 Rahul tries to flirt with the woman , who starts communicating by singing parodies of Hindi film songs , and explains that the four men are trying to kidnap her . Rahul lends her his mobile phone so that she can contact her friends , but the men with her grab it and throw it from the train . Rahul is annoyed , but says nothing because the men are carrying weapons . Rahul tells the ticket inspector about them , but they push the inspector into a river below a bridge . Panicked , Rahul learns that the men are her cousins , and that her name is Meenalochni " Meena " Azhagusundaram ( Deepika Padukone ) . She is fleeing from a forced marriage to Tangaballi ( Nikitin Dheer ) . Her father , <unk> Azhagusundaram ( Sathyaraj ) is a powerful headman of the local mafia in Tamil Nadu . 
