Thirupaachi
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Thirupaachi is a 2005 Tamil
action film
written and directed by Perarasu
. The film stars Vijay and Trisha Krishnan
in the lead roles, with Mallika, Livingston
, Pasupathy
, Benjamin, Kota Srinivasa Rao
, Vaiyapuri
and Manoj K. Jayan
in other roles. Chaya Singh
made a guest appearance in a song. The film featured score composed by Dhina
, and a soundtrack jointly composed by Dhina
, Devi Sri Prasad
, and Mani Sharma
. It was released on 14 January 2005 and emerged one of the biggest commercial successes of the year.. Vijay and Trisha paired for second time after Ghilli
The story is about the upright lifestyle of Sivagiri and the affectionate bond he has with his sister. Sivagiri feels that a brother’s duty towards his sister does not end with her marriage. It was remade later in Telugu
as Annavaram
with Pawan Kalyan
and Asin
in the lead roles, directed by Bhimaneni Srinivasa Rao.
) is a blacksmith in a remote village near Thirupaachi. He has a lovable sister named Karpagam (Mallika). He runs into some hilarious incidents while searching locally for a groom for his sister. Sivagiri confides to his friend Kannapan that he wants his sister to be in a good city after her marriage. Sivagiri also nods his acceptance, when a city guy proposes to Karpagam. He accompanies the newly weds to Chennai. He finds a girl named Shuba (Trisha Krishnan
) welcoming them, and they both fall in love.
On a trip to Chennai, Sivaguru rescues a court witness from Pattasu Balu (Pasupathy), a don dominating central Chennai. He also learns of a local don Panparag Ravi, who controls North Chennai, and who is troubling Karpagam's husband's canteen business. In an altercation in a cinema theater, Kannappan gets murdered by a thug named Saniyan Sagada (Kota Srinivasa Rao
), who dominates South Chennai.
Then, after the funeral of Kannapan,he leaves his home town stating that he got a job in a cloth manufacturing company. But in reality he comes with a mission in Chennai.
Then,he warns Saniyan Sagadai stating that the latter too will be killed by him. He also calls the commissioner and warns him that he will kill all the thugs of Chennai as the police department fails in their duty. Later on, Sivagiri's friend Veluchamy who is also an inspector, comes to know about this. Sivagiri challenges Veluchamy that he will give up his mission if the latter keeps any one thug of Chennai in jail at least for a single day. Veluchamy not only fails in his mission but also loses his son as he was killed by Pattasu Balu, the head of the thug who got arrested.
This harsh lesson makes Veluchamy to help Sivagivi. Thus, Veluchamy lists Sivagiri the entire mafia network of Chennai by providing the specification of who leads the various areas. Sivagiri in his mission decides first to kill Pattasu Balu. He goes and kills pattasu balu.
Then, one day, Shuba meets Sivagiri in a temple and finds that he is not working in any cloth manufacturing company. But still, Sivagiri manages to make Shuba believe that he is working in a travels company. Thus, Shuba gets a promise from Sivagiri that he should meet her and spend time with her quite frequently.
Later on, Sivagiri provokes Panparak Ravi to kill his own brother by sticking the funeral posters of Ravi and making him think that his brother is the person who is killing people all over Chennai. After the death of Ravi's brother, Ravi hides himself in a politician's house to be away and safe from the hands of police. That politician damages his own car and house by his henchmen and makes the police to believe that someone has attacked his house. Thus, the police decide to provide security for the politician. This makes Ravi feel happy, considering that Sivagiri can't come to his place by fooling all these inspectors and kill him. Then, Sivagiri's friend inspector Veluchamy finds diplomatically that Ravi is hiding in the politician's place. Later on, Sivagiri states to a group of people, who lost their money to a financier, that the fraud financier is hiding in the politician's place. This makes Sivagiri enter Ravi's fort with a mass gang and later on Ravi gets killed by Sivagiri successfully.
Later on, Sivagiri decides to kill Saniyan Sagadai and successfully complete his mission. Thus, Sivagiri warns Sagadai. This makes Sagadai to seek the protection of a mass group of thugs from Chennai. Sivagiri uses this as a chance to destroy the entire mafia gang of Chennai. Thus, Sivagiri ignites a war between the police group and mafia gang in a very diplomatic manner. Sivagiri disguises himself as a police inspector and enters the fort of Sagadai. Veluchamy too helps Sivagiri in his mission. Finally Sivagiri destroys the entire mafia gang of Chennai along with the Chennai police inspectors before the birth of a new year. Then, Sivagiri surrenders in police and later on he gets released after 6 months. Shuba welcomes Sivagiri, his sister and his sister's husband once again after returning home.
