Twenty years earlier, Sivasamy was a fierce and violent young man.
The movie is a gritty period action drama directed by Vetrimaaran, based on the novel Vekkai by Poomani. It follows Sivasamy, a middle-aged farmer from an underprivileged community, who is forced to protect his family against powerful upper-caste landlords. The Land Dispute and Tragedy Twenty years earlier, Sivasamy was a fierce and
He worked as a moonshine brewer and was deeply involved in a struggle for (land legally reserved for Dalits that was seized by landlords). Twenty years earlier
: Distraught by his brother's death and his father’s perceived "cowardice" (Sivasamy even touches the landlord's feet to plead for peace), the younger son, Chidambaram, murders Narasimhan. The Survival Struggle the younger son