New rulers) is a 1994 Indian Tamil-language political thriller film directed by Vikraman with music by A. R. Rahman.

During the making of Pudhiya Mannargal, Vikram was approached by Mani Ratnam to star in Bombay (1995).

However, Vikram had grown his hair long and had a beard for Pudhiya Mannargal, and could not change his appearance to accept Ratnam's offer.

The movie's background score was done by Rajamani as Rahman had to travel to the US for 2 months during re-recording time.

[4] The film did not perform well commercially, with Sudhish Kamath noting, "The problem with it: the same old cliches of commercial cinema — the film was ridden with stereotypes, predictable incidents triggered by unidimensional screen villains".