Thirupaachi

Thirupaachi
Directed by	Perarasu
Produced by	RB Choudary
Starring	Vijay Trisha Mallika Chaya Singh Benjamin Pasupathy Kota Srinivasa Rao
Music by	Dhina, Mani Sharma Devi Sri Prasad
Release dates	14 January,2005
Running time	178 mins
Language	Tamil
Box office	$3 million

Thirupaachi (2005) is a Tamil film directed by Perarasu. The film starss Joseph Vijay, Trisha Krishnan, Mallika, Benjamin, Pasupathy, Kota Srinivasa Rao and Chaya Singh. The film's music is composed by Dhina and is Perarasu's debut. It was released 14 January 2005 and is being remade into Telugu as Annavaram.

Plot

Sivagiri (Vijay) is a blacksmith in a remote village near Thirupaachi. He has a lovable sister named Karpagam (Mallika). Once, Sivagiri makes a weapon for lord Ayyanar. He comes in a bull cart and places that big and tall weapon in the hands of Ayyanar statue. Then, One fine day, Sivagiri cuts the hair of her sister's friend and makes it short as the former teased his sister stating that Karpagam has a very short hair. Sivagiri gives that ripped hair to his sister. But the next day,everyone comes to know that someone has ripped a middle aged lady's hair. This makes Sivagiri realise that he ripped an old lady's hair and not Karpagam friend's hair. This disappoints Karpagam.

Later on,Sivagiri goes to a village in search of a bridegroom for his sister along with his friend named Kannapan. He tastes some hilarious & serious incidents and somehow escapes from that place. After returning home,he stresses to the friend on the fact that he wants his sister to be in a good city after her marriage. Later on,a stranger sees Sivagiri's sister and gets bowled over her beauty. He follows and proposes her. She tells this news to his brother. An angry brother comes with his weapon and warns that guy. Later on,that stranger says that he is a guy from Chennai who likes to marry his sister. This makes Sivagiri to think twice and then Sivagiri decided to marry his sister to that guy. Sivagiri's parents too accept his invitation. After her marriage, Sivagiri goes to Chennai along with her sister and sister's husband.He finds a girl named Shuba (Trisha) welcoming them.Sivagiri comes to know that Shuba is a neighbour of the new bridegroom. Then, Sivagiri's friend Veluchamy, a police inspector, visits them in their place.Then,one night Sivagiri and co goes to a temple for a prayer. Chaya Singh is the item number of this song portraying lordess Amman.

Then later on,a guy named Pattasu Balu (Pasupathy),a person who is a don dominating central Chennai,along with his henchmen group tries to kill a guy residing near Sivagiri sister's area as his friend decides to speak against Pattasu Balu in the court. Pattasu balu rounds up a lengthy cracker over the body of that guy and burns the cracker. Sivagiri later on rescues that guy from death. Then, Sivagiri goes back to his village leaving his sister . Then, after sometime, Karpagam's husband, while running his canteen in a college, gets beaten up by another local don Panparaku Ravi, who controls by having a mafia gang in North Chennai.

Later on, Sivagiri once again comes to Chennai and stays in his sister's place in order to send off his friend Kannapan to Dubai. While visiting Chennai, he comes to know from Shuba that an old Brahmin man vacated his place as the latter was tortured by a thug named Saniyan Sagada (Kota Srinivasa Rao), who dominates the South Chennai. Meantime, Shuba falls in love with Sivagiri .

One day, Kannapan decides to go to a film in Chennai with Sivagiri and co before leaving abroad. But while purchasing tickets in theater, Kappan gets angry with the henchman gang of Saniyan Sagadai and quarrels with him in the queue counter. Later on, the fight ignites between them and Kannapan gets murdered by Saniyan Sagadai. Meantime, Karupagam becomes pregnant and thus Sivagiri takes her to his home town. Then, after the funeral of Kannapan,he leaves his home town stating that he got a job in a cloth manufacturing company. But in reality he comes with a mission in Chennai.

