India, June 5 -- When Kamal Haasan and Mani Ratnam announced that they would be working together after 37 years, it was natural that expectations sky-rocketed. Using a script called Amar Hai by Kamal Haasan as the base, the two movie legends brought the audience Thug Life which features a large ensemble cast.

The movie revolves around Rangaraya Shaktivel (Kamal Haasan), a notorious gun-wielding (and martial arts trained) gangster in Old Delhi and as the movie begins, he tells the audience that Yama (Lord of Death) has appeared at his doorstep innumerable times only to have returned with no success. Sadanand (Mahesh Manjrekar) is Shaktivel and his elder brother Manickam's (Nasser) biggest rival and in 1994, thanks to Sandanand's betrayal ...