This is also the time when South Indian films started doing well, commercially and critically, on a Pan-India scale.
Tamil star Suriya's 7aum Arivu was about a virus from China sent to Chennai to wreak havoc while Kaappan was about a locust attack the hero prevents in time -- both films in a sense foresaw what was to come, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Suriya talks about the success of his film, 7 Aum Arivu.
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