Kovai Brothers is a 2006 Tamil-language comedy spoof film written, produced, and directed by Sakthi Chidambaram. The film stars Sathyaraj, Sibiraj, Vadivelu, Namitha, Uma and Kovai Sarala. The music was composed by D. Imman. The film was dubbed in Telugu as Pokiri Brothers.
Plot
Kovai Brothers tells of Ganesh and Vasanth, who are friends who come to Chennai to take revenge on the killers of Ganesh's niece. The duo stays with Ekadasi and then works in a TV channel that exposes corruption in the society. Sanya also works as an anchor in the same channel. Ganesh and Vasanth both see Sanaya and fall for her. Ganesh and Vasanth take on the bad guys and corruption besides falling for the same girl. The rest of the film is on how they kill the rowdies and who wins Sanya's love.
Cast
Sathyaraj as Ganeshan
Sibiraj as Vasanth
Arun Pandian as Dr. M. Gnanasekharan
Uma as Rajeshwari, Ganeshan's Niece and Vasanth's Lover
Namitha as Sania
Vadivelu as Ekadasi
Kovai Sarala as Tenthara, Foursha and Bisin
Mohan Nadarajan as Collector Arivukarasan
Shobha as Leelavathi, Ekadasi's wife
T. P. Gajendran as Dr.Lingesan
Thambi Ramaiah as Astrologer Kadambavel
Vennira Aadai Moorthy as Major Varadharajan, Ekadasi's Father-in-law
Delhi Ganesh as Kesavan
Sriman as Kathamuthu
Singamuthu
Halwa Vasu
D. Imman (cameo appearance in song "Ulagathula")
Critical reception
Sify wrote: "The film lacks logic or sense and rests purely on Satyaraj’s ‘lollu’ dialogues and his takes on Suriya’s Ghajini, S. J. Surya’s New, Simbu’s Manmathan and also pokes fun at stars joining politics". Thiraipadam wrote:"Completely illogical, unfunny and boring".