Kuttrapathirikai

A group of people in Van and ambassador car make their way into an apartment building and start shooting on the guard and proceed to kill people inside the apartment including padmanabha,the EPRLF leader.They then kill the policemen in the checkpost and proceed.

They are caught by ramakrishnan(Ramki) and arun(Rahman).Ramakrishnan also saves Divya(Ramakrishnan) when she is caught in chase. When Ramakrishnan questions the leader sivarasan (Mansoor Ali Khan) remains silent. Another LTTE cadre(Rajesh) who was not caught phones subha Sundaram to release his cadres.Ramakrishnan releases them and they proceed to Sri Lanka.

Divya parks her car in No Parking area and refuses to move the car.When asked by a traffic constable,she shows Ramakrishnan's visiting card.Then she parks her car in the middle of road.Arun orders to seize the car and also tears up the visiting card when Divya shows it.

Divya complains to Ramakrishnan and asks him to get the car and apology from Arun.Ramakrishnan convinces Arun to give her car back.Then Ramakrishnan and Divya get married.

One day in a meeting,the DGP(M.N. Nambiar)informs that state govt may be dismissed,so they have to tighten security in Chennai since ruling party supporters may indulge in violence.

Arun fights with rowdies in a Fishing hamletand then visits injured in hospital and runs into geetha in lift.He looks back ,when he loved geetha and they married,but Arun got suspicious when he noticed a man running from back portion of house at odd hours.He begins to question her fidelity and when he catches the man,the maid who works in street says that it is her lover and they meet at odd time after her work is done.Geetha gets angry at Arun's suspicious mindset and leaves him.

Sivarasan,dhanu and group of 12 people arrive in boat from Jaffna to Point Calimere,they are received by the smuggler shanmugam who accommodates them.Sivarasan exchanges suitcase of gold biscuits for money.Sivarasan then goes to subha Sundaram house to find photographer.Then subha Sundaram introduces Hari babu to Sivarasan.Sivarasan insists Haribabu to take photos of all political party leaders homes,offices etc and when latter ask for reason,sivarasan says it is for book to be published worldwide. The DGP informs that Rajiv Gandhi (Anupam Kher) will arrive in Sriperumbudur for election rally and they must guard him since he is under threat of terrorists.Sivarasan and other LTTE cadres assemble and plan to kill Rajiv Gandhi during election rally. They then conduct mock drill of the assassination and also reconnaissance the venue of the meeting and prepare belt bomb.

Rajiv Gandhi arrives and gives his answers onRamjanmabhoomi,SriLankan issue to reporters on press meet.He then garlands Indira Gandhi statue and arrives at venue. Dhanu sneeks in as person to Garland Rajiv Gandhi. Arun doesn't allow her since she is not in the list.When Rajiv Gandhi arrives,he lets Dhanu to Garland him when female constable stops her and she activates the bomb. Confusion follows after the blast and wires short-circuit due to the impact.

A colleague of Haribabu phones subha Sundaram that Hari is dead due to the blast.Subha Sundaram asks him to get Hari's camera saying it is very important.

The riots breakout in Chennai city due to Rajiv Gandhi's death and a small hotel owner asks sivarasan and others to leave due to the tensions.They all leave in maruthi van. The rioters plan to chop a DMK flag. But a DMK worker (Chandrasekhar) fights them. Ramakrishnan intervenes and the worker recites poetry saying that they are not weak but they follow their party orders since they believe their party as a family. A voiceover of Muthuvel Karunanidhi is heard saying that at this unfortunate time,people may provoke and try to demoralise the party but they must not lose their hope.

Arun tries to talk with DGP regarding suspension of officers. A Congress leader asks the DGP to release his partymen.The DGP says rowdies and goondas are using this situation so they cannot differentiate between rowdy and party members.Arun asks why they have been suspended the Congress leader says they should be dismissed. Arun loses his cool when the Congress leader says police have chickened out and ran,Arun says why there where no party people and only police,common people died.Arun says that whether they knew of blast before,he storms out and Ramakrishnan follows him. The DGP asks the leader to go away since politicians and police still have respect.

