Padikkathavan

Padikathavan is about Rocky, a 10th grade dropout, who seeks to marry a well-educated girl to indirectly gain a degree, but his relationship with Gayathri is threatened by rival gangs and he must defeat Kasi in hand-to-hand combat to emerge victorious. Padikkathavan is a 2009 Indian Tamil-language Action Drama film starring Dhanush, Tamannaah, Vivek, Atul Kulkarni, Suman, Sayaji Shinde and Balu Anand. Vijaya Productions was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) B. Bharathi Reddy and B. Venkatarama Reddy. Padikkathavan is written by Suraj and B. Bharathi Reddy and it is directed by Suraj and C. Raja Durai. Sun Pictures acquired the distribution rights for the motion picture. Padikkathavan was released on 14th January 2009 and takes a screen time of 160 minutes. The movie made a box office gross of ₹5 crore. Cinematography was done by A. Venkatesh and editing by Manoj. The music was composed by Mani Sharma.