Thuppakki (Indian Soldier Never on Holiday)
Thuppakki (English: The Gun) is a 2012 Indian Tamil action film written and directed by AR Murugadoss.[2][3] It features Vijay and Kajal Aggarwal in the lead roles,[4]Vidyut Jamwal as main antagonist,[5] as well as Jayaram and Sathyan in supporting roles.[6] The film, produced by S. Thanu, features background score and soundtrack composed by Harris Jayaraj with cinematography handled by Santhosh Sivan, who with Thuppakki, introduced the Arri Alexa camera to Indian cinema.[7][8]
The story revolves around an Indian army intelligence officer from a Mumbai-based Tamil family on a mission to track down and destroy a terrorist group and deactivate the sleeper cells under its command. The film, which commenced production in December 2011 in Mumbai, was released on 13 November 2012, coinciding with the festival of Diwali.[9] Upon release, the film opened to mostly positive reviews from critics and became the highest grossing Tamil film of 2012. The film was also released in Telugu under the same title in Andhra Pradesh, where it was also very well received. Murugadoss remade the film in Hindi as Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty in 2014, while Baba Yadav remade it in Bengali as Game in the same year. The film has also been dubbed into Hindi as Indian Soldier Never on Holiday by Goldmines Telefilms.
| Directed by | AR Murugadoss |
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| Produced by | Kalaipuli S. Dhanu |
| Written by | AR Murugadoss |
| Starring | Vijay Kajal Aggarwal Sathyan Vidyut Jamwal |
| Music by | Harris Jayaraj |
| Cinematography | Santosh Sivan Natarajan Subramaniam |
| Edited by | A. Sreekar Prasad |
Production
company |
Kalaipuli Films International
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| Distributed by | Gemini Film Circuit SVR Media (Telugu)[1] |
Release dates
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Running time
| 172 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Tamil |
Cast
- Vijay as Jagadish, captain of the Indian Army and a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) specialist
- Kajal Aggarwal as Nisha, a boxer and Jagadish's love interest
- Sathyan as Balaji, sub inspector of Bandra and Jagadish's friend
- Vidyut Jamwal as the sleeper cell's unnamed leader
- Jayaram as V. Ravichandran, Jagadish's senior Commanding Officer
- Zakir Hussain as Kameeruddin, a sleeper cell
- Deepthi Nambiar as Sanjana, Jagadish's younger sister
- Manobala as Nisha's father
- Anupama Kumar as Nisha's mother
- MD Asif as Asif Ali, the sleeper cell's second-in-command
- Prayas Mann as sleeper cell leader's brother
- Prashant Nair as Noel, Joel's younger brother
- Gautham Kurup as the first sleeper cell
- Shankar Narayanan as Jagadish's father
- Akshara Gowda as Shwetha
- Meenakshi as Nisha's Friend
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