Sivapathigaaram

With Vishal, a new face for heroine and Raghuvaran as the main set of characters, the movie is about the faulty system of Indian voting.
Raghuvaran returns to his village with his daughter, with the intention of publishing village tunes and songs, that are passed along the generations by word of mouth. Vishal comes to the village as his research assistant. However, they seem to be having something secretive to talk about from time to time.
Election time is nearing, but all the candidates seem to be murdered one after another, until there are no more candidates left and the ones alive are withdrawing the nominations. An Arjun-look-a-like cop is involved in the investigation of the murders and tracks down the professor and the student.
Flashback shows Vishal to be an A student in college and Raghuvaran, his professor. Instead of the usual theoretical studies, Raghu brings a practical aspect to his project. As the election was nearing, the students are encouraged to publish pre-election likes. As the publication outlined, the election is diverted. The ex-ruling party is enraged and as a revenge carries out a mass murder at Vishal's school. Vishal is vengeful, but Raghu calms him down to take a stronger revenge.
The movie was a typical Vishal movie with big punch dialogues for a hero who looks like a college lad, supposed to be studying, instead of bashing up big guys. Interesting message about having criteria for politicians, who are interested to govern the nation, but could have packaged better. The heroine had almost nothing to do. Raghuvaran is definitely looking punier and older and seems like he is going to snap a bone if he moves too much. An OK story, but I could have taken a raincheck.