 The music was composed by A. R. Rahman with cinematography by A. Venkatesh and editing by Suresh Urs.The film released on 14 January 2002.Arivazhagan (Manoj Bharathiraja) is from Chennai and has grown up to be a good-for-nothing fellow because of the neglect and ill-treatment by the hands of his parents (Jaiganesh and Fathima Babu).