Vathiyar is a Tamil

Tamil language

Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...

 film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 directed by A. Venkatesh

A. Venkatesh (director)

A. Venkatesh is a Tamil film director born in Tuticorin, Tamilnadu. He often directs films in short spans of times.-Filmography:-As actor:* Suriyan * Angaadi Theru - Karungali* Sattapadi Kutram -References:...

. Arjun and Mallika Kapoor

Mallika Kapoor

Mallika Kapoor is an Indian film actress, working in the South Indian film industries.-Biography:Kapoor was raised in a middle-class Punjabi family. Her father works in the merchant navy and her mother is a housewife.-Career:...

 star in this film released on Diwali

Diwali

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 2006.

Plot

Dorai (Arjun) is a do-gooder don. But a police force led by ACP Easwara Pandian (Prakash Raj) and his sidekick (Sathyan) are after him. However, the poor need him as he is a Good Samaritan running an orphanage. He has help from his friends (Manivannan and Vadivelu).

But Dorai has a problem. His mother (Sujatha) doesn’t approve of his ways. She feels that he is just a loutish goon. There is also Anjali (Mallika Kapoor), a TV journo, who is in love with Dorai because of his dare devil ways.

Dorai has a past too. He was just an honest-to-goodness school teacher, who ends up as the deathly Dorai after a fire ravages a school and kills several children. The incident forces him to take on the system of venal officials and politics.

Now, Dorai’s biggest task is to nip a dark and dire politician who wants to bomb the city. The rest, as they, is all cinematic clichés.

Cast

Actor	Role
Arjun	Dorai
Mallika Kapoor Mallika Kapoor Mallika Kapoor is an Indian film actress, working in the South Indian film industries.-Biography:Kapoor was raised in a middle-class Punjabi family. Her father works in the merchant navy and her mother is a housewife.-Career:...	Anjali
Prakash Raj Prakash Raj Prakash Raj , better known by his stage name Prakash Raj, is a National Award winning actor, director and producer who has worked in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and Malayalam films. Though he was born in a Tulu family he achieved fame through Kannada, Tamil and Telugu films. He got introduced to...	Easwara Pandian

Trivia

• The movie's release was delayed since it was yet another gangster film. There had been a surplus of gangster films recently and it had affected box office collections for each gangster film due to competitions in the same theme/genre.
• The movie had an good run in the box office.