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Soodhu Kavvum is a film of genre Thriller with Vijay Sethupathi

Soodhu Kavvum (2013)

Soodhu Kavvum
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Length 2h8
Genres Thriller,    Comedy,    Crime
Rating82% 4.145554.145554.145554.145554.14555

Soodhu Kavvum (Tamil: சூது கவ்வும், English: Evil Engulfs) is a 2013 Tamil black comedy film directed by Nalan Kumarasamy of Naalaya Iyakunar fame. It features Vijay Sethupathi and Sanchita Shetty in the lead roles. The film was released on 1 May. The film's main concept is about how silly talk has engulfed people's day-to-day life and modern society.

Synopsis

Friends Kesavan (Ashok Selvan), Sekar (RJ Ramesh Thilak) and Pagalavan (Bobby Simha) meet Das (Vijay Sethupathi), a middle-aged man with an imaginary girlfriend named Shalu (Sanchita Shetty) who does low-profile kidnappings for a living. Broke, the trio decide to become his assistants. Das follows a Five Rules of kidnapping (which Das spells and writes as "kednapping"), which makes kidnapping easier to do. One day, they kidnap a young boy and successfully obtain ransom money from his father Nambikkai Kannan. Nambikkai's contractor brother has been arrested for attempted bribery by State Minister Gnanodayam (M S Bhaskar), a disciplined politician who plays by the book. Impressed with Das' kidnapping skills, Nambikkai asks him to kidnap the minister's son Arumai Pragasam (Karunakaran) as revenge and offers to pay Das up to ₹2 crore (US$300 000).

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