Thuppakki (2012)

An army captain is on a mission to track down and destroy a terrorist gang and deactivate the sleeper cells under its command.

Director:

A.R. Murugadoss

Writers:

A.R. Murugadoss (dialogue), A.R. Murugadoss (screenplay)

Stars:

Joseph Vijay, Kajal Aggarwal, Vidyut Jammwal

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Cast

Credited cast:
Joseph Vijay	...	Jagadish Dhanapal
Kajal Aggarwal	...	Nisha (as Kajal Agarwal)
Vidyut Jammwal	...	Sleeper cell's leader (as Vidyut Jamwal)
Sathyan	...	Balaji
Zakir Hussain	...	Kameeruddin
Jayaram	...	V. Ravichandran
Manngala Radhakrishnan	...	Jagdeesh MoM
Deepthi Nambiar	...	Sanjana Dhanpal
Sanjana Sarathy	...	Jagdeesh's sister
Steven Clarke	...	Dancer
A.R. Murugadoss	...	Cameo Appearance
Santosh Sivan	...	Cameo Appearance (as Santhosh Sivan)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
MD Asif	...	Sleeper cell 2nd in command
Joy Badlani	...	Surendhar
Nidhi Bisht	...	Kidnapped girl (as Nidhi Bist)

Storyline

Jagdish (Vijay), an army captain, is back in Mumbai for a holiday to be with his parents and two sisters. They want him to get married and finds a bride Nisha (Kajal Aggarwal) for him. After the usual bickerings the couple fall in love. Meanwhile Jagadish an intelligence officer in the military, has a mission to crack down on terrorist sleeper cells in Mumbai. How Jagadish moving around as an ordinary person using his brain and brawn in the correct measure, tracks down the terrorist in his own unique way forms the rest of this escapist entertainer.

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Plot Keywords:

holiday | nation | soldier | army officer | terrorist bombing | 

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Taglines:

I'm waiting

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Genres:

Action | Thriller

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Did You Know?

Trivia

During the filming portion, Lead Actor of the movie Joseph Vijay himself filmed a scene with the assistance of Cinematographer Santosh Sivan.

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Goofs

Crew member visible in a Vijay's Sun glasses.

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Quotes

Jagadish Dhanapalan: I'm waiting.

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Alternate Versions

The UK theatrical release was cut, after the uncut version initially received a '15' classification from the UK censor board; the distributors opted to remove moments of strong violence (shootings, stabbings, a pole being used to dislocate a man's arm and sight of blood dripping from a character's mouth) along with a scene of torture in which a man's fingers are extracted below screen were removed. This cut version was re-classified '12A' and was released into UK cinemas, however the film was later released uncut on DVD with a '15' rating.

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Connections

Referenced in Papanasam (2015)

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Soundtracks

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Written by: Madhan Karky
Produced by: Harris Jayaraj
Performed by: Joseph Vijay, Andrea Jeremiah, Joe and Krishna Iyer

User Reviews

An Action packed Deepavali Cracker which bursts Louder

If you come to watch this film for Vijay or ARM or Harris or Santosh or Vidyut. The result is you will return home with an idea of Watching it again. I watched FDFS at 5:00 am in Velan theater in Nanganallur. I saw not only ardent fans but also families who came to watch this film with so much interest. Well you can see this only Vijay movies after Rajini.

Now what about this "Thuppakki"??? Is it fighting for terrorism? or Vijayism? or Patriotism?. One word for ever thing is "Sacrifice". Yes this film tells how an army officer would be in border or with his family, he should not back step for sacrifice. He must be alert and cautious and he must work not only with his muscle but also mind.

The plot: Jagdish(Vijay) who is an Army officer returns home for a vacation to his family. But his family decides to make him get married. But he rejects Nisha(Kajal). Soon he discovers a bombing plot which makes assails whole Mumbai. Then rest of the story how he gets the leader and master mind behind this plot.

Vijay with his unique style of acting excels well in this role. He has stunning physique and active gestures makes fit to the role of Secret Agent. Whether its humor,action,sentiment he delivers with ease and no doubt its one of the best performance of Vijay as all rounder in recent times. Kajal looks mesmerizing with her eyes and dance moves. She is lovable. Satyan supports well the story and his final lines on end of the movie gives kudos to whole Indian Army. Vidyut the brain of sleeper cells made huge impact with his cunning plots and problem solving skills in making quick decisions. His martial background adds extra ARM's intelligent screen play and the execution was so brilliant. We can see as he so cautious in screen play after his box office debacle Ezham arivu. Harrish music is so peppy and everything shot well with Santhosh sivan's cinematography especially "GOOGLE GOOGLE" and "Kutti puli kootam". BG score is major plus point in this film and thanks to Harrish Jayaraj.

So over all this film is best of recent times and its sure winner of Deepavali. If you are a Vijay fan nor ARM fan nor any one, you will watch this film and enjoy with a salute to Indian army.

My over all rating for this film is 10/10

Details

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Country:

India

Language:

Tamil

Release Date:

13 November 2012 (India)

Also Known As:

Thuppakki

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$2,075,056

Company Credits

Production Co:

Goldmine Tele Films, Krishwerkz Entertainment, V. Creations

Technical Specs

Runtime:

165 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1