Starring Karthik, Nagma, Mouli, Manivannan, Mansur Ali Khan,
Jayasree. Credits Music : S.A. Raajkumar  Story, Script :
Kennedy  Screenplay, Direction : K.S. Ravikumar  Producer :
Natarajan  Reviewed By Balaji Thirumalai  Pistha is
K.S.Ravikumar's follow-up to his highly successful laugh riot,
Avvai Shanmughi, but fails to live up to the expectations raised
by his previous success. Karthik plays Manikandan, who as the
name suggests is an Ayyappan devotee who is hired by Mouli to
reform the erring ways of his office and factory workers. Naghma
plays Mouli's daughter, whose irrational behavior is linked to a
murky past she shares with a wounded man and his aide. She
marries Karthik only to get around a legal loophole so that she
can get to her ancestral property and give it to the mysterious
strangers whom she feels obliged to help. Her plans go awry as
Karthik, who until then plays a mild mannered Ayyappan follower
turns out to be the eponymous hero who is more than a handful
for poor Nagma to handle. A tug of