Cast

Credited cast:
	Ajith Kumar	...	Ajith Kumar
	Asin	...	Asin
	Vivek	...	Vivek
	Manorama	...	Manorama
	Geetha	...	Geetha
	Lal	...	Lal
	Aditya Srivastava	...	Aditya Srivastava
	Vincent Asokan	...	Vincent Asokan
	Sathyan	...	Sathyan
	Keerthi Chawla	...	Keerthi Chawla

Storyline

Aalwar is a traditional priest. He is devoted to his mother and sister. But the villainous elements Lal, Vincent Asokan, kill the sister and mother. Aalwar, with revenge ringing in his mind, ends up as Shiva the killer, even while working as a ward boy in a hospital. Shiva is out to make a statement against the venal forces. He sees himself as some kind of avatar — in fact, he bumps off the baddies under the get-up's of Lord Rama and Lord Krishna. In climax, Shiva turns up as Lord Narasimha and bumps off the last villain by placing him on his thighs and ripping apart his bowels and chest with his sharp claws.



Ajith teamed up with a debutant Chella for a film to be produced by Mohan Natarajan. Chella had previously worked as an associate to S. J. Suryah, who Ajith had worked with in the 1999 film, Vaali. The film held its photo session on July 20, 2006 with Asin, Ajith's pair in Varalaru, being selected once again while Ramesh G of Naalai was chosen as cinematographer. The film began at the Ramoji Rao Studios in Hyderabad in August 2006. A couple of songs were filmed in Switzerland as the film geared up for a Pongal release. Shalini, Ajith's wife, was the costume designer for him in the film.



The satellite rights of the film were sold to Sun TV. The film was given an "A" certificate by the Indian Censor Board.



The film opened to mixed reviews with Sify.com labelling it a "built on a predictable premise" and described it as "The story is as old as hills".



The producers later dubbed and released the film in Telugu as Avatharudu and Hindi as Mera Farz. A Kannada remake was planned by Rajkumar Alwar runs successively 25 days in most of the theaters in Tamil Nadu.   

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