Karthickeyan (Vijayakumar) from (New Delhi) arrives to investigate the case. Sivarasan says they are at a critical stage of their mission and says that the Tamil Nadu coast has come into control of Indian Navy so they cannot escape via Sea.Another LTTE commander(Rajesh) says that Karthickeyan is a competent officer and says that they must not use old contacts and must remain underground till further instructions.

Karthickeyan arrives in Chennai. He tells the officials that they must not believe on a single path to cracking the case.He also tells that the Press can divert them by posting rumours. He visits the assassination site and then later in headquarters,he asks Ramakrishnan to develop the film from Haribabu's camera. In Thiruthuraipoondi,Shankar gets caught and based on his diary the officers arrest Nalini's mother,brother and finally Nalini and Murugan. Based on their confessions they arrest Subha Sundaram,Shanmugham and also find large cache of weapons in the safehouse and beaches.

Meanwhile the Hit squad moves to Mysore and lies low as per instruction.Sivarasan tells that only one mission is completed. The investigating team gets information of sivarasan and others hiding in Konakunte near Mysore. They proceed and after a standoff,Sivarasan and subha commit suicide and also destroy all evidences.

In an ADMK victory celebration of J.Jayalalitha,the tigers plan to kill her but Ramakrishnan recognizes and shoots him. While trying to find out about others,a militant who had disguised as officer kills the caught militant.Then Ramakrishnan chases him and kills him. The militants then threaten Ramakrishnan that they will kill his wife.Arun goes to ramakrishnan's home and manages to kill the militant even though he is heavily injured.Another LTTE commander(Rajesh) plans to kill chief minister through bomb attached to his police keep and crashing into CM car. Ramakrishnan dashes his car and jumps into the sea. In the end, Arun and Geetha are United and Ramakrishnan & Divya have babies and all four are seen in beach. A militant holding rifle is shown with message"No More Violence" in ending scene.

• Ramki as ACP Ramakrishnan IPS
• Rahman as Arun IPS
• Roja as Geeta
• Ramya Krishnan as Divya
• Vijayakumar as Karthikeyan
• Livingston as Haribabu
• Mohini as Haribabu's sister
• Anupam Kher as Rajiv Gandhi
• M. N. Nambiar as DGP
• Mansoor Ali Khan as Sivarasan
• Rajesh as an LTTE commander

Production work for the film began in 1991 and it was announced that the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassination and the Sri Lankan civil war would be its backdrop.[3] The film was launched in July, 1991 and completed the same during December, 1992.[4]

In December 2006, in a landmark judgement, the Madras High Court dismissed a petition filed on behalf of the Central Board of Censors against an earlier verdict by the court, allowing the screening of the film with an 'A' certificate after certain cuts. The court subsequently directed the board to award an 'A' certificate to the film within four weeks of their judgement. The petition had alleged that the film supported the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Sections of the Tamil Nadu Congress had also taken exception to some scenes in the film. Chief Justice of Madras High Court A. P. Shah and Justice K. Chandru viewed the film and found nothing objectionable in it. R. K. Selvamani revealed that the court had actually said there is no need to delete the portions, which the earlier verdict wanted to be cut. The scenes, which the censors wanted to cut, included the Tigers' training and police officers fleeing the venue, where Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated.[5]

The film's soundtrack was composed by Ilaiyaraaja.[6]

• Madhavaram - Swarnalatha
• Thaam Dhana - Malaysia Vasudevan

The film won positive reviews after its release in March 2007 with a critic stating "it is an interesting attempt to thread reality and some wonderful domestic drama. The style of the narration and the camera angles are slightly dated. But you cannot hold the director responsible for that."[7] Another critic however described the film as "worn-out".[8]