Citizen is a 2001 Tamil drama-action film built around a single provocative question: what happens when the state fails its people so completely that a village vanishes from the map? A vigilante figure calling himself 'Citizen' kidnaps three pillars of institutional authority, a judge, a police official, and a district collector, forcing a CBI investigation that unravels systemic corruption. The premise is squarely anti-establishment, with ordinary civic accountability as both weapon and wound. The label is Neutral because the available signals are thin. The film critiques state power, but Indian mainstream cinema of this era often framed such stories as morality tales rather than ideological arguments, keeping the politics broad enough for mass audiences.