Pokkiri

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Pokkiri
Produced by	S.Sathyamurthy
Written by	Puri Jagannadh
Starring	Vijay Asin Thottumkal Prakash Raj Napolean Nassar Vadivelu Mumaith Khan
Music by	Mani Sharma
Cinematography	Nirav Shah
Distributed by	Kanakarathna Movies
Release date(s)	2007
Running time	170 mins
Language	Tamil
Budget	Rs.160 million [1]
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Pokkiri (போக்கிரி) (2007) is an Action Tamil film directed by Prabhu Deva, released on January 14, 2007 on Thai Pongal day. The film starred vijay thevadiya mavan Vijay and Asin Thottumkal^[1] in the lead roles with Prakash Raj, Nassar, Vadivelu and Napolean in other roles. Mumaith Khan made a guest appearance in an item number. Shooting had taken place in India and Australia. The film's score and soundtrack, released on 15 December 2006 were composed by Mani Sharma, with many songs not altered from the original. It is a remake of Puri Jagannadh's Pokiri, the Telugu film. The film upon release gained mixed reviews, but opened to full houses everywhere. The film entered the UK Box-office at 21st place, becoming the highest ranked Tamil film ever in the UK.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Music 4 Trivia 5 Box Office 6 Footnotes 7 External links

[edit] Plot

Tamizh (Vijay) is a ruthless, fearless hit man in the Chennai underworld. He climbs the mafia ladder much to the dislike of other members in the gang. But he maintains his principles, namely, never to harm women or children. He soon falls hook line and sinker for Shruthi (Asin Thottumkal), an aerobics instructor. But a corrupt police officer L Govindan starts to covet Shruthi and her honour is placed in the hands of the protective Tamizh. At the same time, she too becomes distraught that her lover Tamizh has such a cold-hearted and violent streak.

After a series of gang wars, the master mind of all crimes, international don Ali Bhai (Prakash Raj) lands up in Chennai from Dubai and appoints Tamizh as the new head of the gang. However, Ali Bhai is soon arrested and also released subsequently when his henchmen kidnap the honest City Police Commissioner’s (Napolean) daughter and exploit her. All this culminates in a rivetting climax where Tamizh is revealed to be none other than IPS officer Satyamoorthy, who had infiltrated the mafia undercover to rid the city of all its criminal elements. He becomes a one-man army who takes on Ali Bhai and his entire gang, while rooting out the corrupt elements of the police force.

[edit] Cast

Actor	Role
Vijay	Tamizh/Sathyamoorthy
Asin Thottumkal	Sruthi
Prakash Raj	Ali Bhai
Mukesh Tiwari	Govindan
Nasser	Shanmughavelu
Vadivelu	Body Soda / Kung Pu Master
Mumaith Khan	Apple
Napolean	Mohammed Muhideen Khan
Vincent Asokan	Guru
Dhamu	Dhanda

[edit] Music

Pokkiri
Studio album by Mani Sharma
Released	December 15, 2006 (India)
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Label	5 star audio
Producer(s)	Mani Sharma
Mani Sharma chronology
Ashok (2006)	Pokkiri (2007)	Yogi (2007)

Song	Singer(s)
Dole Dole	Ranjith, Suchithra
Aadungada Yennai Suththi	Naveen
Nee Mutham Onru	Ranjith, Swetha
Mambazhamam Mambazham	Shankar Mahadevan, Ganga
En Chella Peru Apple	A. V. Ramanan, Suchitra
Vasaantha Mullai	Ragul Nambiyar, Krishnamoorthy

[edit] Trivia

• Movie marks the debut of Prabhu Deva as a director in the tamil film industry.
• This is the first film in which Vijay plays the role of a cop.
• 45th film of Vijay and his second film with Asin after the superhit Sivakasi (film)
• Ileana, Priyanka Chopra, and Nayantara were approached for the lead role but refused due to date problems.
• A remake of the telugu film, Pokiri (Telugu film) starring Mahesh Babu and Ileana.
• Expected to be Vijays 10th silver jubilee and provided Vijay a much needed hit after the Aathi fiasco.
• Initially Pasupathy was considered for the role of the police officer which he refused due to date problems.Role eventually landed in the hands of bollywood character artist Mukesh Tiwari.
• Producer Boney Kapoor is planning to remake "Pokkiri" in Hindi with Salman Khan as the hero and Prabhu Deva as the director.

[edit] Box Office

Tamil Nadu

• Blockbuster inspite of the new government order of regulation of theater ticket rates. [2][3]
• Completed 75 days in a record 100 screens.
• Total gross is expected to touch the 15 crore mark in its total run.
• In Chennai,it took the biggest opening among the Pongal releases [4] and continued to remain at the top for 5 consecutive weeks [5].Even in the 9th weekend movie had 80-85% collections [6].Still is running in all release centers in Chennai and continues to do good business even after 75 days [7]

Kerala

• Opened as big as a malayalam superstar film with over 30 prints [8] .In Trivandrum it opened bigger than malayalam superstar Mohanlal's Baba Kalyani collecting an awesome Rs 14,10,240 Lakhs in a week from Anjali and Athulya theatres.At Ernakulam Shenoys, it has grossed over Rs 10 Lakhs in its first week. [9]
• Biggest ever tamil film in Kerala [10]
• Grossed over 3 crores within 25 days of run [11] and the total gross is expected to cross the 4.5 crore mark.
• Vijay's biggest hit in the state [12]
• Completed 50 days in 16 centers in Kerala [13]
• Maintained 60% collections even in the third month [14]
• Vijay and producer Ramesh babu graced the success meet organised at SL theater complex by Mr.Shibu(the distributor of Pokkiri in Kerala).Malayalam stars [Suresh Gopi] and Boban Kunchakko also took part in the function.

Other areas

• Released with over 20 prints in Karnataka and was going strong even after 25 days [15] until tamil films were banned due to the cauvery issue.Theaters resumed screening after a brief interval and Pokkiri completed 50 days in 3 bangalore screens [16]
• Biggest ever tamil film in UK with movie making it to the UK TOP 20 in the opening week. [17][18][19].
• Opened in 32 cinemas in malaysia.Featured in top 5 of the malaysian box office charts for 4 successive weeks owing to its impressive collections. [20][21][22][23]

[edit] Footnotes

[edit] External links

• Pokiri review
• Pokiri Video Songs