Pulimurugan (2016)

When a small village near a forest is under the threat of man eating tigers and a drug mafia, the villagers seek the help of an unstoppable force, a hunter invincible.

Director:

Vysakh

Writer:

Udaykrishnan

Stars:

Mohanlal, Jagapathi Babu, Kamalinee Mukherjee

15 wins & 3 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Mohanlal	...	'Puli' Murugan
Jagapathi Babu	...	Daddy Girija
Kamalinee Mukherjee	...	Myna
Lal	...	Balaraman
Vinu Mohan	...	Manikkuttan
Bala	...	Shiva
Suraj Venjaramoodu	...	Poongayi Sasi (as Suraaj Venjarammoodu)
Kishore Kumar G.	...	R. Krishna Kumar aka R.K. (as Kishore)
Siddique	...	Ipe Zachariah
Makrand Deshpande	...	Ramayyah
Noby Marcose	...	Benny
Ajaz Kollam	...	Murugan (Child)
M.R. Gopakumar	...	Kadutha
Santhosh Keezhattoor	...	Murugan's Father
Hareesh Peradi	...	Mesthri

Storyline

Murugan has a rivalry towards tigers from childhood. From childhood he gets trained to hunt tigers,which are danger to villagers. Now he is Pulimurugan, but he has to face the tigers as well as the dangerous humans, as he is forced to move out of forest. This forms the rest of the story.

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Plot Keywords:

village | 

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Genres:

Action

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Did You Know?

Trivia

It became the highest-grossing film in Mollywood, beating Mohanlal's Drishyam (2013) , and the first Malayalam movie to enter the "100 Crore club".

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Alternate Versions

In the UK, the distributors were forced to edit the film to remove a scene of cockfighting as it was considered to breach the requirements of the Cinematograph Films (Animals) Act 1937. Furthermore the distributors decided to make further changes to the film in order to lower the rating from '15' to '12A'. These additional changes removed detail of a blade embedded in man's head, accompanied by blood spurt, and a bloody bullet impact to chest.

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Connections

Referenced in Masterpiece (2017)

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Soundtracks

Maanathe Marikurumbe
Written by Rafeeq Ahammed
Produced by Gopi Sundar
Performed by Vani Jayaram

User Reviews

This is nothing more than a potboiler

One of the worst hyped-up Malayalam movies I've ever seen.The story line is incredible, the script is way below average and the performance is better left undefined. It's a case of a talented actor going over the hill and that the movie has already been such a super hit says how gullible we are as consumers and how our cinematic taste has reached a nadir. Not going into technical superiority since this is what money can buy these days. The movie is poor in terms of creative thought, cohesive screenplay and most unfortunately the incapability to separate a character from a marquee actor. The director had come up with some reasonably good movies but seems to have cowered before the myth that cinema revolves round a salable hero.

Details

Official Sites:

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Country:

India

Language:

Malayalam Tamil Telugu

Release Date:

7 October 2016 (India)

Also Known As:

Pulimurugan

Box Office

Budget:

INR250,000,000 (estimated)

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$136,052

Company Credits

Production Co:

Mulakuppadam Films

Technical Specs

Color:

Color