Nayakan
Are you a good man or a bad man?
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A tragic, morally complex portrait of a man corrupted by systemic violence and circumstance, grappling with the question of whether he is victim or villain.
Velu Naicker, who witnesses the brutal murder of his father, kills a corrupt policeman and escapes to Mumbai, only to become a gangster.
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