Run is Madhavan’s answer to the typical angry young man image of Tamil cinema, breaking the myths that he is only worth romantic and heartbreaker roles. Remember the scene where Meera Jasmine begs him to run for life in an underground subway to escape from her brother’s hit men? As you were thinking Maddy is going to flee, he runs a little further only to pull down the shutters to come down heavily on the villains. There wouldn’t have been a single lover boy in the theatre who couldn’t experience the anguish that Maddy was going through. Run’s shutter scene became the talk of the town and the movie a runaway hit.