, one by Mani Sharma
, and one by Devi Sri Prasad
.
Tamil language
Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...
action film
Action film
Action film is a film genre where one or more heroes is thrust into a series of challenges that require physical feats, extended fights and frenetic chases...
written and directed by Perarasu
Perarasu
Perarasu is a Tamil film director. He has also been credited as an actor, music director, singer and lyricist in some of his ventures. He has mentioned that all his movies will be named after cities in Tamil Nadu, India. He is from Nattarasankottai, near Sivaganga in Tamil...
. The film stars Vijay and Trisha Krishnan
Trisha Krishnan
Trisha Krishnan is an Indian film actress and model, who primarily appears in Tamil and Telugu language films, but has also appeared in Hindi language films. She was noticed after winning several beauty pageants like the Miss Madras contest , which marked her entry into filmdom...
in the lead roles, with Mallika, Livingston
Livingston (actor)
Livingston is a Tamil film actor who usually plays in supporting roles. He is credited in his earlier films by the stage name Ranjan. His first starring role was in Poonthotta Kavalkaran . He started out playing villains and graduated to playing lead roles with Sundara Purushan in 1997...
, Pasupathy
Pasupathy
Pasupathy is an Indian film actor. He has appeared in several critically acclaimed roles in many noted Tamil films, essaying supporting, antagonistic, comedic as well as protagonistic roles.-Early life and career:...
, Benjamin, Kota Srinivasa Rao
Kota Srinivasa Rao
Kota Srinivasa Rao is a versatile Indian film actor in Telugu Cinema. He is known for his negative roles, character roles and comedy timing. He also served as an MLA from Vijayawada East assembly constituency in Andhra Pradesh, India from 1999-2004.He was a theater artist with Rangasthalam for...
, Vaiyapuri
Vaiyapuri
Vaiyapuri is a Tamil film actor who mostly plays a comedian. He has appeared in many Tamil films and is also a guest judge on Asathapovathu Yaaru on Sun TV in Chennai. He started his career in Balu mahendra Film "Raman Abdulla" with the servant role and has scored most in the first film...
and Manoj K. Jayan
Manoj K. Jayan
Manoj K. Jayan is an Indian actor who mainly acts in Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu films. Manoj has won the Kerala State Film Award twice: Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Hariharan's Sargam and Second Best Actor for Hariharan's Pazhassi Raja .-Family and early life:He was born in...
in other roles. Chaya Singh
Chaya Singh
Chaya Singhis an actress, born 16 May 1976 in Bangalore. She did her schooling at Lourdes School, Bangalore. Her parents had migrated from Uttar Pradesh to Karnataka before her birth. She has a reputation of being very selective in her roles....
made a guest appearance in a song. The film featured score composed by Dhina
Dhina
Dhina is an Indian film composer and television series composer from Tamil Nadu, India.-Biography and career:Dhina first worked as an assistant musician under popular composer G. K. Venkatesh, later being engaged by Meastro Ilaiyaraaja as a music conductor. He later became a music director for...
, and a soundtrack jointly composed by Dhina
Dhina
Dhina is an Indian film composer and television series composer from Tamil Nadu, India.-Biography and career:Dhina first worked as an assistant musician under popular composer G. K. Venkatesh, later being engaged by Meastro Ilaiyaraaja as a music conductor. He later became a music director for...
, Devi Sri Prasad
Devi Sri Prasad
Devi Sri Prasad is a music composer and playback singer in Telugu and Tamil films. His soundtracks have been dubbed or remade in several other languages as well.- Awards :...
, and Mani Sharma
Mani Sharma
Mani Sharma Yanamandra is a music director known for his works in Tollywood. He has composed music for over 140 films. He is popularly known as "Swara Brahma" for his contributions to music in Tollywood. Mani Sharma started his career as a music director in 1998. Before that Sharma used to work...
. It was released on 14 January 2005 and emerged one of the biggest commercial successes of the year.. Vijay and Trisha paired for second time after Ghilli
Ghilli
Ghilli is a Tamil action comedy film directed by Dharani. The film stars Joseph Vijay, Trisha Krishnan, Prakash Raj, Ashish Vidyarthi, and Dhamu. The film's score and soundtrack were composed by Vidyasagar...
