Indian audience have witnessed so many films based on patriotism, police drama, army, thriller and many more. There are several directors in the industry who have earlier brought in this kind of stories to the audience in their own signature way. Most of the times in this type of stories, audience tend to expect some typical stereotypes like effusive dialogues, scenes that give goosebumps about patriotism, aggressive fights and few other commercial elements. One such film which came with all these factors and changed the complete perspective of this genre by accentuating the fact that there is more to it is THUPPAKKI by a resourceful director of Tamil cinema, AR Muragadoss in an ingenious way.
Thalapathy Vijay plays the role of Jagadish Dhanapal, an intelligence officer in the Indian Army who comes home for vacation and finds out about sleeper cells and their imminent attacks in Mumbai. He then decides to be on a mission to obliterate the sleeper cells and everyone working for them. Parallelly he meets Nisha (Kajal Aggarwal) at a bride seeing ceremony arranged by his parents and eventually they fall in love.
Vijay’s enhanced screen presence is like never before with powerful dialogues, bone-chilling fights and clean comedy. Kajal Aggarwal looks drop-dead gorgeous in the film and this added little charm to the film which is quite impactful with her flawless acting skills. Vidyut Jamwal is seen as a handsome and devilish villain who is the head of sleeper cells. His screen presence is on point with perfection.
The film mostly stressed on army officers and their sacrifices for the country. One such powerful scenes are where Jagadish plans to execute all the sleeper cells and find out related information with the help of retired army officers and war-heroes, which is actually a suicide mission and all those ex-army officers are applauding Jagadish for his sacrifice. This scene depicts the measure of love and respect that the Indian army has towards our country and its citizens.
Nisha is seen as a kick-boxer slightly showing a resemblance of women empowerment.
The climax of the movie is emotional, showing army officers going back to the border for the next eleven months, saying good-bye to their families. This scene made the audience feel the pain and beauty of the Indian army.
