Meanwhile, at the commissioner's office, the drugs are hidden along with Adaikalam's men who are in custody. They are guided by Paalpandi, a corrupt cop (recruited by Stephen Raj, Zonal Head of Narcotics Division) who pretends to be unconscious while giving information about the location of the lorry to the gangs. Dilli, Bejoy, and Kamatchi together load the unconscious officials into the lorry and try their best to get them to the hospital as soon as possible without any casualties.Īs Anbu announces a huge sum of money as the reward for catching the policemen, gangsters from Anbu's gangs try to hunt down Bejoy and his team. As Kamatchi has good knowledge of routes and roads, Dilli tells him to come with them as well. He convinces Dilli, an ex-prisoner who happened to be there with him as he was detained for looking suspicious (and being the only one who can drive a lorry), to help him save the officers' lives by threatening him that he would not let him meet his daughter Amudha the next morning, with the help of a lorry borrowed from Kamatchi, a caterer present at the party. Bejoy, who avoided the drink as he was under medication, tries to save the lives of all the unconscious officials without letting the media or anyone else finding out. According to Anbu's plan, all the police officials in the city get unconscious after consuming poisoned drinks at a higher official's retirement party. Adaikalam's brother Anbu plans to capture the five police officials, kill them, and retrieve the contraband. The contraband was smuggled by a gang headed by Adaikalam, who none of the police officers has seen nor know how he looks. She waits anxiously, wondering who it may be.Ī smuggling van carrying a ton of drugs and a group of smugglers is seized by Inspector Bejoy and his team. A sequel for the film titled Kaithi 2 is also under production.Īt an orphanage for girls, a 10-year-old girl named Amudha is told by the caretakers that someone important is going to meet her at 10:00 am the next day. The film is being remade in Hindi-language with Ajay Devgn as Bholaa. The film won two Ananda Vikatan, three Norway Tamil Film Festival, SIIMA and four Zee Cine Awards respectively. The film was further selected for official screening at International Indian Film Festival in Toronto, held in August 2020. Following the positive reception, the film became a blockbuster, grossing more than ₹210 crore at the box-office. It opened to positive reviews praising the performances of Karthi and the supporting cast, Lokesh's direction, writing and screenplay, action sequences (choreographed by Anbariv) and exclusion of songs and other factors present in mainstream Tamil cinema. Kaithi was released on 25 October 2019, ahead of the Diwali festival. The cinematography and editing were handled by Sathyan Sooryan and Philomin Raj respectively. It is a song-less film, with the background score being composed by Sam C. The film was entirely shot at night, without any day sequences taking place during the shoot. The film was launched officially on 12 December 2018, with principal photography being held the following day, and was completed within August 2019. He initially wanted Mansoor Ali Khan to play the lead role, but during the writing process, Karthi was demanded to play the lead, with the scale of the budget being increased further.
Lokesh initially worked on two scripts after the success of Maanagaram (2017), which he had scrapped working on it, due to the issues regarding the extensive research and casting process, until he came up with a news article about an ex-prisoner's life.
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The movie was reported to be inspired by the 1976 American movie Assault on Precinct 13.
In the film, a recently released prisoner races against time to drive poisoned cops to a hospital in exchange for meeting his daughter, while evading criminals chasing him. The film stars Karthi in the leading role, with Narain, Arjun Das, Harish Uthaman, George Maryan and Dheena in pivotal roles. Prabhu under the banner Dream Warrior Pictures and co-produced by Tiruppur Vivek under the banner Vivekananda Pictures.
Prisoner) is a 2019 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film written and directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj.
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