Middle Class(2025)
Karl Marx, a middle-class man in his mid-forties, lives in a small housing board quarters with his mouthy wife and his two kids. As long as he can remember Karl Marx had only one dream, to buy a couple of acres of land in his native village and do farming. This middle-class man with his middle-class dream gets a reversal of fortune because of a good deed done by his father in the past. That being a cheque for an amount of one crore rupees. But fate plays a cruel trick on Karl Marx as he misplaces the cheque and struggles to find it. He has only two days to find the missing cheque and encash it. Does he find it? Does he fulfil his dream? The story that unfolds is Middle Class
Quick Facts
- Streaming on
- Zee5, Airtel Xstream Play
- Theatrical Release
- 21 November 2025
- Director
- Kishore Muthuramalingam
- Language
- Tamil
- Runtime
- 2h 4m
Storyline
A middle-aged man named Karl Marx dreams of buying farmland in his village. His life changes when he receives a large cheque as a reward for his father's past good deed. However, he loses the cheque and has just two days to find it and cash it in.
“A lost fortune. A frantic search. A middle-class dream on the line.”
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Cast & Crew
Reunion Meter
Frequent partnerships reunited for Middle Class
Cast reunions in this film: Radha Ravi & Kaali Venkat (6 films together), and Kaali Venkat & Vela Ramamoorthy (3 films together).
Trivia
- The film's title 'Middle Class' is a direct translation of the Tamil word 'Nadodigal', which was the original working title.
- Director Kishore Muthuramalingam stated the story was inspired by real-life anxieties of middle-aged men losing important documents.
- The production used a real, densely populated housing board colony in Chennai for authentic outdoor filming.
- Actor Sathyaraj, who plays Karl Marx, reportedly suggested small changes to his character's nervous habits during the cheque search.
- The cheque prop was a specially designed, oversized prop to make it visually prominent in wide shots.
- A subplot involving a local shopkeeper was partly improvised based on an extra's spontaneous reaction during a crowd scene.
- The film's climax was shot continuously over 36 hours to maintain the actors' exhausted, frantic energy.