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Thoppi Movie Review
- 3/12/2015 10:14:26 PM
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Murali Ram, Raksha Raj, GM Kumar, AruldasDirection: YourekaGenre: DramaDuration: 2 hours 15 minutes
Synopsis: A young man from a community of robbers aspires to become a cop and acts as an informer. However, the local inspector and a minister are keen to see him out of their way.
Movie Review: Like Stalin Ramalingam's Kaadu, Thoppi also deals with tribal people and their way of life. It is set in Kurinjimedu, a remote village in a mountain, where reside a clan of robbers, led by Suruttu Saamy, a veteran robber, who is also their priest. As we saw in Vasantabalan's Aravani, thievery is these people's way of taking care of their stomachs and they perform it with ritualistic fervour. But not Sithan. A 20-something fellow, Sithan aspires to become a cop (we even get a back story on why he badly wants to be one) and acts as an informer for the local police, who are always the first ones to be pulled up whenever a robbery is committed in the surrounding areas.
Sithan is befriended by inspector Kuzhanthaisamy, who uses him to solve crimes. The Minister for Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments orders the cop to find a stolen film reel box (the film is, of course, Alibabavum 40 Thirudargalum), and Sithan finds out that it contains rice pulling iridium and submits it to the authorities instead. This angers the cop and the minister wants him dead. Meanwhile, Sithan gets into a tussle with Suruttu Saamy, which eventually results in him losing out at the police trials.
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