plot gets revealed, they hack Rajan (the dead man from the opening scene) to death. Rajan, while dying, requests Thambi to refrain from doing anything and let things be. Chandra vows to avenge Rajan's death. 2003: At the meeting with the road contractor, Anbu, like Rajan, makes a stand for the people of the hood and refuses to endorse the project. Guna, enraged that Anbu went up against him, lets Senthil's brother-in-law Kumar, a cop, know that it was Anbu who stabbed Senthil. Chandra then reveals how she was behind everything that happened. She had sent men to kill Guna during the festival, but Anbu saved him. She decides to marry Guna and to use him to help kill the other three involved in Rajan's death. She added Guna and Velu's names to the hit list and drives a wedge between Guna and Velu. She gets Guna to leave the hood with her. She sends Rajan's men to help protect Anbu from Kumar. Kumar finds Anbu but is heavily beaten up by him. Anbu then traps Guna and Chandra as they leave the hood and warns Guna to leave him and hood alone. Chandra covertly gives Rajan's old home to Anbu. The film ends with Anbu taking up Rajan's cause of fighting for the people. Cast Dhanush as Anbu, a skilled carrom player who gets involved in a gang war later, Padma's husband Ameer as Rajan, a prominent local Fishermen Head in North Madras who is respected by the locals, Chandra's husband Samuthirakani as Guna, a member of Rajan's gang and Chandra's second husband Daniel Balaji as Thambi, Rajan's younger brother Kishore as Senthil, a member of Rajan's gang Pawan as Velu, a member of Rajan's gang and Siva's elder brother Andrea Jeremiah as Chandra, Rajan's wife who later marries Guna Aishwarya Rajesh as Padma, Anbu's love interest later wife Subathra Robert as Senthil's wife Sai Dheena as "Jawa" Pazhani, member of Rajan's gang Radha Ravi as Muthu, a politician and Rajan's ex-boss Subramaniam Siva as Mani, a man who works alongside Velu and Anbu Vincent Asokan as Asst. Commissioner of Police Rajesh Sharma as Chanchal Saran Shakthi as Kannan, Padma's younger brother Hari Krishnan as Raju, Senthil's henchman Pavel Navageethan as Siva, Velu's younger brother Ragavendhar as Rasigan Munnar Ramesh as Rajan's friend G. Marimuthu as a doctor Sendrayan as Locality Resident (cameo appearance) Production Origin Vetrimaaran developed the