Perarasu

Synopsis

Perarasu is a 2006 Indian Tamil-language action crime film directed by Udhayan. The film starring Vijayakanth, Debina Bonnerjee, Prakash Raj, Sarath Babu, Anandaraj and Pandiarajan in lead roles. The music is composed by Pravin Mani. The film follows the pattern of southern masala movie with good-cop-versus-bad-guy story.

Perarasu is similar to several earlier films of Vijayakanth, like Vallarasu (2000) and Pulan Visaranai (1990). He plays a dual role of identical twins as a law enforcer and a vigilante. The film received U certificate from censor board. The film is dubbed into Telegu as Kasi Viswanath.

It is basically an investigative film as CBI officer Kasi Viswanathan (Vijayakanth) is entrusted to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Judge Sadhasivam (Nassar). The Kasi Viswanathan team comprises junior officer DCP Kesavan Nair IPS (Anandaraj) and a head constable Kandhasamy (Pandiarajan).

Soon Kasi finds out that a state minister Ilakkiyan (Prakash Raj) is behind all crimes in the city, and he is assisted by three senior cops. Suddenly, one by one, the bad cops are killed, with needle of suspicion resting on Kasi, as a lookalike is behind the murders. It is revealed that it is a revenge killing by Perarasu Pandiyan (Vijayakanth), Kasi’s twin brother, and that Kasi’s birth name is Ilavarasu Pandiyan.

We are told in a flashback by the family retainer Maarimuthu (Chandrasekhar) that Kasi was the long-lost twin brother of Perarasu Ilavarasu Pandiyan, and their father, the local chieftain Chakkaravarthi Pandiyan (Sarath Babu), was at one time the kingmaker of Panchalankurichi. After making Sivapprakasam (Mansoor Ali Khan) and Ilakkiyan MLAs, he falls out with them and they murder him. Perarasu, who has seen this murder, now wants to take revenge.

In the end, Perarasu fits a bomb on a chair in a meeting on which Ilakkiyan sits. Kasi, desperate to save Ilakkiyan, goes into the room and prefers to die with Ilakkiyan. Perarasu feeling proud for his brother preferring to give up his life for his duty, saves both of them, but is shot by Ilakkiyan. Kasi then shoots Ilakkiyan, and Perarasu takes the blame before dying. The film ends with Kasi marrying the heroine and returning to become the next chieftain of his native village.

• Vijayakanth as Perarasu Pandiyan (Perarasu) and Ilavarasu Pandiyan (Kasi Viswanathan IPS)
• Debina Bonnerjee as Aishwarya
• Prakash Raj as Ilakkiyan
• Sarath Babu as Chakkaravarthi Pandiyan
• Anandaraj as DCP Kesavan Nair IPS
• Pandiarajan as Kandhasamy
• Nassar as Sadhasivam
• Mansoor Ali Khan as Sivaprakasam
• Chandrasekhar as Marimuthu
• Riyaz Khan as Kabali
• Ajay Rathnam as Inspector Azhagappan
• O. A. K. Sundar as Inspector Shenbagamoorthy
• Sampath Raj as ACP Chidambaranathan
• Chitti Babu as Ilakkiyan’s assistant
• LIC Narasimhan as Shop manager
• Ponnambalam as Bullet Mani
• Mahanadi Shankar as Otteri Shankar
• Ragasya as Jasmine
• S. N. Lakshmi as Aishwarya’s grandmother
• T. P. Gajendran as Sathyanathan
• Anjali Devi as Sadhasivam’s wife
• Srividya as Sadhasivam’s daughter
• Sundari as Chidambaranathan’s wife
• Bava Lakshmanan as Constable Ravindran
• Muthukaalai as Ayyam Perumal
• Vijay Ganesh as Man at the bus station
• Kovai Senthil as Party member
• Velmurugan as Party member
• Selvakumar as Party member
• Boys Rajan as Bomb disposal technician
• Kandasamy as Elephant owner
• Nitish Veera as Man helping Sudesi
• Sregajesh as Sub-inspector
• Shankar as Aishwarya’s friend
• Venba as Aishwarya’s friend
• Kabir as Aishwarya’s friend
• Chandrahassan Jayaprakash as Young Perarasu Pandiyan