A police officer arrests a doctor for crimes targeting medical professionals but later finds the real culprit in a tale of revenge, corruption and magic.A police officer arrests a doctor for crimes targeting medical professionals but later finds the real culprit in a tale of revenge, corruption and magic.A police officer arrests a doctor for crimes targeting medical professionals but later finds the real culprit in a tale of revenge, corruption and magic.
- Awards
- 18 wins & 17 nominations
Nithya Menen
- Aishwarya Vetrimaaran
- (as Nithya Menon)
S.J. Suryah
- Dr. Daniel Arokyaraj
- (as S.J. Surya)
Samantha Ruth Prabhu
- Tara
- (as Samantha)
Kajal Aggarwal
- Anupallavi
- (as Kajal Agarwal)
Sathyaraj
- DCP Rathnavel (Randy)
- (as Satyaraj)
Motta Rajendran
- Health minister
- (as Rajendran)
Devadarshini Chetan
- Nurse
- (as Devatharshini)
Storyline
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- TriviaThis film created a great controversy for mocking Indian government's digital India scheme as well as recent GST tax. A hashtag #MersalvsModi started trending in social media.
- GoofsThere is inconsistency regarding Vetri's year of birth throughout the movie. As per Maaran it is 1984, as per Daniel it is 1987 and as per Salim Ghosh it is 1990.
- Quotes
Vetrimaran: You want to bury the truth? Son of a gun! No one can do that. 2 instead of 1 will take revenge you. Don't think our hands will always be lowered. One day... Some day or the other our hands will rise and speak!
- Crazy creditsThe title card of the film is shown after the opening scenes.
- Alternate versionsIn the Indian version, the shot in which an arm of a villain is severed during a fight shows the gory part blurred while in the international version the scene is shown without any blurring. Similarly, the Indian version shows a crystal ball-like object in the restaurant fight while the international version shows a dove instead. There are also some changes in background music in certain sequences. The scenes showing animals have been deleted and replaced with other visuals in the Indian version while they exist uncut in the international version. Plus, the director's title card in the Indian version is shown against a black background while the international version shows it against a glowing background. Also, the Indian version has a quotation in Tamil and English stating "Every individual in their assumed specific responsibilities has to discharge his/her duty properly" which doesn't exist in the international version. The rolling titles appear in the center in the Indian version while they appear on the right in the International version in which the music ends much later.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Thanneermathan Dinangal (2019)
- SoundtracksAalaporaan Thamizhan (Tamil)
Music by A.R. Rahman
Lyrics by Vivek
Performed by Kailash Kher, Sathya Prakash, Deepak Blue, A.V. Pooja
Featured review
Super fun & adrenaline pumping! Yet also really emotional, great experience centered on a strong social crusade.
I went to this film after a colleague recommended it. I'll be frank I wasn't fond of the really random dance sequences (as an American they're a bit too random for me, though Mr. Vijay can dance really well) but the film got those out of the way early. I was told a couple things about this film before going in- it is a huge "mass masala" so it fuses many different genres together. And that the actor, Vijay, is an enormous superstar in the Tamil state who the people really adore. As soon as the film started, the audience whistled and cheered at just his name appearing on the screen! And then when he first appears in the film, the audience was overjoyed and so many cheers, I've never been among a crowd like that. It's crazy I hadn't seen a film by Vijay yet but I got chills seeing how much the audience loved him. And throughout the film, it was too easy to see why: spectacular performances as 3 different people, and he nailed them all. Especially the village role, was a terrific and moving performance, he has a huge screen presence and powerful flair about him. I've noticed that the Indian superstars are really a class apart in this, I can see these select few are at that level due to these certain intangibles that have won over the audience, its an trait I don't see in even the biggest of Hollywood actors. Anyway about the actual film's story, the beginning had more comedic elements, I didn't understand some of the jokes, but that's okay because there is tons more to this film. I felt the first female character was completely unnecessary and the second one was acceptable but also not needed. The third actress, however, was GREAT! Nithya Mennon is her name, she and Vijay in the second half brought tears to my eyes repeatedly, I didn't expect to be so moved! I had similar reactions to some really heart-wrenching scenes in the first half as well, the film had lots of emotional power at its core. The film was unique to me in that Vijay's characters stood up so strongly against corruption, malpractices and deception by the medical industry, especially against the poor people- the people who need it the most but end up also losing the most in these scenarios. A new subject for me, handled so well. I'm not aware of what the medical policies for patients in India are like, do people always pay before the treatment or is that just certain types of hospitals? Some questions I would just ask my colleagues on Monday. Another thing was when Vijay's characters said certain dialogues, the crowd cheered and clapped a lot, especially during his speech scenes where he criticizes many injustices in front of large crowds in the film. Not only did the crowd in the film cheer strongly, so did my audience! It was as if I was in the film. And the action!! It was tremendous, lots of intense fight scenes with nice use of wire-work. Every hit by Mr. Vijay felt powerful with lots of emotions to it: these aren't your normal "beat up the bad guys because they're against you" fight scenes but rather they felt like a man who has had to go through so much emotional pain that every punch and kick roared of justice. And wow was the crowd happy and loud during these fights! Wonderful experience really, I laughed, cried and was also really fired up during the film. I'm interested to watch more of Vijay's films now and I will definitely anticipate when his next film releases.
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official sites
- Language
- Also known as
- Zapped
- Filming locations
- Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland(old town square, exteriors of theatre, landscape with the cathedral)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
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- Gross worldwide
- $2,287,182
- Runtime2 hours 52 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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