The story is about the upright lifestyle of Sivagiri and the affectionate bond he has with his sister. Sivagiri feels that a brother’s duty towards his sister does not end with her marriage. It was remade later in Telugu
Telugu language
Telugu is a Central Dravidian language primarily spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India, where it is an official language. It is also spoken in the neighbouring states of Chattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa and Tamil Nadu...
as Annavaram
Annavaram (film)
Annavaram is a Tollywood film directed by Bhimaneni Srinivasa Rao , and starring Pawan Kalyan, Asin, and Sandhya. Mega Supergood Films produced the film. The film, released on 29 December 2006, proved to be an above average grosser at the box office...
with Pawan Kalyan
Pawan Kalyan
Pawan Kalyan ; is an Indian film Actor, Director, Screenwriter and Action choreographer in Telugu cinema...
and Asin
Asín
Asín is a municipality located in the Cinco Villas comarca of the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain, located a few kilometers west of Orés. According to the 2004 census , the municipality has a population of 106 inhabitants....
in the lead roles, directed by Bhimaneni Srinivasa Rao.
Plot
Sivagiri (Joseph VijayJoseph Vijay
Vijay is an Indian film actor and playback singer, who is based in the cinema of Tamil Nadu. He is the son of film producer and director S. A. Chandrasekhar. After performing uncredited roles as a child actor in films produced by his father, he made his debut in a lead role in the 1992 film...
) is a blacksmith in a remote village near Thirupaachi. He has a lovable sister named Karpagam (Mallika). He runs into some hilarious incidents while searching locally for a groom for his sister. Sivagiri confides to his friend Kannapan that he wants his sister to be in a good city after her marriage. Sivagiri also nods his acceptance, when a city guy proposes to Karpagam. He accompanies the newly weds to Chennai. He finds a girl named Shuba (Trisha Krishnan
Trisha Krishnan
Trisha Krishnan is an Indian film actress and model, who primarily appears in Tamil and Telugu language films, but has also appeared in Hindi language films. She was noticed after winning several beauty pageants like the Miss Madras contest , which marked her entry into filmdom...
) welcoming them, and they both fall in love.
On a trip to Chennai, Sivaguru rescues a court witness from Pattasu Balu (Pasupathy), a don dominating central Chennai. He also learns of a local don Panparag Ravi, who controls North Chennai, and who is troubling Karpagam's husband's canteen business. In an altercation in a cinema theater, Kannappan gets murdered by a thug named Saniyan Sagada (Kota Srinivasa Rao
Kota Srinivasa Rao
Kota Srinivasa Rao is a versatile Indian film actor in Telugu Cinema. He is known for his negative roles, character roles and comedy timing. He also served as an MLA from Vijayawada East assembly constituency in Andhra Pradesh, India from 1999-2004.He was a theater artist with Rangasthalam for...
), who dominates South Chennai.
Then, after the funeral of Kannapan,he leaves his home town stating that he got a job in a cloth manufacturing company. But in reality he comes with a mission in Chennai.
Then,he warns Saniyan Sagadai stating that the latter too will be killed by him. He also calls the commissioner and warns him that he will kill all the thugs of Chennai as the police department fails in their duty. Later on, Sivagiri's friend Veluchamy who is also an inspector, comes to know about this. Sivagiri challenges Veluchamy that he will give up his mission if the latter keeps any one thug of Chennai in jail at least for a single day. Veluchamy not only fails in his mission but also loses his son as he was killed by Pattasu Balu, the head of the thug who got arrested.
This harsh lesson makes Veluchamy to help Sivagivi. Thus, Veluchamy lists Sivagiri the entire mafia network of Chennai by providing the specification of who leads the various areas. Sivagiri in his mission decides first to kill Pattasu Balu. He goes and kills pattasu balu.
Then, one day, Shuba meets Sivagiri in a temple and finds that he is not working in any cloth manufacturing company. But still, Sivagiri manages to make Shuba believe that he is working in a travels company. Thus, Shuba gets a promise from Sivagiri that he should meet her and spend time with her quite frequently.
Later on, Sivagiri provokes Panparak Ravi to kill his own brother by sticking the funeral posters of Ravi and making him think that his brother is the person who is killing people all over Chennai. After the death of Ravi's brother, Ravi hides himself in a politician's house to be away and safe from the hands of police. That politician damages his own car and house by his henchmen and makes the police to believe that someone has attacked his house. Thus, the police decide to provide security for the politician. This makes Ravi feel happy, considering that Sivagiri can't come to his place by fooling all these inspectors and kill him. Then, Sivagiri's friend inspector Veluchamy finds diplomatically that Ravi is hiding in the politician's place. Later on, Sivagiri states to a group of people, who lost their money to a financier, that the fraud financier is hiding in the politician's place. This makes Sivagiri enter Ravi's fort with a mass gang and later on Ravi gets killed by Sivagiri successfully.
