Thaai Manne Vanakkam: Recent films & patriotism F’day Spl.Article by Naveen
Tamil cinema has played an important role in spreading patriotism among the people. Several movies about patriots have released in the past years.
Movies like ‘Veerapandiya Kattabomman’, ‘Kappalotiya Tamilan’, ‘Jai Hind’, ‘Hey Ram’, ‘Indian’ and ‘Bombay’ are among the movies that spoke about patriotism. Ahead of Independence Day, let us take a look at some of the recent movies based on patriotism.
Thuppaki:
Jagdish (Vijay), an army captain returns to Mumbai for a 40 days’ vacation. He has a loving family, comprising two sisters and his parents, who wish to get him married to an appropriate girl.
Along with his romantic escapades, he also has a greater task at hand as he has to eradicate sleeper cells that are out to bomb and terrorize Mumbai across 12 prominent localities. Did Jagadish succeed in his mission and neutralise the sleeper cells forms the main story.
Action:
Subhash (Vishal) is an army officer who is the son of a CM. One fine day, his father announces Subhash’s brother as his successor and when all this is happening in a meeting, a bomb blast occurs and most of Subhash’s family gets killed.
Upon investigation, Subhash finds out that some international terrorist is behind all this. The rest of the story is as to how Subhash goes on a mission and finds the culprits.
Kaappan:
Kathir (Suriya) is a part of the Special protection group of the Indian Prime minister Chandrakant Varma (Mohanlal), and along with Joseph (Samuthirakani) and Prem, protects the PM from deadly situations.
However a corporate conspiracy leads to unfortunate events, and the blame falls on Kathir, who now has to prove himself sincere and find the real evil, protect Abhishek Varma (Arya) from the threats, expose the corporate Kingpin Mahadev (Boman Irani) and protect farmers. How Kathir succeeds is what Kaappaan is all about.
7am Arivu:
Circus performer Aravind (Suriya) runs into genetic researcher Subha Srinivasan (Shruti Haasan) and is smitten.
During a visit to the circus, his family members tell him that Subha had met them some months ago as part of a research project into the Bodhidharma, a Pallava prince who had travelled to China around the 6th century AD and taught martial arts and medicine to the people there.
Aravind confronts Subha to learn the truth about her work, but then they find out that they are the targets of an assassin, Dong Lee (Johnny Tri Nguyen), sent to India by a neighbouring government to start a biowar in the country. What happens next is the crux of the story.
Unnaipol Oruvan:
Kamal Haasan and Mohan Lal taking the chief roles in the film, Kamal Haasan as a commoner and Mohan Lal as Raghava Maraar who informs about parallel blasting of bombs.
He wanted four terrorists to be liberated who were responsible for terror attacks in India. The Inspector General was impelled to release the terrorist for the welfare of the nation but Mohan Lal is perplexed when Kamal kills three of the terrorists. What is Kamal’s motive and why he killed the terrorists is the main theme of the story.
By Naveen
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