Name: Chennai City Gangsters
Genre: Film
Released: 2025-06-20
Cast: Vaibhav, Athulya Ravi, Anandaraj, Livingston

Synopsis

Chennai City Gangsters

Paandi and Poochi, lifelong friends and petty thieves, are raised by Pasupathy, a former drug peddler and thief turned businessman who now owns a pizza restaurant. Psycho Salim, a retired goon, is planning a fake robbery worth ₹2 crore at his house to claim the insurance money. He enlists Pasupathy's help, asking him to keep the jewels safe and promising to return Pasupathy's cash and jewels once the insurance money is received. Pasupathy tasks Paandi and Poochi with carrying out the fake robbery at Psycho Salim's house. However, the duo gets the door number wrong and ends up at Door No. 56 instead of 65, where they brutally beat up the occupant, Inspector Aabathu, a police officer. After being reprimanded by Pasupathy, Paandi and Poochi proceed to Psycho Salim's house and complete the robbery. During their celebratory drinking spree, they transfer the looted money to a new backpack, and Paandi buys an identical bag and hands it over to a rag picker. Unbeknownst to them, a rag picker mistakes Paandi's bag for his own and takes it, leaving Paandi and Poochi with a bag full of trash. Meanwhile, Paandi harbors unrequited love for Jennifer "Jenny," Pasupathy's France-returned daughter and their childhood friend. The police investigation into the theft at Psycho Salim's house is led by none other than Inspector Aabathu, who was beaten by Paandi and Poochi earlier. Nettai, who was saved by Paandi and Poochi in a bar fight, reaches out to them for help in retrieving the lost money.

Release: 20 Jun 2025
Language: Tamil

Cast & crew

VA Vaibhav Cast AT Athulya Ravi Cast AN Anandaraj Cast LI Livingston Cast

D. Imman Composer

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Cinema Express Jayabhuvaneshwari B

2025-06-20

Unfortunately, this tonal mismatch robs the story of both its emotional payoff and comedic value, leaving the romance neither funny nor moving. If an average commercial film asks us to suspend disbelief, Chennai City Gangsters demands we hand it over at gunpoint. The ragtag team of thieves—Split Soosai (Anandraj), Memory Das (Rajendiran), Kudi Kumar (Sunil), and Damar Lal (John Vijay)—are shown to have been betrayed by a friend who lured them into a bank job only to turn them in for goodwill. Later, Pandi learns that their time in prison has left them with physical and mental scars, supposedly making them unfit for another heist. Cue the melancholic music, nudging us to feel sorry for them. But while betrayal stings, the men who suffer it are not exactly saints. The logic or morality of it all is not something that the film bothers to make a blueprint of.

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