclaimed Indian playback singer. She is a recipient of the prestigious National Film Award and Filmfare Awards.Sargam has sung in many Indian languages for films, television serials and music albums. She is well known for her 90s Hindi songs and recent South Indian songs. She...	4:21