
Moreover, animal rights organisations claim bulls are often stabbed with knives or sticks, punched, jumped on and swept across the floor as the human participants try to tame them. It has been alleged that bull owners often rub lime juice and chilli powder into the animal’s eyes and genitals to make them ferocious - because, activists ask, how else can bulls be made to run? However, animal rights activists claim bulls are almost invariably assaulted during the sport and often intoxicated. Supporters say the sport celebrates the spirit of the hard-working Tamil farmer, who toils day and night on the farm with the help of his bulls. It is a moment to exhibit their own strength and those of their bulls, whom they claim to love. Typically, bulls of specific varieties are let out into a crowd of human participants, who attempt to grab the animal by its hump and stop it from escaping.įor farmers, jallikattu holds enormous cultural significance. The term jallikattu comes from the Tamil words “salli kaasu” - while “salli” means coins, “kattu” is the package tied to a bull’s horns as prize money. Along with Ram Prakash, how Arjun kills the culprits forms the rest of the story.Jallikattu traces its genesis to the Tamil classical period (400-100 BC). So Ram Prakash sentences that Arjun will be under house arrest on his isolated island. Despite everything being against Arjun, the judge Ram Prakash ( Sivaji Ganesan) feels that he is innocent. Therefore, a bald Arjun comes to the court.


However, Siva Prasad arrested him by surprise. Siva Prasad ( Captain Raju), Radha's brother, advised him to surrender but, being an innocent in this case, he refused. Arjun then tried to kill the culprit and failed. Arjun's sister in-law is raped and the three are killed. The owners of the factory trap Arjun's brother, sister-in-law and his niece in their house. To help the labourers, Arjun cheated the factory's owners as a fake income tax officer, he managed to take all their black money and he gave it to the labourers. In the meantime, Arjun fell in love with Radha ( Radha).

Nambiar, Malaysia Vasudevan and Chitra Lakshmanan) for a bonus. His brother ( Delhi Ganesh), a factory's union leader, clashed with his superiors ( M. In the past, Arjun was a happy-go-lucky young man. The story begins with Arjun ( Sathyaraj) being arrested for multiple crimes.
