Direction: Suresh Krishna
Music: Vidyasagar
Chief Minister M Karunanidhi and commercial hit director Suresh Krishna are coming together for the first time in Ilaignan. Though the combination has potential, the film does not work mainly due to an out dated storyline and presentation. It is a period film set in 1959 Madras, but looks as though it is a 100 years earlier. The cars seen in the film and the costumes worn look ancient.Ship building, during pre-independence with cheap labour used to thrive on the southern coastline. A kind hearted Deivanayagam (Sharat Babu) used to run Rajanayagam Shipbuilding Company in the Coromandel Coast. Now he has retired and has given control to his son Rajanayagam (Suman) who is devil incarnated.
He lives in a palace like bungalow along with his evil queen Sena (Namitha). They run the ship building yard using slave labour controlled by a thug Kalia (Rajendran). Arockiasamy (Nassar) is an alcoholic, a ship builder with communist ideology whose wife Valli Amma (Kushboo) is the epitome of goodness. Their son is Karky (named after Maxim Gorky), after the brutal murder of his father by Rajanayagam becomes a sort of union leader who fights for the rights of the workers.
A rich Chettiyar’s daughter Remaya (Remya Nambisan) is madly in love with him. Meanwhile Devanayagam’s London educated daughter Meera (Meera Jasmine) arrives to look after her ailing father who is killed by her brother! How Meera joins forces with Karky and other workers to bring down Rajanayagam’s and Sena’s evil empire forms the rest of the story.