Later on, Sivagiri decides to kill Saniyan Sagadai and successfully complete his mission. Thus, Sivagiri warns Sagadai. This makes Sagadai to seek the protection of a mass group of thugs from Chennai. Sivagiri uses this as a chance to destroy the entire mafia gang of Chennai. Thus, Sivagiri ignites a war between the police group and mafia gang in a very diplomatic manner. Sivagiri disguises himself as a police inspector and enters the fort of Sagadai. Veluchamy too helps Sivagiri in his mission. Finally Sivagiri destroys the entire mafia gang of Chennai along with the Chennai police inspectors before the birth of a new year. Then, Sivagiri surrenders in police and later on he gets released after 6 months. Shuba welcomes Sivagiri, his sister and his sister's husband once again after returning home.
Cast
- Vijay as Sivagiri
- Trisha KrishnanTrisha KrishnanTrisha Krishnan is an Indian film actress and model, who primarily appears in Tamil and Telugu language films, but has also appeared in Hindi language films. She was noticed after winning several beauty pageants like the Miss Madras contest , which marked her entry into filmdom...
as Subha - Mallika as Karpagam
- LivingstonLivingston (actor)Livingston is a Tamil film actor who usually plays in supporting roles. He is credited in his earlier films by the stage name Ranjan. His first starring role was in Poonthotta Kavalkaran . He started out playing villains and graduated to playing lead roles with Sundara Purushan in 1997...
as Police Inspector Inba Raghavan - Manoj K. JayanManoj K. JayanManoj K. Jayan is an Indian actor who mainly acts in Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu films. Manoj has won the Kerala State Film Award twice: Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Hariharan's Sargam and Second Best Actor for Hariharan's Pazhassi Raja .-Family and early life:He was born in...
as Assistant Commissioner Rajguru - PasupathyPasupathyPasupathy is an Indian film actor. He has appeared in several critically acclaimed roles in many noted Tamil films, essaying supporting, antagonistic, comedic as well as protagonistic roles.-Early life and career:...
as Patasu Balu - Benjamin as Kanappan
- Kota Srinivasa RaoKota Srinivasa RaoKota Srinivasa Rao is a versatile Indian film actor in Telugu Cinema. He is known for his negative roles, character roles and comedy timing. He also served as an MLA from Vijayawada East assembly constituency in Andhra Pradesh, India from 1999-2004.He was a theater artist with Rangasthalam for...
as Saniyan Sagadai - VaiyapuriVaiyapuriVaiyapuri is a Tamil film actor who mostly plays a comedian. He has appeared in many Tamil films and is also a guest judge on Asathapovathu Yaaru on Sun TV in Chennai. He started his career in Balu mahendra Film "Raman Abdulla" with the servant role and has scored most in the first film...
as Police Constable - Chaya SinghChaya SinghChaya Singhis an actress, born 16 May 1976 in Bangalore. She did her schooling at Lourdes School, Bangalore. Her parents had migrated from Uttar Pradesh to Karnataka before her birth. She has a reputation of being very selective in her roles....
in a cameo as Kumbida Pona Deivam
Crew
- Director: Perarasu
- Writer: Perarasu
- Dialogues: Perarasu
- Screenplay: Perarasu
- Producer: R. B. Choudary
- Banner: Super Good Films
- Music director: Dhina, Mani Sharma, Devi Sri Prasad
- Cinematographer: V. Jaishankar
- Art: M. Prabhakar
- Stunts: Rocky Rajesh
- Choreographers: Raju Sundaram, Kalyan, Siva Shankar, Shopi Pawlraj
- Computer graphics: M. Arunmoorthy
- Lyricist: Perarasu
Awards
- Tamil Nadu State Film Special Award for Best ActorTamil Nadu State Film Award (Special Prizes)The Tamil Nadu State Film Award are given by the state government as part of its annual Tamil Nadu State Film Awards for Tamil films.-The list:Here is a list of the award winners and the films for which they won....
- Vijay
Box office
The film was released during pongal on 14th January 2005, and was declared a massive hit.it grossed about 40 crore.Soundtrack
The soundtrack has seven songs, with five songs composed by DhinaDhina
Dhina is an Indian film composer and television series composer from Tamil Nadu, India.-Biography and career:Dhina first worked as an assistant musician under popular composer G. K. Venkatesh, later being engaged by Meastro Ilaiyaraaja as a music conductor. He later became a music director for...
