Thamizhan

 

Thamizhan is a 2002 Indian Tamil-language action drama film directed by debutant Majith and produced by G. Venkateswaran. The film stars Vijay in the lead role with Priyanka Chopra, who made her debut as a lead actress in the film. Revathi, Nassar, Ashish Vidyarthi and Vivek also play pivotal roles in the film, while the film's score and soundtrack were composed by D. Imman. The story involves solving several corruption cases by a lawyer named Surya in the process fighting against a criminal boss and finally making Indian law basics available as a free book to common people. It was a successful venture at the box office.

Plot

Surya (Vijay) is a happy go lucky guy and often gets involved in petty fights. He falls in love with Priya (Priyanka Chopra). His brother in law Sakthivel (Nasser), advises him to join as a junior to senior lawyer Lakshminarayanan (Delhi Ganesh). He becomes a upright lawyer who values and tries to redress things the legal way. Sakthivel, is killed in the process of upholding justice by an corrupt bigwig GK (Ashish Vidhyarthi).

He takes up a mission to make the layman understand his legal rights and learn the Indian law basics. So, Surya is seen as a hero by the people. GK's dairy factory gets sealed by Surya for violating food safety norms. Surya's sister Jaya (Revathi) also meets a pitiful end at the hands of GK's goons, but Surya refuses to give up. GK's goons start a riot in a village and put the blame on Surya. Surya gets arrested and gets beaten up by the corrupt cops, and retaliates in return. Surya is summoned at the court and fights up legally, suggesting several reforms in the judicial system of India. After Surya gets released, GK attempts to shoot him but gets thrashed by the people. Surya tells GK to reform before he gets punished. For his service, Surya is honoured by the President Of India. Finally, it is shown that Surya's dream had come true.

 

Cast

·         Vijay as Surya lawyer

·         Priyanka Chopra as Priya

·         Nassar as Shakthivel

·         Revathi as Jaya

·         Vivek as Nandhakumar

·         Ashish Vidyarthi as G.K

·         Delhi Ganesh as Advocate Lakshmi Narayanan

·         Vinu Chakravarthy as MLA Nachiyappan

·         M. S. Bhaskar as Conductor Ganesan

·         Thadi Balaji as Sekhar, Surya's friend

·         Charuhasan as Sivaraman

·         Poornam Viswanathan as Vishwanthan

·         Vasu Vikram as Govindhan

·         Vincent Roy as DCP Muthuvel

·         Pooja as Ramya, Shakthivel & Jaya's Daughter

·         Muthukaalai as Auto driver

·         Bayilvan Ranganathan

·         Sridhar as dancer