Thupparivaalan

The film starts with IT company owner, Dhivakar, and his family celebrating his birthday, when a sudden lightning strike hits him and his son and burns them to death. At a cinema, a man gropes a woman, and a small commotion ensues, which is stopped by ACP Paul Dhanarajan, who dies in the middle of a police conference three days later. The plot shifts to detective Kaniyan Poongundran aka Kani, who lives with his associate Manohar aka Mano. They both come across Mallika through a pickpocketing incident. Later, she comes to work as a housekeeper at Kani’s house.

One day, a schoolboy named Naveen visits Kani and Mano with the case that his pet German Spitz (inaccurately identified as a Pomeranian) Nemo was shot dead and asked them to find the killer. Naveen gives them the bullet from Nemo’s body. Kaniyan finds that it is a 9 mm bullet which had been ricocheted from Nemo. At the crime scene, he finds a tooth, whose owner is traced to be Swarnavel, a former university physics professor who lives alone and is now a stockbroker. Meanwhile, a shady man named Kamalesh visits a travel agency to deliver a sofa stashed with money to five people who run the agency and who are believed to be assassins: Devil, Muthu, Pritha, a stout man, and a bald man.

Kani recollects a news article about an incident that involves the deaths of Dhivakar and his son and goes to Mrs. Dhivakar’s house and finds that Swarnavel was present at a nearby construction site on the day of the incident. He then concludes that it was artificial lightning devised by Swarnavel to kill Dhivakar. When the assassins learn that Kani is on their tail, Devil disposes of the body of Swarnavel, who was killed earlier.

Kaniyan and Manohar visit Dhivakar’s office and learn that a tender which was to be awarded to Dhivakar is now with Ram Prasad, the head of the company that Dhivakar competed with. Before they could reach Ram Prasad, he is assassinated. Infuriated about assassinating their client, Kamalesh hires Chinese mercenaries to kill Kani, who defeats them and finds out about Kamalesh’s involvement, but Kamalesh is killed by Pritha. A police chase occurs as Pritha and the bald man try to escape but are later cornered. Soon after, the bald man kills himself, allowing Pritha to escape. The next day in a shopping mall, Pritha makes a failed attempt to kill Kani, who is saved by Mallika.

Kani and Mano meet Police Inspector Madhivanan and ACP Vijayakumar in a hotel, where yet another failed assassin attempt is made. Muthu plans to inject Kaniyan with a poison dart, but Mano was caught in the crossfire and is rushed to the hospital. They learn that Mano was hit by the same dart as Paul. They raid the travel agency, and Devil kills Muthu to cover his tracks. They find some physics books related to lightning.

Kani receives a threat via SMS, saying that his beloved ones are in danger. He ensures that Manohar is safe in the hospital but could not save Mallika in time as she was stabbed by Devil. It is later revealed that Madhivanan was an informer for Devil. Upon interrogating him, he discloses that Ram Prasad hired Devil and his team to assassinate Dhivakar to get the tender which went to him, for which they recruited Swarnavel to create the artificial lightning that killed Dhivakar and his son. Unforturnately Swarnavel felt guilt ridden upon seeing Dhivakar’s son, who resembled like his late son and decided to expose their involvement in Dhivakar’s death. Fearing their exposure, Devil and his team pursue and kill Swarnavel, who was planning to escape from India using fake passports. However, Nemo intervened and bit Devil, who attempted to kill it, with a bullet ricocheting on it, and they hid Swarnavel’s body in their office refrigerator. On Paul’s case, he was investigating a rape case committed by a hotelier on his driver’s wife and was killed by Devil and his team (who were hired by the hotelier) since he was close to catching the culprit. Kani, Mano, and a police team go in search of Devil to a mangrove forest. All of them die except Kani, Mano, and Vijayakumar. Later, Kani and Vijayakumar are both caught by Devil, as he blackmails them using Naveen.

Tied by a rope, Kani reveals how he managed to uncover Devil’s backstory and tells him that the police have been informed of the same. Infuriated by this, Devil tries to stab Kani, but Mano manages to untie him. Eventually, Kani kills Devil. In his dying moments, Devil tells Naveen that he is sorry for killing Nemo. Later, as Naveen returns home from school one afternoon, he finds a Pomeranian puppy along with a note bearing Kani’s name in a basket at his doorstep.

Last Updated: September 20, 2025 at 11:51