Animal) is a 2007 Indian Tamil-language erotic drama film written and directed by Samy.

During one of Ayyanar's visits to the local brothel, he rapes the queen sex worker Savithri but refuses to pay for her services.

Once, he is seen playing cards on the outskirts of the neighbouring village, when the wife of a player comes and scolds him.

She silently tolerates all the sexual activities that he performs on her, but she soon changes her mind after knowing his past of him being a son of a prostitute, whose mother was raped and molested multiple times in front of him.

Fate takes a turn as Ayyanar is hauled in by the cops after a drunken fight, and he is sentenced to a year in jail.

He wants to kill his pregnant wife, whom he believes had an illicit relationship with her uncle, which he later learns is not true.

[5] Sify wrote "The film strikes a chord because the concern of the director to highlight the plight of an AIDSpatient in the post interval scenes is facetious.

With all the dollops of sex, action, and messages, it harks back to the good old masala genre, spiced according to today's specifications.

"[7] Malini Mannath of Chennai Online wrote "A tighter reign on the narration would have brought in more clarity and focus to the film.