Name: Taanakkaran
Director: Tamizh
Genre: Drama
Released: 2022-04-08
Cast: Vikram Prabhu, Anjali Nair, Lal, Livingston, M. S. Bhaskar

Synopsis

Taanakkaran

The story is set in 1999 where Arivu (Vikram Prabhu) is a young cop who just got selected into Tamil Nadu Police topping his batch and is sent to a Police Recruit School (PRS) for training. He is joined by a few of his friends and soon befriends other trainees of his batch. A few amongst them are much older trainees, who cleared their selection rounds in 1982, but due to some political reasons, could not get placed. They all get placed only in 1999 following a long court process. Most of the trainers of the school see these old trainees as unfit men and constantly mock them. However, Arivu supports them. The PRS is run by Inspector Muthupandi (Madhusudhan Rao), a stern but corrupt officer, who is feared by all. One of his aides Eshwaramurthy (Lal), is a very strict and ruthless trainer, who has a record of winning all the parades and even resulting in the deaths of a few trainees in the name of extreme training, known as Extra Drill (ED). On the very first day of training, one of Arivu's friends from the '82 batch, faces the wrath of Muthupandi after he complains about the lack of proper toilet facilities in the campus. Soon, Eshwaramurthy starts seeing Arivu as his rival, and warns him that he will not allow him to pass the training. He devices many tactics to brutally punish and demotivate Arivu and his batch. Eshwaramurthy warns Arivu and his friends to leave the training and find some other job.

Director: Tamizh
Release: 8 Apr 2022
Run time: 141 min
Language: Tamil

Cast & crew

VI Vikram Prabhu Cast AN Anjali Nair Cast

Lal Cast LI Livingston Cast

M. S. Bhaskar Cast

Bose Venkat Cast MA Madhusudhan Rao Cast PA Pavel Navageethan Cast NI Nitish Veera Cast KA Karthick Kannan Murugan LI Lingesh Manimaran UD Uday Mahesh Nandhakumar MA Madhankumar Dhakshinamoorthy Nagachi Mani S. S. R. Prabhu Producer

Philomin Raj Editor GH Ghibran Composer TA Tamizh Director, Writer S. S. R. Prakash Babu Producer P. P. Gopinath Producer TH Thanga Prabaharan R. Producer MA Madhesh Manickam Cinematographer

Reviews

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Onlykollywood Siddarth Srinivas

2022-04-07

Taanakkaran’s best parts are in the portions where Vikram Prabhu and Lal face off, as the events that take place between the two act as those that seem to have come straight out of Tamizh’s episodes in the police camp. The unusual climax is also a positive to the film, pulling off a surprise that many would not see coming. Vikram Prabhu delivers a class act in the film, with a performance that brings out his talent to the T, after a long time. It is evident that the actor has gone through a lot physically for the role, and it has paid off superbly in the film. Watch out for Lal’s menacing show, which is another reason why Taanakaaran will be remembered for a while in memory. The film also has good performances from its support cast that has names such as Pavel Naganeethan, MS Bhaskar and the others.

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