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Saamy ( God) is a 2003 Indian Tamil language-language action film written and directed by Hari and produced by Pushpa Kandasamy under the banner of Kavithalayaa Productions and presented by K. Balachander. The film stars Vikram in the main lead role as DCP C. Aaru Saamy IPS. Trisha Krishnan, Kota Srinivasa Rao (in his Tamil debut), Vijayakumar, Ramesh Khanna and Vivek play supporting roles. The music was composed by Harris Jayaraj, while the cinematography and editing were handled by Priyan and V. T. Vijayan, respectively.
Saamy was released on 1 May 2003 and became a commercial blockbuster at the box office. The film was remade in Telugu language as Lakshmi Narasimha (2004), in Bengali as Barood (2004), in Kannada as Ayya (2005), and in Hindi as Policegiri (2013). Along with Kaakha Kaakha, the film started a trend of cop films in Tamil cinema. A sequel titled Saamy Square was released in 2018.
Due to Saamy's administration, the crime rate in Tirunelveli has decreased. At the outset, Saamy pretends to be a corrupt cop by accepting bribes from Perumal Pichai, an influential and corrupt politician, under the condition that his illegal activities will not be monitored while advising him to move his liquor stores elsewhere to avoid disturbance to the public. Perumal accepts, merely out of an assumption that Saamy belongs to his caste. Saamy falls in love with Bhuvana, a college-going Brahmin girl. Bhuvana's father Srinivasan is a government officer leading a noble life. Saamy and Bhuvana meet each other when he leaves with Inspector Punctuality Paramasivam in search of a home for rent.
Bhuvana misinterprets Saamy and Paramasivam as thieves and locks them in a room, only to reveal their identities to the police. Their frequent rendezvous turn to love. One day, Saamy seals Perumal's gas station because the workers assaulted a woman and others when they challenged them with a much less distribution of petrol than being promised. This infuriates Perumal, who storms into Saamy's quarters with Bhuvana being present, and they argue. Bhuvana gets upset when Perumal mentions the bribe Saamy had taken from him, leaving her home. The next day, Saamy meets Bhuvana at the temple and reveals his past.
Saamy's father Chokkalingam aspires to become a cop, but he is unable to fulfill his dream due to corruption. Chokkalingam takes care of agriculture as his living, but he wants to make Saamy a cop. Saamy passes the TNPSC exams but is asked for bribes. Chokkalingam mortgages his properties and makes him get the police job. Being an honest cop, Saamy is honoured with transfers all over Tamil Nadu due to political pressure. In Trichy, Saamy is accused of bribery and gets suspended. After 6 months, Saamy proves his innocence, and he is finally posted back to Tirunelveli. Saamy adopted a new policy, where he takes bribes from influential persons and donates them for the public's welfare.
After learning this, Bhuvana reconciles with Saamy, and after much coercion, Srinivasan agrees to their engagement. The ruling party calls for a day strike in the state, and Perumal is to handle the responsibility of Tirunelveli on the eve of Pongal. The retail vendors plead with Saamy to protect the Pongal festival is a very important sales time. Saamy takes steps to maintain law and order and manages to halt the strike, which enrages Perumal. Perumal tells his henchmen to attack the market on the day of Saamy and Bhuvana's marriage since all the cops will be attending the wedding. Saamy witnesses the brutality of Perumal's men and this incident begins their enmity.
Saamy receives his transfer order to Dindigul with a week of duty remaining in the city. Saamy challenges to close Perumal's empire and finish him in that week, which he succeeds by using various enforcement tactics. Saamy arrests the main accomplices of Perumal and imprisons them for a 15-day period. Saamy covertly kills Perumal's main enforcers in a riot caused by him during a procession. Saamy advises Bhuvana to leave for Pazhani. After listening to Perumal's phone calls in the evening, Sammy realises that Perumal has planned to bomb somewhere. Saamy meets with Perumal's henchman, whom he spared in the rally shooting, and convinces the henchman to turn approver. Saamy finds that the bomb is to be detonated in his house.
Unknown to Saamy, Chokkalingam has arrived at his house from Pazhani. Despite Saamy's attempts to warn Chokkalingam, the bomb detonates, killing Chokkalingam. The bomb maker and Perumal's henchman provide statements to the DC and Saamy is provided an arrest warrant against Perumal. Despite hurdles by the authorities and ministers to stop the arrest, Saamy leaves to arrest Perumal. On the final day eve, Saamy provides news to the media that Perumal has absconded and the cops are searching for him. Saamy routes Perumal to his sand quarry. After a brief fight, Perumal surrenders to Saamy and scoffs at him. Saamy refuses and kills Perumal with his illicit revolver, where he burns his corpse in a brick kiln to keep Perumal's death a secret. In the aftermath, Saamy performs Chokkalingam's rites.
The film's shooting began in September 2002 when Vikram was simultaneously filming for his early 2003 releases such as Dhool and Kadhal Sadugudu, and the shooting took place at Tirunelveli and Karaikudi. Some fight scenes were shot at the busy lanes in Karaikudi where Vikram chased some rowdies and Pudichirukku song was Shot in New Zealand. The climax fight scene was shot for nearly five days, with Priyan canning the shots and Super Subbarayan choreographing the fights. A set resembling Thirunelveli market designed by art director Kathir was built at Kumbakonam. Vikram worked on his body for the film, sporting a thick waist to show notable differences from his other police film, Dhill and also put on eight kilograms.
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