Jagame Thandhiram

Jagame Thandhiram

Suruli is a gangster who runs a parotta restaurant in Madurai. Due to his thug-like behaviour, he is unable to find a bride for long. Finally when his mother finds a bride, and his engagement is fixed, he kills the brother of a rival jeweller inside a train on the noon of the engagement. The bride runs away when she finds out about his criminal background, and he is forced to go into hiding to avoid the police. His notoriety comes to the attention of an Englishman named John, who is a right-hand man of a London-based white supremacist don named Peter Sprott. John offers £200,000 per week to Suruli if he works for Sprott, against a successful rival don Sivadoss, who is Peter's arch-nemesis and has considerable influence among London's Tamil-speaking population. Sprott's gang does not understand the meticulous organisation and unorthodox working of Sivadoss' gang and want Suruli's help to finish them off. Suruli accepts the offer with the intention to use the money to eventually settle down and give up his criminal activities, and leaves for London where he learns more about Sivadoss and his gang as well as their activities which involve smuggling weapons from conflict-ridden countries in exchange for money. Led by Suruli and John, Sprott's gang raid Sivadoss's boat yard where the smuggling is in process under Sivadoss's right-hand man Rajan. During the raid, Suruli kills Rajan as well. Sivadoss and his gang realise that Suruli is responsible for killing Rajan and kidnaps him.

Director

Karthik Subbaraj

Release

2020

Run time

158 min

Language

Tamil