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Star

2001 · 145 min
5.0 / 10 · TMDB

Murthy (Prashanth) earns his living taking the blame for the mistakes of other people and the jail is his second home. Dhanushkodi (Raghuvaran) has sworn to kill ex-collector Ramanathan's (Vijayakumar) son and so, Ramanathan has transferred his son Santosh (Pravinkanth) to Mauritius while telling the world that he has ran away. Wishing to save his son, he hires Murthy to act as his long lost son, hoping that Dhanushkodi would kill him instead of his actual son. Murthy too accepts the gig since his lover Preeti (Jyotika) is Ramanathan's niece. In the climax, Santhosh supports Dhanushkodi for killing his father, But Dhanushkodi kills Santhosh. The film ends with Murthy taking the blame for killing Santhosh and surrenders himself to police.

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Original Title ஸ்டார்
Year 2001
Director Praveen Gandhi
Runtime 145 min.
Rating TMDB: 5.0/10 (3 votes)

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The film constructs a gritty moral dilemma around a protagonist whose livelihood is being a scapegoat, weaving personal desire into a fatal deception. It explores the transactional nature of sacrifice and the chains of obligation that bind each character to a tragic design.

What lingers after viewing is the bleak resonance of a system where redemption is commodified, and the ultimate act of love mirrors the cruelty it seeks to oppose. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Praveen Gandhi

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