Thirupaachi

This article is about the 2005 Indian Tamil film. For the village in Sivaganga District, see Thiruppachethi.

Thirupaachi
Theatrical release poster
Directed byPerarasu
Written byPerarasu
Produced byR. B. Choudary
StarringVijay
Trisha
Mallika
CinematographyS. Saravanan
Edited byV. Jaishankar
Music byDhina
Devi Sri Prasad (1 song)
Mani Sharma (1 song)
Production
company
Release date
  • 14 January 2005 (2005-01-14)
Running time
178 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Thirupaachi is a 2005 Indian Tamil-language action drama film directed by Perarasu (in his debut) and produced by R. B. Choudary under Super Good Films. The film stars Vijay, alongside Trisha, Mallika, J. Livingston, Pasupathy, Benjamin, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Vaiyapuri and Manoj K. Jayan. The film featured scores composed by Dhina, who also jointly composed one song each with Devi Sri Prasad and Mani Sharma.

Thirupaachi was released on 14 January 2005, and was one of the most successful Tamil films of the year.[1] It was remade in Kannada as Thangigagi and in Telugu as Annavaram.

Plot

Sivagiri alias Giri, a bladesmith in a remote village near Thirupaachi, has a lovable sister Karpagam and runs into hilarious incidents while searching for a groom for his sister. When a city guy proposes to Karpagam, Giri accepts their relationship. Giri accompanies the newlyweds to Chennai. On a trip to Chennai, Giri rescues a court witness from Pattasu Balu, a gangster dominating Central Chennai. Giri also learns about Pan Parag Ravi, a local gangster dominating North Chennai and also responsible for troubling Karpagam's husband's canteen business.

During an altercation at a theatre, Kannappan gets murdered by Saniyan Sagadai, a gangster dominating South Chennai. Karpagam's husband tells Giri to leave Chennai for his sister to be happy. After Kannapan's funeral, Giri leaves his hometown and says that he received a job at a cloth manufacturing company in Erode. However, Giri is still in Chennai with intentions to finish all gangsters. Giri calls Sagadai and states that he will kill him. Giri also calls ACP Raj Guru and says that he will eradicate the city's gangsters. Inspector Veluchamy, Giri's friend, initially refuses Giri's methods, but later helps Giri in the mission after his son Arun gets killed by Balu.

Veluchamy provides a list of the city's entire crime network to Giri by providing the specifications of leading gangsters in various areas. Giri writes their names and soon kills Balu. Later, Giri provokes Ravi to kill his brother and Ravi hides in a politician's house to escape from Giri. Ravi damages the politician’s house and vehicles to make the police believe that someone has attacked his house. The police decide to provide security for the politician. Through Veluchamy, Giri learns that Ravi is hiding in the politician's house. He brings a group of people, who rally due to losing their money to a fraudulent financier hiding in the politician's place.

With the rally, Giri enters Ravi's fort and kills him. Raj inquires about the people involved in the rally regarding the identity of Giri, but nobody wants to inform anything because they think Giri is doing the right thing. Raj's daughter does not reveal Giri's identity as Giri rescued her from Balu earlier. Later, Giri sets out to kill Sagadai and warns him. Sagadai seeks the protection of a mass group of thugs from the city. Giri uses this as an opportunity to destroy the city's crime network. Giri ignites a war between the police and gangsters in a very diplomatic manner. Giri disguises himself as a cop and enters Sagadai's fort. Veluchamy helps Giri in his mission by injuring himself and Raj orders his squad to hit the thugs.

Giri confronts a thug and forces him to wear a police uniform, where he kills the thug and throws him out of the window. Thinking that one of his fellow officers is dead, Raj and the cops kill all the thugs, but they discover Giri's plan and run upstairs to find him. Giri stabs Sagadai and throws him to the ground right before the New Year, thus avenging Kannappan's death. In the aftermath, Giri reunites with his girlfriend Subha, Karpagam, and her husband.

Cast

Production

Development

Thirupaachi was announced in 2004 and marked the directorial debut of Perarasu, who earlier assisted Rama Narayanan and N. Maharajan.[2][3][4] It was Vijay's 40th film and fifth collaboration with Super Good Films.[5] The film was initially titled Girivalam.[6]

Filming

Despite planning to shoot in Thirupachi, a village near Madurai–Ramanathapuram border, Perarasu opted against shooting there as it may create traffic problems; instead the village portions were shot in Karaikudi.[7] A set resembling Aiyanar temple with a 90-foot statue, surrounded by 200 mud horse costing about ₹3 million, was designed by M. Prabhakar in a village near Karaikudi. A song was shot with about 1,500 junior artistes in that set and took a week to complete the song. The climax was shot in Vasan House, Chennai, where a huge crowd of junior artistes taking part each day of the two weeks to complete the scene. Other filming locations were Visakhapatnam, Arakkuveli and South Africa.[8]

Soundtrack

The soundtrack has seven songs, five songs were composed by Dhina, while Devi Sri Prasad ("Kattu Kattu") and Mani Sharma ("Kannum Kannumthan") had composed one song respectively. For the song "Kattu Kattu", Devi Sri Prasad reused the music from the song "Pattu Pattu", which he produced from Shankar Dada M.B.B.S. For the song "Kannum Kannumthan", the latter had reused music from the song "Chitti Nadumune", which he produced for the Telugu film Gudumba Shankar.[9] The lyrics for all the songs were penned by Perarasu.

