I clocked it, & the superb "Kabilan loses himself to booze and business" montage sequence in #Sarpatta lasts for a full 7 minutes, starting at 1:51:20 when he gets out of jail and ending at 1:58:20 when he's attacked one night. The whole 7 min sequence directed to the rhythm of.. 
...a very basic theme by @Music_Santhosh that's almost entirely composed with the thrust of two notes building up more and more tense as Kabilan goes corrupt. It's one of my favorite sequences in the film, a very fresh way of showing a story we've seen many times before - of...
..a hero losing control of himself. @beemji tells that story in only 7 minutes because the pacing of it mirrors the fast, hazy manner in which Kabilan loses himself. In a way, it's like an opposite of the other famous montage sequence in films where we see a hero grow in stature.
What I also like is how this sequence is concluded. There's a very fine little move involved in that. Usually, when such sequences end with an attempt at the hero's life, the music is stopped much before the scene, letting it be quiet so that some tension builds when he is...
attacked. Music then starts again in a different way when he's attacked. Here, the music is carried into the time when the attack happens, there's no let off between this sequence and the attack. Infact Mariamma's struggle with the attack actually happens without music.
It works very well because this attack is in a way meant to wake Kabilan up from his nightmare, the end of music signifies that when he finally has to listen to his wife curse him. His awakening from that drunken stupor starts here, so the rhythm of the film gently slows down.
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