Diwan is a South Indian Tamil film released in 2003. The film stars Sarathkumar, Kiran

Kiran Rathod

Kiran Rathod is an Indian film actress. She has appeared in Hindi and Tamil films.-Early life:Rathod was born on 11 January 1981 in Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh into a Rajput family. She is a graduate of Mithibai College in Mumbai...

, Vadivelu

Vadivelu

Vadivelu , often referred to as Vadivel, is a Tamil film actor,comedian and playback singer. Since 2000, he has acted as a comedian in various Tamil films. During his career, Vadivelu has won several Filmfare Awards and Tamil Nadu State Film Awards...

. Film is directed by Suryaprakash who previously directed Maayi

Maayi

-Plot:Maayi is the well-respected, do-gooder in the village. He sees women in the village as his sisters and even conducts their marriages. He is a man who is ready to kill his father when he learns that he had a second wife. But the father opts to kill himself rather than face his son and so,...

 with Sarathkumar. S. A. Rajkumar composed the music. It was released in Hindi as "Mahabali".

Cast

• Sarathkumar as raghavan/duraisingam
• Kiran
  Kiran
  Kiran is a gender neutral given name. The name Kiran is pronounced keer-an. It is of Hindi and Sanskrit origin. In Sanskrit, it means "ray of light" or "beam of light" or the "first sunshine light" .Celebrities named Kiran include Kiran Chetry, a CNN News Anchor and Kiran Rathod, a Bollywood...
  
   as geetha
• Vadivelu
  Vadivelu
  Vadivelu , often referred to as Vadivel, is a Tamil film actor,comedian and playback singer. Since 2000, he has acted as a comedian in various Tamil films. During his career, Vadivelu has won several Filmfare Awards and Tamil Nadu State Film Awards...
  
  as velu
• Sharmilee as meenakshi
• Anandraj as meenakshi's father
• Manorama as duraisingam's sister
• Jaiprakash Reddy as kaathavaraayan
• Sriman as duraisingam's son
• Madhanbob
• Vijayan
• Muthukaalai as marudha muthukaalai

Plot

Raghavan (sarathkumar) and velu (vadivelu) work as cooks in a non-veg hotel. raghavan loves geetha (kiran) who is the daughter of a rich man (vijayan), but her father is against this love and insults him as a poor man, raghavan challenges that he will be rich in a year . there is a subplot in the story, meenakshi (sharmili) daughter from a rich family ; she is the apple of the eyes of the family . meenakshi ran home with her lover raju who worked as a driver to her house . he tells that his friend dinesh will help them . but raju escaped because he saw a bad dream where he is killed by her family if it will happen in real due to that he vanishes. raghavan understood her plight and help her . suddenly he comes to a place where all call him as duraisingam . raghavan doesn't know who is duraisingam . manorama explains to him that raghavan is the grandson of duraisingam, the flashback is duraisingam (sarathkumar again) is a do-gooder who helps poor people and he has a clash with kaathavaraayan (jaiprakash reddy), a big rowdy. Duraisingam could not kill him because he promised to his wife that she will never become a widow. In the clash, duraisingam's three sons are killed and the baby is lost . baby happens to be raghavan . duraisingam surrenders himself to the police . after the flashback, raghavan visits the jail only to know that duraisingam has died few years back. kaathavarayan kidnaps raghavan and meenakshi . meenakshi's father and relatives bashes raghavan but leaves him after knowing the truth . raghavan leaves kathavarayan and says that he should live as a reformed man. meenakshi marries the groom selected by her parents and raghavan unites with Geetha.