Song Singer(s) Length Composer
"Kattu Kattu" Manikka Vinayagam, Sumangali 5:12 Devi Sri Prasad
"Kannum Kannumthan" Harish Raghavendra, Uma Ramanan, Premji Amaren 5:56 Mani Sharma
"Appan Panna" Pushpavanam Kuppusamy, Anuradha Sriram 4:48 Dhina
"Nee Entha Ooru" Tippu 4:48 Dhina
"Kumbida Pona Deivam" Shankar Mahadevan, Malathy Lakshman 4:12 Dhina
"Enna Thavam" Dhina, Swarnalatha 2:15 Dhina
"Avichu Vecha" Manikka Vinayagam 1:11 Dhina

Release

Thirupaachi was released with 207 prints on 14 January 2005, coinciding with Pongal, and other releases like Ayya, Iyer IPS, Aayudham and Devathaiyai Kanden.[10] After the success of Thirupaachi, A. M. Rathnam called Perarasu to make Sivakasi with Vijay re-uniting with him for second time.[11][12]

Reception

Critical response

Malini Mannath of Chennai Online wrote "Perarasu tries to make slight variations within the parameters of this scenario, weaving in the right dose of humour, action and sentiment and succeeds in presenting a film that is fast-paced and engaging from the opening to the final scene."[13] Sify wrote "Vijay has stuck to his regular formula – five songs, flying fights, crass comedy, punchline dialogues, dream songs in foreign locales and corny sentiments. So if you have seen earlier films of the superstar you may strive hard to find anything new in Thirupaachi, which is old wine served in a new bottle, with a different label.[14] Ananda Vikatan rated the film 40 out of 100.[15] Visual Dasan of Kalki called Thirupaachi not only the angry brother, but also the masala king.[16] Cinesouth wrote "Perrarasu have written story, screenplay, dialogue, songs and also directed the movie. It seems he wanted to convey the message that “Chennai is not just a capital city alone, if it remains calm, the whole Tamilnadu will remain in peace”. But his understanding of violence seems to be limited to the Aruwal wielding Rowdies who wears half- a kilo gold ornaments on their persons, is the first flaw of the movie. The one and only plus point in the screenplay, is that, it manages to create an expectation among the audience that, whenever the villains are indulging in atrocities, Vijay will definitely raise up in anger to smash them all."[17]

Box office

Thirupaachi opened to packed houses with 80 per cent occupancy from Chennai and other districts of the state.[18] After taking a fantastic opening for the first week, the film took a slight fall in crowd for the second week.[19] The film completed 200-day theatrical run at Tamil Nadu.[20][21]

Accolades

Thirupaachi won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Actor-Special Prize (Vijay).[22]

Controversy

After the release of Thirupaachi, Super Good Films were sued by Godrej Sara Lee Ltd. for "defamatory, prejudicial, offensive and slanderous" use of the mosquito spray HIT which they are the trademark owners of. Godrej eventually won the case and obtained an "order of permanent injunction and damages" worth ₹500,000 from Super Good Films.[23][24]

Remakes

The film was remade in Kannada as Thangigagi (2006) and in Telugu as Annavaram (2006).[25][26]

References

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  6. ^ "A fresh new pair in Kollywood". Behindwoods. 14 August 2009. Archived from the original on 18 May 2011. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
  7. ^ "திருப்பாச்சியில் ஒரு திகில் அனுபவம்!" (PDF). Kalki (in Tamil). 16 January 2005. pp. 124–126. Retrieved 4 August 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  8. ^ Mannath, Malini (23 December 2004). "Thirupachi". Chennai Online. Archived from the original on 10 February 2005. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
  9. ^ "Borrowing tunes!". Sify. 24 December 2004. Archived from the original on 26 March 2005. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
  10. ^ "'Tirupachi' creates a new record!". Sify. 13 January 2005. Archived from the original on 10 October 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
  11. ^ "FIR on Vijay's Sivakasi". IndiaGlitz. 29 March 2005. Archived from the original on 24 December 2013. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
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  13. ^ Mannath, Malini (22 January 2005). "Thirupachi". Chennai Online. Archived from the original on 7 February 2005. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  14. ^ "Tirupachi". Sify. Archived from the original on 23 December 2013. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
  15. ^ சார்லஸ், தேவன் (22 June 2021). "பீஸ்ட் : 'நாளைய தீர்ப்பு' டு 'மாஸ்டர்'... விஜய்க்கு விகடனின் மார்க்கும், விமர்சனமும் என்ன? #Beast". Ananda Vikatan (in Tamil). Archived from the original on 8 October 2021. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
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  18. ^ "Chennai weekend box-office (Jan14-16)". Sify. 18 January 2005. Archived from the original on 4 January 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
  19. ^ "Chennai weekend box-office (Jan21-23)". Sify. 25 January 2005. Archived from the original on 4 January 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
  20. ^ "Chennai weekend box-office (Feb 04-06)". Sify. 8 February 2005. Archived from the original on 4 January 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
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