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Thirupaachi is a 2005 Indian Tamil language-language action film written and directed by Perarasu (in his directorial debut) and produced by R. B. Choudary under Super Good Films. The film stars Vijay, alongside Trisha Krishnan, Mallika, J. Livingston, Pasupathy, Benjamin, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Vaiyapuri and Manoj K. Jayan. The music was composed by Dhina, who jointly composed one song each with Devi Sri Prasad and Mani Sharma. The cinematography and editing were handled by S. Saravanan and V. Jaishankar.
Thirupaachi was released on 14 January 2005, and was one of the most successful Tamil films of the year. It was remade in Kannada as Thangigagi and in Telugu as Annavaram.
During an altercation at a theatre, Kannappan gets murdered by Saniyan Sagadai, a gangster dominating South Chennai. Karpagam's husband tells Giri to leave Chennai for his sister to be happy. After Kannapan's funeral, Giri leaves his hometown and says that he received a job at a cloth manufacturing company in Erode. However, Giri is still in Chennai with intentions to finish all gangsters. Giri calls Sagadai and states that he will kill him. Giri also calls ACP Raj Guru and says that he will eradicate the city's gangsters. Inspector Veluchamy, Giri's friend, initially refuses Giri's methods, but later helps Giri in the mission after his son Arun gets killed by Balu.
Veluchamy provides a list of the city's entire Organized crime to Giri by providing the specifications of leading gangsters in various areas. Giri writes their names and soon kills Balu. Later, Giri provokes Ravi to kill his brother and Ravi hides in a politician's house to escape from Giri. Ravi damages the politician’s house and vehicles to make the police believe that someone has attacked his house. The police decide to provide security for the politician. Through Veluchamy, Giri learns that Ravi is hiding in the politician's house. He brings a group of people, who rally due to losing their money to a fraudulent financier hiding in the politician's place.
With the rally, Giri enters Ravi's fort and kills him. Raj inquires about the people involved in the rally regarding the identity of Giri, but nobody wants to inform anything because they think Giri is doing the right thing. Raj's daughter does not reveal Giri's identity as Giri rescued her from Balu earlier. Later, Giri sets out to kill Sagadai and warns him. Sagadai seeks the protection of a mass group of thugs from the city. Giri uses this as an opportunity to destroy the city's crime network. Giri ignites a war between the police and gangsters in a very diplomatic manner. Giri disguises himself as a cop and enters Sagadai's fort. Veluchamy helps Giri in his mission by injuring himself and Raj orders his squad to hit the thugs.
Giri confronts a thug and forces him to wear a police uniform, where he kills the thug and throws him out of the window. Thinking that one of his fellow officers is dead, Raj and the cops kill all the thugs, but they discover Giri's plan and run upstairs to find him. Giri stabs Sagadai and throws him to the ground right before the New Year, thus avenging Kannappan's death. In the aftermath, Giri reunites with his girlfriend Subha, Karpagam, and her husband.
| Devi Sri Prasad |
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Visual Dasan of Kalki called Thirupaachi not only the angry brother, but also the masala king. Cinesouth wrote, "Perrarasu have written story, screenplay, dialogue, songs and also directed the movie. It seems he wanted to convey the message that “Chennai is not just a capital city alone, if it remains calm, the whole Tamilnadu will remain in peace”. But his understanding of violence seems to be limited to the Aruwal wielding Rowdies who wears half- a kilo gold ornaments on their persons, is the first flaw of the movie. The one and only plus point in the screenplay, is that, it manages to create an expectation among the audience that, whenever the villains are indulging in atrocities, Vijay will definitely raise up in anger to smash them all." G. Ulaganathan of Deccan Herald called it "A disappointing fare from producer R B Choudhry".
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