Kattradhu Thamizh is a 2007 Indian Tamil-language psychological drama film written and directed by Ram, in his directorial debut. Produced by Salmara Mohammad Sharief, it stars Jiiva, Anjali and Karunas. The film is about an ordinary young Tamil-postgraduate, who becomes a tortured victim of Chennai's gentrification, fuelled by the booming IT industry, slowly losing his mental balance and becoming a psychopath

Plot

Prabhakar (Jiiva) is a Tamil teacher in a private school in west Mambalam area of Chennai, who leads a lonely life in a lodge. He is frustrated and even tries to commit suicide, in a system where knowing one's mother tongue and teaching it is looked down upon by a society craving for material benefits and imbalance in pay structure.