Mandela is an Indian Tamil-language comedy-drama political satire television film written and directed by Madonne Ashwin on his directorial debut and produced by S. Sashikanth and Ramachandra of YNOT Studios while co-produced by Balaji Mohan of Open Window Productions. The film is titled after the late South African President Nelson Mandela. The film stars Yogi Babu in the main lead role while Sheela Rajkumar, Sangili Murugan and G. M. Sundar play supportive roles.The music for the film is composed by Bharath Shankar, whereas cinematography and editing were handled by Vidhu Ayyanna and Philomin Raj.
The film is set on the backdrop of a village panchayat election scenario between two political parties where a local barber's vote will determine the fate of the election.The film was directly released via Star Vijay on 4 April 2021 and internationally through Netflix, the following day.
In a small village in Tamil Nadu, the population of around 1000 people are split into two caste-based factions, Northerners and Southerners. When the de facto President of the Village becomes ill, his two sons decide to run for President. Based on pre-polling it turns out the vote is split. The tie breaker vote falls upon a local hairstylist named Smile alias Nelson Mandela (Yogi Babu) who recently joined the voter list. The rest of the movie is about who gets Nelson Mandela's vote to win. In the process, Mandela gets the two contenders to improve the village by laying a road, building a school etc. with their wealth. The movie ends with a 'surprise' result to the election that is not disclosed but is inferred that Mandela won.
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