Mirugam


Mirugam is a 2007 Tamil erotic drama film written and directed by Samy and starring debutant Aadhi and Padmapriya in the lead roles. This film did average collections at the box office.

Plot

The story is set in a village near Ramnad. Ayyanar is a carefree villager who uses his muscle rather than his brains for any situation and behaves like an animal. He is a terror to the whole village as he is a womanizer, sleeps with sex workers, and rapes housewives. There is no woman in the village that he hasn't had an encounter with. He beats up anyone, including his mother. He makes a living through his bull, which he hires out for its stud services. During one of his visits to the local brothel, he has raped the queen whore Savithri but refuses to pay for her services. He sleeps with her multiple times and uses her in his sexual play. Once, he is seen playing cards on the outskirts of the neighboring village, when the wife of a player comes and scolds him. Ayyanar, smitted by the wife, wins all the bets and gets the player drunk. He takes him to his home, gives the player's kids stolen chicken curry to eat outside, and silently rapes the player's wife.
One day, Ayyanar meets Alagamma, a tomboyish girl. Her beauty strikes him and he manages to marry her, but he treats her like one of his conquests. On the first night, he rapes her and continues with his sexual exploits. But she soon changes her mind after knowing his past of him being a son of a prostitute, whose mother was raped and molested multiple times in front of him. He has seen her having sex with multiple men at the same time. He later killed the manager of the ring and escaped to Ramnad, where he was adopted. She decides to change him and bring him on to the right path by her love, sex, and affection.
Fate takes a turn as Ayyanar is hauled in by the cops after a drunken fight, and he is sentenced to a year in jail. In jail, he gets addicted to drugs, using the same syringes and needles with co-prisoners. He rapes two men in jail in front of other inmates. After coming out of jail, he starts of his own way. He wants to kill his pregnant wife, whom he believes had an illegal relationship with her uncle, which later he knows isn't true.
Soon, he is hit by some virus according to doctors, and later it becomes as he is affected with AIDS. The villagers ignore him, but his loyal and devoted wife stands with him till the end. A villager kills him. The film ends with Ayyanar's death and his wife living with father-in-law.

Cast

Director Samy misbehaved with the actress Padmapriya and harassed her by slapping her in front of the crew and the village people. The South Indian Film Industry imposed a one-year ban on him for his behaviour on set, but later the ban was lifted due to constant lobbying by Producer's associations.

Soundtrack

Critical reception

Sify wrote "The film strikes a chord because the concern of the director to highlight the plight of an Aids patient in the post interval scenes is facetious. Throughout the film the director becomes more of a voyeur and dialogues loaded with sexual overtones. And surely Samy knows the difference between exploitation and cause-orientation". Rediff wrote "Watch Mirugam for some realistically done rural fare. With all the dollops of sex, action, and messages, it harks back to the good old masala genre, spiced according to today's specifications." Behindwoods wrote "While the AIDS issue could have remained the focus of the movie, Sami, on the other hand, indulges mostly in other shoddy matters providing it with an overdose of sex delving too much into it. His lack of clear conviction on the subject is glaringly visible that probably made him adopt other ways and means reducing the movie to a mediocre product." The film ended up as a box-office disaster.