Sivagiri writes a complaint letter to a local police inspector stating that prostitution is prevailing in his area. This provokes Saniyan Sagadai henchmen group and thus they come 20 in number to murder Sivagiri. The latter decides to apply some different colors of turmeric sandal powder in face to hide his identity and then kills all twenty of them including an inspector who fails to do justice to his duty. He also seizes a cellphone from one of the henchmen. Then,he warns Saniyan Sagadai stating that the latter too will be killed by him. He also calls the commissioner and warns him that he will kill all the thugs of Chennai as the police department fails in their duty. Later on, Sivagiri's friend Veluchamy who is also an inspector, comes to know about this. Sivagiri challenges Veluchamy that he will give up his mission if the latter keeps any one thug of Chennai in jail at least for a single day. Veluchamy not only fails in his mission but also loses his son as he was killed by Pattasu Balu, the head of the thug who got arrested.

This harsh lesson makes Veluchamy to help Sivagivi. Thus, Veluchamy lists Sivagiri the entire mafia network of Chennai by providing the specification of who leads the various areas. Sivagiri in his mission decides first to kill Pattasu Balu. Thus,he phones and warns Balu. This provokes Balu to abduct the commissioner's daughter and Balu warns the commissioner that his daughter will be killed if the he doesn't arrest Sivagiri.

Sivagiri, after knowing this fact from his inspector-friend Veluchamy, calls Pattasu Balu and warns him by stating a fake point that one of Balu's henchmen has been abducted by him. Fortunately for Sivagiri, one of the henchmen of Balu was missing in his place. Thus Balu decides to send his mafia gang to Sivagiri's place whose address has been found by Balu with the help of the phone number from which Sivagiri called him. Sivagiri disguises himself as an wounded person and says to the mafia gang of Pattusu Balu that he remembers the person who bet him so hard.This makes Pattasu Balu to bring Sivagiri to his fort. Later on,Sivagiri destroys Pattasu balu and his gang. The fight scene plagarizes burly brawl from the matrix reloaded.

Then, one day, Shuba meets Sivagiri in a temple and finds that he is not working in any cloth manufacturing compnay. But still, Sivagiri manages to make Shuba believe that he is working in a travels company. Thus, Shuba gets a promise from Sivagiri that he should meet her and spend time with her quite frequently .

Later on,Sivagiri provokes Panparak Ravi to kill his own brother by sticking the funeral posters of Ravi and making him think that his brother is the person who is killing people all over Chennai. After the death of Ravi's brother,Ravi hides himself in a politician's house to be away and safe from the hands of police. That politician damages his own car and house by his henchmen and makes the police to believe that someone has attacked his house. Thus, police decides to provide security for that politician. This makes Ravi to feel happy considering the fact that Sivagiri can't come to his place by fooling all these inspectors and kill him. Then, Sivagiri's friend inspector Veluchamy finds diplomatically that Ravi is hiding in that politician's place. Later on, Sivagiri states to a group of people, who lost their money to a financier,that the fraud financier is hiding in that Politician's place. Thus,this makes Sivagiri to enter Ravi's fort with a group of mass gang and later on Ravi gets killed by Sivagiri successfully.

Then,after sometime, Sivagiri meets Shuba as per his promise and boos and romances with her in a beach.

Later on, Sivagiri decides to kill Saniyan Sagadai and successfully complete his mission. Thus, Sivagiri warns Sagadai in an indirect manner and also states that if Sagadai doesn't give up then he will be murdered him before the birth of the next new year. This makes Sagadai to seek the protection of a mass group of thugs from Chennai. Sivagiri uses this as a chance to destroy the entire mafia gang of Chennai. Thus, Sivagiri ignites a war between the police group and mafia gang in a very diplomatic manner. Sivagiri disguises himself as a police inspector and enters the fort of Sagadai. Veluchamy too helps Sivagiri in his mission. Finally Sivagiri destroys the entire mafia gang of Chennai along with the Chennai police inspectors before the birth of a new year. Then, Sivagiri surrenders in police and later on he gets released after 6 months. Shuba welcomes Sivagiri, his sister and his sister's husband once again after returning home. At the end, Shuba romances with Sivagiri.

Cast

Actor	Role
Vijay	Sivagiri
Trisha	Subha
Mallika	Karpagam
Chaya Singh	Cameo
Benjamin	Kanappan
Pasupathy	Patasu Balu
Kota Srinivasa Rao	Saniyan Sagadai

Box Office

• The film ran for 100 days, grossing $30 million at the box office.