Directed by K I Ranjith
Produced by A Nagarajan Starring Ashok Shija Rose Bose Venkat Rohini ...
Music by E. S. Ramraj Cinematography A. Jeyaprakash Editing by L. V. K. Doss Release date(s) December 28, 2012 Country India Language Tamil
Thuppakki (English: The Gun) is a 2012 Tamil action thriller film written and directed by AR Murugadoss.[5][6] It features Vijay and Kajal Aggarwal in the lead roles,[7] Vidyut Jamwal as main antagonist,[8] as well as Jayaram and Sathyan in supporting roles.[9] 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.[10][11] The story revolves around an Indian army intelligence officer from a Mumbai-based Tamil family on a mission to track down and destroy a terrorist group and deactivate the sleeper cells under its command. The film, which commenced production in December 2011 in Mumbai, was released on 13 November 2012, coinciding with the festival of Diwali.[12] Upon release, the film opened to mostly positive reviews from critics and became the highest grossing film of 2012 in Tamil. The film was also released in Telugu in Andhra Pradesh, where it was also very well received. Murugadoss is remaking the film in Hindi as Holiday,[13] while it is also being remade in Bengali as Game: He Plays To Win by Baba Yadav.
Directed by | Thiru |
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Produced by | T. Ramesh |
Written by | Thiru S. Ramakrishnan(dialogue) |
Starring | Vishal Trisha Krishnan Sunaina |
Music by | Yuvan Shankar Raja Background Score : Dharan Kumar |
Vishwaroopam (titled Vishwaroop in Hindi) is a 2013 Tamil spy thriller film written, directed and co-produced by Kamal Haasan who also enacts the lead role. The film has Rahul Bose, Shekhar Kapur, Pooja Kumar, Andrea Jeremiah and Jaideep Ahlawat in supporting roles. Produced simultaneously as a bilingual in Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi and dubbed into Telugu language as Viswaroopam, the film features soundtrack composed by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, with lyrics by Vairamuthu and Haasan himself in while Javed Akhtar translated them for the Hindi version.