, one by Mani Sharma
Mani Sharma
Mani Sharma Yanamandra is a music director known for his works in Tollywood. He has composed music for over 140 films. He is popularly known as "Swara Brahma" for his contributions to music in Tollywood. Mani Sharma started his career as a music director in 1998. Before that Sharma used to work...
, and one by Devi Sri Prasad
Devi Sri Prasad
Devi Sri Prasad is a music composer and playback singer in Telugu and Tamil films. His soundtracks have been dubbed or remade in several other languages as well.- Awards :...
.
| Song | Artist(s) | Picturization | Length | Lyrics | Music director |
| "Kattu Kattu" | Manikka Vinayagam Manikka Vinayagam Manikka Vinayakam is a Tamil playback singer and actor. He has sung for all the south Indian language films and acted in several Tamil feature films as a character artist.-Career:... , Sumangali |
Vijay, Trisha Trisha Krishnan Trisha Krishnan is an Indian film actress and model, who primarily appears in Tamil and Telugu language films, but has also appeared in Hindi language films. She was noticed after winning several beauty pageants like the Miss Madras contest , which marked her entry into filmdom... |
5:12 | Perarasu Perarasu Perarasu is a Tamil film director. He has also been credited as an actor, music director, singer and lyricist in some of his ventures. He has mentioned that all his movies will be named after cities in Tamil Nadu, India. He is from Nattarasankottai, near Sivaganga in Tamil... |
Devi Sri Prasad Devi Sri Prasad Devi Sri Prasad is a music composer and playback singer in Telugu and Tamil films. His soundtracks have been dubbed or remade in several other languages as well.- Awards :... |
| "Kannum Kannumthan" | Harish Raghavendra Harish Raghavendra Harish Raghavendra is an Indian vocalist and actor from Chennai, India. His real name is Harish Ram Srinivas & son to a photographer P.V Raghavendran... , Uma Ramanan |
Vijay, Trisha | 5:56 | Mani Sharma Mani Sharma Mani Sharma Yanamandra is a music director known for his works in Tollywood. He has composed music for over 140 films. He is popularly known as "Swara Brahma" for his contributions to music in Tollywood. Mani Sharma started his career as a music director in 1998. Before that Sharma used to work... |
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| "Appan Panna" | Pushpavanam Kuppusamy, Anuradha Sriram Anuradha Sriram Anuradha Sriram is an Indian carnatic and playback singer who hails from the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. She has sung in many Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi films.- Personal life :... |
Vijay, Trisha | 4:48 | Dhina Dhina Dhina is an Indian film composer and television series composer from Tamil Nadu, India.-Biography and career:Dhina first worked as an assistant musician under popular composer G. K. Venkatesh, later being engaged by Meastro Ilaiyaraaja as a music conductor. He later became a music director for... |
|
| "Nee Entha Ooru" | Tippu Tippu (singer) Tippu is a South Indian playback singer who has performed in Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu languages. Tippu's original name, as told by him in Koffee with Anu, is Ekambaresh. He is married to playback singers Harini. Tippu did his schooling at St. John's Matriculation Higher Secondary School... |
Vijay | 4:48 | ||
| "Kumbida Pona Deivam" | Shankar Mahadevan Shankar Mahadevan Shankar Mahadevan is an Indian music composer and singer. He is a part of the Shankar Ehsaan Loy trio team that composes for Indian films and a playback singer.-Early life:... , Malathi |
Vijay, Chaya Singh Chaya Singh Chaya Singhis an actress, born 16 May 1976 in Bangalore. She did her schooling at Lourdes School, Bangalore. Her parents had migrated from Uttar Pradesh to Karnataka before her birth. She has a reputation of being very selective in her roles.... , Trisha |
4:12 | ||
| "Enna Thavam" | Dhina Dhina Dhina is an Indian film composer and television series composer from Tamil Nadu, India.-Biography and career:Dhina first worked as an assistant musician under popular composer G. K. Venkatesh, later being engaged by Meastro Ilaiyaraaja as a music conductor. He later became a music director for... , Swarnalatha Swarnalatha Swarnalatha was a Indian playback singer. From 1987 onward, she rendered nearly 7000 songs in many languages including Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, Urdu, Bengali, Oriya, Punjabi and Badaga.... |
Vijay, Mallika | 2:15 | ||
| "Avichu Vecha" | Manikka Vinayagam Manikka Vinayagam Manikka Vinayakam is a Tamil playback singer and actor. He has sung for all the south Indian language films and acted in several Tamil feature films as a character artist.-Career:... |
Vijay, Mallika | 1:11 |