Thirupaachi

Thirupaachi (2005)

திருப்பாச்சி

Sivagiri, a blacksmith from a village, visits Chennai to meet his sister and her husband. When he sees the city is not a safe residence for commoners, he takes the matter into his own hands.

Date of release
2005-01-14
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (25)
Runtime
2h 40m
Genres
Action, Thriller
Director
Perarasu

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Visakhapatnam

Thirupaachi is a 2005 Indian Tamil-language action drama film written and directed by Perarasu and produced by R. B. Choudary under Super Good Films. The film stars Vijay in the main lead role alongside Trisha and Mallika, while J. Livingston, Pasupathy, Benjamin, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Vaiyapuri and Manoj K. Jayan play supporting roles. The music was composed by Dhina, who jointly composed one song each with Devi Sri Prasad and Mani Sharma. The cinematography and editing were handled by S. Saravanan and V. Jaishankar.

Production

Thirupaachi marked the directorial debut of Perarasu. The film was initially titled Girivalam. Despite planning to shoot in Thirupachi, a village near Madurai–Ramanathapuram border, Perarasu opted against shooting there, feeling it may create traffic problems; instead the village portions were shot in Karaikudi. A set resembling Aiyanar temple with a 90-foot statue, surrounded by 200 mud horse costing about ₹3 million, was designed by M.

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