Vallinam (2014)
Director: Arivazhagan Venkatachalam · Writer: Arivazhagan Venkatachalam
Krishna, a talented basketball player, moves to a new college after a fatal accident on court. There, he clashes with the college team's egomaniacal cricket team captain, Vamsi, who will not have any other game sharing the limelight with his own sport.
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Nakul
Krishna 
Mrudhula bhaskar
Meera 
Atul Kulkarni
Coach 
Chandru
Jagan
Jagan 
Anupama Kumar
Anaswara Kumar
Anu 
Amzath Khan
Guna 
Y. G. Mahendran
Jayaprakash
Krishnamurthy 
Santhana Bharathi
Puzhaldasan 
Krishna Kulasekaran
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If it was horror in his debut (Eeram), Arivazhagan tackles the sports movie genre in his sophomore effort Vallinam, which wants to highlight the fact that we should stop being a one-sport (read cricket-crazy) nation and encourage every sport and sportsperson in the country. It is an idealistic film, yes, but what makes Vallinam a commendable effort is that it doesn't resort to cricket-bashing to drive home its point. The film begins with an prologue in which we see Krishna ( Nagulan, working hard), a gifted if self-centred basketball player. An on-court fatality involving his friend Shiva ( Kreshna, in a guest appearance) leaves him demoralized and he decides to give up the game and move to Chennai. But, as his coach ( Aadhi, another guest star) tells him, the game that he loves the most will definitely enter his life again. That happens in his new college, thanks to the college's ego…
