Parattai Engira Azhagu Sundaram
[1] Azhagu Sundaram is a village bumpkin who comes from Tirunelveli to Chennai to earn money to buy gold bangles for his beloved mother Meenakshi.Parattai is forced to take the aruval as gang wars erupt and single-handedly he wipes out Deva, Kesavan and Suri, all dreaded criminals in the city.[2] Prem, the director of the original, was approached to direct the remake, but declined as he did not want to pander to the lead actor's "larger-than-life stature" at the cost of realism.Sify wrote, "Parattai Engira Azhagu Sundaram is a steamy sob story harping on mother-son sentiments' reminding you of 60's tearjerker's laced with lot of violence and Rajnikanth's favourite director Suresh Krishna's presentation and direction is old fashioned, to put it mildly"."[16] Lajjavathi of Kalki praised the acting of Dhanush and Livingston, music and cinematography but felt Krishna's screenplay lacked speed and concluded the suspense of whether mother and child will meet up to a certain point starts to creep up.