Movie Info

: A guy from a small-town takes on a ruthless criminal lawyer for his friend and sister(s).

 Seeru begins the way most mass hero movies begin. Someone is in trouble (here, it is two young women who have been waylaid by thugs), and just when things seem bleak, the hero arrives in style and saves the day. This is Manimaran (a sprightly Jiiva who is in fine form), a do-gooder. He runs a cable TV channel in Mayiladuthurai that functions as the town’s conscience keeper. There are two things dear to Manimaran. He is the sort of guy would lay down his life for you if you are either his sister or his friend.

In fact, when Malli (a beefed-up Varun, whose dubbed voice (by Gautham) fits him perfectly), a gangster who has been hired to finish him off, offhandedly refers to him as a friend, Manimaran decides he’d be one. “Unkitta solla koodatha vaarthaya sollitaane,” another friend remarks, in jest. But it is only later that we realise how true the statement is, when Manimaran decides to go to Chennai, and fight Malli’s battle.