Madurae does not have a single original bone in its body. The film is etched from various Telugu and old Rajnikanth movies and director Madhesh and his screenplay writers have whittled the story to suit Vijay’s image. Madurae (Vijay) is vegetable vendor in a market who takes on the local moneylender (Raj Kapoor) for charging too much interest and is the savoir of his family consisting of foster mother (Seeta) and two sisters.

He is do-gooder and has an assistant Pandu (Vadivel) who is his friend. A girl Anita (Rakshita) who is doing a research (!!) is madly in love with Madurae and suddenly an inspector on seeing him salutes him! His mother finds out that Madurae was responsible for the death of her daughter and in a fit of rage she shoots him.

Post interval, the story is told in a flashback by Vadivel that our hero is actually Maduravel IAS, the former collector of Madurai. His personal assistant was Susheela (Sonia Agarwal) who was Seeta’s eldest daughter. Along with Maduravel, Susheela takes on KTR (Pasupathy) the local don referred to as Deivam as he even conducts his own kangaroo courts. In a skirmish with KTR, Susheela dies and the blame falls on Madurae who goes underground to prove his innocence. How Maduravel goes back and demolishes KTR and his goon’s forms the rest of the story.

Rakshita and Tejasree are there for glamour while Sonia Agarwal is wasted in a minor role. Vidyasagar’s music is fast paced and they are picturised to show the oomph and glamour of the heroines. Thanks to Vijay’s screen presence the film is sufficiently a time-pass entertainer.

Verdict: Time-Pass