Thuppakki (English:
The Gun) is a 2012 Tamil action thriller film written and directed by AR
It features Vijay and Kajal Aggarwal in the lead roles,
Vidyut Jamwal as main antagonist,
as well as Jayaram and Sathyan in supporting roles.
The film, produced by S. Thanu, features background score and soundtrack composed by Harris Jayaraj with cinematography handled by Santhosh Sivan, who with
Thuppakki, introduced the Arri Alexa camera to Indian cinema.
Murugadoss.
The story revolves around an Indian army intelligence officer from a Mumbai-based Tamil family and the decisions he takes after his life undergoes a sudden turn.
The film, which commenced production in December 2011 in Mumbai, was released on 13 November 2012, coinciding with the festival of Diwali.
Upon release, the film opened to mostly positive reviews from critics and became the highest grossing film of 2012 in Tamil. A Telugu-dubbed
version, that released simultaneously under the same title in Andhra
Pradesh, was also very well received. The film is being remade in Hindi as
Pistol with Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha in the lead roles.
Plot
Jagdish (Vijay), a captain in the Indian Army, returns to Mumbai from Kashmir. On his arrival, his parents and younger sisters force him to see Nisha (Kajal Aggarwal),
who they chose for him to be married to. At the bride-viewing ceremony,
Jagdish makes up excuses to avoid marrying her, which includes
commenting about her being old-fashioned. On the contrary, Nisha is a college-level boxer, who is completely modern in her outlook. Jagdish realises this and falls for her, which she reciprocates.
One day, while meeting with his police officer-friend Balaji (Sathyan),
Jagdish witnesses the explosion of a bus in which they had travelled.
He captures the man, who planted the bomb in that bus, and soon finds
out that he is a mere executor, a sleeper cell, whose only role was to
plant the bomb. He also discovers that the Islamic terrorist group Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami,
which the bomber belongs to, has planned various such attacks in the
city in a couple of days. Enlisting the help of his fellow Army men and
Balaji, Jagdish manages to thwart these attacks and kill twelve
terrorists.
When the leader of the terrorist group (Vidyut Jamwal)
finds out about the role of Jagdish in the failure of the terrorist
attack, he begins to target the families of the army men, except
Jagdish, by kidnapping someone close to them. When Jagdish realizes the
plan, he substitutes one of the people to be kidnapped with his younger
sister Sanjana (Deepthi Nambiar). Using his pet dog and his sister's dupatta,
he manages to reach the terrorists' hideout, rescuing his sister, who
was about to be killed after Jagdish's bluff was exposed, and the other
victims and eliminating the terrorist personal. Asif Ali,
second-in-command of the sleeper-cell is captured and killed by Jagdish.
When this attack fails, the terrorist leader decides to target
Jagdish himself. He asks Jagdish to surrender to him, or else there
would be more terrorist attacks. Jagdish decides to sacrifice his life
and hatches a plan with his fellow army men. Jagdish meets the leader in
a ship, which has been rigged with a bomb planted by Jagdish's
henchman. When he finds out about the leader's plan however, which is to
expose Jagdish's army team as terrorists and knowing about a Muslim
terrorist in the Indian defence — Kameeruddin (Zakir Hussain),
he fights the leader and escapes with him in a boat. After the ship
explodes, he kills the leader. The film ends with the suicide of
Kameeruddin, and Jagdish and his team returning to Kashmir.
Cast
- Vijay as Jagdish
- Kajal Agarwal as Nisha
- Sathyan as Balaji
- Vidyut Jamwal as the sleeper cell's leader
- Jayaram as V. Ravichandran
- Zakir Hussain as Kameeruddin
- Deepthi Nambiar as Sanjana
- Manobala as Nisha's father
- Anupama Kumar as Nisha's mother
- Akshara Gowda as Swetha
- Md Asif as Asif Ali
- Prashant Nair as Noel
- Gautham Kurup as the first sleeper cell
- Meenakshi in a Special appearance
- AR Murugadoss (Special appearance in the song Google Google)
- Santhosh Sivan (Special appearance in the song Google Google )
|
|
1. |
"Google Google" |
Madhan Karky |
Vijay, Andrea Jeremiah, Joe, Krishna Iyer |
06:07 |
2. |
"Antarctica" |
Madhan Karky |
Vijay Prakash, Krish, Devan, Rajeev |
04:58 |
3. |
"Kutti Puli Kootam" |
Viveka |
Hariharan, Tippu, Narayanan, Sathyan, Ranina Reddy |
06:06 |
4. |
"Poi Varava" |
Pa. Vijay |
Karthik, Chinmayi |
05:46 |
5. |
"Vennilave" |
Na. Muthukumar |
Hariharan, Bombay Jayashri |
04:47 |
6. |
"Alaikaa Laikka" |
Pa. Vijay |
Javed Ali, Sayanora Phillip, Sharmila |
05:01 |
7. |
"Jagadish on Mission (Theme)" |
|
Instrumental |
03:24 |
Total length:
|
36:12 |
Box office
- India
On the opening day,
Thuppakki netted around
9.25 crore (US$1.5 million) in Tamil Nadu box office alone.
It collected a sum of
45.6 crore (US$7.3 million) in Tamil Nadu,
and
65.32 crore (US$10 million) worldwide by its first week.
In Chennai city alone, the film netted
4.83 crore (US$770,000) in its first week with an average theater occupancy of 99%.
The second week witnessed an occupancy of 90% in the city and netted around
9.41 crore (US$1.5 million)
creating a new record for Vijay and taking a distributor share of
4.60 crore (US$730,000) in 13 days.
It still stood in the number one position by the third week resulting in a total collection of
11.36 crore (US$1.8 million).
After a long run for 8 weeks at the Chennai box office, the film netted
13.4 crore (US$2.1 million), the second highest figure among Tamil films.
Ten days after the release,
Thuppakki was successfully released in 31 screens in Mumbai.
It was bought for a record price in Karnataka by a leading distributor, and opened well at the box office there.
The opening 3-day collection from 8 multiplexes of Bangalore alone netted at
31.8 lakh (US$51,000)
Thuppakki was released in 126 screens in Kerala and raked in
4 crore (US$640,000) in just two days with a distributor share of
2 crore
(US$320,000), which is a record for any Tamil release. Many of the
centers witnessed police charging before the shows and were forced to go
for a fifth show on the first day which resulted in almost 600 shows in
a single day: a record number of screenings for any film in the state.
The film reached the
100 crore (US$16 million) mark in 11 days of its release.
In its financial results for the quarter ending December 31, 2013, Eros announced a domestic net revenue of
180 crore (US$29 million) for
Thuppakki.
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