New Delhi, Sept. 5 -- The much-awaited collaboration between actor Sivakarthikeyan and veteran director A. R. Murugadoss, Madharaasi, has finally reached theatres. Early reviews have started pouring in for the big-budget action thriller, which marks Sivakarthikeyan's first release of 2025.

The film has drawn huge attention after the actor's successful 2024 run with the sci-fi comedy Ayalaan and Amaran, a biopic on Ashoka Chakra awardee Major Mukund Varadarajan. Sivakarthikeyan also has a period drama, Parasakthi, lined up for later this year.

The story follows Raghu, played by Sivakarthikeyan, who is unwillingly pulled into the dark world of a ruthless gun-smuggling syndicate flooding Tamil Nadu with illegal weapons. Caught between the ...